Queen is the profoundly foreseen fourth studio album by rapper Nicki Minaj. Discharged on August tenth, 2018, through Young Money Records, and following 2014's The Pinkprint, the collection is Minaj's most rap-situated collection to date, with over 77% of the collection's expressive substance comprising of rap. This proceeds with a pattern all through Nicki's discography with every collection conveying a measurably higher rap-thickness than its ancestor. Comprising of twenty-two tracks, Queen centers around Minaj's life in the Hip-bounce network when she's by all account not the only effective female rapper overwhelming the scene.

The album was first declared on May seventh at the 2018 Met Gala, and Nicki herself affirmed in a meeting that the collection would be titled Queen, with an arranged discharge date of June fifteenth:

It's a major night for me, since I simply let the world realize that my collection is going ahead June fifteenth, and it's called Queen and I can hardly wait!

Nonetheless, Minaj went on Instagram live on May 25th to declare the pushing back of Queen to August 10. At that point, on August first, Nicki detailed, through Apple Music's Essentials playlist for Nicki Minaj, that she was pushing back the discharge date once more to August seventeenth, 2018. Sovereign was in the end discharged on August tenth, the first day the collection should drop. On June seventh, the spread fine art for Queen was uncovered through her internet based life records and Minaj called it her "best work to date".

On June tenth, Nicki said the accompanying regarding the album:

I realize it will be my best collection of work. That is next on my can list – to convey my fourth collection and ensure that it's a great hip-jump collection that individuals will always remember.