Artist of the Week: Nicki Minaj

The 34-year-old femcee has released
three brand new tracks, including 'No
Frauds' featuring Drake and Lil
Wayne, which will likely be featured on
her much-anticipated fourth album.
It's been more than 2 years since the
release of " The Pinkprint ", and fans
have been craving another set from
Nicki Minaj . While details about her
much-anticipated fourth album
remain sparse, the 35-year-old
femcee continues giving some subtle
hints at her next project.
In her guest verse on Major Lazer 's
"Run Up", the Young Money queen
raps that "she's about to drop an
album." Adding fuel to the
speculation, she recently revealed the
initials of her next album in a now-
deleted tweet. "MYOB," so she
responded to a fan who asked for the
initials. As for the album's
collaborators, DJ Mustard said that he
was working with Nicki on new
records. "I heard that Nicki had liked
the song and I'd been working with
her on some other stuff for her stuff,"
said the producer. "I don't know
when it's coming out or what's going
to be on it but we was working on
some stuff for us together..."
While the newly single raptress has
been busy developing a single-camera
comedy television series called
" Nicki ", she still has time to work on
her upcoming album. She wants to
take some time to reflect upon the
successes and failures of her last
album because she thinks that it
doesn't do well in the market. "I
needed time to hear myself think
again," she told Nylon magazine
earlier this year, "because where I left
off with 'The Pinkprint' was a little
bit emotionally unstable."
In an interview with Hot 97 last
October, Nicki revealed that he would
do more features before releasing the
follow-up to "The Pinkprint". "The
album is so freaking epic," she said,
"but it's a journey. Before my first
album came out, I was on everybody's
song." She added, "Right now, I have
to complete a few things for other
people...What that does, throughout
my career, it makes me get back to
my fun side and it makes me push my
pen."
Even though Nicki doesn't give many
details about her next project, she
treats her fans to some feature verses
on other artists' tracks. She pops up
on David Guetta's "Light My Body Up"
and Gucci Mane 's "Make Love", on
which she takes a jab at Remy Ma . In
response to Nicki's jab, Remy has
released an explosive diss track titled
"ShETHER" that finds the Bronx
femcee accusing the "Anaconda"
rapper of cheating with Trey Songz
and PARTYNEXTDOOR when she was
still with her ex-boyfriend Meek Mill.
Nicki claps back at Remy by releasing
"No Frauds" featuring Drake and Lil
Wayne . Produced by Murda Beatz, the
song comes fully loaded with hateful
lyrics aimed at the "Another One"
raptress. In addition to "No Frauds",
Minaj delivers two more brand new
tracks titled "Regret in Your Tears"
and "Changed It" featuring Wayne.
The former of which apparently talks
about her past relationship with Mill.
Apart from her never-ending feud
with Remy, the Barbadian femcee
makes another breakthrough in her
career by surpassing Aretha Franklin
for most Hot 100 songs of any female
artist in the history of Billboard. She
has beaten Aretha with 76 entries,
making the Queen of Soul slide down
to No. 2 with 73 entries. Aretha had
held the title for most Hot 100 hits
among female artists for almost 40
years, from 1977 to 2017.