Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

[tha_chronic]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

nah maybe Kanye's album isn't the best album in the world or in it's genre but it's definitely hot and definitely 10x hotter than Nicki's album

[KnockMeOut]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

nah maybe Kanye's album isn't the best album in the world or in it's genre but it's definitely hot and definitely 10x hotter than Nicki's album

Okay I think MBDTF is great but not that great. IMO.
But I have no doubt that Pink Friday will do far more than 80k

Edit: Review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010...-friday-review

There is an argument that, of late, mainstream hip-hop and R&B has lost its once zealously guarded edge of originality. The genres appear comfortable in a sonic rut – the raveish synthesisers that added an icy edge to Rihanna's Umbrella, Auto-Tuned vocals, arpeggios of 'rock' guitar – while the rest of pop music has caught up. The result is that everything on Radio 1 from Nelly to Ellie Goulding sounds roughly the same. The jolting WTF? shock that used to be delivered hearing a new Timbaland or Neptunes production among the manufactured stuff and dreary indie has vanished.


So a round of applause, please, for 25-year-old Nicki Minaj, who seems to have brought something different to the world of mainstream hip-hop: role-playing games. Minaj doesn't really give the impression of being someone who's spent a great deal of time huddled around a table littered with copies of White Dwarf, rolling 1D6 for personality and arguing over the best way to vanquish the ogres in Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl: her bio is the standard hip-hop litany of childhood misery, involving a crack-addicted father who attempted to murder her mother by trying to burn down their house. And yet, here she is on Roman's Revenge, the second track of her debut album, rapping in a thrilling, quivering, edge-of-panic voice that apparently signifies she's slipped into a Slim Shadyish persona called Roman Zolanski: "I'm starting to feel like a Dungeon Dragon! Raw! Raw! Like A Dungeon Dragon!" It says something that the reference stands out on a track which elsewhere features Eminem proposing to tie her to a bed then videotape himself urinating on her, and Minaj herself affecting an accent that you suspect is supposed to be Cockney (but could equally be Welsh, Australian or Brummie of Punjabi descent), and offering her own diverting take on the quick resumé: "I'm a bad bitch, I'm a cunt, and I'll kick that ho." And if kicking doesn't work I'll attack her with either a greataxe or a halberd, whichever is more powerful against ho magic.
Of course, as hip-hop fans of a certain age would be quick to point out, the Dungeons & Dragons line is borrowed from Busta Rhymes' guest verse on A Tribe Called Quest's 1991 track Scenario. Even so, it seems to serve notice that Minaj is attempting to break rank with other rappers in 2010 by deliberately alluding to a less homogenous era of hip-hop.
You could certainly find plenty of evidence on Pink Friday to support this hypothesis. It casts its sample net wide: at one extreme, it contains a lot of 80s music (there are chunks of Simple Minds' Don't You Forget About Me on Blazin' and the Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star on Check It Out; the latter, alas, perhaps a bit more annoying than producer Will.I.Am thinks it is); at the other, on the iTunes version at least, there's a contribution from Brit indie rockers the Big Pink. There's something intriguingly fluid about her style; the adoption of personas allows her to flip from the foul-mouthed ho-kicker of Roman's Revenge to devoted girlfriend material on Your Love, to – most fascinatingly – a woman openly wondering where her multiple characters end and she begins on Dear Old Nicki. Her lyrics are usually fast slick, witty and funny: "If you could turn back time, Cher/ You used to be here but now you gone: Nair," she snaps at one juncture, perhaps the first rapper in history to threaten a rival with a depilatory cream. Occasionally, they're just deeply odd. "I just shitted on 'em," she announces, before apparently encouraging her fanbase to show their appreciation by waving their own excreta around: "Put your number twos in the air." Nah, you're alright, I'll stick to applauding, if that's OK with you.
If that were the whole story, you might consider hoisting a recently passed stool aloft in salute of a masterpiece, but it's not. For every burst of originality, there's a burst of generic frosty synth and Auto-Tune: as intriguing as it is to hear a woman making with the doe-eyes and fluttery lashes when minutes before she was suggesting you "go and take a leap of faith off a fucking balcony before I shove a falcon wing up your ass", the pop- and R&B-influenced tracks simply aren't as exciting, lyrically or musically, as the foam-mouthed hardcore ones. "This is my moment, I just feel so alive," she sings on Moment 4 Life, but she sounds bored rigid, which rather makes you wonder where showing off one's musical versatility ends and cravenly softening your sound for the marketplace begins. You're left with an album that's nearly fantastic, the frustrating sound of an artist who can't work out whether she should go her own way or try and fit in with the crowd, even when the right answer is staring her in the face.

[tha_chronic]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

meh guardian don't mean shit..let's see what rolling stones and pitchfork have to say, even though i've made up my mind on the album

Look, don't get me wrong..I think Nicki is mad talented and she has great potential but her album is mad whack, she isn't focusing on the great things that make her amazing. Like her animated flow ..she hardly uses it and she hardly raps really..the beats are so glossy and lame, nothing catchy even. I don't know man ..just my own opinion. I'm entitled to one so I don't give a fuck ..

[Mr Xclusive]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

her album will sell more cuz of the nudez

[ghostgoon]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

meh guardian don't mean shit..let's see what rolling stones and pitchfork have to say, even though i've made up my mind on the album

Look, don't get me wrong..I think Nicki is mad talented and she has great potential but her album is mad whack, she isn't focusing on the great things that make her amazing. Like her animated flow ..she hardly uses it and she hardly raps really..the beats are so glossy and lame, nothing catchy even. I don't know man ..just my own opinion. I'm entitled to one so I don't give a fuck ..

nice opinion but for me Kanye's album is OD trash...

ill try to find the site I got the projection from they also said Ye pose to do 500k

[YoungTune.]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

her album will sell more cuz of the nudez

But this album is great for a debut, I love it tbh. Nicki on her singing shit is awesome.

[GypsyStar]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

Anyhoo, favorite songs??

1. Save Me
2. Blow Ya Mind
3. Here I am
4. Fly......cant believe I like something w/rhianna

[YoungTune.]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

Dear Old Nicki
Blow Ya Mind
Fly
Right Thru Me
I'm The Best


No order

[GypsyStar]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

Dear Old nicki is creepy....in a cool way. Reminds me of Still I rise.

[Tech N9ne]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

Star, did you wait til today to listen to it?

[Espinoza]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

IMO Pink Friday is GOOD as BOB's album.

[Live Fast, Die Young]

Re: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Official Thread]

Ye ain't got no yeezy nigga?