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Nicki Minaj on the 2025 Met Gala and Sabrian Carpenter on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards purple carpet
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Key Takeaways:
- Nicki Minaj shared Sabrina Carpenter’s new tune on Instagram, fueling hypothesis of a future collaboration.
- The artists have proven mutual assist, particularly throughout Carpenter’s battle in opposition to Travis Scott for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
- Social media customers are buzzing a couple of potential remix or function, although no official announcement has been made.
The Barbz now have a potential Nicki Minaj and Sabrina Carpenter collaboration to look ahead to. On Friday (Aug. 29), the rapper confirmed like to “Don’t Fear I’ll Make You Fear,” one of many new songs from the pop star’s newest album, Man’s Greatest Pal.
Minaj shared the document on her Instagram Tales, adopted by Vogue’s Leisure Director, Sergio Kletnoy, reposting it and writing, “My women… [Nicki Minaj and Sabrina Carpenter], collab?” Carpenter reacted with a couple of coronary heart emojis and the phrases “Love affair.”
The “FTCU” hitmaker then replied, “Don’t fear, [Sergio],” with a salute emoji. Minaj and Carpenter have exchanged loads of love over the previous 12 months, particularly throughout Quick ‘n’ Candy and DAYS BEFORE RODEO’s battle for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
“This one’s for Nicki,” Carpenter tweeted on the heels of Scott releasing a number of variations of his LP to assist safe the highest spot. Minaj caught wind of the shout-out and returned the love throughout an Instagram Dwell later that evening. “Shout out to Sabrina Carpenter. Shout out to all of the Sabrina Carpenter followers,” she mentioned.
Possibly the Minaj co-sign was the push she wanted, contemplating the challenge narrowly edged out Scott’s reissue by simply over a thousand in gross sales. Quick ’n’ Candy finally moved 362,000 album-equivalent models in its opening week.
Earlier this 12 months, Minaj named the singer as considered one of her favourite newer artists in an interview with Vogue Italia. “A celebrity is a celebrity, and in case you are one, you’ll discover a solution to shine — with or with out social media,” she instructed the publication earlier than praising Carpenter. “I didn’t know she’d been round that lengthy after I began listening to her. A breath of recent air.”
It could be some time earlier than followers get a Minaj and Carpenter collaboration, however on condition that the “Espresso” hitmaker simply dropped her seventh studio album, followers are satisfied now’s the time. “All Sabrina has to do to get that 400,000 [units] is add a Nicki remix to the usual model,” one consumer joked on X.
One other added, “I really like no matter’s happening between Nicki Minaj and Sabrina Carpenter.” See extra reactions under.