Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

I googled this Obama guy and he's some dumb senator for Illinois who's running the executive branch now

Remember when you went to the ER last week for hummus injuries? Our taxes paid for it.

This album is one Mutt Lange collab away from being his year's Born This Way.

probably will have a similar overall arc, yeah

"gun shot" on loop

right there wit ya

MAKE THE GYAL DEM KNOOOOOOW

it is so brilliantly constructed tho. like i know i said "becomes a duet" upthread but that doesn't quite do it justice the way it builds with nicki and beenie each having two completely separate scenes to themselves apart from one another (their own different choruses even!), bound by the beat's heart-fluttering hushed twinkling, and how it just ERUPTS with them finally coming together and almost just shouting the chorus at each other with the gunshots BOOM, BOOM, BOOM every line

of course the only kane beatz production on the album - pushing those 'super bass' emotional buttons again

can't believe i had to spend an afternoon defending him from j0rdan's bizarro abuse that time

i didn't realise kane beatz also did "good fucking night"

there's a bonus track, "va va voom", which is okay in a kind of "consciously going for the super bass feel again" way, but rtc otm in that "gun shot" is the one that actually gets there

this is really corny but will probably sound good on the radio

― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:37 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was v wrong about this btw

haha

i like the obnoxious "higher than a motherfucker" section of the song but it's not really enough to redeem the rest of it for me

bound by the beat's heart-fluttering hushed twinkling

those oo-oo-oo-oo-oos are killing me

this isn't going to be a single is it :(

man, does ross sound totally lost on "i am your leader"

cam is amazing on that tho

this shit reminds me of like a ludacris album or something, tho i guess it's a bit more pop. also nicki doesn't have a 'back for the first time' under her belt.

i wonder how the push/pull b/w "best selling female rapper of all time! and "but she's never made a great album!" will play out. feel like maybe she'll drop a straight rap mixtape to shut everyone up.

lol @ your first comments on this album being about...rick ross and cam'ron, not nicki minaj

luda albums seems like a pretty accurate point of comparison

i don't know. i mean i don't have much to say that hasn't been said already. everything up until "champion" is hype as fuck and after that it's all TUPAC PLEASE TALK TO THIS SUCKER CUZ THEY'RE RUINING HIP HOP shit

the first 17 seconds of "beautiful sinner" are incredible, shame about the rest really... but that's probably the best one out of that whole stretch of songs.

nicki may well outsell missy, lauryn, kim, etc. within a few years but that def hasn't happened yet

some of the pop stuff on here is so bad that it actually makes me appreciate "starships" (which listening to it more is basically an amalgamation of "california gurls" and "til the world ends")

nicki accidentally emailed "whip it" to birdman instead of the creative director for the mario kart wii sequel, right?

also kinda disappointed that "hov lane" doesn't turn into the throwback 99 cash money track that it threatens to be in the first three seconds

also this is sorta nitpicking cuz i do think the rap tracks at the beginning (save "champion" are great) but this reminds me of the ross tape from this year where it feels like the person is really at the top of their game and in a perfect and very singular place with their sound and then they throw half the verses at guest rappers.

i mean, i like ross & cam on "i am your leader" but i need three verse from nicki on that

i realise how nerdy "alternative track listings" are but this album begs for it

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

THERE, 12 TRACKS, THAT IS ALBUM LENGTH AND WOULD HAVE BEEN SO AMAZING

"whip it" and "automatic" are my two favorites of the pop stuff, i guess

"Come on a Cone" is fabulous. I've been playing for the kids all morning.

i love the finality with which she sings "SUCK A BIG DICK" on the "i am your leader" hook

six people in my office turned around when she sang that hook

then the associate dean of the journalism walked in and said, "Hey guys! What's goin' on?" and I said we were discussing the newly leaked Minaj album.

"Do you think she's talented?" His lips curled as if to suggest the answer was obvious to anyone with a molecule.

"I love her flow and jokes," one of the students said.

"It's not because she's 'controversial' [SCARE QUOTES]? I dunno. It's a dead genre. It needs a new wave."

I said, "Do you want new wave or do you want the truth?" He didn't get the remark and changed the subject.

Kill that dude IMO.

I trust Lex on this so I am going to only obtain the tracks he lists above and order them accordingly.

"christopher bosh" is such a lol and hardbody punchline

somebody please surgically remove weezy from roman reloaded

anyone with a molecule

excelsior

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

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

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

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.

cant stand the chorus personally :/

still diggin beez in the trap

"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

yeah the beat is what makes it

I dunno who 2 chains are tho

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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