Nicki Minaj knows how to send The Barbz into a frenzy with very few words. On Wednesday morning (Sept. 24), the rap queen broke her month-long social media hiatus with a cryptic X post teasing her next musical project.<\/p>\n
With a simple, \u201c3.27.26\u201d followed by a CD emoji, it was enough to get the people going \u2014 no explanations or follow up posts needed.<\/p>\n
The announcement currently has over seven million views and over 101K likes on X with fans obviously ready for what will likely be Minaj\u2019s sixth studio album. Back in late 2024, the \u201cBlessings\u201d rapper <\/a>teased that both a tour and a fresh body of work was slated to drop either late 2025 or early 2026 \u2014 and it looks like she plans to keep her word.<\/p>\n Many fans expressed their excitement, while others did what the internet does best and threw shade. \u201cAnd when the world needed u most\u2026 u APPEARED,\u201d wrote one person on X as another joked, \u201cNicki please don\u2019t play with me. blink twice if I need to save for tour. March is my bday month.\u201d<\/p>\n A third person threw a little jab with the remark, \u201cAnnouncing a 2026 album in 2025 Cardi [B] is pressing everyone in the industry,\u201d with a fourth person writing, \u201csomeone is butthurt over Cardi B\u2019s successful album. How many Pink Friday\u2019s can you make?!\u201d<\/p>\n The latter comments refer to Cardi\u2019s anticipated sophomore album<\/a> Am I The Drama? which was released last Friday.<\/p>\n Minaj last dropped Pink Friday 2 in December 2023 and immediately debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The 22-track project made history moving 228,000 units in its opening week, making it the biggest first-week numbers for a female rap album in four years. It also cemented her as the female rapper with the most No. 1 albums ever.<\/a><\/p>\n With no word yet on collaborators, the track list, or a lead single, Nicki\u2019s silence is louder than ever. Revisit Pink Friday 2 below.<\/p>\n More from VIBE.com<\/p>\n Sign up for Vibe’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj knows how to send The Barbz into a frenzy with very few words. On Wednesday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,22323,29377],"class_list":["post-35412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-nicki-minaj","tag-sixth-studio-album"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}