Nicki Minaj Tour Rider: Full List of Items on Tour Contract

by NowPublic Staff | February 2, 2012 at 11:53 am
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Nicki Minaj Unveiled Her Tour Rider And It's Pretty Complicated. Here is a List of Nicki Minaj Tour Rider Items

Who doesn't enjoy a good tour rider? We all know about Van Halen's tour rider that insisted that brown M&Ms be removed from their candy jar.

Well, a British publication got a hold of the tour rider for hip-hop star Nicki Minaj and it's pretty elaborate. Nicki Minaj spoke with Wonderland magazine about her tour rider. It turns out that she has more than a few specific food requests: Red Bull, Snapple, and and Halls cough drops.

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Minaj is hardly the first star to have a detailed tour rider. Here is a list of top celebrity tour riders.

Here is the Nicki Minaj tour rider:

  • 2 dozen pink or white roses and 3 large  Baked Goods scented candles
  • Hot Tea setup with lemon wedges, sugar and honey. Must include teacups, saucers, spoons and napkins and decaffeinated Lipton Tea bags
  • 2 packs Halls lemon honey drops and 3 packs of Thayers Slippery Elm lozenges (three different flavors)
  • Contact lenses solution with case, 2 Space Heaters - VERY IMPORTANT - and a cool mist humidifier
  • 3 packs of gum in 3 different flavours
  • 24 bottles of Dasani Water (12 room temperature,12 on ice)
  • 12 cans of Red Bull (6 room temp, 6 iced)
  • 12 bottles of Martinelli's Apple Juice (6 room temp, 6 iced)
  • 24 bottles of Snapple, 12 must be Lemon Ice Tea, 12 other assorted flavours
  • Singer's Saving Grace throat spray
  • 2 large bottles of assorted fruit juices and one gallon of Simply Lemonade - please supply one small tub of clean ice and cups for drinks.
  • Egg Whites (scrambled hard), Turkey Bacon (fried hard), white toast (grape and strawberry jelly/jam). Belgian Waffles (syrup, powdered sugar, whipped cream, butter and strawberries on side) Enough to serve 4 people
  • 1 Large Fruit platter with side of mango and 1 Large Cheese platter
  • 3 twelve piece buckets of fried chicken spicy - no thighs, lots of wings
  • A deli tray with turkey breast meat, grilled chicken breast, whole Wheat bread or rolls, yellow mustard and other condiments (seasoned salt, hot sauce), plates, forks, spooks, knives, napkins and straws (enough for six people)
  • Salad - Iceberg lettuce, sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, green olives, Wishbone Light Italian dressing, Bumble Bee tuna in water, wheat or low Fat crackers
  • Carrots and Dip
  • Cranberries (dried), almonds (raw- not roasted)
  • One set of fine silverware/stainless steel silverware
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Jordan Yerman

Not weird at all. Touring is harder than artists like Nicki Minaj make it look (I speak from experience), and you do whatever you can to stay in the zone: the audience doesn't give a shit how good last night's show was, or how good tomorrow's is going to be. They only care about tonight's show, so you have opening-night pressure, every night. 

This means elements of familiarity: favorite foods and drink, or just those that you associate with your best rehearsal days. This sort of thing makes a tremendous difference.

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