Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)

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WHY NICKI WHY

the thing is, everyone remembers "Super Bass," but Pink Friday was huge before that off of 3 singles that basically sounded like this, so I'm not surprised, prob a smart move

i kind of like this but it's weirdly muted. if she was gonna go pop i think i'd rather hear another "starships"

yeah i have nothing against pop nicki in the vein of "starships" and "pound the alarm" but i have everything against watery nothingy "your love" nicki WHO THE FUCK IS HERE FOR THAT

this is basically the mushy last three-fourths of _roman reloaded_ again, right? weird how in 2014 that's the most immediately commercially salvageable part of that album

This makes me think of "Roar" for some reason.

Song is like if the verses from "Freedom" collided with the chorus from "Your Love".

I never got the "Your Love" hate but this is my favorite version:

https://soundcloud.com/diamond-bass/your-love-diamond-bass-320

I don't hate this - I found it enjoyable, actually - but it's disappointing to me in the same way most of that Angel Haze album was.

Still confident the album will deliver some firebreathing stuff.

way more confident that the Wayne album will end up good than this tbh. Mostly cuz he's bounced back in the last year or so while Nicki Minaj is doing the usual Nicki Minaj

truth be told Nicki's whole output has only been about as consistently good as the worst years of Wayne's career

Too far.

cmon you dont believe that. 'come on a cone' nicki era >>>> several years of wayne's career

truth be told Nicki's whole output has only been about as consistently good as the worst years of Wayne's career

― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:25 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is more or less true

her last album is clearly better than tha carter IV, that's about all she has

that's crazy. wayne had like 2 years where the spectrum was 'awful' to 'passable' hovering mostly near the former. nicki over the same stretch was 'passable' to 'awesome' hovering mostly near the latter

the x-factor is that wayne's features were often change-the-radio-station bad during that whole period

I would dispute that her last album was better than C4 (or a lot of things) but then my non-Wayne Young Money interest is pretty limited, select Drake/Nicki songs/features aside. actually prefer hearing random Jae Millz/Mack Maine/Euro nevergonnabes spit solid verses on Wayne mixtapes to a lot of their material

you should see a therapist

so is 'pills' a tie-in with the beats speaker

http://www.beatsbydre.com/speakers/pill-2.0/nicki-pink/900-00161-01.html

lol

"wayne had like 2 years where the spectrum was 'awful' to 'passable'"

2012-first half of 2013? Think that Jeremih guest verse was where he bottomed out

his last mixtape was 95% trash

nah

I mean even disregarding that it's a massive improvement on D4 think it was pretty solid

people always just name a Nicki song they love to handwave the dozens they would never voluntarily listen to, i'm talking about song-for-song consistency

There are more Nicki songs I would willingly listen to from the last 2 years than there are Wayne songs I'd do the same with.

Champion off the last one was p cool actually. sorta Moment 4 Life-ish, same producer though so makes sense

also liked Right by My Side although seems like most people don't

"i am not a human being 2" is more consistent than any nicki album.

yeah, not sure even I'd go that far

Is "pills and Potions" supposed to be Nicki tryna be like Lorde?

haha that seems plausible

well I had heard the song many times and it didn't rilly make an impression, but the video I saw on VH1soul is all moody Nicki, no glam, etc etc.

it's still pretty lol to me that she described pills & potions as sounding "like urgency" before it was released when...there was so much more urgency in those buzz songs she put out beforehand

i like the percussion on this song - as far as sia-style songs go it's better than most. and the video is cute. but yeah obv she can do much better.

https://soundcloud.com/nickiminaj/no-flex-zone-remix-feat-nicki-minaj

oh my godddddd she is incredible

~thought you kneeeeeeew better~

yesss

This leaked in low quality. I anticipate it being divisive.

Anaconda I mean.

Haven't heard it. Does it sample Sir Mixalot?

indeed it does

it didn't sound very good tbh but the quality was insanely poor

I think it sounds ridiculous and I love that it couldn't be any further away from Pills N Potions.

http://www.audiomack.com/song/youheardthatnew/anaconda

This song is incredibly fun.

Found myself some wifi in remote rural transylvania just to listen to this. Yes nicki!!!

This kind of goes completely off the rails once she disappears. Like whyyyy would it have the exact same breakdown except done 12x more clunkily? Really fun until then, mind you.

yep. fun for the most part though. i so much prefer fun smartass badass nicki than bubblegum singing nicki

like dun d-d-dun-dun d-d-dun dun

+ vg otm