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Nicki Minaj – Do We Have A Problem? feat. Lil Baby (Official Music Video)

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Nicki Minaj turns “Do We Have A Problem?” into a nine-minute spy thriller, and Lil Baby’s along for the heist.

Nicki Minaj dropped the official video for “Do We Have a Problem?” on February 4, 2022, and it’s not a standard performance clip — it’s a full espionage short film with a twist ending. Released through Young Money and Republic Records, the single features Lil Baby and marks Minaj’s first lead single since 2020, produced by Papi Yerr. Directed by Benny Boom and written by Jeffrey Brian Holmes, the visual runs just over nine minutes and borrows its DNA from the 2010 spy film “Salt,” one of Minaj’s own favorites.

• The video co-stars Joseph Sikora of “Power” and Cory Hardrict, with Lil Baby playing an elite criminal bidding at an underground auction.
• Minaj plays a federal agent who interrogates a captured syndicate member (Hardrict), gets warned a mole is inside her own agency, then infiltrates the auction alongside partner agent Sikora before double-crossing the mission entirely.
• The story ends with a getaway sequence set in Cuba, while the song itself pays tribute to Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD across Minaj’s verses.

A Spy Plot Built Around a Double Cross

The narrative opens with Minaj as an agent grilling Hardrict’s detained syndicate member, who lets slip that a batch of high-value illicit goods is about to change hands at an exclusive criminal auction. He also plants the seed that Minaj herself might be the leak inside her own agency — a line the video spends the next several minutes making the audience believe, then disproving, then confirming was true all along. Sikora’s agent partners with her to work the auction floor, where Lil Baby shows up as a wealthy criminal bidder rather than a musical guest cameo.

The heist unravels when Minaj reveals which side she was actually working for, flipping the entire operation and setting up a final Cuba-set escape that closes the film. It’s a structure closer to a Benny Boom action short than a typical rap video, and the nine-minute runtime gives the twist room to actually land instead of getting rushed for time.

The Bars Underneath the Plot

Musically, Minaj works in mixtape-era mode — dense, aggressive bars across the chorus and multiple verses rather than a pop hook built for radio. She name-checks Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD directly in her verses, tribute lines sitting next to street-level threats and flexes about her crew. Lil Baby trades verses with her rather than just showing up for a feature hook, matching her cadence before the track hands the momentum back to her for the close.

This one for Pop, this one for Juice / I am the one, bitch, you a deuce.

That line lands right in the middle of the second verse, and it’s the moment the song stops being about the auction plot on screen and becomes purely about Minaj establishing she’s still the sharpest writer in the video, spy thriller or not.

Minaj’s First Lead Single Since 2020

Beyond the visual, “Do We Have a Problem?” is notable simply for what it represents in Minaj’s catalog: her first outing as a lead artist since 2020. Republic and Young Money backed the release with an instrumental single rollout alongside the vocal version and pushed the video hard across digital platforms on release day. Pairing with Lil Baby, who’s spent the past year stacking high-profile features — including his recent turn on Nardo Wick’s “Me or Sum” alongside Future — gives the single a built-in audience beyond Minaj’s own base.

The choice of collaborator also fits a run of high-wattage rap features that have defined the format lately, the same lane that’s produced videos like Yo Gotti’s “Cold Gangsta” with 42 Dugg and EST Gee. For Minaj, casting Sikora and Hardrict rather than leaning on cameo-heavy rapper appearances signals she wanted the acting to actually hold up next to the music, not just decorate it.

Nine minutes is a long ask for a music video in 2022, but Benny Boom built enough plot — the interrogation, the auction, the double cross, the Cuba getaway — that it plays more like a trailer for a movie Minaj hasn’t made yet than a stretched-out visual. Whether Young Money turns that into an actual short film franchise is the open question; for now, the single stands as the loudest reminder yet that Minaj’s return to the booth came with a script attached.