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Who is Big Barbie? Nicki Minaj teases 'avatar' in unreleased song, fans beg for full track

On an Instagram live session, Nicki Minaj spoke about her upcoming fifth studio album saying that it is going to be her best to date

Nicki Minaj hopped on to her Instagram Live over the weekend and in the middle of her interesting session, she played an unreleased song that led to chaos on Twitter. Since the multiple award-winning rapper enjoys a massive fan-following, she soon reserved a spot on the Twitter trending list.

With an intention to create more curiosity, Nicki Minaj only played the track without shedding any details on the same. However, her fans were quick to name the track ‘Big Barbie’ after carefully listening to the chorus. A hip-hop page on the micro-blogging site also listed the rapper's song with the same name. As soon as the female emcee dropped the first verse of the unreleased track, several fans begged her to release the full song officially on streaming platforms. 

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Nicki Minaj teases fans with an unreleased song

The ‘Pink Friday’ hitmaker played an audio snippet of her unreleased song ‘Big Barbie’ which apparently belongs to her 2018 hit album ‘Queen.’ The song produced by LondonOnDaTrack also features a guest verse from rapper Future. The album released in August 2018 featured guest vocals from some of the top global artists like Eminem, Foxy Brown, Future, Swae Lee, Lil Wayne along with singers Ariana Grande, Labrinth, and The Weeknd.

The album ‘Queen’ was stacked with whopping 19 songs and interestingly had a track called ‘Barbie Dreams’. During her live Instagram session, Nicki Minaj stated that her unreleased song had the name “BIG” before female emcees adopted it as their stage name.  Minaj also spoke about her upcoming fifth studio album saying that it is going to be her best to date.

Who is Big Barbie?

Nicki Minaj has had a lot of alter egos over the years. From Cookie, Nicki the Boss, and Nicki the Ninja to Chun-Li, Roman Zolanski, and Nicki Lewinsky, she has donned a lot of avatars in order to keep her loyal fans entertained. Interestingly, Nicki Minaj is also popular for her Barbie doll avatars. She has portrayed the same character in many of her songs and therefore, we can assume Big Barbie to be one of Nicki Minaj’s alter egos. Nicki has earlier channeled her Barbie avatar in songs like ‘Itty Bitty Piggy’, ‘Bedrock’, ‘Bottoms Up’, ‘Monster’, ‘Black Barbies’ and ‘Run Up’ Speaking of her unreleased song, we never know it might make it to the official tracklist of her fifth studio album.

‘Nicki Minaj not dropping ‘Big Barbie’ is unsettling’

As soon as Nicki Minaj dropped the unreleased track on her IG live session, her loyal fans stormed Twitter in order to beg the emcee to officially release the song. One fan posted, “Imma BIG BARBIE stuck in my head now @NICKIMINAJ. I need it on my playlist ASAP.” Another user shared, “If there’s a second verse for Big Barbie we need it.”
 
One fan added, “@NICKIMINAJ you not dropping Big Barbie is unsettling. my spirit is unhappy.” Meanwhile, another noted, “Big Barbie been locked up for 4years now and needs to be set free!!!!!”  The next one posted, “Big Barbie made me realize how much i miss nicki holy s**t. I NEED MORE MUSIC ASAPPPP.” One fan tweeted, “Nicki having Big Barbie for years not releasing it to us is where I draw the line… I’m upset.” Another chimed in and said, “A mixtape with all of the unreleased music would be insane. it would heal every issue in the world that was ever created I promise you that. Big Barbie & the remix had me listening time and time again your pen holds so much power.” One concluded, “Big Barbie & was written 4 years ago & she should’ve been released that, that shit is fire & the remix was powerful, I beg we get it on audiomack or soundcloud please?? I’m begging.”