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Nicki Minaj’s Jaw Hit The Floor When She Heard Stephen Colbert’s Improvised Bars During Their ‘F The Colbert Up’ Rap Battle

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Pink Friday 2 debuted at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200, so Nicki Minaj has an excuse to rest, but that is not the Nicki Minaj that Barbz have come to know and love.

On Wednesday, December 20, Minaj casually tossed out that perhaps Rihanna should “send her vocals” for “the full” Pink Friday 2 (Gag City Deluxe), and then she starred on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert later that night. Minaj explained the meaning of Gag City to a very confused Colbert before he encouraged her to freestyle.

“Honestly, y’all, I only had two seconds to make this up, so it’s only two lines,” Minaj told the in-studio audience. “But there’s a song on my called ‘F The Club Up’ [‘FTCU‘], and instead, I changed it to ‘F The Colbert Up,’ right? And so, the first the two lines, I changed it for him in Gag City, when he arrives. It goes, ‘High heels on for Stevie / If I marry Stevie, he ain’t ever gon’ leave me.”

Minaj repeated the bar, but this time, she challenged him to tack his own bars to “end the rap” with “the first thing that pops into your mind that rhymes.” Colbert jumped in with, “High heels or not, Nicki / You better hope you never meet my wife, Evie.”

Minaj’s mouth dropped in shock at Colbert’s mic drop, and I agree: The round goes to Colbert.

Elsewhere during Minaj’s visit, she excitedly looked forward to her 2024 Pink Friday 2 World Tour and shared how her three-year-old son, Papa Bear, “runs everything.”

Watch all three clips above and below.

Nicki Minaj Gushes About Papa Bear With Stephen Colbert: Watch

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Nicki Minaj had a lot to say on her recent appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. However, one of the topics she was the most excited about was the chance to rave about her young son, Papa Bear. “My love was so selfish before he came along,” Minaj explained to Colbert. It’s a sentiment that Minaj has expressed several times before when discussing how Papa Bear radically changed her outlook on life.

Furthermore, Minaj explained how she thinks that next year will be Papa Bear’s first true Christmas. Additionally, Minaj shared some hilarious insights into Papa Bear’s growth. “I’m not even joking, I keep on telling people about how strong he is. He is so strong. I could never imagine that a baby could be so strong. If he wants to push me, my body will move. He runs everything, and he’s been watching that movie [Boss Baby], so he channels that. He acts like that,” Minaj explained.

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Nicki Minaj Emotionally Thanks J. Cole

However, Papa Bear isn’t the only person that Minaj has been getting emotional about recently. In the wake of the release of Pink Friday 2, Minaj dropped a lengthy post on X thanking J. Cole for his feature on the album. “This man J. Cole had a 2 hour talk with me. 2. Two!!!! Didn’t realize I was sitting on a therapist couch but ummm😩2 days later I heard this verse & couldn’t stop crying,” Minaj began her post. “In a world where we know EXACTLY how & WHEN to tear each other apart, there are still Kings & Queens who know how to put ppl back together. Patch them up. Heal them. Empower them. Understand them. Listen to them. Make them do the most beautiful thing a human being can do,” she continued.

Furthermore, she also highlighted how the verse reminded her of the first time that her son smiled at her. “After having #papabear I couldn’t wait for the day he’d smile @ me. First smile? It was one day when I blew a kiss @ him. I said “papa mmuuuaahhhhh!!!!” then? Time froze. Froze. He smiled? He smiled. At Me? Looking directly in my eyes? Yes. Me? Held back the tears & just kept doing a billion more times. I cried later,” Minaj noted.

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Woody Harrelson Wants To Take A DNA Test In Brother Mystery

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Last week, it was revealed that Matthew McCoughaney and Woody Harrelson could be related. According to McCoughaney during a podcast appearance, there is a chance that the pair share the same father. While McCoughaney’s parents were divorcing in the late 60s, his mother Mary reportedly spent time with Harrelson’s father, Charles. McCoughaney was born in November 1969.

In that podcast appearance, McCoughaney expressed reluctance to undergo a DNA test. The man he knew as his father, Jim, died in 1992 and McCoughaney did not think he was ready for the possibility that the man who he had known as his father was not in fact a blood relative. Harrelson, however, appears to have the opposite perspective. Furthermore, he recently spoke about the mystery on a recent Late Show appearance.

Harrelson Expresses Eagerness For DNA Test

Appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Harrelson first confirmed that there was “veracity” to the claim after an in-depth conversation with McCoughaney’s mother. He then expressed eagerness to resolve the parental mystery. “We want to go test but for him, it’s a much more big deal,” Harrelson explained, “he feels like he’s losing a father. But I’m like, no you’re gaining a different father and a brother.” It’s clear that Harrelson sees the positives in his unusual situation. It remains to be seen if he can also convince his True Detective co-star of that as well.

Harrelson has been described as being a brotherly co-star, as referenced by Justin Theroux, who was also appearing on the show with Harrelson. However, it’s likely a much different question when you’re talking about literal blood relatives. The problem is that this is where the story ends until a DNA test is done. So will Harrelson and McCoughaney take that next leap? Or will they decide to simply interpret McCoughaney’s mother’s words as an implication of secrets best left in the dark? If we need didn’t have enough links, both stars can be found in recent projects about the 1970s. Harrelson’s next project, White House Plumbers, premieres on HBO on May 1. Meanwhile, McConaughey voiced Elvis in Netflix’s recently released Agent Elvis.

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Nas Unpacked The Meaning Of ‘King’s Disease’ And Identified Some Unlikely Dream Collaborators On ‘Colbert’

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Nas is working on King’s Disease IV, according to 50 Cent, but the New York rapper is still relishing in King’s Disease III. The album arrived in November, and Nas is set to bring the trilogy to Madison Square Garden for one night only on Friday, February 24.

Ahead of the epic performance, which will somehow be his first time playing MSG, Nas returned to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert for the first time since 2018 on Wednesday night, February 22.

“It’s sort of surreal. It’s like a dream. I never thought I would be there. I thought about it when I got into music, and I thought, like, ‘I gotta play that place when I make it,’” Nas told Colbert. “And all the years escaped me because I got busy doing so many other things, and then I started releasing music again, so I said, ‘Now’s the right time.’”

Nas first dropped King’s Disease in August 2020, and King’s Disease II quickly followed in August 2021. The former won Best Rap Album at the 2021 Grammys — Nas’ first career Grammy — while the latter was nominated in the same category at last year’s Grammys.

With Colbert, Nas unpacked what King’s Disease actually means.

“Over-indulgence,” he said. “[The king] gets what he wants, and too much of that is not good.”

Colbert wondered if Nas has “ever had the King’s Disease,” to which Nas said, “I guess some elements of it. Here and there, you know. It’s a wake-up call. You wake up before it’s too late. I read about a lot of artists that came up in our time or before our time, and some of them were wild people. And I learned a lot from them, and it kind of gave me some of the guidelines in this business.”

“How do you cure the King’s Disease?” Colbert asked.

Nas continued, “You kill the ego, and you make it about the music. Make it about the art. And live your life.”

Nas followed his own advice by squashing his beef with 21 Savage, which was possibly a publicity stunt to promote their collaborative single “One Mic, One Gun” last fall.

Nas’ conversation with Colbert also touched on the 50th anniversary of hip-hop and which artists Nas would like to collaborate with, including Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen. Watch it above.

RAYE And 070 Shake Brought ‘Escapism’ To ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’

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RAYE is riding high off the release of 21st Century Blues, her debut album from earlier this month. The 25-year-old British songstress achieved two debuts this week: Her first-ever US television performance and her first-ever New York Fashion Week.

RAYE belted out “Escapism” with 070 Shake on last night’s (February 15) The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. She opened the performance with a perfectly classic, almost nostalgic vibe — delivering her distinctly evocative vocals while sat at the piano and backed with the show’s horn section.

RAYE stepped out from behind the keys for an emphatic second verse: “Been some dark days lately and I’m findin’ it cripplin’ / Excuse my state, I’m as high as your hopes / That you’ll make it to my bed, get me hot and sizzlin’ / If I take a step back to see the glass half-full / At least it’s the Prada two-piece that I’m trippin’ in.”

The set steadily gained momentum and peaked just as 070 Shake sauntered on to the stage to scale it back down to the simmering pace RAYE began with.

“Escapism” became RAYE’s first career No. 1 on the UK charts in January, which she reflected on with Uproxx around 21st Century Blues‘ arrival last week.

“It’s so exciting as an artist to have chart success or mainstream success, but that was never my main goal,” RAYE said. “My main goal is artistic integrity and just loving wholeheartedly what I share with the world and having some time to reassess that and make that the primary. It’s been a really beautiful, ugly, gorgeous, terrible, fun, and liberating process.”

RAYE also shared the inspiration behind the track’s messaging: “I think, as a woman, when you’re processing such things in life, there are not really any healthy outlets for it. I think women do stereotypically face a lot of pressure to seem like they’ve got everything together — to be polite, to be smiley, to be kind, and grateful, and all of this stuff. So I wanted to create a story that was very blunt and honest about that time in my life.”

RAYE enjoyed unabashed expression in a different medium at New York Fashion Week, where she caught up with the likes of Ice Spice and Lil Nas X. Check out RAYE’s snaps from NYFW below, or watch her “Escapism” performance above.