Nicki Minaj Promises “Classic Hip Hop Album”

Nicki Minaj Promises “Classic Hip Hop Album.” It has been roughly two and a half years since Nicki Minaj released a studio album — but there has been a ton of activity since then. Records (and relationships) have been broken. So-called beef with you know who. Even an appearance in her third movie. But for history’s most successful female rapper, there still has to be a musical initiative somewhere in the equation.

That was a topic of discussion when Nicki called into Eminem’s SiriusXM channel Shade 45 and spoke to DJ Whoo Kid on his Whoolywood Shuffle show. After the megastar rapper copped to having not much to prove aside from winning some more, she revealed her inner psyche tells her she owes it to her fans to release more music. In the form of an album.

“My goal right now is just releasing this fourth album and watching my fans react to it,” she said. “Because I know it’s going to be my best body of work. And I always love to be in real time and see my fans reacting to something. So that’s what I’m looking forward to. Now obviously I’m not telling them when my album is coming out but I just know that it’s going to be amazing because I want to thank the people who rocked with me all these years. Like my fans are a different level of diehard! I always feel like I gotta make them proud. I gotta go hard! I gotta impress them! Because they’re always waiting for me! That’s a blessing in itself.