Nicki Minaj Apologizes for Kicking Photographer’s Camera After Mistaking Him for ‘Peeping Tom’

Nicki Minaj thought she caught a “Peeping Tom” in the act at her San Antonio tour stop on Thursday night (Sept. 19), but it happened to be one of her photographers.

Minaj posted the clip to her X account on Friday (Sept. 20) featuring her dancing onstage and then stomping on the photographer’s camera after giving the device a double-take. “Ow that’s me! No!” the crew member can be heard saying as his battered camera sinks underneath the stage.

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“This is one of the craziest things we’ve ever captured. Yall plz look @ this,” Nicki captioned the clip of what she thought was a creep before finding out it was a photographer she knows by the name of Grizz.

The Barbz leader followed up with an apology to Grizz in her Gag City Reloaded recap of the San Antonio show. “@grizzleearts the fact that I thought Grizz (one of my fave ppl in all the land) was a peeping tom & began stomping him out,” she wrote. “Grizz my apologies I love you.”

Hopefully there are no more photographer kicks and damage to Grizz’s camera the rest of the Pink Friday 2 World Tour. The lucrative trek’s second North American leg hits California for a pair of shows this weekend in Los Angeles before making stops in San Francisco and San Diego.

Shakira is another artist who, unfortunately, had to deal with a creepy fan last weekend when she noticed someone filming up her skirt while she was dancing onstage to one of her unreleased songs at Miami’s Club LIV earlier in September.

The awkward exchange was captured by fans as she can be seen adjusting her skirt after realizing what was going on. Shakira shook her index finger in disgust at the individual filming before she just left the stage altogether.

Reps for Shakira did not return Billboard‘s request for comment at the time.

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