Nicki Minaj can finally refer toKenneth “Zoo” Pettyas her “husband” without confusing everybody.
After using the nickname to describe him in the past, the “Super Bass” rapper, 36, has finally married Petty, 41.
Minaj announced the exciting news on Monday with a video on Instagram, showing matching “Mr. and Mrs.” mugs and black and white baseball caps that had “Bride” and “Groom” written across the front.
Keeping it simple, the rappercaptioned the short clip, “👰🏽🤵🏽😢🙏🏽🎀 Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty 10•21•19” — referencing her new official name and seemingly the day that she and Petty officially tied the knot.
Reps for Minaj did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
On the Aug. 12 episode of herQueen Radioshow, Minaj revealed that she hadfiled for a marriage licenseand would be married in “about 80 days.”
Even though she made it official, Minaj still had music priorities to attend to.
“I have to work on my album and I have a lot to focus on that I don’t want to do the big wedding now,” she said at the time. “We’ll do the big wedding later.”
Minaj and Petty have been dating since 2018, going Instagram-official with their relationship in December of that year.
“He want me to be his wife- his MISSIS like SIPPI NOW,” she captioned a series of photos of the two of them laughing together later that month at her birthday party (as well asa video of her grinding up on him).
Since then, the two have been hot and heavy on social media, posing in photo after photo together. Petty even debuted anew tattooof the rapper’s birth name, Onika, weeks after they went live with their love.
In March, Minaj sparked questions about whether or not she had married Petty aftercalling him her “husband”on her radio show.
“Every night when I get out of the shower, my husband takes this really good lotion that we just bought, and he massages my feet, and rubs them, and he rubs each toe individually, and the heel, and the ball of my foot, and he does it all,” she said.
The same month, she posted aphotowith Petty in France, along with the caption: “Bae out in Paris.”
Back in June 2019, Minaj revealed on her new Queen Radio show onApple Beats 1that she and Petty had gotten a marriage license.
“We did get our marriage license,” she said. “I think I have what I was striving for, just happiness. It was so hard to get to a happy place. Now that I’m there, I don’t want to compromise that for anyone or anything.”
Also that month, Petty starred with Minaj in hernewest music video, for the song “Megatron.”
The video featured Minaj and Petty in a hot tub as she sang, “I f— him like I miss him / He just came out of prison” — a line that fans interpreted as reference to Petty’scriminal record(He is aregistered sex offenderin the state of New York and served time in prison formanslaughterafter being convicted in 2002).
Kenneth “Zoo” Petty and Nicki Minaj.Johnny Nunez/Getty
Many fans have expressed concern over Petty’s criminal past, but Minaj doesn’t appear to care about the criticism.
Responding to commenters onInstagram, Minaj said, “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.” According toTMZ, Minaj has known Petty since they themselves were teenagers, and she is “confident he’s matured” since then.
source: people.com
