Artist Playlists
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Whether she's ticking off reasons to boast, singing about her emotional triumphs and tribulations, or setting a collaborator's track on fire with white-hot bars, Nicki Minaj's lightning-speed flow and verbal trickery snap listeners to attention. This collection of solo numbers and features laid down by Minaj and her alter egos (The Harajuku Barbie and Roman Zolanski on “Monster,” for instance) shows why her rapid ascent didn't just redefine the rap game: Her overwhelming confidence, winking wit, and seemingly endless drive hypercharged the pop world. - Nicki Minaj's videos are just like her raps: a seismic blend of grit, glamour, and subversive wit. The trippy neon fantasy of “Super Bass” and the innuendo in “Anaconda” are unforgettable examples.
- On March 1, Nicki Minaj kicked off her 2024 tour in Oakland, California, with all the glitz and glamour you’d expect from the queen of rap: robot dancers, a subway train, over-the-top costume changes, and eye-popping choreography. The production takes place in dreamy Gag City, a glittering pink future-metropolis occupied by Minaj and her fans. (The aesthetic was inspired by the album art for <i>Pink Friday 2</i>, and went viral online in the days leading up to the project’s release.) Nicki has always been a magnetic performer, but on this tour she extends that signature confidence out to her audience. “No matter what is happening right now outside of Gag City, inside here, we are radiating positivity, success, prosperity, intelligence, and wisdom,” she told fans in Oakland Arena. Whether you’re prepping for an upcoming show or reminiscing about one you recently attended, you can explore the set list here.
- Through all her various incarnations—singing, rapping, using her own voice or channelling someone else's—Nicki Minaj has always kept one thing constant: energy. Whether you’re lifting, doing interval work, or just out on a good long ride or run, here’s an all-Nicki playlist put together by our Apple Music editors and Apple Fitness+ trainers to help keep you motivated and engaged. Hit play and level up with the Harajuku Barbie's most upbeat tracks. We rotate new tracks here regularly, so if you hear a track you love, add it to your library.
- From hits to deep cuts, breaking down the samples that have inspired one of music’s most vital artists.
- Nicki Minaj knows her way around a pop song, but the rapper's most scintillating rhymes are far too brutal for mainstream radio. Just check out the threatening barbs she drops over the rumbling beat of “I Am Your Leader,” or on the warbling, tic-filled “Want Some More.” On “Roman In Moscow,” Minaj unleashes her wild alter ego Roman Zolanski, cranking her voice into beast mode to rain fire on the track's skyscraping synths.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- Nicki Minaj's fast-talking 2000s mixtapes were very much a product of her New York upbringing, stacking boastful rhymes that channelled the bravado of Missy Elliott, the pugnaciousness of Foxy Brown, and JAY Z's ever-expanding ambition. Minaj's evolution into a pop force through songs like 2010's sunshine-bright “Super Bass” followed the path of Lauryn Hill and Beyoncé, whose melding of towering hooks and hip-hop swagger turned them into world-conquering forces. Here we select the songs that shaped a modern-day icon.