Minaj loved the likeness, but hasn’t said much about the lewd attention. Her “Anaconda” video — released a year ago Wednesday — served as the model and is provocative enough.
A week ago, the wax abuse was predicted by American rapper Azealia Banks.
All ppl are gonna do is go up to that statue and take pictures shoving their crotch in her face and putting their crotch on her butt
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) August 12, 2015
About one especially egregious photo, Madame Tussauds Las Vegas issued a statement with British spellings:
“We have been made aware of the inappropriate photograph that was taken at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, involving Nicki Minaj’s wax figure. Madame Tussauds attractions are interactive, immersive experiences, and our visitors are generally respectful towards the wax figures. It is unfortunate that this visitor decided to behave so inappropriately and we apologise for any offense this has caused. We do have staff monitoring guest behaviour in the attraction and do our utmost to ensure our wax figures are treated respectfully, but on this occasion clearly one of our hosts was not present.”
.@TussaudsVegas to step up security after visitor takes inappropriate @NICKIMINAJ pic: http://t.co/EHULgUYMpu pic.twitter.com/yWAWSs8KTL
— Crowdmix Pop (@CrowdmixPop) August 20, 2015
Happy HUMP Day, Nation! Looks like @NICKIMINAJ‘s wax figure is getting some more security… https://t.co/ZHKa6miyxN pic.twitter.com/jspk4rfuFI
— Philip DeFranco (@PhillyD) August 19, 2015
For the record, Nicki Minaj and her camp were cool with the “Anaconda” wax figure: http://t.co/gSLfow0eLm pic.twitter.com/U92jBaHcNu
— Complex (@ComplexMag) August 19, 2015
Statement regarding Nicki Minaj’s Madame Tussauds wax figure pic.twitter.com/tnnyZL0BNX
— Madame Tussauds LV (@TussaudsVegas) August 18, 2015
Why is everyone acting like Nicki minaj didn’t coordinate with Madam Tusauds for the wax figure for months. She wanted it to be like thaf
— ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ (@arianacuIt) August 20, 2015