Nicki Minaj appears as a topless Cleopatra on cover of new album
Nicki Minaj has unveiled the cover of her forthcoming album, Queen, and she looks every inch the Queen of the Nile.
Minaj appears bedecked with sequins and beads sitting atop a wooden log. With nothing but sequin pasties covering her nipples, Minaj wears a distinctly Cleopatra-esque headdress and a beaded panty.
In the caption, Minaj described the album — which will drop on 10 August — as her "greatest work to date" and said the cover art was shot by the "legendary" fashion photographers Mert and Marcus.
"Thank you for your patience & love. Pre-Order next week w|my 2nd single 🎀," she wrote.
Yas, Queen.
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
