A funeral was held over the weekend for Nicki Minaj’s 27-year-old cousin, Nicholas Telamaque. He was shot and killed on Monday night in Brooklyn, New York. He arrived DOA at Kings County Hospital after police responded to a call 2 in the morning about shots being fired. The funeral was one of the biggest ever, held at the Saint Vincent Ferrer Church.
The Web has been stirring about the bizarre similarities between what happened and the lyrics of a song of Nicki Minaj’s, called “We Miss You”. The song is about her lover getting shot in July. Here are some of the lyrics:
Why’d you have to leave in July?/ On a peaceful and serene summer night….You said that you would leave these streets, and I know you didn’t mean in a body bag/ But now we see you were not bulletproof, and I’m mad ’cause you were the best that I ever had.
Nicki tweeted that the song has nothing to do with her cousin and was actually recorded over a year ago.
“Tho the lyrics of ‘We Miss You’ eerily depict the circumstances surrounding my cousin’s death, I wrote & recorded that song on 5/24/2010,” she tweeted. “It was sent to Mariah Carey & Keyshia Cole over a year ago for a possible feature. It didn’t make Pink Friday due to clearance issues. It’s an unauthorized leak.”
After announcing her cousins death earlier in the week, Nicki hadn’t been back on Twitter until the song’s leak. But she did have this to say to her fans:
“Thank u ALL for your kind words and well wishes. Love.”