Nas Plays The Role Of Clueless Boyfriend In Nicki Minaj’s “Right By My Side” (Video Breakdown)

Nas and Nicki Minaj frolic in a garden, Nas buys Nicki Minaj fancy things, Nicki Minaj dances with Chris Brown, Nas and Nicki Minaj return to the garden. And that's pretty much the "Right By My Side" music video in a nutshell. Should I have added a "Spoiler Alert" warning? I'd hate to have ruined this Nicki Minaj video for anyone because that would be absolutely tragic.



0:07 – Woah, wait a gosh darn minute! Why is Nas in a Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown video? This is not very The Don-esque.

0:32 – This woman really insists on looking like a Barbie doll…creepy.

0:50 – A coin? Really? Clearly this relationship isn’t going to last very long.

0:53 – Unless it’s one of those chocolates that just looks like a coin. If that’s the case then it’s cool.

1:04 – You gotta love gardens built on a gloomy soundstage, so romantic.

1:21 – I’m willing to bet four A$AP Rocky mixtapes that Nicki cheats on Nas with Chris Brown in the video. Who’s up for the offer?

1:48 – It definitely looks like Nas turned into B.o.B for about two seconds just then.

2:16 – And this turns into Usher’s “Climax” video in 5…4….3…

2:51 – Every time Nicki Minaj starts rapping on one of her pop-tinged songs all the butterflies in South America lose their wings.

3:08 – It just hit me, Nicki Minaj could double as Iggy Azalea’s twin in this video.

3:28 – So is there going to be some kind of plotline in this music video? Or is it just going to continue to not much make sense?

3:47 – No plotline? Cool, I’ll make up my own. Turns out Nas is a ghost (hence all the smoke and fog surrounding him) that Nicki Minaj met in her neighbors 18th century mansion. She fell in love with him but they couldn’t get married because of the whole ghost thing. So when she threw that coin into the fountain she wished that Nas would turn into a real person and it worked. The end. Oh, and Chris Brown is Nas’ ghost pal who hoped to steal Nicki away from Nas but was unsuccessful and is now stuck at a gloomy beach for all of eternity.

3:55 – Rejected! (That would not fit in with my amazing plotline)

4:15 – That’d be great if Kelis popped up out of nowhere…with a milkshake.

4:25 – This woman is really serious about making those deranged faces at the most inappropriate times.

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