(Source: Getty Images – December 12, 2019)
*Nicki Minaj paid tribute to late rapper Juice Wrld on Thursday at the 2019 Billboard Women in Music Event.
The Queen rapper was awarded with The Game Changer Award for her impact in music, and used her acceptance speech to honor Juice, who passed away on Sunday after suffering a seizure in Chicago’s Midway Airport. He was only 21 years old.
“I know this is a Women In Music night and I’m so honored to be in the presence of all of these great women…it doesn’t feel comfortable for me to talk about me when someone so important to our culture just died,” Minaj told the crowd.
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“I recently had the pleasure of working and touring with Juice Wrld,” her emotional speech began, via E! Online. “I had a great conversation with him and while we walked to the stage, he held my hand and told me to stay calm and to pray. He said that he had been trying to do just that. I was so shocked to hear him of all people tell me that, but right there in that moment with him telling me that, I actually did feel calm and I felt like, ‘Hmm… what am I actually worried about?’ I felt like he was a kindred spirit.”
At the time of his fatal seizure, Juice Wrld was with his girlfriend Ally Lotti, who told officers that he “has a drug problem.”
Watch her touching speech below.
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