Nicki Minaj has shared her thoughts on the state of female rap, and said plainly she just wants to “hear girls rap again.”
The comments were made in an interview with City Girls’ JT for i-D, and come after Nicki Minaj’s new single “Super Freaky Girl” dominated the Billboard charts this summer. The single propelled Nicki to be the first female solo rap artist to debut at the Hot 100’s summit since Lauryn Hill in 1998 with “Doo Wop (That Thing).”
During the interview, JT noted the single’s “Queen Mix,” which featured the City Girls rapper alongside unsigned rappers Katie Got Bandz, Maliibu Miitch, BIA and Akbar V. The Pinkprint rapper said the “Super Freaky Girl (Queen Mix)” was so she could just hear women spit.
“I wanna hear girls rap again. Like, just rap. When I did my BET Cypher years ago, I purposely didn’t wear revealing clothes,” Nicki said. “I wore a sweatsuit. So even though we were being super freaky girls on the song, and we all had fun, y’all really spit.”
Elsewhere, Nicki Minaj complimented JT’s verse on the remix.
“I heard your verse and was blown away,” Nicki said. “I was so taken aback by your ability to remain yourself on a song that seemed like a beat that you wouldn’t normally do. I’m in a really great place now.”
She continued: “I feel like whenever I’m happy, I deliver the best music. And in order for me to deliver the best music for my album – which is coming out soon – I have to tap back into the essence of Hip Hop. On the remix of “Super Freaky Girl”, all the girls tapped into that.”
“Super Freaky Girl” is the latest in a line of singles the 39-year-old rapper has dropped since starting off 2022 with her Lil Baby-assisted “Do We Have A Problem?” and “Bussin” in addition to her collaborations with Fivio Foreign and HipHopDX’s 2022 Rising Star Coi Leray.
Nicki Minaj’s comments to i-D come after she scolded the 2023 Grammy Awards for placing “Super Freaky Girl” in the category of Best Pop Solo Performance rather than in any rap category, but she later told E! News the media overexaggerated how frustrated she actually was with the academy.
“I think sometimes people think that I’m more ‘angry’ than I am,” she said. “I could be heated about something right now or this second and five minutes from now, I’ll forget about what I just spoke about.”
Nicki has been teasing her new album for months now and had previously said it would arrive before the end of 2022, and that she expedited the process because of “Super Freaky Girl’s” success.
“I wasn’t sure how I was even feeling about having to put out an album this year, but that song happening and people liking it, that made me happy,” Nicki told Interview Magazine. “People have gone through so much recently that they want to have fun. It’ll probably expedite the album to come out this year.”
Says the one that’s anti every female rap artist who doesn’t kiss her rump!
No she don’t. She hates on damn near every female rapper that gets a certain level of shine. Nicki Minaj decided to be a pinup whore instead of a female mc a long time ago and now she just begs for respect or she disses
Nicki is madly overrated.
theres like 10-12 rinse and repeat female rappers out rn.
Female rap is 100x what it was when she got in the game. She probably can’t tell cause she’s beefing with most of them for no reason.
Now what have these other female rappers been doing then all this time?
Rolling their eyes at her.
Now what have these other female rappers been doing then all this time?
The hypocrisy is making me gag
Nicki has thee best cadence, lyricism and her flow is unmatched, only problem is she likes mainstream money too much, she was one of the best when she was fresh out the hood
Your a fuckin retard, right?
Don’t forget Nicki uses ghostwriters. I have way more respect for a rapper that write their own lyrics.
They want to jam women into anything the small working man enjoys so that we can never build anything beyond what is provided. Nothing worse than trying to watch sports and seeing nothing but messy bitches with bad weaves stumble and mumble third rate sports analysis- get in where you fit in
Their method of destroying what we built – where are the women and gays. Fck lil booty trash x and Fck the whore logic they want to force on the black man. If we have to rebuild the game distributing free music then that’s the flex. War against the heathen reject whore logic in your life it’s not about the money it’s about the culture we built and your place in it
If you want girls to rap again maybe don’t spearhead the whole “compromise yourself to sell an image” campaign. You used to spit mad bars Nicki.. then it became all about how sexy your butt supposedly is.
I once read shorty’s butt popped.
This girls always gotta talk woman support for likes but doesn’t support nooneNoone.. typical liberal shit. Talk one thing do the xact opposit
Finding something political in something that has absolutely nothing to do with it… typical conservative shit. Both conservatives and libs spend way to much time on each other’s nuts, that’s why both parties are a fucken mess.