Having emerged from her very brief ‘retirement’, Nicki Minaj has joked that she was “bullied” into releasing new single ‘Yikes’.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that she also revealed that she has developed a new alter-ego for the new album she’s working on (oh, and she’s working on a new album), called Queen Sleaze.

“I was playing a snippet for my crazy fans and they made me put it out”, she claimed in a Twitter Q&A with said crazy fans. “They are bullies. I only had one verse done. The label bullied me too. I’ve been bullied”.