Nicki Minaj will be taking her talents to Europe this summer as the headliner of Afro Nation Portugal 2024.
Set to take place from June 26–28 on Praia Da Rocha Beach, Portimao, the afrobeats festival will feature the Pink Friday 2 rapper leading a roster that includes Tyla, Asake, J Hus, Uncle Waffles and Rema, among others.
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Golden, VIP and GA tickets will be available on the event’s website starting Thursday (January 25), with a limited pre-sale at 10am GMT followed by a general sale at 1pm GMT.
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It’s going to be a busy 2024 for Nicki Minaj, who will be taking Pink Friday 2 on the road this spring for shows in North America and Europe. In total, the trek is made up of nearly 40 dates, which LiveNation recently revealed is her highest-selling tour to date. Tickets are on sale now.
Pink Friday 2 was released to critical acclaim last month, on the same day as the New York native’s 41st birthday. It quickly made a splash and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 228,000 first-week units.
With that, Nicki became the first female rapper in history to score three No. 1 albums, breaking free from her long-standing tie with Foxy Brown.
The “I’ll Be” hitmaker — who topped the chart twice in the 1990s with Chyna Doll and The Firm: The Album alongside Nas, AZ and Nature — congratulated her successor on social media.
“Umm sir! Only Nic could break tha king[‘s] record,” she wrote, before adding: “Hella proud. 26 year record is brazy tho. Y’all mean to tell me no bitch broke that shit in my absence! Took twin to set tha bar again!”
Pink Friday 2 also set a new record on the Billboard Hot 100 last month when 17 of its 22 songs landed on the chart, which is the most from any album by a female rapper.
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Despite the LP’s tremendous success, not everyone has shared Foxy Brown’s enthusiasm about it. Earlier this month, Wack 100 upset the Barbz after claiming that Pink Friday 2 isn’t as record-breaking as reports suggest.
“I don’t know about no breaking records. Ain’t none of them [first-week] numbers breaking nobody’s records right now from no artist,” he said on Clubhouse.
he also suggested that Cardi B is the bigger artist right now, despite Nicki having a deeper discography.
The self-proclaimed Queen of Rap seemingly responded by rhetorically asking her followers on Twitter: “Barbz did we break any records?”
