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Nicki Minaj attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City.
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Nicki Minaj sent the Barbz into a frenzy on Tuesday night (Sept. 23) when she revealed a possible release date for her next album on X.
“3.27.26,” she succinctly wrote alongside a CD emoji. Social media exploded as the clock struck midnight and theories began to surface surrounding a March 27 arrival for Minaj’s sixth studio album.
The cryptic tweet has well over 100,000 likes on X. There had been rumblings of another album on the way from Minaj, and she herself hinted that she was cooking up a project set for either late ’25 or early ’26. Billboard reached out to a rep for Minaj for comment.
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“Yessssss REAL RAP IS BACK. YEAH QUEENS IS BACK,” one excited fan replied to Nicki.
Nicki hasn’t tweeted for all of September, but all it took was five numbers and an emoji to set the internet on fire.
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On the music side, she’s been relatively quiet in 2025, while dishing out assists on Lil Wayne’s “Banned From N.O. (Remix)” and Juice WRLD’s posthumous “AGATS2 (Insecure).”
Minaj released her anticipated Pink Friday 2 sequel in December 2023, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 228,000 total album-equivalent units earned in the opening week. With the release, she became the first female rapper to notch three No. 1 albums.
The Queens native hit the road for the Pink Friday 2 World Tour in March 2024 and powered through 62 shows. According to Billboard Boxscore, Minaj grossed just under $100 million ($99.8 million) with an attendance of 712,000 tickets sold.
It appears Minaj may be ready to open the gates to Gag City once again in 2026. Find her tweet below.
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 24, 2025
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