Nicki Minaj‘s dad, Robert Maraj, passed away on Saturday, February 13, after he was struck by an automobile in a hit-and-run crash on Long Island, Us Weekly can validate. He was 64.
Nassau County Police informed TMZ that Minaj’s dad was strolling when traveling in between Roslyn Road as well as Raff Avenue at around 6 p.m. on Friday, February 12, when he was struck by a lorry. The vehicle driver after that left the scene without witnesses having the ability to offer cops with a comprehensive summary. Maraj was delivered to a neighboring health center terminally ill yet caught his injuries onSaturday The New York Times records that the case is being checked out by the Homicide Squad.
The 10-time Grammy candidate, 38, has actually not commented openly on her dad’s fatality. Minaj formerly discussed her challenging partnership with her daddy in meetings, exposing that he had problem with medicine dependency as well as was violent in the direction of her mommy, Carole Maraj.
In a 2010 meeting with Rolling Stone, the “Anaconda” rap artist stated after the family members transferred to the UNITED STATE from Trinidad, she would certainly “go in my room and kneel down at the foot of my bed and pray that God would make me rich so that I could take care of my mother. Because I always felt like if I took care of my mother, my mother wouldn’t have to stay with my father, and he was the one at the time that was bringing us pain. We didn’t want him around at all, and so I always felt like being rich would cure everything, and that was always what drove me.”
Two years later on, she defined her dad as a “drug addict and alcoholic” on ABC’s Nightline, exposing that he when refuted their home.
“I wanted to kill him. I used to wish he was dead,” she stated. “We were afraid for my mother’s life because whenever he would have a real bad outburst he would threaten to kill her.”
In the Queen docudrama in 2018, she damaged down in splits as remembered her terrible childhood years as well as discussed attempting to safeguard her mommy.
“I remember when my mother would let my father be violent with her and she always brings up this story as a little girl and I would stand in front of my mother and go like this [with her arms open],” Minaj stated. “That’s why maybe some people would describe me as abrasive or bitchy or whatever because I vowed from that age no man would ever abuse me, call me out my name, treat me like that. And then all of a sudden, that was my life.”
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