Nicki Minaj is 'very sorry' for any offense caused by her 'Only' music video

Cover art for Nicki Minaj's single "Only" Nicki Minaj/Twitter

Rapper Nicki Minaj apologised Tuesday for her controversial music video that features Nazi imagery. 

Minaj said she did not choose the images presented in "Only," but took responsibility for the images, and apologised to those offended.

The animated video features an animated Chris Brown as a military officer, Drake as a priest, Lil Wayne as a businessman in a boardroom, and Minaj as the leader of an ominous army.

There are also military tanks, atomic bombs exploding, and missiles dropping in the World War II-themed video. Red, black, and white banners with the initials "NM," styled to resemble swastikas, appear throughout the video.

The Anti-Defamation League condemned the Nazi-themed visuals. 

"Nicki Minaj's new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture's exploitation of Nazi symbolism," ADL National Director and Holocaust survivor Abraham H Foxman told FOX411.

"This video it is insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a trivialisation of the history of that era," he continued.

"This imagery is deeply disturbing and offensive to Jews and all those who recall the sacrifices Americans and many others had to pay as a result of the Nazi juggernaut."

Minaj's apology came hours later. 

"The artist who made the lyric video for 'Only' was influenced by a cartoon on Cartoon Network called 'Metalocalypse' & 'Sin City,'" she explained on Twitter. 

"Both the producer, & person in charge of over seeing the lyric video (one of my best friends & videographer: A. Loucas), happen to be Jewish.

"I didn't come up w/the concept, but I'm very sorry & take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I'd never condone Nazism in my art."

The other artists on the single have not responded to the controversy.

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