Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)

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

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.

― The Reverend, Saturday, August 2, 2014 3:49 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is my final judgment too. so so fun (and idk how it's doing commercially but it sounds like exactly the kind of thing she should be going for to score a ~hit as well) and then it goes on pointlessly for at least a minute more than it should

i think the final minute is the only good part. the rest of the song is really clunky, it's like watching a car with an engine that keeps sputtering out

it's funny to think that Polow Da Don and Da Internz and another producer all worked together to assemble this, the track sounds like something literally anybody could've thought of and executed. whole thing is so boringly on the nose.

completely agreed w/ j0rdan. i like it more than i did initially and it is 'fun' but i think it could have been executed much better.

some dude on the mark; the only thing this does to me is make me feel old.
"FUCK THEM SKINNY ASS BITCHES" screaming seems like tumblr essay bait.
The Lil' Wayne style laughing sounds hella fake and joyless.
nagl all round

The Lil' Wayne style laughing sounds hella fake and joyless.

ok yeah, this is the single worst thing abt it

nicki's verses >>>> beat >>>>>>>> hook >>>>>>>> "oh my god look at her butt" >>>>>>>> bizarro screaming about skinny bitches >>>>>>> nicki cackling >>>>>>>> song not stopping when it needs to. the first two of those are very very good, the next two are eye-rolly but tolerable, the last three are problems. nicki's cackling usually kinda works but it does seem rote here. it doesn't help that she's trumped herself twice within a week of its release (and that a bunch of her tracks this year have been so next-level).

I do feel like she's gonna go the Wayne route and devolve into a bunch of annoying verbal & rhyming tics

Sometimes she reminds me of Chino XL when she gets technical

her rapping-ass rapping has been as strong as it's ever been this year though, notwithstanding the annoyances (minor or major) that will always be around the corner (usually on her most prominent songs) in her career

and yeah occasionally the tics can be overdone but in general i think she balances them well (across her body of work rather than within any given song), many of them are still effective and they're definitely not cause for overall concern

I guess she's not a total drug addict like Wayne so there's not that factor

at this point nicki 2014 (inc the final days of 2013) kinda goes

1. lookin' ass
2. boss ass bitch (remix)
3. my n*gga (remix)
4. flawless (remix)
5. yasss bish!!
6. no flex zone (remix)
7. low
8. anaconda
9. chi-raq
10. she came to give it to you
11. touchin, lovin
12. danny glover (remix)
13. pills n potions

"Boss Ass Bitch" and "Danny Glover" are hot verses but most of the other stuff has just seemed to me like a lot of attitude, no real memorable moments or great lines

i did the math the other day and literally an entire third of "Pills N Potions" is the "I STILL LOVE I STILL LOVE I STILL LUH UH UH" part, which is just inexcusable.

1. lookin' ass
2. boss ass bitch (remix)
3. my n*gga (remix)
4. flawless (remix)
5. yasss bish!!
6. no flex zone (remix)
7. low
8. anaconda
9. chi-raq
10. she came to give it to you
11. touchin, lovin
12. danny glover (remix)
13. pills n potions

666. Bang Bang

"FUCK THEM SKINNY ASS BITCHES" screaming seems like tumblr essay bait.

lol i have a feeling someone is going to write a thinkpiece about this line and the similar one from the meghan trainor song if it hasn't happened already

the fake laughing in "Anaconda" is so fucking annoying

nah it's almost the best part

talk about damning w/faint praise

it's the most Female Weezy thing she's ever done

lol i have a feeling someone is going to write a thinkpiece about this line and the similar one from the meghan trainor song if it hasn't happened already

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/all-your-bass-are-belong-to-us

(robin james is good tho)

"boss ass bitch" remix is one of the craziest rap songs of the year and she spits on "lookin ass" and "chiraq" but i'm mostly with shiplo on this one

idk why but she cant release a good song to save her life rn

the trollingest thing i really believe that i've resisted trotting out in public over the last few months is that Iggy's album is really well produced and people would fall over themselves with praise if a Nicki album ever had those beats.

I don't think anyone's issue with Azalea is the beats.

I could believe that. Still not ever going to listen to an Iggy Azalia album tho.

sure, sure. i'm just saying, sonically it's almost precisely the rap/pop intersection i feel like people want out of a Nicki LP that she never seems to hit upon. obviously Nicki a big precursor to her sound too, but just interesting given how rudderless Nicki's taste in beats/songs has become.

I don't think anyone's issue with Azalea is the beats.

― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:07 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk I hate the "Fancy" beat, although yes the hook is worse (not her tho)

Disagree on both counts - beat could pass as dj mustard and Charli is easily the best thing about the song.