LLC

Album: Queen (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a banger with attitude which finds Minaj talking about the standard she's set for female rap and as well as taking shots at her competitors and wannabes.

    I just took her name and made the bitch a LLC
    Stuff a couple stacks up in there, bitch, get on your feet
    You'd make twice as much if you switch it up, just to see
    To you, he's rich and famous, but he's just a guy to me.


    "LLC" is known in the corporate world as a Limited Liability Corporation, but in this case it's an abbreviation for Low List Celebrity. Minaj is the real thing and she's mocking those who're looking for fame by associating with her.
  • Nicki Minaj rewrote the lyrics to after Jay-Z suggested the track could be better. The rap mogul caught an early listen of "LLC" and damned it with faint praise.

    "When JAY-Z came to the studio and I played this song, he heard the entire song and said I went hard on the third verse," Minaj recalled during her Beats 1 radio show on August 9, 2018. "I'm such a perfectionist. Because he said third and not whole record, I rewrote the whole f---ing song. It's important to me that the greats know time was spent making this album."

    Now, Minaj added, she regards it as one of her favorites on Queen "for skill, breath control, precision, wittiness, and raising the bar."
  • Minaj mentions Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, and Katy Perry in the third verse.

    All my ni---s move that Britney, Ari', yeah, Katy too

    Minaj collaborated with the trio on different songs: "Till The World Ends (remix))," "Side to Side," "Swish Swish."
  • On May 7, 2021, Minaj's fans threw a "LLC Party" on social media to encourage others to stream and download the song. Because of their efforts, the track became a trending topic, propelling it to #1 on iTunes.

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