Machel Montano x Destra – Shake the Place (remix) (ft. Nicki Minaj) (Audio, Lyrics)

Machel Montano and Destra feature Nicki Minaj on the remix for “Shake the Place” track, co-produced by Michael Montano, Mical Teja, Travis World & Machel Montano. Listen, stream, read the lyrics, buy the song.

Machel Montano X Destra Shake The Place (remix)

Nicki Minaj made an undeniably impressive comeback in 2022. She started the year with two coveted Lil Baby collabs – “Do We Have A Problem?” and “Bussin,” and went on to give us impressive efforts alongside guests like Coi Leray and Fivio Foreign. Later on, she dropped her biggest hit in some time, “Super Freaky Girl,” which found her channelling her inner Rick James.

In recent months, things have been relatively quiet on the mother of one’s front musically. There have been occasional updates about her forthcoming album. Still, we didn’t receive Minaj’s first verse of 2023 until Friday (February 17). Earlier this weekend, she joined Machel Montano and Destra on the upbeat remix of their “Shake the Place” single.

Throughout her lyrics, the foreign rhymer shows huge love for her Trinidadian roots. “I’m gettin’ a real bag (Kyuh), I get to them real bad / They know they can’t compete with Trini girls, they goin’ out real sad,” she markedly spits on the song’s second verse. For now, it’s available exclusively on YouTube. However, a recent post on Minaj’s Instagram makes us think that will soon change.

On Saturday (February 18) afternoon, the 40-year-old teased an accompanying music video for her “Shake the Place (Remix).” It finds her finally putting her curvaceous figure and dance moves on full display, much to fans’ pleasure. In the caption of her teaser, Minaj wrote, “If you f$&@ with ISLAND GIRLS rep your flag for me in the comments.”

Machel Montano x Destra – Shake the Place (remix) (ft. Nicki Minaj) (prod. Michael Montano, Mical Teja, Travis World & Machel Montano)

Lyrics

[Intro: Nicki Minaj & Machel Montano]
Ayy, yo
You know my sound taken, that’s ’cause I’m groundbreakin’
Shoutout to Machel and Destra, they got the ground shakin’, mm (Hey, hey)
Trinidad my country, the greatest carnival of all time
Hey (Brr), ha (Ooh)

[Verse 1: Destra, Machel Montano, Nicki Minaj, Destra & Machel Montano]
Feel it in the air from the time I wake (From the time I wake, kyuh, kyuh, from the time I wake)
Spirits come alive when we celebrate (So let we celebrate, yeah, ooh)
What we bring to life doh happen everyday (Can’t happеn everyday, don’t happen еveryday)
Is a kinda high that they can’t replicate (That they can’t replicate, let’s go, let’s go)
This stage is we own (Is we own, yeah, I say is we own)
This place is we home (Tell them, let’s go, hey)
Look how the ground shakin’, all over town shakin’
‘Cause we on the ground shakin’
Tell them meet we by the Grand (Grand) Stand (Grand, yeah)
Follow the big truck, is a big (Band) band (Let’s go)
We goin’ right down ’til the last jam
Look everybody, tell everybody
Start to shake the place

[Chorus: Machel Montano & Nicki Minaj]
Jump up and, jump up and shake up the whole place
Shake the ground, shake the ground
Shake up the whole place (Kyuh, kyuh, kyuh)
Shake up ya, shake up ya, shake up ya whole waist
Shake the ground, shake the ground
Shake up the whole place

[Post-Chorus: Destra & Nicki Minaj]
Leh we play, yeah, yeah, yeah (C’mon)
All up on the pavement
Hot gyal on ah speaker box (Hey)
Step up and we shakin’ (Let’s go)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
This feelin’ amazin’ (C’mon)
Have no competition, this carnival is the greatest (Yo, yo)

[Verse 2: Nicki Minaj]
I’m gettin’ a real bag (Kyuh), I get to them real bad (Brr)
They know they can’t compete with Trini girls, they goin’ out real sad (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
That bumper got ever bigger (Oh), so now he not even with her
I wanted a beer, I don’t mean a hug, I want to see Guinness sticker
We smokin’ that real grass, we playin’ that real mas (C’mon)
Shoutout to Machal wife, I wanted a real rass

[Pre-Chorus: Machel Montano]
Is gyal whining on gyal, hold on, a big truck on the roadway
We come out to jam down in the band and is whole day
Some say is a jumbie in the land (Jumbie) that does hold we
Tell them that we carnival is the greatest

[Chorus: Machel Montano]
Jump up and, jump up and start to shake the place
Shake the ground, shake the ground
Shake up the whole place
Jump up and, jump up and start to shake the place
Shake the ground, shake the ground
Shake up the whole place

[Post-Chorus: Destra]
Leh we play, yeah, yeah, yeah
All up on the pavement
Hot gyal on ah speaker box
Step up and we shakin’
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
This feelin’ amazin’
Have no competition, this carnival is the greatest

[Pre-Chorus: Machel Montano & Nicki Minaj]
Is gyal whining on gyal, hold on, a big truck on the roadway
We come out to jam down in the band and is whole day
Some say is a jumbie in the land (Jumbie) that does hold we
Tell them that we carnival is the greatest (Yo, yo)

[Bridge: Nicki Minaj]
I gettin’ ’em real bad, real bad
I gettin’ ’em real mad, real mad
I gettin’ ’em real bad (Jumbie), I gettin’ ’em real bad
I’m reppin’ that red, that white, that black
I’m reppin’ my real flag

[Refrain: Machel Montano, Nicki Minaj & Destra]
This stage is we own (Is we own, uh, I say is we own, uh)
This place is we home (Tell them, let me see you go, hey)
Look how the ground shakin’, all over town shakin’
‘Cause we on the ground shakin’
Tell them meet we by the Grand (Grand) Stand (Here we go)
Follow the big truck, is a big (Band) band
We goin’ right up ’til the last jam
Look everybody, tell everybody
Start to shake the place

[Chorus: Machel Montano & Nicki Minaj]
Jump up and, jump up and shake up the whole place
Shake the ground, shake the ground
Shake up the whole place
Shake up ya, shake up ya, shake up ya whole waist
Tell them that we carnival is the greatest (Ayy, yo)

[Outro: Nicki Minaj & Destra]
You know my sound taken (You is the greatest)
That’s ’cause I’m groundbreakin’ (Carnival, I miss you)
You is the greatest, shake up the whole place
Shoutout to Machel and Destra (Yeah, yeah), they got the ground shakin’, mm
Carnival, I miss you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I’m your queen (Brr), you’re my king (Ooh)