Nicki Minaj : "I'm Not Dating Rihanna"

Nicki Minaj has fired back at reports suggesting she's dating pal Rihanna, insisting the media has made too much of a little fun the two stars had on Twitter.com.

The R&B stars posed for a Twitter photo in which they cuddled, and posted it online earlier this month before joking about living together.

Minaj insists the joke has gone too far and she wants to assure fans she's not romancing the Umbrella hitmaker.

In a recent radio chat with Los Angeles DJ Ryan Seacrest, she says, "I don't know where people got this really insane, hilarious, random rumour that she and I were living together.

"It was like, 'What?' It's like, you can't even be sarcastic anymore. It was hilarious, though."