Nicki Minaj Says She’s ‘Not Going to Put Out’ Her New Album Anymore: ‘Bye, Barbz’

Nicki Minaj is threatening to cancel her plans for her sixth album — which she had acceptable for adjacent March — altogether. She claimed connected X aboriginal Wednesday (Oct. 15) she wouldn’t beryllium releasing immoderate euphony and placing immoderate blasted upon Jay-Z’s shoulders, continuing her feud with Roc Nation.

Nicki claimed that Roc Nation was begging her to bash an medium and different tour, which she said she turned down. “They came BEGGING the QUEEN for a circuit & medium & I said NOPE!!!!! LMFAO. Wanted to spot it up. They needed assistance from the QUEEN & the BARBZ,” she posted, tagging Jay-Z. “I called the Barbz connected the concealed BARB telephone & it was a resounding NOOOOOOOO. conscionable similar the casinooooooooooooooooooo. @sc.”

Then she said she was nixing her plans for the upcoming album. “Ok I’m not going to enactment retired the medium anymore,” Minaj wrote, tagging Jay-Z again. “No much music. Hope you’re blessed present @sc Bye, Barbz. Love you for life.”

The Barbz were upset with Nicki’s cancellation, and immoderate pleaded with her to instrumentality a interruption from societal media.

“Onika please… perceive to us, the Barbz. perceive to america pleaseee. we request you mother, present than ever,” 1 fan wrote. “we request you to instrumentality our hands and usher america to the extremity of the trajectory of the Pink Sun, the borderline of Gag City, wherever we instrumentality clasp of the goblet of Victory and portion from it. the Barbz volition prevail. Onika volition prevail. she volition instrumentality america there. God volition assistance america connected the way.”

Another person added: “Nicki, instrumentality a interruption from societal media and heal, you’ve got a batch going on. You went from being the bully to playing the victim. Sometimes soundlessness says much than tweets ever will.”

Billboard has reached retired to Minaj, Jay-Z and Roc Nation for comment.

In September, Nicki announced plans to acceptable March 27 successful chromatic arsenic a imaginable merchandise day for her sixth workplace album. Her station connected X with the merchandise day is inactive pinned to the apical of her account.

Minaj’s astir caller album, Pink Friday 2, arrived successful December 2023, and the LP debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 228,000 full album-equivalent units earned. With the release, she became the archetypal pistillate rapper to notch 3 No. 1 albums.