Make manner for the Queen of Rap. Nicki Minaj is returning along with her first solo single of 2023, a monitor referred to as “Purple Ruby Da Sleeze” coming March 3.
The rapper introduced the monitor Thursday (Feb. 23) with behind-the-scenes clips from a music video shoot, afterward posting the only’s official paintings on Instagram. Within the picture, she poses subsequent to a chef laborious at work in a restaurant kitchen, staring down the digital camera as she stirs a frying pan. As common, Minaj is essentially the most colourful factor within the room, carrying a brightly patterned classic Jean Paul Gaultier gown, yellow heels and split-dyed hair, half crimson and half pink.
Within the behind-the-scenes clips for the “Purple Ruby Da Sleeze” music video, the Queen Radio host raps alongside to her unreleased lyrics as a darkly-lit dance get together unfolds behind her. Minaj later revealed the video was filmed in her residence island of Trinidad and Tobago, the place she’s been spending time this week amid the island’s 2023 Carnival.
“Hunnit rounds on dat gratata,” she raps as ladies twerk on both sides of her.
The brand new monitor is certain to be Minaj’s first solo launch since final summer time’s “Tremendous Freaky Woman,” a reimagined model of Rick James “Tremendous Freak” that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100. It was the “Tremendous Bass” artist’s first ever solo tune to prime the chart, and the primary No. 1 debut for a hip-hop tune by a feminine artist with no accompanying acts since Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Factor)” in 1998.
“You probably did it barbz,” Minaj thanked followers on social media after the monitor went No. 1. “You probably did it. I like you a lot. like so so SO a lot. Thanks.”
See the official paintings and music video behind-the-scenes for Nicki Minaj’s upcoming single “Purple Ruby Da Sleeze” under.