Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

roman in moscow
roman holiday
come on a cone
i am your leader
beez in the trap
stupid hoe
hov lane
pound the alarm
va va voom
roman reloaded
champion
gun shots

add starships (daleplay remix) between pound the alarm + va va voom, and yes this is the perfect tracklist

― nowadays suckers seem to be so fucking naïve (uberweiss), Saturday, 31 March 2012 00:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

every song with "roman" in the title can fuck off imo

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

also lol at "beez in the trap" apparently being in the amazing unimpeachable half of the album, maybe i don't need to hear this

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

the track she did at the grammy's sounds muuuuuch better on the album... really cool drums and she pulls off the chorus really well. it's prob one of the best few songs on the album.

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

cant stand the chorus personally :/

― dayo, Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

still diggin beez in the trap

― dayo, Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

"beez in the trap" kinda grew on me... it's being overrated as the best song on the album but the beat is pretty hot

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah the beat is what makes it

― dayo, Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

I dunno who 2 chains are tho

― dayo, Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

I

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― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Saturday, 31 March 2012 04:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

i was gonna do that, but u beat me to it

― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 31 March 2012 05:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

like a really good album would be like the the 3 good songs from Pink Friday, 8 good songs from this, then like "Itty Piggy," "Beam Me Up" and that all-Nicki mix of "Monster" that someone made.

― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 31 March 2012 05:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

― dayo, Saturday, 31 March 2012 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

The fact that she couldnt even get a jay-z cameo for a song called Hov Lane

― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

"beez in the trap" kinda grew on me... it's being overrated as the best song on the album but the beat is pretty hot

― J0rdan S., Friday, March 30, 2012 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

wait wait people are saying it's THE best song on the album? yikes

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

The fact that she couldnt even get a jay-z cameo for a song called Hov Lane

thankful for this

― lex pretend, Saturday, 31 March 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Nicki/Cam/Ross suckadick song is the best one whatever it's called

― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 31 March 2012 14:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

I Am Your Leader.

― pandemic, Saturday, 31 March 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Caramanica wrote a piece on nicki for the nyt

― D-40, Sunday, 1 April 2012 04:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

is it good? what does it say?

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's caramanica so i assume it's not good

― lex pretend, Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh lex stfu

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

don'tcha just love how people who spend half their time snarking on artists or writers or whatever suddenly get pissy when someone snarks on someone they like

― lex pretend, Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

don'tcha

― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 April 2012 14:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

in the end, it all comes back to PCD

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Sunday, 1 April 2012 17:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

lex hadn't you like not even heard of caramanica until he wrote positively of drake a year ago or something? if you're gonna not know shit then just not know shit and shut up about it.

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Sunday, 1 April 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

um, you are incorrect.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

there are several writers whose thoughts on nicki minaj i'd be very interested to read, caramanica is certainly not one of them.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

we all know what you're proud to not hear and not read. i think i'd like to take up my own not-experiencing-things diet starting with those types of lex posts.

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

why would i be interested to read something by someone who's never written anything i've enjoyed reading?

― lex pretend, Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

idk, you read ilx threads

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's not as though deej provided a particularly compelling explanation of why we should read it

― lex pretend, Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

deej has a weird thing about giving us a heads up anytime caramanica or nabisco publishes anything, idgi but that's neither here nor there

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

i like the inadvertent trolling of azealia banks by spending multiple paragraphs talking about how she follows in the footsteps of minaj

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

sorta think that piece is all over the place

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah but I suspect that's the point? Sunday "think piece" about some female rappers for the Upper East Side crowd.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

why would i be interested to read something by someone who's never written anything i've enjoyed reading?

― lex pretend, Sunday, April 1, 2012 2:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk, you read ilx threads

― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 1, 2012 2:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ solitary exchanges that effortlessly capture the spirit of ILX

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Um. Gun Shot is the absolute most wonderful thing. Displacing this as my summer jam will be tricky.

― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^^^^^^

― Tim F, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

deej has a weird thing about giving us a heads up anytime caramanica or nabisco publishes anything, idgi but that's neither here nor there

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Sunday, April 1, 2012 1:51 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you have a weird thing about calling out people's 'weird things' as if they're actually weird at all, instead of a giant article in the paper of record on the main artist discussed in this thread

― D-40, Sunday, 1 April 2012 23:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

i thought the piece was in parts good & in parts way too into the idea that drake is vexing hip hop w/ his take on gender relations rather than really just adopting them for a more middle class template

agreed abt the trolling of azealia banks, though

― D-40, Sunday, 1 April 2012 23:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

i meant mainly that just mentioning an article, without linking it OR saying anything substantive about it, is a weird thing to do repeatedly

― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Monday, 2 April 2012 00:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Traditionally, hip-hop has had such a judgmental spirit. But Wayne made a rock album, and Kanye named an album '808s & Heartbreak' and sang all over it. I feel artists like us are setting a new tone and making new rules here."

*farts*

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

the "good half" of this album is not that good imo

― some dude, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

*farts*

― dayo, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

sometimes I think "*farts*" is Nicki's main studio inspiration

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

i really love "whip it"

― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

you might like cassie's "fuck u silly", which is what "whip it" was before nicki exhumed it to serve evil instead of good

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Reloaded = worst sequenced CD ever? "Starships" has really grown on me (in fact, I think I love it) but after four RedOne productions in a row, I'm like "plz kill me now".

― Jeff W, Thursday, 5 April 2012 11:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

I sort of feel this album may have been more defensible had she done an I Am/Sasha Fierce and formalised its split personality.

The first three tracks on this are astonishing but even the rest of the rap section can't keep up the momentum. Really not that bothered about Beez In The Trap, she can't really do slower and sparser.

The second half is mostly useless, you've got to admire these dudes for their ability to make awesome female MCs over house music seem like a terrible idea. I wish she'd found a better use for those rapidfire raygun noises on Pound The Alarm, but good god certainly not the chorus of Pound The Alarm. Otherwise, it's not that the sugary stuff can't work (Super Bass ffs) but here it just doesn't.

Gun Shots > anything on the first half though, but then I will happily take dancehall Nicki over all other Nickis. It reminds me a bit of Lazar Morgan's One By One, that whole 80s yacht dancehall vibe. Shame no one actually gave it a proper dancehall beat, even a gentle one, but I guess a suitable remix will be along sooner rather than later.

― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 April 2012 11:41 (1 year ago) Permalink