As calculated as ever, Onika Tanya Maraj, more commonly known as Nicki Minaj, has finally returned from her four-month hiatus. The mere excitement of her return to hip-hop was met with a barrage of a million tweets as she trended number one for the following 48 hours.

On April 10th, Nicki Minaj posted two tweets telling her fans that she has two new singles, “Barbie Tingz” and “Chun-Li,” and a collaboration with Young Thug called "Anybody" coming out April 12th.

Coming in guns blazing, Nicki once again proved she is the reigning Queen of Hip-Hop. After major success in 2017 with close to 22 collaborations, Nicki took a four-month hiatus where she completely disconnected from all social media. This hiatus was mainly in an effort for Nicki to put her all into making good music.

While Nicki continued to have major commercial success in 2017, the culture did not agree. Starting with the infamous Remy vs. Nicki, the felon Remy Ma took shots at Nicki Minaj in a seven-minute song called "Shether," a play on Nicki’s latest love interest Nas’ diss track to Jay-Z. Almost as if unbothered, Nicki let Remy attack her while Nicki was in Paris Fashion Week making headlines for her always iconic looks.

Then out of nowhere, Nicki dropped three hit records. "No Frauds" was the diss track where Nicki took shots at Remy, exposing her for shooting her friend over $5 as well as her ghostwriters and plastic surgery.

After the recent success in female entertainer Cardi B, many said Nicki’s time was over and she was "washed up." As time went on during her hiatus, however, more and more information came to light regarding the truth behind Cardi B. With every song release, there seemed to be some sort of ghostwriter, mainly Pardison. Even with the funds from Atlantic, Cardi still couldn’t match the bars Nicki has introduced to us throughout her past 10 years. With simple lyrics and trap beats, Cardi was able to score a number one album despite only selling 105k in pure sales during her first week of sales.

Nicki’s latest two singles, "Chun-Li" and "Barbie Tingz," have already outsold Cardi’s album and in just 11 hours of sales counting toward the charting week, both singles managed to debut on the Billboard Hot 100.

It is clear that Nicki is back to retrieve her throne and is getting her fans ready for her upcoming album. So get ready, cause it’s Nicki Season.