Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

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

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.

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

"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

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

thankful for this

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

I Am Your Leader.

Caramanica wrote a piece on nicki for the nyt

is it good? what does it say?

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

oh lex stfu

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

don'tcha

in the end, it all comes back to PCD

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.

um, you are incorrect.

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

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.

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

idk, you read ilx threads

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

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

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

sorta think that piece is all over the place

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

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

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

^^^^^^^^

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

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

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

"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*

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

*farts*

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

i really love "whip it"

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

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".

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.

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., Friday, March 30, 2012 11:18 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is otm. track is a total earworm

a lot of the rest of this i really dont care abt in the least

okay hold on, did she seriously name her second album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

very imaginative, Nicki

it's basically the same thing that gaga did with 'fame monster'

at least that's kind of a bland low level vapidity compared to the machine gun spray of idiocy on "Roman Reloaded" the song, which features the lyric "the ad is global, your ad was local/ where we shot it was a lot of different agriculturals" (xpost)

not really, Fame Monster was an expanded edition of Fame and then Monster was just an EP of the new songs. Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded is a follow-up album with a sequel-type title.

fame monster was an 8 song, 35 minute album -- shit was not an EP

Initially planned to be included on a re-release of Gaga's debut studio album, The Fame, she announced that the eight tracks would be included on a standalone release, saying that she thought the re-release was too expensive and that the albums were each conceptually different, describing them as Yin and yang respectively. A Super Deluxe edition of The Fame Monster including The Fame and additional merchandise, including a lock of her wig, was released on December 15, 2009.

I won a copy of this and, while it didn't have the lock of wig hair (thank fuck) it did have both the original album and the eight followup songs

fame monster was an 8 song, 35 minute album -- shit was not an EP

― J0rdan S., Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:49 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

a) why are we still having this conversation about what arbitrarily is labelled an EP, especially after the Dawn Richard joint and b) you're missing the point that Fame Monster was packaged w/ the first album and Roman Reloaded was not