Nicki Minaj‘s newest single, “Tremendous Freaky Lady,” has topped this week’s new music ballot.
Music followers voted in a ballot revealed Friday (Aug. 12) on Billboard, selecting the Queen of Rap’s Rick James-sampling monitor as their favourite new music launch of the previous week.
“Tremendous Freaky Lady” beat out new music by Megan Thee Stallion (Traumazine), Anitta and Maluma (“El Que Espera”), NIKI (Nicole), Rod Wave (Lovely Thoughts), and others.
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“Tremendous Freaky Lady” finds Minaj doing what she does finest — remixing previous hits and reintroducing them to a brand new era of followers. The place her 2014 smash “Anaconda” revisited Sir Combine-A-Lot’s “Child Acquired Again,” “Freaky Lady” employs James’ 1981 Billboard Scorching 100 hit “Tremendous Freak.” She has a gleeful time reanimating the traditional monitor’s salacious funk with sexual innuendo and a circulate that is aware of when to hurry up and when to actually land a punchline.
“Tremendous Freaky Lady” is Minaj’s first launch since “We Go Up” with Fivio Overseas in March. Previous to that, she dropped “Blick Blick” with Coi Leray, “Bussin” with Lil Child, and “Do We Have A Downside?” with Lil Child once more — all from this 12 months.
Inserting second on the previous week’s tally with 8% of the vote was Megan Thee Stallion’s sophomore album, Traumazine. The unflinching and revealing new full-length sees the Houston rapper at her most vicious, as heard on fiery tracks “Plan B” and “Ungrateful.” She then mellows into the soul bearing “Anxiousness,” making a multi-faceted physique of labor.
See the ultimate outcomes of this week’s new music launch ballot under.
