Nicki Minaj Pens Heartfelt Message To The Barbz Ahead Of “Gag City Reloaded” Tour

Nicki Minaj has poured a lot into her musical journey. She’s racked up tons of accolades, top-charting singles and projects, as well as having several massive tours under her belt. Speaking of the latter, the Trinidadian rapper and singer is getting ready to tour across the United States once again tonight. It will be the second installment of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour, which quite insane given the fact that she did two legs of the former. This is the Gag City Reloaded trek, and it will accompany the forthcoming deluxe of the same name that’s coming September 13.

It will run through October 11 and will end in Queens, New York. With so much support shown from her fans, Nicki wanted to show them appreciation with one of her trademark messages. “Dear Barbz,” she begins. “Today is the day. The final installment of the #PinkFriday2 era begins today. Thank you for your continued love & support… for wishing my team & me, well. Thank you for being the best humans on earth.” She continues, “This is my first time doing 2 headline tours in one calendar year- (as #PapaBear’s mama @ that)… So I’d be lying if I said it’s been “easy”. I just keep reminding myself that one thing I learned & promised myself I’d never ever forget the last time I saw you, is that no matter how I feel when I walk ON stage, I feel a million times better when I walk off.

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Nicki Minaj Announces The “Final Installment Of The Pink Friday 2 Era”

 
 
 
 
 
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“Physically tired of course, but in high spirits. Idk what it is really, but you guys have a way of putting things back into perspective for me w/o knowing or trying to.” Nicki then concludes with, “The unexpected rush of all these incredible, adorable, precious, magical, majestic, fun, funny, uplifting, emotional, uniquely layered, carefully crafted, multi faceted, powerful, vulnerable, vivid, bright, crystal clear, stunning, reassuring, fleeting memories all start flooding back & I think to myself… maybe it was all worth it🎀 Love you, -Harajuku Barbie”.

What are your thoughts on Nicki Minaj’s message to The Barbz ahead of the beginning of the Gag City Reloaded tour? How will you view the Pink Friday 2 era? Are you still excited for the upcoming deluxe that’s dropping next Friday? We would like to hear what you have to say, so leave your thoughts in the comments. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Nicki Minaj. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.

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Pop Smoke’s Alleged Killer Hits The Studio With LA Rappers

Pop Smoke’s 2020 passing continues to be one of the most tragic and talked about deaths in hip-hop. He was fatally shot at the age of 2020 during a home invasion, which reportedly involved several individuals. Corey Walker, the only adult defendant, is currently awaiting trial. Another defendant who goes by Blockstar, and who was 15 at the time of the shooting, was released in June of this year.

He’s since gone on to make various shocking comments, particularly during his interview with No Jumper. Blockstar admitted that he’s “not sorry about nothing,” said he thinks he got off lightly, and more. Regardless, he appears to be doing okay amid his newfound freedom. In a new clip shared by Akademiks TV on X, he’s seen hanging out in the studio with various LA artists.

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FRosTydaSnowMann, Peysoh, And More Reportedly Welcome Pop Smoke Murder Suspect With Open Arms

Reportedly, these artists included FRosTydaSnowMann, Peysoh, and more. While social media users aren’t exactly surprised, they’re outraged nonetheless. The news arrives just a couple of months after Pop Smoke would have celebrated his 25th birthday. It also follows his mother Audrey Jackson’s interview with Tap In With TT, during which she weighed in on Blockstar’s disrespectful comments about her son and his death. According to her, it’s still hurtful to hear him discuss the murder the way he does. She refuses to let it get to her too much, however, as it’ll “eat [her] up” if she does.

“The bottom line is, your life is over,” she said of Blockstar at the time. “He’s living, but if that’s his approach to what he’s done, life is done for him.” What do you think of one of Pop Smoke’s alleged killers being welcomed by LA rappers? Are you surprised by this or not? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.

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Conway The Machine & Ransom Announce A Brand-New Collab Project And It’s Coming Soon

Conway the Machine and Ransom were getting some fans hopeful over this past weekend. Two of New York’s underground greats, along with producer V Don and Lloyd Banks, dropped a posse cut, “Higher Killer”. The single is dark and intense, and of course features great rapping from all three MCs. During its release, neither artist involved mentioned anything about it being a lead off track. However, if you were checking out the Genius page for it, it was saying that “Higher Killer” was off a project.

It was listed under Chaos Is My Ladder Too, a collab tape between Ransom, Conway, and V Don. Fans were wondering if this was actually the start to a project roll out last Friday. Now, those suspicions are confirmed, according to HipHopDX. Ransom shared a joint Instagram post with the Griselda affiliate on the main feed with a revealing caption and image. The official cover consists of intimidating black and white portraits of the two rappers.

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It’s easily one of the coldest covers of the year. But Ransom wasn’t done spilling details. According to the caption, fans don’t have to wait hardly any longer for Chaos Is My Ladder Too. “Chaos Is My Ladder 🪜 🪜 with @whoisconway The MACHINE & @vdonsoundz the Dark WIZARD FRIDAY!!!!”. To be clear that is this week, September 6. Everyone, including us, is clearly ready for this to happen as evidenced by all of the “🔥” in the comments section.

What are your thoughts on Ransom and Conway the Machine dropping a project together? Is this going to be one of the best underground hip-hop records of the year? Have you been messing with the lead single, “Higher Killer”? We would like to hear what you have to say, so leave your thoughts in the comments. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Ransom and Conway the Machine. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.

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Women Have Always Been Rapping, But Have You Been Listening?

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Here we go again.

The release of Doechii’s debut mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal has cemented the ascent of a brand-new rap superstar. Unfortunately, it also resurrected a tired, misogynistic conversation among rap fans – one that seems to resurface every time a new woman in rap asserts herself with a lyrics-forward project or a virtuoso demonstration of wordplay.

Ironically, it’s often the most enthusiastic fans of the new kid on the block who resuscitate the decrepit discourse that pits women in rap against one another. In their rush to praise an exciting young talent, they often end up downplaying the past accomplishments of dozens of artists in the sisterhood of hip-hop and denigrating the efforts of their newfound faves’ contemporaries and peers.

But don’t get it twisted; women have always been rapping — and if you think otherwise, you haven’t been listening.

Alligator Bites Never Heal rightly has fans uplifting Doechii’s rap skills. All across social media over the weekend, rap fans have extolled the Florida rapper’s delivery and gift for wordplay. Songs like “Bullfrog,” “Boiled Peanuts,” and “Denial Is A River,” have fans proclaiming that Doechii’s project isn’t just a stellar debut worthy of Doechii’s label, but is also one of, if not the best rap projects of the year.

However, as they’ve become more profuse with their praise for Doechii, some have become dismissive of her contemporaries. In one example, a fan wrote, “It’s time we celebrate the females in hip-hop who actually can RAP RAP and not the others.” Another wrote, “Doechii is an example of what REAL female hip hop should sound like.”

What these posters and others are really saying is evident in what they’re NOT saying. What “female hip-hop” should be, to coin a popular phrase, is demure, buttoned up, chaste — the opposite of the “others” who “can’t” RAP RAP. By the way, what a horrid way to segregate women and suggest that such classification is also somehow inferior to “default” hip-hop, which, per this phrasing, means “men.”

It’s no secret that the success of sex-positive rappers — like GloRilla, Latto, Megan Thee Stallion, or Sexyy Red (all of whom have released projects this year) — bothers lots of men. These women don’t submit to social standards based on men’s preferences; they encourage women to get their own or turn the tables on men seeking transactional relationships. They turn the male gaze against itself. “If you want some of this,” they say, “You’re going to pay for it.”

Here’s the thing, though. It’s not just them. Rappers like Lola Brooke, Rapsody, and Tierra Whack have also released projects this year preaching self-determination. Please Don’t Cry, Rapsody’s fourth album, foregrounded the North Carolina rapper’s learnings from therapy; Tierra Whack’s World Wide Whack addressed the survivor’s guilt of fame. They all embraced wordplay and delivery and breath control and performance — as did projects from Baby Tate, Flo Milli, and more.

Criticizing rappers like Glo, Latto, and Meg for “sexy” content, only to ignore the “thoughtful” releases from Brooke, Rap, and Whack proves that it’s not about the “right” kind of hip-hop for those fans who do so — it’s about putting women down. It’s about proving them inferior to male rappers — all of whom rap about the same stuff, just from a male perspective — by moving the goalposts.

The sad part is that women have been dealing with this since hip-hop’s inception. MC Lyte — who has a new album coming out this month, by the way — was criticized for being too masculine, but contemporary group Salt N’ Pepa were equally criticized for sexual content. Lil Kim and Foxy Brown were derided for raunchy raps, but Missy Elliott was demeaned for not conforming to beauty standards. Eve, Da Brat, and Trina all fell somewhere along the spectrum, earning attention and album sales for their skills, only to be forgotten anytime the opportunity arose to frame women in rap as one of two dichotomous “types” that were both somehow unappealing.

Those who complain about the “style” of the Cardi Bs and Meg Thee Stallions against the “substance” of Rapsody and Doechii, ironically spend way too much time focusing on the style and overlooking the substance of all of them. These women don’t fit neatly into boxes; Rapsody and Doechii both rap extensively about sex and Doechii’s worn her fair share of risqué fits — including nothing at all in one music video.

Meanwhile, songs like Latto’s “S/O To Me” or Meg’s “Hiss” prove the versatility of women who lead with their looks. While it’s great that so many people are catching onto the talent displayed by Doechii, that talent isn’t as isolated or singular as some have made it out to be. There are plenty of women rapping with plenty to say, and a wide array of ways to say it. There always have been, and there’s more than enough credit to go around.

50 Cent Takes Heat From Desiigner In New Diss Track

During his recent appearance on Million Dollaz Worth of Game with Gillie Da Kid and Wallo, 50 Cent opened up about his decision not to sign Desiigner to G-Unit. He recalled meeting with the “Panda” rapper amid the success of his breakout hit. Sadly, he was disappointed after asking about what else he had in the vault. “The n***a came to me, what’s the n***a’s name? He sounded like Future. Panda, panda, panda,” he explained. “I met with him before he did the deal with Kanye and them.”

“I had him at the office, I was like, ‘Yo, let me hear the other records you got.’ And he’s like… ‘That’s it,’” 50 Cent also added. “And the sh*t was so hot that he had, I was struggling. But I was like, ‘Nah, I can’t give that n***a that money. Let them give him whatever the f*ck they gonna give him.’”

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Desiigner Claims 50 Cent “Was Never Worth A Deal”

Desiigner caught wind of Fif’s comments and decided to fire back with a diss track, which he recorded from his car and posted on Instagram. “Response back to 50 Cent,” he wrote alongside the clip. “POV: Another HIT.” On the track, Desiigner brags about getting signed by Kanye West, claiming that’s what he would have preferred. “N****s talking that 50 Cent, I be talking 50 mil,” he spits. “I got signed to Kanye, lil n***a, you was never worth a deal.”

Obviously, Desiigner didn’t appreciate 50 Cent’s shady remarks. Fif has yet to respond to the diss for now, but social media predict that he’ll have plenty to say about it. What do you think of 50 Cent claiming he didn’t sign Desiigner because he didn’t have more than one hit? What about Desiigner firing back with a new diss track? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.

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Megan Thee Stallion Still Stupefied As To Why Nicki Minaj Has Beef With Her

Megan Thee Stallion is always finding herself in the middle of some sort of controversy. Whether it been the Kamala Harris rally or the Tory Lanez incident, trouble always seems to track to her down. The former was one of the topics at hand during her recent chat with Billboard in July. That feature is out now, according to Uproxx, and during the interview, Megan Thee Stallion spoke on the persistent beef with Nicki Minaj. However, it seems that their differences are pretty one-sided, at least in the eyes of the “Cobra” songwriter.

Leading up to the question with her foe’s name in it, the questioner believed that she had a lot to do with kickstarting the competitive nature in hip-hop this year. The H-Town Hottie did admit that she thinks she did start it off. However, she also feels that she just had to clap back at Nicki when “HISS” came out in late January. “I would like to think that I start things. I don’t know; I just knew what I had to do and what I had to say”, Megan explained.

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Megan Thee Stallion’s Unsure If Making Amends With Nicki Minaj Is Possible

 
 
 
 
 
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But when it came down to giving a conclusive answer as to why/when her and the NY legend began to have differences, she simply couldn’t do it. “I still to this day don’t know what the problem is. I don’t even know what could be reconciled because I, to this day, don’t know what the problem is”, Megan stated frankly. Based on her answers, it seems like she would open to burying the hatchet with Minaj. However, in that same breath, it sort of sounds like the “FTCU” MC needs to be the one to start off the conversation.

What are your thoughts on Megan Thee Stallion claiming to not know why Nicki Minaj doesn’t like her? Do you think she’s being truthful, why or why not? Who do you think started this ongoing feud? We would like to hear what you have to say, so leave your thoughts in the comments. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.

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