Nicki Minaj teases Qatar World Cup song and the internet doesn’t like it - Euronews

Nicki Minaj has travel nether occurrence for teasing a 2022 FIFA World Cup Anthem.

The rapper took to Instagram to station a teaser of 3 pairs of shot boots. 

On each footwear is the sanction of 1 of the song’s 3 performers: Minaj, Columbian vocalist Maluma and Lebanese vocalist Myriam Fares. The 3 numbers that look - 11, 18 and 22 - look to bespeak that the azygous volition driblet astatine the extremity of this week, connected Friday 18 November.

The backlash was prompt, with galore pointing retired that Nicki Minaj is simply a hypocrite, considering she has a queer fanbase who cannot safely sojourn Qatar to ticker the World Cup due to the fact that of the big country’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws.

One Tweet reads: “hi @nickiminaj not definite if you’re alert but your LGBTQ+ supporters from Qatar are successful information and you're backing and stadning by their disgusting views. Qatar was voted arsenic the 1 of the worst places successful the satellite to beryllium gay. Homosexuality is amerciable and punishable by imprisonment.”

Another said: “Nicki Minaj doing a opus for the Qatar cupful erstwhile that state is violently homophobic and against the rights of LGBTQ+ is something, particularly considering bulk of her fanbase are a portion of that community.”

Nicki Minaj has not responded to the criticism.

Pop prima Dua Lipa precocious unopen down rumours that she would beryllium performing astatine the World Cup, writing: “There is presently a batch of speculation that I volition beryllium performing astatine the opening ceremonial of the satellite cupful successful Qatar. I volition not beryllium performing and nor person I ever been progressive successful immoderate dialog to perform. I volition beryllium cheering England connected from afar and I look guardant to visiting Qatar erstwhile it has fulfilled each the quality rights pledges it made erstwhile it won the close to big the World Cup. One love, Dua x”

The FIFA World Cup starts connected Sunday 20 November, contempt galore fans boycotting the tourney owed to Qatar’s LGBTQ+ rights record. Under Qatar’s Penal Code 2004, queer radical tin be, if convicted, imprisoned for up to 7 years for having sex, and same-sex relationships are punishable by decease nether Sharia law.

Qatar’s ambassador to the UK has said LGBTQ+ fans visiting the state tin “hold hands”; however, helium clarified they should beryllium “mindful” of “public displays of affection."

Last week, the German authorities condemned comments by a Qatar World Cup ambassador who described homosexuality arsenic "damage successful the mind" successful an interrogation with German television.

Khalid Salman, a erstwhile Qatari planetary footballer and 1 of respective authoritative representatives of the forthcoming tournament, said cheery radical coming to the state would person to "accept our rules".

Germany's interior minister, who is besides successful complaint of sport, called the connection "terrible".