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Stephen Colbert bravely allowed Nicki Minaj to change her song lyrics to be about him during an appearance on The Late Show in 2018 and he’s now the subject of a new tune. During an interview on the late-night show, Minaj offered Colbert a new opportunity to battle rap her. In the clip, Colbert queried Minaj about her new album, Pink Friday 2, and its setting Gag City. After asking her if there were any songs she left on the table, host started pounding his desk. “Did you learn how to make a beat?” Minaj asked.…

The artist has become the female rapper with the most chart-topping albums to date Nick Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 has debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Dec. 23), as Billboard reports. It’s her third album to hit Number One, behind 2012’s Roman Reloaded and 2011’s Pink Friday — making her the female rapper with the most chart-topping albums to date. Pink Friday 2 debuts with 228,000 equivalent albums earned in the United States in the week ending Dec. 14 per Luminate. Not…

Five years ago, Nicki Minaj recorded her verse for Kanye West‘s still-unreleased record “New Body,” which also featured Ty Dolla $ign. Now, West is finally ready to release the song on his new album Vultures and has adamantly been trying to get Minaj to clear her verse, sharing screenshots on social media of their one-sided correspondence. But he was too little too late, or as Minaj raps in the leaked version: “Old nigga hit me and I said, “New body, who this?” During a recent Instagram Live, Minaj addressed…

Nicki Minaj’s headlining set at Rolling Loud California next year will be a moment for life for her Los Angeles area fans. The 2024 rap festival at Hollywood Park, near Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium, will be the only Southern California stop on the “Super Freaky Girl” rapper’s recently announced Pink Friday 2 tour. Just days days after dropping her first studio album in five years, the 10-time Grammy-nominated artist announced Monday that she would take “Pink Friday 2” across the country, Canada and parts of Europe…

Nicki Minaj has announced a collaboration with Roblox to celebrate the release of new album ‘Pink Friday 2’. Nicki Minaj’s Gag City opened earlier this week and gives players access to an exclusive shopping experience. Created by metaverse studio Karta, the experience will involve a 3D landscape where users will be able to buy custom-designed emotes based on hits like ‘Anaconda’, ‘Superbass’ and Starships’ alongside Minaj-themed digital items. To celebrate Minaj’s birthday on December 8, users were able to claim a…

50 Cent, welcome to Gag City. On Monday night, Nicki Minaj released a new rendition of “Beep Beep” from her new album Pink Friday 2 — but this time with a verse from 50. “I’m different shit, I’m with the shit, I’m nineties grimy/I should spend that shit and then they spin that shit,” raps 50 in his verse, before dropping, “A lil’ bread with me, you can’t hide behind money/Got a lot of this shit, I ain’t runnin’ out of this shit.” “Southside Jamaica, Queens stand tf up!!!” Minaj wrote on Instagram hours…

Nicki Minaj is addressing critics who took on her COVID-19 vaccine claims in 2021, including that a friend of a family member in Trinidad developed “swollen testicles” after getting the shot. In a December cover story for Vogue, the Grammy-winning rapper opened up about motherhood, returning to music with her newest album Pink Friday 2, and the stresses of high-profile fame. During the discussion, Minaj briefly addressed her criticized social media statements, which included her posting an alleged…

Nicki Minaj will bring her ‘Pink Friday 2’ World Tour to the UK and Europe in 2024 it has been announced. Fans have eagerly anticipated her touring return with headline arena shows in North America and Europe, including festival appearances at Rolling Loud California, and more yet to be announced. Minaj originally shared news of her tour on social media teasing the announcement along with the release of her new album ‘Pink Friday 2’, out everywhere now. Tickets are available now with artist presale access.…

Barbz, get those credit cards out — the mayor of Gag City is going on tour! On Monday, Live Nation announced Nicki Minaj‘s headline arena tour in support of Pink Friday 2, which arrived Friday, Nov. 8. The tour includes stops at festivals Rolling Loud California and Dreamville Festival. Minaj will commence her tour in Oakland on March 1. She’ll stop in cities such as Phoenix, New Orleans, Atlanta, New York City, Washington, D.C., Columbus, Milwaukee, and Montreal, before closing the North American tour in Austin.…

Sequels can be big business, but they can also be tricky. While they build off already-existing reputations, they can also set up grand expectations; comparisons between then and now are inevitable, and the patina of nostalgia can sometimes make the “then” seem superior to the “now” by default. Pink Friday 2, the fifth album from firebrand MC Nicki Minaj, attempts to balance the expectations attached to naming itself after its groundbreaking 2010 predecessor with Minaj’s spirit of constant reinvention and…