Nick Minaj Nazi controversy: The rapper's new music video Only is under fire Nicki Minaj's performance of Anaconda turns the heat up at the 2014 MTV VMAs. Courtesy: MTV RAPPER Nicki Minaj is under fire after debuting the lyric video to her new single Only over the weekend. The animated short shows Minaj as a powerful dictator, leading an army complete with tanks and guns. Throughout the black and white video, the only colour comes from the blazing red insignia the rapper and her thousands-strong army wear around their arms, complete with a "YM" symbol (representing her record company, Young Money). The video had barely been uploaded to YouTube before viewers started pointing out the obvious: Minaj appears to borrow heavily from Nazi imagery throughout. Minaj sits atop a throne, flanked by soldiers and Nazi-inspired flags. Minaj's army of soldiers, each with a distinctive red armband. Not only does the video evoke the symbols and imagery of Nazis, but in placing Minaj as the all-powerful dictator leading the army, many have argued that the rapper is in fact glorifying Nazism. Others have pointed out the irony that one of her guests on the track, fellow rapper Drake, is himself half-Jewish. Rapper Drake, himself half-Jewish, appears on the track. The Nazi flag seems to have been the inspiration for the imagery in Minaj's new video. Fans have called for Minaj, who today appeared at the MTV Europe Music Awards but has so far made no public comment about the controversy, to apologise: Watch the video below - but be warned, it's chock-full of coarse language: Originally published as Nicki Minaj shocks with new Nazi video