Nicki Minaj Releases Track Cut From New Album

Nicki Minaj released her latest album Queen on Friday, and the following day she released a track that had to be cut from the album at the last minute due to legal complications. Whether that means the problems she had been happening with it have been fixed or not isn’t clear, but regardless the track is now available for public consumption.

The song called “Sorry” was the track Minaj was talking about when she tweeted “So there’s a record on #Queen that features 1 of the greatest rappers of all time. Had no clue it sampled the legend #TracyChapman — do I keep my date lose the record? Or do I lose the record keep my date? ‍Do we push #Queen back 1week? Ugh! I’m torn, y’all help. Tracy Chapman, can you please hit me. omg for the love of #Queen.” 

The tweets have since been deleted, and eventually it seemed like Minaj got her answer when she wrote  “Sis said no,” followed by a shrug emoji. That Tweet too has been deleted. Minaj even stated that the album’s release would be pushed back a week to August 17th, but on Friday it came out anyway. Followed closely be the track “Sorry” which came out the next day. The track was meant to be one of the album’s strongest releases, and has a real Caribbean flavour to it. As for the legal issues with the track, well it incorporates Shelly Thunder’s song “Sorry,” which Minaj found out later has a piece of Chapman’s “Baby Can I Hold You” in it. Talk about your odd complications.

You can listen to the new track below.