Nicki Minaj Essence Festival Performance Cut From Hulu Livestream, Angers Barbz

Just like Adele, Nicki Minaj made a huge return to the stage last night - on Essence Festival of Culture 2022 as a headline.

The star-studded Essence Festival of Culture 2022 started last Thursday, with Kevin Hart as the lead act. Yesterday, Nicki Minaj led the second day of the four-day arts and culture festival.

And while the festival was promised to be aired on Hulu, specially Minaj's performance - things did not go according to plan, which angered the Do We Have A Problem hitmaker's fans.

Nicki Minaj Essence Festival Performance Not Aired On Hulu

Barbz, as Nicki Minaj's fans call themselves, were fuming last night after their head barbie's performance was not aired on Hulu, as promised by the festival.

Fans were particularly angry because Nicki Minaj's Essence Festival performance was used to promote the streamed viewing - which fans thought to be a guarantee to subscribe to the streaming platform.

But Barbz were very resourceful. Lucky fans who have caught the news online helped and live-streamed the performance on various social media platforms, including Instagram Live.

Since then, photos and videos of the Queen of Rap have taken over social media, debuting the rapper's new look.

Nicki Minaj is now sporting a blonde after donning black hair for quite a while.

Rumors of her releasing her next album came around last week after veteran rapper Foxy Brown posted on Instagram her thoughts on what fans think is Nicki's next record.

Nicki Minaj New Album: When Is It Coming?

As of this writing, Nicki Minaj's new album has been short on updates, despite promising a summer release.

The teaser came during his interview earlier this year with James Corden on the Late Late Show while promoting her comeback single Do We Have A Problem, which debuted at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Since then, Minaj has released some new music after DWHAP - Bussin, a collaboration with Fivio Foreign We Go Up, and Blick Blick with Coi Leray.

After Essence Festival, Minaj is also set to perform as a headliner at the Wireless Music Festival on Jul. 10, 2022, and iHeart Radio Music Festival on Sep. 23 - 24, 2022 - while not having any released albums.

Nicki Minaj's last album Queen was released in 2018, launching at #2 on the Billboard 200 charts with 185,000 album-equivalent units on its opening weekend.

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