Sending love to Nicki Minaj who lost her dad to a hit and run accident.<\/p>\n
Nicki Minaj\u2019s father has died after being knocked down by a hit-and-run driver in Long Island, according to a report Sunday.<\/p>\n
Robert Maraj, 64, was struck at around 6 p.m. Friday as he was walking in
\nMineola, with the driver fleeing before witnesses could get a clear look, Nassau County Police\u00a0.<\/p>\n
The pop superstar\u2019s dad was in critical condition in a local hospital, but died from his injuries at some point over the weekend, the outlet said.<\/p>\n
The Homicide Squad is investigating the crash that was between Roslyn Road and Raff Avenue, TMZ said.<\/p>\n
Minaj \u2014 real name Onika Tanya Maraj \u2014 is understood to have had a rocky relationship with her father.<\/p>\n
She is not known to have commented on her father\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n
Reps for the star did not respond to requests for comment, the outlet said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sending love to Nicki Minaj who lost her dad to a hit and run accident. Nicki Minaj\u2019s father has died after being knocked down by a hit-and-run driver in Long Island, according to a report Sunday. Robert Maraj, 64, was struck at around 6 p.m. Friday as he was walking in Mineola, with the driver […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rap"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}