In celebration of Nicki Minaj’s lengthy awaited Pink Friday 2 launch, Billboard ranked our favourite songs from the album — and stunned the rapper within the course of.
When she noticed that her Lil Uzi Vert collaboration, “Everyone,” topped the listing, Minaj took to Twitter to reply and share the story behind the tune. “That is mad humorous b/c that was the tune I wrote in 5 minutes at some point for ‘Name Of Obligation,’” she recalled. “As soon as I stored it for my album, I nonetheless didn’t even rlly know if it made sense on PF2. I didn’t wanna ship it to Uzi b/c I believed he’d be over it. As an alternative he was like this difficult af!”
The 22-song Pink Friday 2 is the follow-up to Minaj’s 2018 album, Queen, which peaked at No. 2 on each the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart and Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart upon its launch. The upcoming album’s predecessor, 2010’s Pink Friday, topped the Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for six weeks and the Billboard 200 for one week.
PF2 was slated to land on November 17, however was delayed to Dec. 8 which additionally serves as Minaj’s forty first birthday. For her fifth studio album, Nicki made positive to reconnect together with her roots. “Once I look again at a variety of my music, I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, the place was the me in it?’” she advised Vogue final month. “So for this album, I went again to the previous sport plan … The concept saying one thing like that would give hope to folks — that optimistic outlook is one thing I believe I bought away from.”
