Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)

So for all the talk of this flopping, it only sold 7,000 less than Roman Reloaded did its first week.

that's if you look at the 'equivalent units' number (which includes track sales/streaming) that billboard now uses for the billboard 200. its sales were 194k. still that's pretty darn good considering the circumstances.

Oh word. I still don't understand these new charts.

http://orpheus-mnemosyne.tumblr.com/post/107113497601/ricki-minaj-twinkking-nicki-minaj-on

That was good

i guess but isnt killing someone on their own track always a story ...

nicki and kanye have both talked about how he arduously coached her into writing that verse, so the idea of that song existing without kanye is pretty theoretical anyway (although i think "monster"'s status as being somehow way above anything else she's done is greatly exaggerated). it's a shame kanye is exec producing a tyga album when he should really be doing a nicki album.

agree w all of the above

although i think "monster"'s status as being somehow way above anything else she's done is greatly exaggerated

ikr even some of her other features around that time like "bottoms up" were basically on the same tier

yesss "bottoms up" was def my contraristan pick for favorite nicki verse of 2010

where have they talked about the coaching aspect??

and yeah, she had like a dozen great features in that run

i also like her "hello good morning" verse just as much

wait, wait, hold on, maybe they didn’t get that here
like eleven hundred horses when i switch that gear
i just swerve on them sorta like i missed that deer
and i press the little button on the sit-back chair

jeeeeeeeeeeezus this is a fucking slog

hope the back half picks up a bit

man

that "not afraid" song by eminem ruined hip hop

anaconda is probably the best song after all huh

trini dem girls would be good w/o the whiny singing chorus they tacked in there

maybe Nicki actually should've patterned the album after The Blueprint in a more direct way than just referencing the title. there's like six "Song Cry"s on this instead of one.

yaaaaaas http://instagram.com/p/xk9Q-wCkEN/

oh my god her command of the stage has improved exponentially on this tour, that was actually incredible (apart from the ballads section)

"lookin' ass" live >>>>>>>>
the transition from "flawless (remix)" into "dance (a$$)" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
her many many gifable faces >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
lecturing us about staying in school and believing in ourselves and then singing a song about blowing your rent money on clubbing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Nicki and Meek <3

marrying the rebound tho :////

I'll be back at eleven, you just act like a peasant
Got a bow on my panties, because my ass is a present
Yeah it's gooder than Meagan, you look good when you're beggin'
I be laughing when you beggin' me to just put the head in
Let me sit on your face, it's ok you can play with it
When I'm bouncin' it, chill out and don't you make a mistake with it
Let me see what you're workin' with, If I'm ridin', I'm murkin' it
Slow grindin', I'm twerkin' it, yeah I bagged him, I Birkin'd it

"beggin me to just put the head in" always makes me lol

for a bad album this has sure provided some a+ singles

...this year, anyway

when i listen to this i usually listen to this stretch: get on your knees, feeling myself, only, want some more, four door, buy a heart, trini, anaconda. and them maybe skip to truffle butter. all good songs imo

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/9012179/taylor-swift-nicki-minaj-twitter

is there a particular reason I should click that

there is no feud here, just cluelessness from swift

Yes, missing Nicki's point about race in the MTV Video nominations; and then when pushing female solidarity (ignoring her own jabs sometimes aimed at other females)

i mean some of Nicki's tweets were very clearly referencing Taylor ("When the 'other' girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination") so i dunno why it was so wrong for her to react, even if she didn't have the best possible reaction.

Taylor didn't have the sense to recognize that yes, even she might benefit from qualities other than her skills

http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/22/nicki-minaj-vma-race-problem

Of the 31 overall wins for VOTY, 8 have been wins by black performers

The Best Pop Video award has never been won by a black artist in the category’s 15 years of existence. (It is worth noting that dancehall artist Bounty Killer, was a featured artist on a winning No Doubt song in 2002.)

Of the 31 overall wins for VOTY, 8 have been wins by black performers

is this supposed to be a shocking, damning statistic?

The Best Pop Video award has never been won by a black artist in the category’s 15 years of existence.

This is super fucked up.

tbf half of those years there was an R&B award where most black singers would've been nominated instead (and a hip hop award all of those years), and in the other half of those years there were rarely any black singers big enough to be nominated besides Beyonce and Rihanna

And two piles of steaming N'Sync crap won over two of Destiny's Child's best songs.

i think nicki was referring to white girls in general rather than taylor specifically?

in the other half of those years there were rarely any black singers big enough to be nominated besides Beyonce and Rihanna

― teenage good-ass kinja turtles (some dude), Thursday, July 23, 2015 5:34 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah none of the thinkpieces saw fit to mention the industry-aided collapse of r&b as a pop force, which seems...crucial

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/22/taylor-swift-nicki-minaj-faux-feminist-tone-deaf

^^this was my favourite piece though especially as the author seems to snap halfway in and just goes "THE VMAS ARE TRASH AND SO IS TAYLOR'S VIDEO AND NICKI'S VIDEO AND ALL THE NOMINATED VIDEOS"

can anyone actually, offhand, remember any of the VMA winners in the past?

I think Justice vs. Simian won back in 2006 or 2007

^^mtv europe awards rather than vmas, which i only remember because of Kanye crashing the stage

Minaj calmly posted a few tweets and did not, as some media outlets would lead you to believe, let off an Angry Black Woman stereotype “rant”.

rant really is the worst word. ime some women reflexively self-apply it anytime something untrivial takes them more than ten consecutive seconds to say, which is :(

taylor's video is terrible and if i had known this was going to be the symbolic dichotomy i would never have been so critical of anaconda upthread.

also cracked up @ nicki's masses of faux-apologetic smileys

I can't believe Nicki Minaj is a Gruanaid reader now, I mean, wow.

Surely there are better outlets to read if you were Nicki Minaj, surely celebrities would have access to a secret website of news and hot takes.

xp haha yeah, a+ smileys

on another note, saw Nicki live a few weeks ago, show was so-so in places but her technique was flawless, I was impressed

she's tightened up her live show so much since the last tour

i listen to this album a lot btw, appreciate that the pop/rap schism is not as stark as reloaded. agree with what i recall to be the consensus that it starts extremely ploddingly even if she's being Intimate and shit, like the first two songs barely seem to qualify as rap, but i do actually rly love "the crying game": love the crawling lil guitar figure, love her inflection on "asian rug". also lol i bought this at target and it's the one where anaconda is mistakenly an "instrumental", i.e. a beat with occasional blurts of sir mix a lot. did not think nicki could top the time i bought the re-up and the readable side of the roman reloaded cd was inexplicably splattered with purple paint i had to scrape off at the not-too-dear expense of "whip it".

https://vine.co/v/e6T0UHqbOjl