Nicki Minaj's 'Ganja Burn' Gives Us The Mummy Remake We Didn't Know We Needed

Nicki Minaj's reign continues with the release of the "Ganja Burn" music video. The Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott-directed visual begins with the story of a "generous queen" who dies and also her army by a crowd of enemies. The queen played by Nicki is eventually revived as well as her forces, which she instructs to "kill everything in sight."


The video then sees Nicki rising from her sand grave in royal pasties surrounded by her zombie horde. Nicki dances, sings to skulls, and watches her kingdom perched from a tree branch. Epic, sensual, and spooky the video leans in heavy to the overarching theme of Queen-era Nicki — anyone who dares challenges her seat at the throne is an enemy that needs to be dealt with and dismantled. Minaj's efficiency could be right at house in a remake of The Mummy (no we're not talking about the 2017 Tom Cruise remake).


In a Rolling Stone interview, Nicki's recording engineer, Aubry “Big Juice” Delaine, talked how "Ganja Burn" was created.


"That was crazy, because she probably freestyled 65%, 75% of the song," Delaine mentioned. "She got the beat from her producer J. Reid, head it, informed me to load it up and ran in the booth. It was sort of the same with "Chun-Li." She was playing around, singing, “ganja burn, ganja burn, ganja burn,” and then any time if she listened back, she was like, “that shit’s hard!” I wanna mention the hook is still the freestyle laid as soon as she first stepped in the booth. She pulled that shit out of thin air."


Do you think Nicki will bring a Egyptian kingdom to her VMA performance?


The 2018 MTV Video Music Awards will air live from Radio City Music Hall on Monday, August 20 at 9 p.M. ET/PT. Voting is currently open at vma.Mtv.Com!