Cunning Brown has been considered one of Nicki Minaj‘s greatest influences, so it was no shock that the Brooklyn rapper reacted graciously to Nicki breaking considered one of her chart information.
On Sunday (December 17), Brown took to her Instagram Story to share her delight at Minaj scoring a 3rd No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Pink Friday 2. That’s probably the most of any feminine rapper, beating Cunning’s earlier report of two (1997’s The Agency: The Album, a collab with Nas, AZ, and Nature; and 1999’s Chyna Doll).
“Umm sir! Solely Nic may break tha king[‘s] report,” Cunning wrote, earlier than alluding to a possible comeback: “third #1 report dropping 2024.”
(In December 2005, Brown introduced that her listening to had deteriorated considerably. She hasn’t launched a full-length album since 2001’s Damaged Silence.)
Brown continued exhibiting love, referring to Nicki as her “twin.”
“Hella proud,” she wrote. “26 12 months report is brazy tho. Y’all imply to inform me no bitch broke that shit in my absence! Took twin to set tha bar once more!”
Cunning Brown offers Nicki Minaj her flowers & reacts to new report breaking Billboard rankshttps://t.co/52WCdDrY0Tpic.twitter.com/0SnrkQBnVo
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) December 18, 2023
Over time, Nicki Minaj has been effusive in her reward of Cunning as being “forward of her time” and “probably the most influential feminine rapper to me.” She spit over a Cunning beat on her 2008 mixtape Sucka Free and collaborated with Brown a decade later — notably the primary time Nicki had ever shared considered one of her songs with a feminine rapper.
Nicki’s No. 1 album trifecta was not the one report that Pink Friday 2 set.
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The venture’s first-week numbers (228,000 equal album items) additionally mark the very best tally for a Hip Hop/R&B album by a lady in 2023, and probably the most bought by any feminine rapper within the 2020s.
With 25,000 vinyl copies bought, Pink Friday 2 additionally holds the excellence of most vinyl albums bought by a lady rapper since information analytics agency Luminate started monitoring these figures in 1991.
