Nicki Minaj has not received a warm welcome in her new neighborhood.
Neighbors of the 40-year-old rapper and her 45-year-old husband Kenneth Petty have begun efforts to remove the couple from their glitzy gated community.
The fact that Kenneth Petty has been convicted and has a criminal record as a sex offender has caused concern throughout their community in Hidden Hills, California, an area where the Kardashian and Jenner families also reside.
Hundreds of community residents have expressed their support for a petition set up on Change.org to voice their opposition to Kenneth Petty's presence in Hidden Hills.
Nicki Minaj's husband was convicted in 1995 in New York of the attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl and was required by law to register with the state's sex offender registry.
Signature collections began in December 2022, when Nicki Minaj purchased a $19.5 million property in the luxury private community.
However, TMZ has now reported that signatures have started to grow by the hundreds after Kenneth Petty's new address was made public.
Under US federal law, authorities are required to release information about the residential locations of people on the sex offender registry in order to increase the public's sense of safety and security.
The petition, led by Beverly Barden, emphasizes the need for safety for all residents of the area and expresses concern about the decline in the value of their community.
Kenneth Petty is currently serving a year of house arrest for failing to register on California's sex offender registry by the deadline.
Nicki Minaj, who has publicly defended her husband on social media, married Kenneth Petty in 2019 and gave birth to their first child in September 2020.