The Barbz have put Nicki Minaj in a primary place to win. The Queens, N.Y. rapper has received The Folks’s Champ honor for the XXL Awards 2022.

The winner of the Folks’s Champ Award, introduced right this moment (Jan. 24), was voted on by the followers, who had the selection between 20 of among the high rappers within the rap recreation, together with Drake, Cardi B, J. Cole, Doja Cat, Kanye West, Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Child, Moneybagg Yo, Saweetie, YoungBoy By no means Broke Once more and extra.

Though Nicki didn’t drop a brand new album final 12 months, she was nonetheless on the high of her recreation in 2021. Final 12 months, the lauded rhymer delivered a fan favourite verse on BIA’s “Entire Lotta Cash (Remix).” She rereleased her 2008 mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty, on streaming providers with three new songs. Nicki additionally earned a serious profession accomplishment when her 2011 tune “Tremendous Bass” was licensed diamond for 10 million offered by the Recording Trade Affiliation of America, 10 years after its launch.

Nicki Minaj’s Folks’s Champ success was the one award that the followers received to choose. The remainder of the winners within the different 11 classes had been fastidiously picked by XXL‘s esteemed Awards Board, which consists of 158 music business execs, insiders and energy gamers together with Cofounder and COO of High quality Management Music Dr. Kevin “Coach Ok” Lee, President of Black Music at Atlantic Data Mike Kyser, Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Data Craig Kallman, Vice President of Artist Relations at SoundCloud Erika Montes, Cofounder and CEO at Roc Nation Desiree Perez, Cofounder and CEO of Hitco Antonio “LA” Reid and extra.

Plus, veteran rappers, entrepreneurs and producers like Eminem, Fats Joe, Bun B, DJ Clue, Angela Yee, Juicy J, Lil’ Kim and others additionally participated within the voting course of.

The opposite awards embrace Artist of the 12 months, Male Rapper of the 12 months, Greatest New Artist of the 12 months, Producer of the 12 months, Performer of the 12 months, Video of the 12 months, Lyricist of the 12 months, Feminine Rapper of the 12 months, Album of the 12 months, Hip-Hop’s Humanitarian of the 12 months and Tune of the 12 months.

Congrats to Nicki Minaj for being The Folks’s Champ.