Nicki Minaj Unveils Second ‘Pink Friday 2’ Album Cover

Nicki Minaj has been gearing up for the discharge of Pink Friday 2 with a full-on advertising marketing campaign, and he or she’s simply continued that marketing campaign with the drop of an alternate cowl for the extremely anticipated album.

Minaj took to Instagram on Saturday (October 7) to unveil the artwork. That includes the “Starships” rapper in a flowing pink gown in opposition to a black background, the inventive staff featured the standard suspects, together with her longtime hair stylist Conceited Tae and photographer Charlotte Rutherford, who beforehand shot the celebrity for the art work of her current single “Final Time I Noticed You.”

Nicki Minaj additionally revealed that the limited-edition Pink Friday 2 vinyl — which options this alternate art work — was already out there for buy.

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Final month, the Queens rapper unveiled the primary cowl for the forthcoming sequel to her 2010 debut. Pcitured in a pink retro-futuristic metropolis, the New York celebrity was draped in white with a crown masking her platinum blonde hair with scorching pink suggestions.

Within the feedback, Minaj thanked stylist Jean Baptiste Santens for designing the crown. “Thanks for this unbelievable headpiece,” she wrote. “So HARAJUKU. SO SPECIAL. Thanks babe.”

Queen Sleeze is Nicki Minaj’s major alter ego for Pink Friday 2. After releasing the warm-up observe “Purple Ruby (Da Sleeze)” earlier this yr, the New York artist formally launched what she’s dubbed her “best music but” on Friday (September 1) — “Final Time That I Noticed You.”

In a dialog with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe concerning the music, Nicki Minaj revealed that she didn’t plan on releasing it as a single at first.

“I knew for the album, in fact, I must focus on sure issues or no matter,” she stated. “I simply didn’t intend on it being a single. Numerous instances folks neglect that I do lots of options, and so these should not my precise songs.

“These should not songs from my album. And so typically folks neglect the form of music that I’m capable of create as a result of it’s been a very long time since they heard an album, and many of the instances they get these form of cuts on the album.”

She continued: “This time after I heard the beat, the very first thing I did was I wrote the hook. And after I wrote the hook, to me, it felt it was… The vibe of it was actually speaking a couple of loss, an actual loss . However to not make the music really feel solely directed at one form of loss. After I wrote the singing verse, I attempted to develop it and assume even about relationships.

“After which by the point I obtained to the rap, it was like I had included all relationships that I had misplaced earlier than, as a result of I discussed even greatest pals and stuff like that. I simply needed the subsequent music that I put out, Zane, to characterize my development, however not simply as an artist, however as a human being. I’ve skilled so many issues that I hadn’t skilled 5 years in the past, and that’s simply the reality.”