Nicki Minaj Seemingly Calls Her Younger Sister A “Mooch” After Viral Interview, Ming Luanli Responds
Nicki Minaj blasted an unnamed relative of hers in a recent Stationhead episode, calling the family member a “mooch” and “clown” for “speaking on someone they love.”
Minaj’s younger sister, Ming Luanli, is the only family member that has done interviews about the music icon recently, so many immediately assumed that Minaj was speaking of the budding music artist. Additionally, it didn’t make it any better that Ming Li wound up responding to her sister’s rant.
On Monday (Aug. 5), the Pink Friday 2 impresario spoke on the “not-so” mysterious person, saying, “Why would a person speak openly about a private person? Why would a person do that? Who would you speak about in your interviews if someone wanted to interview you? Yourself, right?”
Minaj went on, “It’s always a bad sign if a person who’s not even in your line of work or has never been successful in your line of work is doing interviews with people in your line of work.”
Further indicating that she could be talking about her younger sibling who’s been very vocal about wanting to be as big of a rap star as her sister, she added, “I think y’all think talent… like you could catch it like a cold. Or maybe people could pass it through the genes. Even with blood relation, what God has given to me is mine.”
She continued, “You have to go and get your own. You have to discover whatever it is that you’re great at. Being a mooch and a clown don’t run in my DNA.”
Listen below.
The audio clip made its rounds, leading Ming Li to repost it and respond to Minaj’s remarks in a comment.
“I still love her. I tried as a sister to please her but I realize I gotta please God first cause only he can judge the gift he gave me,” she wrote.
Although Minaj never named Ming in her spill, many drew back to the 18-year-old’s first interview with the We In Miami podcast where she revealed that her and Minaj “were never close.”
“I’ve never called her Nicki, by her name, at all. Calling her Nicki always felt weird, I’ve always called her Onika, too,” Ming admitted. “But we was never close, but we had a good bond. She was always, like, busy. She be busy and stuff like that, I be doing my sh*t, too. But at the end of the day, I know that I still got love for her, she still got love for me, and I’ma still be proud of her.”
She also opened up about being bullied as a child over her connection to the music icon, as they shared the same father but different mothers.
Speaking on her desire to pursue music like Minaj, she admitted that her career choice brought on much hate and comparisons, with her peers questioning why her sister didn’t help her out.
“In elementary, middle school, high school, the moment people knew who I was, it was either like they would ask me about my sister or ask me, like, just weird things that’s gonna make me feel uncomfortable,” she recalled. “At the time, I felt not only attacked, I felt vulnerable. I felt like I was by myself.”
However, despite it all, she did admit that she still strives to “impress” Minaj, although she knows she’ll “never be at the same level” as the Young Money vet.
See Nicki Minaj ranting about her “mooch” relative and revisit Ming Luanli’s full interview mentioning her sister above.
