Foxy Brown has been one of Nicki Minaj‘s biggest influences, so it was no surprise that the Brooklyn rapper reacted graciously to Nicki breaking one of her chart records.
On Sunday (December 17), Brown took to her Instagram Story to share her delight at Minaj scoring a third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Pink Friday 2. That’s the most of any female rapper, beating Foxy’s previous record of two (1997’s The Firm: The Album, a collab with Nas, AZ, and Nature; and 1999’s Chyna Doll).
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“Umm sir! Only Nic could break tha king[‘s] record,” Foxy wrote, before alluding to a potential comeback: “3rd #1 record dropping 2024.”
(In December 2005, Brown announced that her hearing had deteriorated significantly. She hasn’t released a full-length album since 2001’s Broken Silence.)
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Brown continued showing love, referring to Nicki as her “twin.”
“Hella proud,” she wrote. “26 year record is brazy tho. Y’all mean to tell me no bitch broke that shit in my absence! Took twin to set tha bar again!”
Foxy Brown gives Nicki Minaj her flowers & reacts to new record breaking Billboard rankshttps://t.co/52WCdDrY0Tpic.twitter.com/0SnrkQBnVo
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) December 18, 2023
Over the years, Nicki Minaj has been effusive in her praise of Foxy as being “ahead of her time” and “the most influential female rapper to me.” She spit over a Foxy beat on her 2008 mixtape Sucka Free and collaborated with Brown a decade later — notably the first time Nicki had ever shared one of her songs with a female rapper.
Nicki’s No. 1 album trifecta was not the only record that Pink Friday 2 set.
The project’s first-week numbers (228,000 equivalent album units) also mark the highest tally for a Hip Hop/R&B album by a woman in 2023, and the most sold by any female rapper in the 2020s.
With 25,000 vinyl copies sold, Pink Friday 2 also holds the distinction of most vinyl albums sold by a woman rapper since data analytics firm Luminate began tracking these figures in 1991.
