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Published 13:09 IST, December 13th 2019

Nicki Minaj honours Juice WRLD in her Billboard award speech

Nicki Minaj recently won an award at the Billboard Women In Music Awards in her speech she honouredJuice WRLD in her Billboard award-winning speech. Read here

Reported by: Kaushal Ladhad
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Nicki Minaj was recently honoured with the Game-Changer Award at the Billboard Women In Music Awards on Thursday. In her winning speech, she talked about Lucid Dreams rapper Juice WRLD. Here is what the Chun-Li artist had to say in her acceptance speech.

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Nicki Minaj honours Juice WRLD in her Billboard awards speech.

In her speech, Nicki Minaj thanked everyone for the award, after which she expressed that she had recently worked with Juice WRLD in the tour that they did together. Nicki spoke about how she had a great conversation with him while they were walking toward the stage for a show. She said that Juice WRLD told her to stay calm and to pray, as he also does the same. Nicky then added that she is was shocked to hear this from him and that it actually did work for her and made her feel calm. She also claimed that she had nothing to worry about, yet she felt better.

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Nicky Minaj also expressed that Juice WRLD had a kindred spirit and she wished that she could have been there to help him as he did to her. Minaj also added that Juice WRLD was passionate and had spoken to her in detail about her love life. She also said that Juice would record songs very quickly too. Nicky also spoke about how the star died from a seizure at Chicago's Midway airport. She also spoke about how WRLD was honest and pure about what he felt and was direct about it. She also said that she sometimes felt inspired by the way he lived.  

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Nicki also spoke about how though the event was for women in the music industry, it was important to speak about him as an important member of their culture died. She wanted to honour him that night and send her condolences to him, his family, his girlfriend, his friends, and everybody else.

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Updated 15:37 IST, December 13th 2019

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