Rapper Nicki Minaj, real name Onika Tanya Miraj, 28, got into a heated argument with her boyfriend/hypeman Safaree “SB” Samuels, 30, in a hotel room they shared in Dallas on Monday night. This was probably one of many fights that the couple have had over the 8 years that they’ve been together.
According to the police report — that Nicki repeatedly asked police not to write — there was another man involved in the incident who took possession of the suitcase that Onika and Safaree were battling over.
Questions abound, such as: (1) Who was the uncooperative witness #2 that refused to turn over the suitcase to Nicki or the police? And (2) what was in the suitcase that he was trying to conceal? Cocaine, weed?
Let’s break down the police report, shall we?
Police responded to a “property attack” at the upscale Palomar hotel at 5300 E. Mockingbird Lane in Dallas, TX, on July 11, at 9:55 p.m. The responding officer, Joshua Boykin, encountered witness #3, Michael Frankel, a 37-year-old hotel employee, who told him he called police on behalf of the complainant, Nicki Minaj.
The responding officer spoke with Nicki who told him a “verbal altercation” took place at the hotel’s pool area. When Nicki returned to her room, witness #1, Safaree Samuels, was back in the room. The police report notes that Nicki and Safaree were sharing the same hotel room.
Nicki told Safaree she didn’t want him “taking anything out of the room.” Safaree had some of his belongings in Nicki’s suitcase (drugs perhaps?)
As Nicki was looking in the suitcase, Safaree grabbed the suitcase with such force that it collided with Nicki’s face and Nicki’s “teeth struck the inside of her lower lip causing the inside of the lower lip to cut and start to bleed.”
The Dallas Fire and Rescue was called to provide medical treatment to Nicki. Dallas Fire & Rescue 8 (paramedics) responded to the scene and evaluated Nicki for treatment. Realizing the gravity of the situation if any of this got out, Nicki told the responding officer that she didn’t want to make a police report about the incident — she just wanted her suitcase back.
Here’s where the story takes a strange turn:
Witness #2, Rex Chevalier, who is employed by Nicki, was described as “very uncooperative with responding officers” and would not let responding officers into his hotel room to retrieve the suitcase.
The report states that Rex Chevalier (witness #2), was “very vague” while answering responding officer’s questions and refused to provide any information regarding Nicki or Safaree.
Safaree was not at the hotel when officers arrived at the scene, and officers were unable to locate him.
Despite the fact that they shared a hotel room and, apparently, the same suitcase, Nicki stressed to officers multiple times that she was not in an intimate relationship with Safaree, and, in fact, they were not related at all.
The hotel room in which Nicki and Safaree were staying was re-keyed by the hotel staff and only Nicki was provided with a new key card. Nicki refused to have pictures taken and refused to make a police report.
But an incident report was written anyway, as required by law.
