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NICKI MINAJ BEEFS UP ‘PINK FRIDAY 2’ WITH NEW FUTURE COLLAB ‘PRESS PLAY’

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Nicki Minaj has dropped some new music called “Press Play”. For this new track, the Queens native called on Atlanta’s finest, Future, to join her on the track. The ATL Jacob-produced song appears on the newly-released “Gag City PLUTO Edition” of her Pink Friday 2LP. Minaj’s latest album, Pink Friday 2, continues to shatter records for the pop superstar. According to Chart Data, Minaj’s latest offering has broken another record by becoming the fastest album by a female rapper to surpass one billion streams on Spotify. The Young

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Yo Gotti’s brother, Anthony ‘Big Jook’ Mims, was shot and killed this weekend ... TMZ has confirmed. Sources with direct knowledge tell us the rapper’s older sibling was gunned down Saturday in Memphis near Winchester Road. Per reports, this murder took place after he’d attended a funeral service in the area. There are photos and videos circulatin­g online that purportedl­y show Jook bleeding on the ground with people attending to him. The exact details of the shooting are unclear at this point ... but Jook is confirmed dead. Big Jook was incredibly close to his famous brother ... he appears to officially be affiliated with Gotti’s label Collective Music Group -- promoting

Money hitmaker is now also the first female rapper in history to have five albums surpassing one billion streams on the streaming platform. 2010’s Pink Friday, 2012’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, 2014’s The Pinkprint and 2018’s Queen have all previously reached the milestone. Pink Friday 2 arrived to much fanfare in December — the same day as Nicki Minaj’s 41st birthday — and quickly made a splash, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 228, 000 first-week units. artists under the imprint and appearing in music videos for them as well. Jook seemed to be more so on the business side. It’s sad that he happened to be killed during a time of mourning -- something he alluded to in one of his last IG Stories Saturday ... where he was honouring a fallen relative.

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