Young Thug, Nicki Minaj and Juice WRLD have joined forces on a new track called “Money” — listen to it below.
The star-studded collaboration arrived on Monday (June 26) courtesy of “Metro’s version” of Thugger’s latest album Business Is Business, which was curated by his close friend and collaborator Metro Boomin and features a reworked tracklist with two new bonus songs.
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Produced by Charlie Heat (Kanye West “Facts,” Travis Scott “Piss On Your Grave”), the playful yet speaker-pounding song finds the trio in a braggadocious mood, with Nicki Minaj flexing everything from her sex appeal and street ties to lyrical supremacy and spending power.
“Just put a couple grand in some rubber bands/ Bitches want my luck, couldn’t get a glance/ They wonder what I gross like my name was Lance/ It’s Barbie, bitch, just dropped like twenty mill on Barbie Land,” she boasts.
Prior to the song’s release, Young Thug teased a collaboration with Nicki Minaj by tagging her on his Instagram Stories — much like he’d done with Kanye West a few days earlier — and asking: “Where @nickiminaj ??? IT’S [briefcase emojis].”
Nicki replied: “@thuggerthugger1 bout to stand on that business right along wit u my bruva. Time to check these b!ches temperature. Tonight just might be the night.”
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“Money” marks the fourth musical team-up between the pair following “Anybody,” Rae Sremmurd’s “Throw Sum Mo” and Juicy J’s “Low,” which also featured Lil Bibby.
Thug also connected with the late Juice WRLD several times before his 2019 overdose death, including on “Mannequin Challenge,” “Red Bentley,” “On God” and “Bad Boy.” More recently, the Chicago native made a posthumous appearance on “Rich N-gga Shit” from Thug’s 2021 album Punk.
The other new song included on Business Is Business (Metro’s Version) is called “Sake of My Kids.” Dating back to at least 2016, the Wheezy-produced cut finds Young Thug namedropping JAY-Z, Diddy and Marilyn Manson while ominously warning those who question his sexuality: “When you think I’m gay, think of [caskets].”
“THIS IS THE TRACKLIST AND SEQUENCE I ORIGINALLY ENVISIONED FOR THIS ALBUM #BUSINESSISBUSINESS,” Metro Boomin explained on Twitter shortly before the revamped project debuted on streaming services. “JONESBORO THE INTRO AS IT SHOULD BE,” he added.
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The album originally dropped on Friday (June 23) amid Young Thug’s ongoing RICO trial, which accuses his YSL (Young Slime Life) collective of being a criminal street gang behind a serious of violent crimes in the Atlanta area.
The 31-year-old has been behind bars for over a year and faces eight charges including conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, participation in criminal street gang activity and a string of gun and drug offenses.
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Stream Business Is Business (Metro’s Version) in full below:
