Contributed by Rebecca Johnson
Rapper Nicki Minaj married her childhood love and boyfriend Kenneth Petty. She shared a video on Instagram of matching “bride” and “groom” caps and mugs captioned “Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty” on Monday.
The high school sweet hearts rekindled their flame in December 2018 and the rapper announced their marriage plans on an episode of her Beats 1 show, Queen Radio this summer.
“We did get out marraige license,”she said, “I think I have what I was striving for, just happiness. It was hard to get to a happy place. Now that I’m here I don’t want to compromise that for anyone or anything.”
Petty is very present on Minaj’s Instagram and has been in a few of her music videos since they’ve been dating.
According to TMZ, Minaj and Petty were first together when they were teenagers before he went to prison. He’s been there twice, once for first-degree attempted rape and another time for first-degree manslaughter. He is also a registered sex offender, according to TMZ, but that doesn’t bother Nicki.
She defended him against a fan saying “He was 15, she was 16… in a relationship. But go awf Internet. Y’all can’t run my life. Y’all can’t even run y’all own life. Thank you boo.”
