Cyndi Lauper joins Nicki Minaj for ‘Pink Friday Ladies’ in Brooklyn

Nicki Minaj shocked followers at her current live performance in Brooklyn by bringing out pop icon Cyndi Lauper to carry out ‘Pink Friday Ladies’ – watch fan-shot footage of the efficiency beneath.

Whereas performing on the Barclays Heart on Might 1 in Brooklyn, New York, Nicki Minaj carried out a hit-filled setlist that contained fan favourites like ‘Pink Friday’, ‘Pink Ruby Da Sleeze’, ‘Barbie World’, ‘Roman’s Revenge’ and extra.

Nevertheless, it was in direction of the tip of her 31-song setlist that Nicki Minaj shocked followers by bringing out Cyndi Lauper. Collectively, they carried out ‘Pink Friday Ladies’, which featured on Minaj’s newest album, ‘Pink Friday 2’.

The unique model of ‘Pink Friday Ladies’ featured samples of the refrain of Lauper’s hit track ‘Ladies Simply Need To Have Enjoyable’. After performing the monitor collectively, the 2 embraced and Nicki spoke of Lauper’s affect on her life and profession.

After bowing right down to Lauper, Minaj stated: “By no means in one million years did I feel I’d be again right here, rocking in New York with Cyndi Lauper.” The 2 then carried out a brief, impromptu rendition of ‘True Colors’, which Minaj recalled crying to when she had heard the track rising up.

“Don’t wait ’til we’re not right here to present us our flowers. God bless this girl, thanks Cyndi. We love you.”

Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday 2’ scored a four-star assessment from NME‘s Nick Levine upon its launch in December final yr. Levine wrote: “‘Pink Friday 2’ appears like a consolidation and refinement of all the things Minaj can do – together with dropping popular culture references that no different artist would consider. “Ducking ’em like Björk?” That’s certainly a wink to the Icelandic musician’s notorious skirmish with a photographer. 13 years after ‘Pink Friday’, Nicki Minaj hasn’t misplaced her potential to catch us abruptly.”

Cydni Lauper is because of play an “unique” best hits present on the Royal Albert Corridor in London on Wednesday, June 26 forward of the New York singer-songwriter’s look at Glastonbury Pageant that weekend. It’ll mark Lauper’s first UK solo live performance in eight years.