After a series of rollout delays, Nicki Minaj dropped her long-anticipated fourth album, Queen, on Friday. Paired with a track-by-track commentary broadcast on Apple’s Beats 1 Radio and a hefty social media campaign (bolstered by her ever-enthusiastic army of Barbz), Nicki and her team did everything in their power to make the album release feel like an event. Nothing, though, will likely be as successful at driving immediate interest as the third song on the album, “Barbie Dreams.” “Reading the reactions to Barbie Dreams is fucking hilarious,” Nicki said as soon as the song was released. “Everyone is saying how disrespectful ‘Barbie Dreams’ is, and that’s why I fucking love it.” The track is an old-school diss song in which Nicki lightheartedly takes on seemingly every rapper at once. “Barbie Dreams” nods to the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Just Playing (Dreams)” — “Shout out to the Notorious B.I.G., R.I.P.,” Nicki said during her broadcast, “you are still inspiring rappers every day” — and an ascendant 50 Cent, but it comes with a twist: Nicki calls out every rapper that’s tried to sleep with her throughout her career. The results are clever and often surprising. Here’s all the rappers (and one football player) that Nicki goes after in the song’s 4 minutes and 40 seconds. Drake: “Drake worth a hundred milli, always buying me shit/ But I don’t know if the pussy wet or if he’s crying and shit” Meek Mill: “Meek still be in my DMs, I be having to duck him/ ‘I used to pray for times like this,’ Face ass when I fuck him” Eminem: “Em, cop the barbie dream house then you can play the part/ I ain’t tryin’ to bust it open in a trailer park” DJ Khaled: “Had to cancel DJ Khaled, boy, we ain’t speaking/ Ain’t no fat nigga telling me what he ain’t eating” 50 Cent: “I tried to fuck 50 for a powerful hour, but all that nigga want to do is talk Power for hours” Desiigner: “I remember when I used to have a crush on Special Ed/ Shoutout Desiigner, ’cause he made it out of special ed” Lil Uzi Vert: “Man, Uzi is my baby, he ain’t takin’ an L/ But he took it literally when I said “go to hell” Young Thug: “Used to fuck with Young Thug, I ain’t addressing this shit/ I caught him in my dressing rooms stealing dresses and shit” YG and the Game: “YG and the Game with the hammer yelling, ‘gang gang’/ This ain’t what I meant when I said a gang bang” 6ix9ine: “Teskashi wanna menage I said tre-way, curved him and went the Kim and Kanye-way” Odell Beckham: “And I would’ve had that Odell Beckham banging the cake/ ‘Til I saw him hopping out of cars dancing to Drake”<doc-sep>Nicki Minaj surprise-dropped her album "Queen" today, and if you thought her feud with Cardi B was over, you were definitely wrong. Fans think one of the songs is one big Cardi diss track. Okay, here are the various theories floating around the interwebs. Nicki raps on her song "Ganja Burns" about an unnamed woman. She says: They done went to witch doctors to bury the Barbie But I double back, kill bitches, bury the body However, if you actually listen to the song, it really sounds like she says "Bardi" instead of body. Like, there is definitely an "R" in there, and people think she's calling Cardi out by name (nickname, technically). There's more! Later in song, she says "Yo, you can't wear Nicki wig and then be Nicki." Back in 2017 when G Eazy's "No Limit" music video came out, fans were quick to say that Cardi's look is a lot like Nicki's. Their words, not mine! This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. And when they tweeted this theory at Nicki, this is what she responded: This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. I’m glad y’all peeped — BEAM ME UP SCOTTY OUT NOW (@NICKIMINAJ) December 20, 2017 PLUS, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B use the same wig stylist, and Nicki used him first... Okay, wait, there's one more thing. In one verse, Nicki raps: Unlike a lot of these hoes whether wack or lit At least I can say I wrote every rap I spit" Which, according to Complex, is a knock at how many credited writers Cardi B has on her album. Nicki Minaj has way less on hers, which means she wrote more of the songs herself. So! After presenting all this evidence, the only remaining question is... This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Follow Emma on Instagram. Emma Baty Emma Baty is the Associate Entertainment Editor at Cosmopolitan who focuses on movies and TV. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>
After several release date changes, Nicki Minaj’s fourth studio album has finally arrived. Queen is out now (via Young Money/Cash Money/Republic). Listen below. Queen, the follow-up to 2014’s The Pinkprint, includes “Rich Sex” (featuring Lil Wayne), “Bed” (featuring Ariana Grande), and “Chun-Li.” There are also guest appearances from Eminem, the Weeknd, tourmate Future, Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee, Labrinth (of the trio LSD with Sia and Diplo), and others. Producers on the album include Murda Beatz, Zaytoven, Metro Boomin, Mike WiLL Made-It, and Boi-1da, among others. On “Barbie Dreams”—a flip of Notorious B.I.G.’s "Just Playing (Dreams)," that’s an update of the similarly-titled track “Dreams” that she released over a decade ago—she targets numerous rappers, including Meek Mill (her ex-boyfriend), Drake (“Drake worth a hundred milli, always buying me shit/But I don’t know if the pussy wet or if he cryin’ and shit”), Desiigner (“Shoutout Desiigner, ’cause he made it out of special ed”), Young Thug (“Used to fuck with Young Thug, I ain’t addressing this shit/I caught him in my dressing rooms stealing dresses and shit”), DJ Khaled (“I had to cancel DJ Khaled, we ain’t speaking/Ain’t no fat n---a telling me what he ain’t eating”), and more. Addressing the song on her Beats 1 “Queen Radio” program, Nicki said, “You guys know that’s not a diss, right? I love them. I said things about people who can take a joke and not be emotional about it.” Elsewhere on the show, Nicki said Eminem’s guest verse on “Majesty” is “going to be one of the best verses in history.” She also indicated that she may update the album, possibly with a new Future verse, in particular. The next episode of “Queen Radio” is scheduled to air on Thursday, August 16, live from New York. Read “Will the Mainstream Support More than One Rap Queen at a Time? A Charts Investigation” on the Pitch.