Hard White

This song finds Nicki Minaj boasting about her luxurious lifestyle while reminding people how she got there. I used to work hard just to get half back Now I'm getting to it that way I ain't coming through unless the bag straight Leaked in April 2018 under the title, "Half Back," the track was renamed and remastered to be featured on Queen.

Minaj started working on the song in early 2017 (late February - early March) during Paris Fashion, the same time Minaj laid down the three-pack ("No Frauds," "Changed It" and "Regret in Your Tears"). It is the oldest track on Queens. Minaj's recording engineer, Aubry "Big Juice" Delaine, recalled the story of the song to Rolling Stone: "I remember somebody had already sent her that beat [for 'Hard White'] and she was just doing ideas to it. She came back to it later, then we were in New York, so maybe December or January she finished it. But we had that beat the longest."

Nicki Minaj calls out strippers-turned-rappers during the second verse. Uh, I ain't never played a hoe position I ain't ever have to strip to get the pole position Hoes is dissin'? Okay, these hoes is wishin' You're in no position to come for O's position Many fans have speculated that these lines are targeting Minaj's fellow New Yorker Cardi B, who worked as a stripper before becoming a rapper. However the fact that the song was recorded before Cardi B broke through with "Bodak Yellow" probably debunks that theory.