Leave it to Nicki Minaj to keep fans hanging on her every word, even if those words aren’t lyrics from new music…or even if they’re—technically—just an emoji.
The rapper took to Twitter yesterday (July 10) to simply tweet an emoji of a baby without explanation or context and it has sent her Barbz into a tizzy. Is she hinting at the birth of a child? A new album?
This year, aside from her #3PackFromParis, we’ve heard Nicki on a handful of other artists’ tracks—Major Lazer’s “Run Up,” Jason Derulo’s “Swalla,” Katy Perry’s “Swish Swish,” Gucci Mane’s “Make Love”—but when it comes to her anticipated fourth album, all we know is that she wants to make it “classic hip-hop.”
All that to say, we have no idea what the tweet means and here’s how her frustrated fans have reacted: