As previously reported, Nicki Minaj dropped her highly anticipated album Queen and decided to spill some tea with the release. After previewing the song “Barbie Dreams” on her latest venture with Apple Music, Queen Radio, fans couldn’t wait to rewind and assess the victims of the verbal dragging on the Lil’ Kim inspired track.

“Reading the reactions to Barbie Dreams is fucking hilarious,” Nicki said as soon as the song was released. “Everyone is saying how disrespectful ‘Barbie Dreams’ is, and that’s why I fucking love it.”

The track which samples the Notorious B.I.G‘s original song “Dreams”, jokingly takes aim at the rappers who have tried to sleep with the “Bed” emcee. Tapping into her mixtape days, Nicki Minaj calls out a slew of rappers including Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert, Eminem, and Young Money labelmate Drake, who Nicki claims all wanted a piece of the Barbie cakes.

“Drake worth a hundred milli, always buying me shit/ But I don’t know if the pussy wet or if he’s crying and shit/ Em copped a Barbie dream house and you can play the part/ I ain’t tryin’ to bust it open in a trailer park/Used to fuck with Young Thug, I ain’t addressing this shit/ I caught him in my dressing rooms stealing dresses and shit”

Nicki even threw a few shots at her ex-boyfriend Meek Mill, claiming that the “Dreams and Nightmares” emcee has still been creeping in her DMs on the low shooting his shot.

“Meek still be in my DMs, I be having to dump him/ ‘I used to pray for times like this,’ Face ass when I fuck him”

With the release of the album, of course, the BARBZ went in on Twitter, adding hilarious reactions to the track.

Nicki wasn’t letting up on these rappers with Barbie Dreams #Queen #QueenRadio pic.twitter.com/BJuEUDK1Rc

— Bri (@LovelyOTPs) August 10, 2018

https://twitter.com/marie_brownsuga/status/1027958991895154688

https://twitter.com/sentravin/status/1027958006888194048

https://twitter.com/r3al__AJ/status/1027968023888637952

Although Nicki came with it on “Barbie Dreams”, many Hip-Hop fans were unimpressed at her shout out to Biggie, but ignoring of Lil Kim who came up with the original concept of the “Dreams” flip for her 1996 debut Hard Core.

You know Nicki Minaj spittin over Notorious B.I.G.’s “Dreams” has Lil Kim feeling a ways. You just know.

— A Phizer A (@Aqua174) August 10, 2018

https://twitter.com/MarkChang_/status/1027329219666305026

https://twitter.com/Sincerely_Tanya/status/1027960752425066496

Despite the seemingly purposeful jabs and clear influence she’s had on Nicki’s career, Lil Kim said she’s over the Nicki drama. During an interview with 92.3 The Real in Los Angeles, Lil Kim let her frustrations be heard with constantly being asked about Minaj while she’s promoting her own projects.

“Oh God. Let me ask you this. Do you f*ck with me for real?” Kim said. “Okay, so if you f*ck with me, right? Why isn’t this about Kim? Yeah, see if we’re gonna mention one female we’re gonna mention them all. We need to mention them all. We need to bring everybody in and we need to give everybody love. God bless her. What she did she did. But you know what? I wish her the best. I’m past that and over that. At the end of the day, stop asking me about that chick – she did what she did – y’all don’t do that to her. I don’t think you would [ask her about me?]”

Check out “Barbie Dreams” below.

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The wait is finally over—Lil’ Kim’s latest mixtape, Hardcore 2k14: Back 2 Da Streets is here after multiple delays. This follow up to 2011’s  Black Friday is a huge improvement to that flop of a mix. With features from Jadakiss, French Montana, Yo Gotti, Cassidy, TLZ, Young Bonds, and B. Ford. While there are some weaker tracks here and there, there are definitely some bangers on this mix that you will want to blast in your car with the crew.

Hardcore is somewhat of a return for the Brooklyn-based rapper to her roots on her first full studio album, Hard Core. On it, her verses are raw, uninhibited, though at times over produced. The albums intro’s with a group of male voices discussing the effects of Lil’ Kim’s original promotional poster for her debut back in 1996: “people got murdered over that picture,” they say.

The first hit that really throws it back is number two on the album, “Stadium Music” feat. Yo Gotti. His deep, laid back verse is the perfect intro for Kim and the vibe that she puts out on the album. The track coolly reinstates Lil’ Kim as the Queen Bee of the female rap scene, an assertion that she follows up with “Identity Theft,” a Nicki Minaj diss track that was originally released before the whole mix came out. “I’ll let you live for a while but I’m done with the crown
The queen’s back, bitches, come get it,” Kim taunts Minaj and her ‘Barbz.’

The most popular early release on the mix came from a collaboration that Kim did with Jadakiss on “Real Sick.” This is the biggest banger on the mix. Kim’s verses are thick, slow  and the rhythm feels effortless.  As the Queen Bee told REVOLT, “I don’t feel the need to change up my style or change the things that I used to rap about. This tape I tried to give a mixture of everything because that’s just who I am.” The track even samples Notorious B.I.G. and Puff Daddy‘s “Victory.”

Diddy is not the only sample on the mix. Track 7 on Hardcore “Whenever You See” feat. Cassidy samples Fugees “Ready or Not,” in a really interesting way. “Trendsetter” is a departure from Kim’s traditional flow, in which she speeds up her verse spitting words like modern day mob rappers. “Work The Pole” feels out of place—it’s a degrading track that is almost uncomfortable to listen to. Normally, Kim is able to use her sexuality as a power play, taking advantage of her raw eroticism. Not only is the track way over produced, but she utterly fails to use her sex in a positive way (this is really the only track that doesn’t measure up at all).

The last track of serious note on the mix is, in fact, the last track on the album, “Haterz,” feat. B. Ford. “I got some haterz
Give me a bitch that hates, cause man, She won’t walk without being hit,” Kim threatens. It’s safe to say that the Queen Bee is back and here to stay. She’s stepped up her game with this mix, with modern production blended with both her classic styles and small tastes of different verse-spitting modes, Kim hits it home. The female rap game could use some spicing up right now and we are glad Kimmy’s back.

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