Future has dropped joint mixtapes with Drake and Young Thug.

He almost did another joint tape with another big star: Nicki Minaj.

Nicki is trying to break the Internet as the latest Paper cover girl.  In the pages of the glossy mag she dished on her near miss of a Future collaboration.

"I mean, I even at one point was about to do a mixtape with Future recently, [but] with me working on my [upcoming] album and with him doing other projects -- and he thought we should be in the same place at one point to really vibe -- it was hard, 'cause he was on tour and I was in the studio [and the timing didn't work]"

Would you want to hear a Nicki-Future joint?

You can check out the whole Paper article -- which includes more photos of Nicki pretending to lezz out with the other two Nickis -- here.