When Nicki Minaj was presented with the Video Vanguard Award at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards ceremony

Her career-spanning, greatest-hits medley was a characteristically colorful and raunchy affair — one that had her famous fans (or “Barbz”)

Like Taylor Swift and the ladies of BLACKPINK, bopping in the Prudential Center audience to “All Things Go,” 

“Roman’s Revenge,” “Monster,” “Beez in the Trap,” “Chun-Li,” “Moment 4 Life,” “Super Bass,” “Anaconda,” and the brand-new single “Super Freaky Girl.”

But when Minaj approached the podium flanked by five lucky Barbz, she got serious — delivering an acceptance speech that proved just why she’s amassed such a devoted fanbase over the past decade.

Nicki Minaj performs at the 2022 MTV VMAs. (Photo: Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for MTV/Paramount Global) (Jeff Kravitz via Getty Images)

“I never, ever in my life have written a speech, and today I jotted something down on my phone, and I give my phone to Joe, and he is not up here with it — which is sad, because now I don’t remember stuff,” Minaj began awkwardly. 

Concerned/amused viewers immediately blew up Twitter with “Where’s Joe?” and “You had one job!” memes and predictions that the rapper’s presumed assistant was about to be fired. But once the errant Joe saved the day and finally sprinted to the stage with Minaj’s missing phone, it turned out to be worth the wait.

“I wrote this down, I don’t know why, but this was in my spirit to say: I wish that Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson were here,” Minaj began. (The Video Vanguard Award is sometimes known as the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.) “I wish that people understood what they meant and what they were going through. … I wish Pop Smoke and Juice Wrld and Nipsey Hussle were here. R.I.P. Daddy, my cousin Richard, and my business manager Angela, who I never got to say ‘rest in peace’ to publicly.”

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