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Nicki Minaj<\/a>\u00a0has made her return to\u00a0<\/span>The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0and reminded fans that she and the late-night host are a perfect rap duo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It’s been five years since <\/span>the rapper made her last appearance on The<\/em>\u00a0Late Show<\/em><\/a>, which she visited to promote her latest album at the time, <\/span>Queen<\/span><\/i>. During the August 2018 episode, Colbert teased Minaj about her\u00a0<\/span>controversial single, “Barbie Dreams,”<\/a>\u00a0in which\u00a0the rapper calls out all the A-list men in hip-hop and pop culture who have (allegedly) tried their best to hook up with her at some point, and why she shot them down.<\/span><\/p>\n “I noticed I’m not on the list of men,” host\u00a0<\/span>Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u00a0joked as a blushing Minaj laughed discreetly. “I mean, it’s pretty comprehensive. I’m just curious, if I were to make the list, how might you inform me.”<\/span><\/p>\n Minaj quickly turned the tables with an impromptu set of lyrics that left\u00a0the\u00a0late-night host\u00a0hilariously flustered. “I might f**k Stephen after the show\/He gon\u2019 come back to work with a magical glow,” Minaj rapped, leading the audience to cheer and Colbert to cover his face with his note cards as he got more and more embarrassed.<\/span><\/p>\n “But when you see us please, motherf**ker, don’t stare\/Just address me as Queen Nicki Colbert,” Minaj finished with a flourish.<\/span><\/p>\n Composing himself, Colbert respectfully nodded and shook her hand before joking (mostly to himself), “It’s all downhill from here.”<\/span><\/p>\n On Wednesday night, Minaj <\/span>returned to the show for the first time<\/a> since that iconic appearance and proved that the duo’s unexpected chemistry is just as hilariously evident as it was five years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n While promoting her new album,\u00a0<\/span>Pink Friday 2<\/a><\/em>, Minaj decided to pull off another rap swap, this time using her song, “FTCU [F**k the Club Up].”<\/span><\/p>\n Naming her improvised verses “F**k the Colbert Up,” Minaj rapped, “High heels on for Stevie \/ If I marry Stevie he ain’t never gon’ leave me,” and left the ending open for Colbert to complete the verse.<\/span><\/p>\n “High heels or not, Nicki \/ You better hope you never meet my wife Evie,” Colbert rapped back.<\/span><\/p>\n Amid the raucous applause, Minaj asked a gleeful Colbert, “Stephen. Do you realize we just battle rapped each other?”<\/span><\/p>\n Gag city, population one.<\/span><\/p>\n For those keeping track at home, Colbert has been married to Evelyn McGee-Colbert for 30 years, and the couple shares three children.<\/span><\/p>\n Watch the duo’s rap battle ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n Last month, Minaj <\/span>opened up about her new album<\/a> in an intimate interview for\u00a0<\/span>Vogue<\/a><\/i>‘s December issue cover story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The rapper revealed that after a conversation with another woman about mom guilt, she realized that trying to stay away from “the only thing I know how to freaking do” was fruitless. So she returned to make music, which leads to the imminent release of her upcoming fifth studio album,\u00a0<\/span>Pink Friday 2<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “When I look back at a lot of my music, I’m like, Oh, my God, where was the me in it?” she said of\u00a0the highly anticipated project. “So for this album, I went back to the old game plan.”<\/span><\/p>\n Minaj confessed that she feels that she “got away from” an optimistic outlook with her recent music and looks to recapture that energy with her fifth album.\u00a0<\/span>Pink Friday 2<\/span><\/em>\u00a0will be a nostalgic callback to her beginnings and an introduction to a new era of the rapper’s music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Imagine a Nicki Minaj greatest hits album, but all the songs are new,” Aubry “Big Juice” Delaine, Minaj’s longtime mix engineer, boasted.<\/span><\/p>\n The new direction is a sign of a greater change within Minaj, who said she feels as if she’s unlocked a secret of life.\u00a0“For me the idea of accepting what you can’t change — it just never clicked with me before,” she shared. “So now, if I find myself trying to control it all, I try to remember what’s really important. I look in my son’s face, and my whole soul lights up. He has no clue how nerve-racking it’s been for me to be a mother and an artist.”<\/span><\/p>\n