Nicki Minaj's "Barbie Dreams" off of her newly released fourth studio album Queen caught the attention of fans online immediately, due to the name-dropping foul mouthed lyrics that called out everyone from Meek Mill to Drake.
Well, it turns out that Nicki actually dropped a freestyle over Lil Kim's sequel to Notorius B.I.G.'s "Just Playing (Dreams)" — the sexually explicit record that inspired "Barbie Dreams" — way earlier in her career.
In Nicki's version, which released in 2007, she raps over the "Dreams" instrumental and drops three minutes of sexually charged bars, name-dropping mid-2000s (mainly New York-based) hip-hop acts including Red Cafe, Dipset's J.R. Writer and Hell Rell, and Gillie Da Kid. The song's hook and lyrical delivery is also pretty similar to its 2018 counterpart.
Listen above.
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