The song has a simple chorus where Minaj sings about missing an ex, 'Every time I get high, I just think about you,' and croons, 'Ganja burn, ganja burn, ganja burn.вЂќ She tweeted soon after the song's release about her dissatisfaction with it, ' realized that I hate how low I made the hook,' and revealed that she wanted to swap it out. Lyrically, Minaj uses word play to defend her position in the music industry, 'You made one dope beat, now you Kanye?/You got a nigga named Jay, now you ' YoncГ©?/You got about three stacks, now you AndrГ©?/.You gotta have real skill, gotta work for that,' while sending a message about other female rappers in the music industry. She was playing around, singing, вЂњGanja burn, ganja burn, ganja burn,вЂќ and then when she listened back, she was like, 'that shit's hard!' I wanna say the hook is still the freestyle she laid when she first stepped in the booth. Reid, head it, told me to load it up and ran in the booth. It uses a mid-tempo beat, that was described by The Atlantic as 'evoking a beach party ruined by a cold snap.' Minaj's recording engineer Big Juice explained the making process of the song saying, ' probably freestyled 65%, 75% of the song. 'Ganja Burn' is a reggae-inspired island-pop song. Some lyrics quoted from the track were printed on the Queen merchandise. It has since been fixed on iTunes and Spotify. The song was originally intended to be titled 'Ganja Burn', however when submitting the track listing, Minaj accidentally wrote 'Burns' instead. To promote it, as well as the 18 other tracks from the album, Minaj played the song live on her Beats 1 Queen Radio show with Zane Lowe, and tried to explain the message behind it. It premiered a few hours later as part of the album on all major music platforms. On August 10, 2018, Minaj revealed the final tracklist for her fourth studio album, Queen, that included a song titled 'Ganja Burn' as the opening track.

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