Nicki Minaj has opted to postpone her album release.
The new date will be August 10 — almost two months later than the first-announced release date of June 15.
Minaj went live on Instagram to make the announcement, and added she’d be providing some “surprises” in June, including the album cover. She also promised a documentary before the album drops and a tour that will kick off in September.
Even the delay announcement itself was postponed, which had eager fans far from pleased.
“You guys, after careful consideration, I’ve decided to do my announcement tmrw when most of my fans all around the world are wide awake. A lot of them are asleep right now due to it being like 3 or 4 in the morning in their various countries. Let’s do 3pm EST tomorrow,” Minaj tweeted on Wednesday (May 23).
Minaj was immediately met with a myriad of memes from fans upset with the 24-hour delay. The rapper appeared to take the reactions in stride, retweeting a few of them and offering a bit of sarcasm in her response to one fan.
“Ok well why don’t I just scrap it altogether? No announcement. And another hiatus. XO,” Minaj tweeted in response to one fan’s claim that half her timeline would be “busy” tomorrow.
Minaj’s decision to postpone her album comes after she canceled her Tuesday (May 22) appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She went on to credit “Doctor’s Orders” as the reason behind the cancellation.
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Bullshit…not enough buzz to drop now. Bad news for you babe. Dropping in august aint gonna help either. And dumb ass social media games aint helping either. Bitch 35 years old trying to play 20 year old something mind games. And that’s why people consider her lame ass fuck.
Lol I was just gonna type something almost exactly the same
You spot on!
That be careful hit cant she cant fade
TAKE UR TIME QUEEN . THIS ABLUM FINNA BE CLASSIC . NIKKI N CARDI 2 FEMALE GOATS
Gotta learn those ghostwritten rhymes fool!
Too much heat in june*…best to fall back some
She doesn’t have a hit out so it makes sense. People like the idea of Nicki Minaj better than her actual music these days. Plus she’s been in the game a while now and people get bored of you unless you switch it up in a major way, which her new songs didn’t do. Probably shouldn’t have waited four years between albums.
She is WACK! Her pop, gimmick rap is so 5 years ago……Nobody is checking for Nicki anymore and she knows it. Her time has come to an end.
Its over Nicki they got Cardi B and her time is ticking toa new so call sex symbol in hip hop will happen soon you are starting to look washed up
Smart move, June’s got Kanye, Kudi and Nas. She knew she’d be eclipsed.
her run is done. two singles not that great