Is Nicki Minaj Teasing the Release Date of a New Album?

Nicki Minaj sent the Barbz into a frenzy connected Tuesday nighttime (Sept. 23) erstwhile she revealed a imaginable merchandise day for her adjacent medium connected X.

“3.27.26,” she succinctly wrote alongside a CD emoji. Social media exploded arsenic the timepiece struck midnight and theories began to aboveground surrounding a March 27 accomplishment for Minaj’s sixth workplace album.

The cryptic tweet has good implicit 100,000 likes connected X. There had been rumblings of different medium connected the mode from Minaj, and she herself hinted that she was cooking up a task acceptable for either precocious ’25 oregon aboriginal ’26. Billboard reached retired to a rep for Minaj for comment.

“Yessssss REAL RAP IS BACK. YEAH QUEENS IS BACK,” one excited instrumentality replied to Nicki.

Nicki hasn’t tweeted for each of September, but each it took was 5 numbers and an emoji to acceptable the net connected fire.

On the euphony side, she’s been comparatively quiescent successful 2025, portion dishing retired assists on Lil Wayne’s “Banned From N.O. (Remix)” and Juice WRLD’s posthumous “AGATS2 (Insecure).”

Minaj released her anticipated Pink Friday 2 sequel successful December 2023, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 228,000 full album-equivalent units earned successful the opening week. With the release, she became the archetypal pistillate rapper to notch 3 No. 1 albums.

The Queens autochthonal deed the roadworthy for the Pink Friday 2 World Tour successful March 2024 and powered done 62 shows. According to Billboard Boxscore, Minaj grossed conscionable nether $100 cardinal ($99.8 million) with an attendance of 712,000 tickets sold.

It appears Minaj whitethorn beryllium acceptable to unfastened the gates to Gag City erstwhile again successful 2026. Find her tweet below.