Nicki Release Bars Engulfed in Flames Non-Stop in newest single of 2023 ‘Red Ruby Da Sleeze’

Nicki Minaj returns today with "Red Ruby Da Sleeze," her most memorable single since the year before's “Super Freaky Girl,” which appeared on the Board Hot 100, giving Nicki the primary performance outline clincher of her profession. "Red Ruby Da Sleeze" tracks down Nicki in natural region, going hard against the individual female rappers she sees as her adversaries. There's a ton to unload in these verses, so it calculates the melody shot to No. 1 on the Genius Top Songs chart.

Delivered by Go Grizzly and Cheeze Beats, "Red Ruby Da Sleeze" tests Lumidee's 2003 dancehall crush "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)." That tune has a light and entrancing quality that Minaj happily overturns with her fierce rhymes. Only a couple of lines into the main refrain, she focuses on the individuals who might challenge her Sovereign of Rap status.

Who precisely would she say she is focusing on? A couple of lines later, Nicki makes what Virtuoso client @howilookonyou deciphers as a Megan You Steed diss. The line straightforwardly references Nicki's superior exhibition vehicle — maybe her pink Lamborghini Aventador, which flaunts 769 pull — and late Superman entertainer Christopher Reeves, who was deadened in the wake of being tossed from a pony during an equestrian contest in 1995. (Steed, obviously, is a male pony.)

On the extension, Nicki apparently prepares her degree on rapper Latto, whom Minaj called "an entitled Karen" during a Twitter quarrel that ejected last October. Being the fashionista she is, Nicki figures out how to treat this assault with a reference to the maker of the DKNY name.

Later in the stanza, Nicki winds around together references to Post Malone's "When I'm Alone," NBA legend Karl "The Postal worker" Malone, and the Desert Hawk gas-worked self-loader gun. As Virtuoso clients @cantstopthebeet and @Shadymatic bring up, “super bold” seems like "Super Bowl," which gives "Eagle" a multifaceted nuance.

Later on, Nicki beholds back to the '80s with lines about the Aussie film legend Crocodile Dundee and Christina Applegate's broadly ditsy character on the Fox sitcom Wedded… With Youngsters.

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