Nicki Minaj sent fans into a frenzy when she took out Lil Wayne during a recent performance. Minaj interrupted the first day of performances on the main stage of the ESSENCE Festival with her hour-long set Friday night (July 1).
According to ESSENCE, the performance marked Minaj’s first appearance at the four-day festival that draws thickets of people to New Orleans every summer. The Young Money CEO joined Minaj on stage as they performed their platinum-certified “Highschool” and “Seeing Green.” The latter being Tunechi and the Trinidadian-American rapper’s most recent collaboration that dropped last year.
Minaj rocked Caesar’s Superdome stage with other fan-favorite tracks like “Beez in the Trap” and “Moment 4 Life.” Minaj’s last studio album was “Queen” in 2018. While she’s been exploding the record charts with hit after hit for several years, she has yet to publicly state when a new album can be expected.
Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne perform “Highschool” at the Essence Festival. pic.twitter.com/tGZE4NYvPD
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“I will always continue to release music. I have a real fanbase and unpaid bots,” Minaj said during an Instagram Live earlier this year. “I will never – and I’ve said this before, I said this many years ago – I will never quit the game until I want to quit. It will always be on my terms. .
Over the past year, younger artists such as Fivio Foreign, Lil Baby and Bia have each scored feature films by the 10-time Grammy-nominated artist. Although her biggest success may have been welcoming her husband’s son, Kenneth Petty, in September 2020. In her own words, her son has been the “ultimate blessing.”
“When I look at my son, I remember I’m so blessed,” she told talk show host James Corden. “I realized that for so many women it was their dream. Their dream is to have a child and not everyone gets that blessing. So when you have a little baby, you are all reminded days, “Oh my God. Thank you God for this little gift.”
