Nicki Minaj has come under fire on social media as people point out how her new video seems to draw on Nazi iconography.
Now, the artist has responded.
Taking to Twitter, Minaj states in three tweets: "The artist who made the lyric video for 'Only' was influenced by a cartoon on Cartoon Network called "Metalocalypse" & Sin City. Both the producer, & person in charge of over seeing the lyric video (one of my best friends & videographer: A. Loucas), happen to be Jewish. I didn't come up w/the concept, but I'm very sorry & take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I'd never condone Nazism in my art."
The promo for 'Only', directed by Jeff Osbourne, casts the 'Anaconda' rapper as a totalitarian dictator as we see rallies reminiscent of those held by Hitler with "YM" (for her label Young Money) banners that look very similar to swastikas. Add in gas masks, bombs and explicit onscreen lyrics and you have plenty of fuel for a controversy .
The Wrap is reporting Anti Defamation League national director (US) Abraham H. Foxman as saying: "Nicki Minaj's new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture's exploitation of Nazi symbolism."
It has been pointed out online that Drake, who appears on the track alongside Lil Wayne and Chris Brown, is half-Jewish.
See the video below.

The artist who made the lyric video for “Only” was influenced by a cartoon on Cartoon Network called "Metalocalypse" & Sin City.

— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) November 11, 2014

Both the producer, & person in charge of over seeing the lyric video (one of my best friends & videographer: A. Loucas), happen to be Jewish

— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) November 11, 2014

I didn't come up w/the concept, but I'm very sorry & take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I'd never condone Nazism in my art.

— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) November 11, 2014