Somewhere, someone has woken up in a cold sweat and faced the realization that they might not have actually escaped the wrath of Nicki Minaj. In the early hours of the morning, the rapper took to social media for an impromptu meeting of the Barbs as they gear up for the release of Pink Friday 2 on her birthday, Dec. 8. Among the slate of teasers that she shared on X (formerly Twitter), was a pointed warning: “If you on my $h!t list, you will never EVER recover,” Minaj wrote. “The. Fkng. End.”
In a recent interview with Vogue, the rapper described her approach to Pink Friday 2, which functions as a follow-up to her 2020 debut album Pink Friday. “When I look back at a lot of my music, I’m like, Oh, my God, where was the me in it?” she shared. “So, for this album, I went back to the old game plan.” When checking in with her fans, Minaj issued a poll to gauge which direction they want her to explore on the record.
“LETS LET THE INFAMOUS BARBZ DECIDE,” she wrote. “On a scale from 1-10, how hard you want me to go on #PinkFriday2.” The options were: 10 (to the white meat), eight (foot on necks), five (let’m live but ntm), and one (#NiceNicki #PopStar). With over 31,000 responses already submitted, 10 reigns with nearly 80 percent of the votes.
Minaj also dropped a lyrical teaser for the record, which read: “I just wanna watch him do his push-ups w/his sweats on/Every time he hit it, he gon nail it like a press-on/When I ride his d!&@ the only time he gettin flexed on/Hit it from the bak with my pumps & my dress on.”
Minaj originally scheduled Pink Friday 2 to arrive on Oct. 20, then later pushed the album to Nov. 17 before landing on her birthday as the release date.