# @popbase on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbGeEsDBbw5
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68326645-popbase-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-22T16:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pop Base (@PopBase) — https://gondola.cc/PopBase

## Caption

8 years ago today, 6ix9ine released, 'FEFE' Nicki Minaj & Murda Beatz.

As a key single ahead of his debut album, Dummy Boy. The beat, crafted by Murda Beatz and production duo Cubeatz, built around thick trap 808s and syncopated hi-hats, actually had a different intended destination first — Murda Beatz has said he originally sent the instrumental to Drake, hoping he'd hop on it, and only pivoted to 6ix9ine once Drake passed. Nicki Minaj's now-iconic verse came together in a hurry rather than through careful crafting: she wrote it in roughly fifteen minutes, knocking out the first half in just five, then recorded her vocals quickly in a hotel room to keep the collaboration moving.

6ix9ine himself later admitted in an interview with Angie Martinez that he barely put effort into his own vocal performance, joking that the song blew up despite how little work he'd actually done on it. The pairing of a rising rapper with a veteran hip-hop star like Minaj generated plenty of conversation about crossover appeal in rap at the time, and the track's fast, off-the-cuff creative process became part of its charm, reflecting the quick-turnaround, internet-driven hit-making style that defined that era of rap.

'FEFE' became 6ix9ine's first entry into the Billboard Hot 100's top ten, a breakout milestone for his career, and it was folded into both his debut album Dummy Boy and Minaj's own 2018 album, Queen, giving it a dual-album life. While it didn't sweep major award shows, it's remembered as one of the defining viral rap anthems of that summer, a song whose off-the-cuff creative process became almost as much a part of its story as the music itself.

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