NICKI MINAJ'S FATHER ROBERT MARAJ HAS BEEN KILLED BY HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER

Nicki's dad was killed by a hit and run driver and the suspect has not been found

The 64-year-old father of the rapper Nicki Minaj has died after getting hit by a driver in New York, police said. Robert Maraj was walking along a road in Mineola on Long Island at 6.15 pm on Friday when he was hit by a car that kept going, Nassau County police said. The driver fled the scene and has yet to be identified. Investigators have asked for the public's help in tracking them down after the vehicle fled the scene too quickly for witnesses to get a description.

Maraj was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Saturday. Police are asking any witnesses to the fatal crash to come forward. Minaj, 38, was born Onika Tanya Maraj in Trinidad and was raised in the New York City borough of Queens. She has not made any public statement about her father’s death.

2010 she told Details magazine about how her mom was allegedly abusive toward her mother, his wife Carol.

He drank a lot and did drugs, and he would get violent when he did. When he set the house on fire he was attempting to kill my mother,' she said at the time.

'She got out before it burned all the way down. I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind because I wanted my mother to be a stronger and braver person, and she couldn't be. I thought: "If I'm successful, I can change her life."'

It's unclear what terms Minaj was on with her father at the time of his death.

Here's a video down below of her explaining what happened to her house

Written by CelebDopetea