Nicki Minaj set pulses racing as she reinvented her looks once again with new blonde hair.
The 38-year-old rapper smoldered in new photos and a short video posted to her Instagram on Thursday to highlight the new thigh-length hair.
In addition to revealing her newest hairdo, she flaunted her curvaceous figure in a skimpy Dolce & Gabbana ensemble.
Blond beauty: Nicki Minaj, 38, looked like a Barbie doll in new photos posted to Instagram on Thursday showing her with long blond hair
Nicki posed in front of a large wooden door while whipping her wig so the pin-straight hair cascaded down one shoulder and rested against her side.
She contrasted the light look with a black leather bustier and added some extra luster with Dolce & Gabbana panties decorated with sparkling silver sequins.
The Anaconda rapper highlighted her toned legs and elevated her stature with black platform heels that strapped around her ankles.
She completed her look with long pink nails, silver Cuban links around one wrist and a thick jeweled choker with a smaller strand of diamonds below it.
Striking: She contrasted the light look with a black leather bustier and added some extra luster with Dolce & Gabbana panties decorated with sparkling silver sequins
Nicki let the photos do the talking and simply captioned them with a knife emoji.
A short video in a companion post showed her slinking toward the camera, before crouching down.
Then, she rose again and stretched her arms out wide as if to mimic a peacock’s feathered display while crossing her legs.
She captioned the post with balletic pointe shoe.
Showing off: A short video in a companion post showed her slinking toward the camera, before crouching down
Majestic: Then, she rose again and stretched her arms out wide as if to mimic a peacock’s feathered display while crossing her legs
The day before, Nicki worried fans that a beef was brewing when she commented about not being invited to her friend Lil Wayne’s birthday party.
After the rapper Mack Maine shared a photo from the celebration, which featured a beaming Drake with Wayne, Nicki commented, ‘I had so much fun,’ while adding a puzzled emoji and tagging Mack, Drake and Wayne.
Mack replied: ‘@nickiminaj Lawwwdddd don’t do it like that Nicketo! This s*** was so last minute. We could run it back deaux. It wasn’t complete without you.’
But the hitmaker clarified she wasn’t mad at Wayne for not inviting her in an Insta Stories post from later on Thursday.
‘Can’t even joke nomo chile…these blogs so thirsty to post smthn for y’all to hate under,’ she captioned a screenshot of her original comment.
‘The obsession is a diff kinda real. We weren’t even in the same State. Just a lil jokey joke between me & my boo Mack.’
Fooling around: The day before, Nicki sarcastically commented ‘I had to much fun’ on a photo taken at Lil Wayne’s birthday party — which she didn’t attend — though she clarified she was just joking
Nicki concluded by reminding her 159 million followers that Thursday marked her son Papa Bear’s first birthday.
‘Have a blessed day y’all. I sure will. That’s why y’all pressed,’ she wrote, adding the hashtag, ‘#HappyPapaBearDay.’
Although the Monster rapper has shared plenty of cute photos of her son, she’s been cagey about his real name.
Although she often calls him Papa Bear, it appears to be a nickname, but she has never shared her son’s true name.
Birthday boy: Thursday also marked the first birthday of Nicki’s son, whose real name hasn’t been shared, though she has nicknamed him Papa Bear
Nicki shares Papa Bear with her husband Kenneth Petty, 43, whom she married in 2019.
Just over a week earlier, Jennifer Hough, the woman who accused Petty of rape in 1994 made an appearance on The Real to delve into her experiences both with Petty and Minaj.
Hough, who appeared with her lawyer Tyrone A. Blackburn, recently filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the couple, claiming that they have harassed her to get her to drop her accusations against Petty.
‘[Petty] did something a long time ago and he had consequences that he was supposed to stick with. What they did to me and my family wasn’t OK,’ she said.
‘It wasn’t right and it doesn’t matter how much money you have. It doesn’t matter what your status is, you can’t intimidate people to make things go better for you. And that’s what they did.’
Family: She shares her son with husband Kenneth Petty, 43, who pleaded guilty in 1995 to a felony county of attempted rape
She shared details of the 1994 incident crime, which led Petty to plead guilty to attempted rape the following year.
Hough, who was only 16 at the time, said she was walking with Petty when he suddenly pulled at her jacket.
‘I felt something in my back so I just assumed there was a gun,’ she said. ‘And I started walking. And I’m pleading with him the whole way, trying to understand what he wants.’
She claimed that Petty said she ‘knew what he wanted’ before the alleged assault.
‘I didn’t know why it didn’t dawn on me to like really fight,’ she mused. ‘I just held on to my pants and he held my arms down and squeezed the sides of my stomach so hard. I let go and as soon as I let go he grabbed my pants. It was like a tug of war and after a while I just got tired.’
She added that the convicted felon ‘stood in the mirror and beat his chest’ after the attack.
Once she was free, she alerted a security guard at a school nearby, who contacted the police on her behalf, leading to Petty’s arrest.
Opening up: Jennifer Hough, 43, the woman who accused Petty of rape in 1994, appeared on The Real Wednesday in an interview saying she’s ‘tired of being afraid’ as she opened up about her experiences with both, past and present
Both Petty and Minaj have said that the encounter was consensual and that Hough was in a relationship with Petty at the time, but she denied those claims.
She admitted to worrying when Petty married Minaj that she would be dragged into the spotlight due to his past conviction.
Hough said she was ‘so afraid of being found out,’ and ‘so afraid of being known as the person he violated.’
She continued, claiming that Minaj had tried to pay her off to make her recant her accusations.
Harassment: Hough claimed that Minaj and Petty harassed her and tried to pay her to recant her allegations, especially after he was arrested for failing to register as a sex offender in California
‘She called me and she said that she got word that I was willing to help them out in a situation,’ she said. ‘I didn’t understand what she was referring to. She offered to fly me and my family to LA. I turned it down. And I told her, woman-to-woman, this really happened. And I hadn’t spoken to her since.’
After Petty was arrested for failing to register as a sex offender in California, Hough said the harassment from the couple picked up, as they allegedly tried to pay for her silence.
Just days after he accepted a plea deal, Hough filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Eastern New York against Minaj and Petty.