Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)

haha now i see that this album is a extremely extended shaggy dog joke prelude to 'anaconda', v good nicki

this album makes "anaconda" sound AMAZING

alright, finished now, this is the worst album of the year, peace

this album makes "anaconda" sound AMAZING

― lex pretend, Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:20 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it really does and i was not that into anaconda when it first dropped tbh

there have been far worse records this year but it's p mediocre overall, not a surprise

twitter seems to be weirdly enthusiastic about this album huh

actually "feelin myself" beat is dope, reminds me of the "rich as fuck" beat

nicki quoting "coco" will age well

Anaconda still weak.

"four door aventador" is sick

it's the most lil kim song nicki has ever done

Nicki is subverting lex?

The prophecy foretold this day would come...but...there is another *unravels scroll*

the singles do sound better in context, whatever that's worth

how in the hell is "truffle butter" (lol) (...lol) track 22?? such a sick beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgBWeoJdbhA

what a slog these opening tracks are

alright, finished now, this is the worst album of the year, peace

― r|t|c, Thursday, December 11, 2014 11:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

maybe i shouldn't be listening to this hungover

choruses are all hot garbage so far, even the jessie ware one, which sounds pleasant but is listless and unstructured

idk if i can survive through "only"

odd side effect of this album has been to make me go back to la bella mafia (which is a lot better)

hoping for at least 1 or 2 instances of the coked-out "stupid ho"/"come on a cone" insanity that hopefully surpasses the comparatively tame "anaconda"

finally, "four door aventador" is not horrible and is in fact great

not only are the choruses garbage but all the guest vocalists and rappers make nicki sound like such a weirdly muted presence on her own record. which is ridiculous when she's built her reputation from owning songs with only a guest verse

I've found there are two schools of Nicki Minaj fans: ones that worship her unconditionally and ones that demand she rap like Eminem on speed at all times

Just FYI "Truffle Butter" used to be The K.I.D Heat and Mally Mall feat. Drake and Tyga "Whatcha Say" ... i believe a DJ Carisma joint ...was out back in september

Now RIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuO0K4XaMO0

although apparently tyga wasn't supposed to be on it https://twitter.com/thekidheat/status/539518867073032192

this album sounded like it had a couple ok songs on it, once again though popular rap in 2014 is trash

so far the bonus tracks are all good-to-great? wtf happened with this record

"four door aventador" paired w/ "yonce" would break someone's lower back like seriously

bonus tracks being better than the standard edition tracks is sort of the story of 2014 pop albums

"shanghai" is better sinogrime than anything on that fatima al qadiri record

bonus tracks being better than the standard edition tracks is sort of the story of 2014 pop albums

lol yeah but usually there's at least idk the presence of life on the standard edition

I'm only on my second listen, but I think this is being underrated, at least in this thread. A few duds aside, this album is roughly on par with the other two

Wow this is the most uniformly remorseless ILM dismembering of any anticipated album since... I dunno the Aeroplane one?

oh man, its not as bad as that

"four door aventador" is sick

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:00 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's the most lil kim song nicki has ever done

― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:03 Bookmark

nah this one gets nul points too in the grand scheme of things imo, nicki's whole career is about her waxing and waning on this axis but never previously had she gone dead-end leaden pastiche like this... like it's not a horrible track but as an index of cluelessness it ultimately sticks out more than any of the dr luke type cuts she's ever done

haha turns out it's produced by some pop brit dude from pinner

should have called himself d-dot cotton

i don't wanna be seeing any pleb thread bumps saying "hey, guys, guys, if u rearrange durdurdur this isnt so bad" for the next 6 months, let's just let this one burn cold forever

"if you rearrange durdurdur the piano garbage still ends the record proper"

yeah discussion about bloated 22-track albums that easily could have been 12 is pretty uninteresting and durdur.

i'm gaping in astonishment at twitter falling at the feet of nicki's sad feelings. what hath drake wrought

idk if it's a drake thing so much as stans generally fetishising personal~ confessional~ albums from their favs

twitter has rules & regulations more strict than ilxes

Meanwhile elsewhere I see dudes who fetishized her hard ass no fucks given bonkers rapper side expressing disinterest when she goes somber, introspective and confessional. Funny that.

prob cuz it's impossible to detect a personality beyond all the gauzy clouds of feels

it is a drake thing to an extent because he has set the (fetishized) rubric for what confessional passes for nowadays

nicki as a supposed student of the ny rap game ought to know more than most about how hard and emotional can go together in ways better than this

kinda funny that part of her persona has actually been that of a rare strictly business person not even particularly in thrall to the drake mystique, which they both then play on for slashfic romcom vibes

Meanwhile elsewhere I see dudes who fetishized her hard ass no fucks given bonkers rapper side expressing disinterest when she goes somber, introspective and confessional. Funny that.

― Greer, Thursday, December 11, 2014 3:52 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as it turns out, EVERYONE is basic

you guys, I want to listen to this but I haven't figured out the proper taste calculus yet

prob cuz it's impossible to detect a personality beyond all the gauzy clouds of feels

this is otm. Even her supposedly confessional songs feel oddly impersonal, like she's just feigning vague emotions instead of actually revealing something about herself.

I know most of this board isn't a fan of Drake's feel-y material either, but at least that guy really opens up from time to time, getting into the specifics of why he's a shitty person (he's unfaithful; he's entitled; he trades money for affection; he burns bridges; he's not even talking to Nicki). Obviously he's still in control of his image when he confides all of these things, but it feels personal. When Nicki does it she feels a million miles away.