Weezy and Taxes: The real reason behind Nicki Minaj’s GOP endorsement?

Nicki Minaj has been under constant criticism since she decided to endorse GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Lil Wayne’s recent track “Mercy”, from his Dedication 4 mixtape.

Nicki instantly lost a vast number of her urban fans after her political proclamation. Many of her fans felt that she fully abandoned her urban roots and forgot where she came from; “a Trinidadian born hip hop artiste that got an opportunity at a better life because of her immigrant parents who grew up in the Bronx and got rich because another rapper recognised her grind and talent”.

It seems Nicki is now only focussed on pleasing her main stream pop audience and protecting her fast gained fortune. However, it isn’t as black and white and it seems. Nicki’s political revelation may have come about because she’s now part of the “Elite Rich List” group that Republicans are allegedly trying to protect.

Let me break it down.

Republics and tax cuts for the rich. Tax cuts for the wealthiest five percent of Americans cost the U.S. Treasury $11.6 million every hour, according to the National Priorities Project. America’s top earners got an average tax cut of $66,384 in 2011, while the bottom 20 percent got an average cut of $107.

This prompted President Barack Obama to unveil his deficit reduction plan, which aimed to curb the national debt through a combination of tax cuts and increased spending, by increasing taxes on millionaires. After Obama announced the proposal Republican leaders criticized the plan calling it “class warfare.”

Let’s not forget that her mentor and YMCMB boss made a song called “Black Republican“. In the song Weezy raps:

I feel like a black Republican
Tote a MAC’n Republican
Act so southern n’ die for my brethren
Money, money, money
Like money Mac and publishing

So…is this why Nicki is now a Republican? Is she trying to avoid paying higher taxes because of her “millionaire status” or is she just following the word of her mentor…money money money? Sound off below.