What on Earth is she thinking?

Nicki Minaj has a new boyfriend, and he's a registered sex offender! That's right folks, the singer is dating 40-year-old Kenneth Petty, and he was convicted in April 1995 of attempted rape in the first degree and sentenced to 54 months in state prison.

The songstress isn't happy with all the negative chatter about her man, and decided to defend him in the comments section on Instagram.

"He was 15, she was 16 … in a relationship. But go awf, Internet. Y’all can’t run my life. Y’all can’t even run y’all own life. Thank you boo," she wrote, referencing his rape charges.

The pair allegedly dated in high school and then reunited last month.

Can't she find anyone better than this?!