Nicki Minaj 'Freaky Girl' Release Date Announced: VMAs 2022 Debut Possible?

Nicki is coming!

The highly-anticipated comeback single of Nicki Minaj finally gets its release date after days of trending on Twitter.

The Rick James-sampled track trended on TikTok and Twitter last week after the Queen of Rap teased it on her social media pages.

Nicki Minaj's 'Freaky Girl' Release Date

In a surprising Instagram post yesterday, Nicki Minaj just dropped the news that Barbz has been waiting for since last week.

Nicki Minaj's "Freaky Girl" finally got its release date on Aug. 11, 2022, less than a month from now.

Barbz has been waiting for the actual release date of "Freaky Girl" since Nicki's teaser last week, as they were excited about the rapper's comeback single.

Based on the song's "pop" sound, some are speculating that Nicki Minaj's upcoming album, which she claims will drop this summer, might be another pop album.

According to NYLON Magazine, Nicki Minaj's "Freaky Girl" might be the start of the rapper's long-awaited pop revival.

The Trinidadian-born rapper's last pop album was in 2012, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded," which birthed the hit songs "Starships," "Pound the Alarm," and "Roman Holiday."

Speculations on Minaj's pop era have been going on after the song heavily sampled Rick James' "Super Freak."

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Nicki Minaj 'Freaky Girl' Gets Posthumous Approval From Rick James

Days after the teaser went viral on social media; the track reached the estate of the late Rick James. Considered the King of Punk Funk, Rick James gave "Freaky Girl" his posthumous stamp of approval after quoting Nicki's teaser on Twitter.

Since the "Super Freak" sampled song hit TikTok and Twitter last week, the song had a huge surge in sales on the Itunes R&B/Soul charts.

Starting from 0 to No. 171 to No. 45 in the past days since the snippet was teased, the song is expected to reach more heights once the song would finally hits the stands in August.

Nicki Minaj Performing "Freaky Girl" on VMAs 2022?

Shortly after the announcement hit, Nicki did something else to mess up with the Barbz's head. "yea she's definitely performing Freak Girl at the Vmas," one fan tweeted.

While the tweet seems to be just another manifestation on the timeline, Babrz was surprised when Nicki liked the tweet - prompting more tweets asking Minaj to actually perform on the VMAs this year.

Nothing is cast in stone yet, as the MTV VMAs 2022 nominees were not even out yet.

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