Nicki Minaj to host 2023 VMAs in comeback bid amid ongoing career drama

nypost.com:

Super Freaky again. Reassuming her role as head-Barb-in-charge at MTV’s Video Music Awards, Nicki Minaj is set to serve as the host of this year’s fab fête live from New Jersey’s Prudential Center on Tuesday, September 12. “For the second consecutive year, Minaj will announce the show’s star-studded lineup of performers, presenters and winners,” raved MTV of the 40-year-old Queens native in a press release.

The “Barbie World” lyricist will, too, beguile VMAs viewers with a world premiere performance of her newest single, “Last Time I Saw You,” during the swank shindig.

The hosting gig will be one of Minaj’s most public appearances in the recent past after months of being out of the limelight.

In June, the “Anaconda” mastermind was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit by an artist claiming she “directly copied” his beat for her 2014 track “I Lied.” In 2021, singer Tracy Chapman also won $450,000 in a previous copyright suit against Minaj.But the “Queen” rhymer isn’t letting legal woes knock off her crown.