Nicki Minaj shows off luscious red locks after late-night studio session with ...

Nicki Minaj seemed to be getting back to what she does best on Saturday night after she was spotted leaving a recording studio with her family in tow.

The 38-year-old rap superstar showed a lovely new shade of red hair as she left the studio in Weehawken, New Jersey, with her husband Kenneth Petty, 43, carrying their one-year-old son, whom they've nicknamed Papa Bear.

Nicki appeared to be focused again on music after recent weeks in which she's been in the spotlight for tiffs with other musicians, coronavirus vaccine misinformation and her husband's ongoing legal troubles.

Nicki toned down her usually colorful outfit in favor of a simple black ensemble with a short skirt and knee-high black boots.

But she made up for the monochrome look with her orange-tinted locks, which cascaded down her shoulders in voluminous waves.

She had a look of surprise on her face as a masked up woman spoke to her.

Kenneth wore black jeans and a black hoodie with a backward baseball cap, and he held little Papa Bear in his arms while wrapped up in a brown-and-white blanket.

The little boy, whose real name has never been publicly shared, celebrated his birthday late last month. 

It's not clear what project Nicki was working on in the studio, but she's been teasing a new album since 2019.

But in a tweet from September 13, the rapper and singer suggested she wasn't going to both releasing more 'scraps' from her upcoming LP after fans and critics lambasted her over comments she made about the safety of coronavirus vaccines.

'I was about to give yall way more than scraps but ykw. I’ll talk to y’all next year. Ima leave the stu & go in the backyard & get in the pool with [bear emoji],' she wrote. 'I can’t get this time back with my pickney. God bless my real babies.'

That same day, she set off a firestorm of replies after she posted a debunked tweet about a family member refusing to get a Covid vaccine.

'My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen,' she wrote. 'His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.'

Terrence Dyalsingh, the health minister of Trinidad and Tobago, later criticized her tweet and said his department hadn't seen a single documented case of swollen testicles after getting a coronavirus vaccine.

However, swollen testicles can be a side effect of common sexually transmitted diseases, among other illnesses. 

Nicki also earned the ire of some of her fans when she shared that she wasn't vaccinated around the same time, and therefore wouldn't be attending the Met Gala, which required that all guests be fully vaccinated.

However, the musician has continued to claim that she is not anti-vaccine, and she has suggested in other tweets that she will likely get the vaccine in the future, as it will probably be a requirement for her to go back on tour.

Earlier this month, Nicki came to the defense of former Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson as she criticized current member Leigh-Anne Pinnock for allegedly bullying her.