Nicki Minaj Reveals Father’s Death And Drake Shaped ‘Pink Friday 2’

Ebuka NwachukwuJanuary 5, 2024

Nicki Minaj recently spoke to Ebro Darden on Apple Music about her latest album, ‘Pink Friday 2’. In the interview, she shared how Drake and her father’s death influenced the album. The album was released last month and features collaborations with famous artists like Lil Uzi Vert, J. Cole, Billie Eilish, and more. Minaj discussed the inspiration behind the album’s opening track, ‘Just The Memories’, and what it means to her.

“My father had just passed. So right after I had the baby, and it was during Corona, and nobody knew what was going on, so, one day, I was rocking the baby and I don’t normally have the phone on me when I’m rocking him. Because at that time, I was mad strict like, “Oh, that [radiation] is going to get in my child, don’t put the phone by my child.” So normally, I wouldn’t have it.‌

“But that day, as I’m rocking him, the phone rings, and I see it’s my father. I normally would not have picked up, because I don’t like to be on the phone with the baby there. I would’ve called him back. Something said, “Pick up the phone.” I picked up, he was very happy, and he was like, “Baby, I could come on Monday” Because he had been waiting to be able to come to Cali to help me. I kept on saying, “Come on out.” He wasn’t really happy, but I knew that, when he came be with us, we were going to be happy.”

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“He is this amazing, great person, who livens up the whole house. I was like, “Yes, we were going to get help.” And then, we went to bed, and sometime late, while we were all asleep, the phone rang. And it was my mother, telling me that my father was in an accident and that she didn’t know what was going to happen, and she would call me back. And then, everything started spinning, literally, because now, also, I just had my baby. “After I had my baby was the first time in my life that I ever fainted. I never knew what it felt like to faint, but I’m already hypersensitive with everything. So to get that call, and it’s the exact replica of a call, I had in about four or five dreams, but it was the exact replica of one particular dream I had about this.”‌

Minaj explained whether she was supposed to appear in Drake’s latest effort, ‘For All The Dogs’, and discussed their collaboration, ‘Needle’.

“Well, he told the fans at his tour that I was going to be on his album. And actually, the song he was talking about was ‘Needle’. But he ended up feeling like sonically it didn’t match ‘For All The Dogs’. And I, from day one felt like it matched ‘Pink Friday 2’. But even before that, so long ago, I remember joking with Juice and I think my homeboys, I was like, yo, maybe you know what? You never know. Maybe something happens and it’ll get to be on my album. And this was probably almost a year ago.

December 16 marked a significant milestone in the music industry as the highly-anticipated album, ‘Pink Friday 2’, soared to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, securing the number-one spot for the talented Queens rapper. The release of this album marked the fourth occasion where the rapper had achieved the number one spot, which is a testament to the quality of her music and her fanbase. However, this achievement was even more remarkable because Minaj, the Queens rapper, became the first female rapper to top the US album charts in 2023.