Nicki Minaj is getting ready to release Pink Friday 2 with a full-fledged marketing campaign, and she’s just continued that campaign by releasing an alternate cover for the highly anticipated album.
On Saturday (October 7), Minaj took to Instagram to unveil the art. The creative team featured the Starships rapper in a flowing pink dress against a black backdrop, as well as the usual suspects, including her longtime hair stylist Arrogant Tae and photographer Charlotte Rutherford, who previously shot the superstar for the cover of her recent single “Last.” The time I saw you.”
Nicki Minaj also revealed that the limited edition Pink Friday 2 vinyl featuring this alternate artwork was already available for purchase.
Check out the post below.
Last month, the Queens rapper unveiled the first cover for the upcoming sequel to her 2010 debut. Shot in the pink retro-futuristic city, the New York superstar wore white and wore a crown covering her platinum blonde hair with hot pink tips.
In the comments, Minaj thanked stylist Jean Baptiste Santens for designing the crown. “Thank you for this incredible headpiece,” she wrote. “I know HARAJUKU. SO SPECIAL. Thanks babe.”
Queen Sleaze is Nicki Minaj’s main alter ego. Pink Friday 2. After releasing the warm-up track “Red Ruby (Da Sleeze)” earlier this year, the New York artist officially released what she called her “greatest song yet” on Friday (September 1), “Last Time That I Saw You.”
Speaking to Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe about the song, Nicki Minaj revealed that she didn’t initially plan to release it as a single.
Nicki Minaj anchors her Queen Sleeze alter ego with a massive new Iced Out chain
“Of course, I knew that for the album I would have to discuss certain things or something like that,” she said. “I just wasn’t going to make it a single. Often people forget that I make a lot of pieces and therefore these are not my real songs.
“These are not songs from my album. And so sometimes people forget what kind of music I can create because it’s been a while since they’ve heard the album, and most of the time these are the cuts they get on the album.”
She continued, “This time when I heard the beat, the first thing I did was write the chorus. And when I wrote the chorus, I felt like it… The vibe in it really spoke to loss, real loss, you know. But so that the song does not seem aimed at only one loss. When I wrote the singing verse, I tried to expand it and even think about relationships.
“And then when I got to rapping, it was like I included all the relationships that I had lost before, because I even mentioned best friends and stuff. I just wanted the next song I released, Zane, to reflect my growth, not just as an artist, but as a person. I’ve experienced so many things that I didn’t experience five years ago, and it’s true.”