{"id":803926,"date":"2020-02-07T02:58:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T09:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=949246"},"modified":"2020-02-07T02:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T09:58:59","slug":"hear-nicki-minaj-establish-herself-as-queen-on-new-song-yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-nicki-minaj-establish-herself-as-queen-on-new-song-yikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Nicki Minaj Establish Herself as \u2018Queen\u2019 on New Song \u2018Yikes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicki Minaj<\/a> returns with her first solo track of 2020 with \u201cYikes.\u201d She released the \u201cset-up track<\/a>,\u201d as she called it during an event at Pollstar Live 2020, late night on Thursday, delaying the release a few hours after its planned midnight drop.<\/p>\n

\u201cYikes, I play tag and you it for life\/Yikes, you a clown, you do it for likes,\u201d she raps on the chorus, after calling herself the \u201cf*cking queen.\u201d \u201cYikes, yes, it\u2019s tight, but it doesn\u2019t bite.\u201d She also invokes Rosa Parks, spitting, \u201cAll you bitches Rosa Parks\/ Uh-oh, get your ass up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minaj teased the song earlier in the week, rapping along to the song while in a studio in the clip. During her appearance at the Pollstar event, it was revealed that fans can expect to hear that she\u2019s in a good place on the album. She also hinted about a tour, saying that she\u2019s \u201cexcited to go back on the road,\u201d though she provided no details on timing.<\/p>\n

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I play tag & you #IT<\/a> for life. You a \ud83e\udd21 you do it for likes. #Yikes<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pI1YZdIFvF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 YIKES (@NICKIMINAJ) February 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Earlier in the week, the rapper defended ousted Grammy chief Deborah Dugan. \u201cShout out to Deb. We need strong women that are willing to say what they have to say, even when they\u2019re getting backlash for it,\u201d Minaj said<\/a>. \u201cAnd every strong woman in here knows what I\u2019m talking about.\u201d In January she teamed with Meghan Trainor for \u201cNice to Meet Ya<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nicki Minaj returns with her first solo track of 2020 with \u201cYikes.\u201d She released the \u201cset-up track,\u201d as she called it during an event at Pollstar Live 2020, late night on Thursday, delaying the release a few hours after its planned midnight drop. \u201cYikes, I play tag and you it for life\/Yikes, you a clown, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 11:07:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}