
19 Songs, 1 Hour 6 Minutes

Queen Nicki Minaj
EDITORS’ NOTES
“You were a queen before him. You’ll be a queen after him,” Nicki Minaj tweeted a few months ahead of her fourth studio album, QUEEN. Throughout her meteoric rise and even more impressive reign as one of the most formidable voices in hip-hop, female empowerment remains a constant in Nicki’s messaging. It was a motivating factor in the making of this album, which includes “Barbie Dreams,” a toothy and hilarious flip of The Notorious B.I.G. classic “Just Playing (Dreams),” wherein Nicki upends the concept of predatory masculinity, lining up a gang of her rap contemporaries as potential conquests. Elsewhere, Nicki raises a lighter to her Caribbean roots with “Ganja Burns,” which could work just as well as a dancehall riddim; goes bar for fiery bar—again—with Eminem on “Majesty”; and provides a simple solution for the Barbz dealing with unappreciative partners on “Nip Tuck.” “I think my role is putting out music that makes women feel like they can go from a poor neighborhood to doing records with the greats and being hailed as someone that shifted the culture,” Nicki told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe. “There are songs on the album that I feel women really need right now.”
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Ganja Burn
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Majesty (feat. Eminem)
Nicki Minaj & Labrinth
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Barbie Dreams
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Rich Sex (feat. Lil Wayne)
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Hard White
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Bed (feat. Ariana Grande)
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Thought I Knew You (feat. The Weeknd)
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Run & Hide
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Chun Swae (feat. Swae Lee)
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Chun-Li
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LLC
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Good Form
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Nip Tuck
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2 Lit 2 Late Interlude
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Come See About Me
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Sir (feat. Future)
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Miami
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Coco Chanel (feat. Foxy Brown)
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Inspirations Outro
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