Nicki Minaj has purchased a lavish new home with her husband and son to ring in the new year.
The Pinkprint rapper put down some roots in Los Angeles, according to TMZ, and dropped $19.5 million on a massive 12,000-square-foot, 8-bedroom estate in the Hidden Hills. The new home comes with a detached guesthouse, cabana, saltwater pool, and a Baja shelf.
The new mansion comes as a late birthday gift for Nicki, who rang in her 40th year of life on December 8. Unfortunately, her birthday festivities were slightly tainted by a batch of trolls on social media, who sent out disrespectful hashtags like #Shes40 and #FatandForty right at midnight.
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Regardless, Nicki has had much to celebrate this year. She’s reportedly working on her forthcoming fifth album, and told City Girls rapper JT that her next album will go back to her roots as a hungry, underground MC on the rise. She also noted that she is in a great place now which allows for her creativity to shine.
“I feel like whenever I’m happy, I deliver the best music,” Nicki said before hinting at which is perfect timing for her to release new material.
And in order for me to deliver the best music for my album – which is coming out soon – I have to tap back into the essence of Hip Hop.”
Minaj’s last solo release was 2018’s Queen, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 185,000 album-equivalent units, of which 78,000 came from pure album sales.
Nicki also said that she wants to see her younger counterparts step up their rhyme game.
“I wanna hear girls rap again. Like, just rap. When I did my BET Cypher years ago, I purposely didn’t wear revealing clothes,” Nicki said. “I wore a sweatsuit. So even though we were being super freaky girls on the song, and we all had fun, y’all really spit.”
