Whether her jarring 2014 trajectory was an elaborate scheme to dangle a "real hip-hop" carrot in front of naysayers only to yank it away, or a plan gone awry as her personal life imploded, The Pinkprint defies expectations from both poles of her fanbase. The 2014 singles underwhelm, even in proper context, but the real gems are in the bonus tracks. What is your favourite song off each Ariana album? Rosenberg atoned for his remarks on air when Minaj returned to Hot 97 last year, but his apology (the "sorry if you were offended" type, peppered with qualifiers like "underground" and "mainstream") only amplified the source of the problem. Pop music and culture news, celebrity gossip & music discussion forum At present, it's currently scoring a very healthy "74" on Metacritic and the reviews keep flooding in. The vocal delivery from Nicole on this. Hi! Nicki Minaj: The Pinkprint Movie (Video 2014) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. V For Vendetta. It features guest vocals by Jessie Ware. Over the course of three official mixtapes, two studio albums (plus one Re-Up), and countless features, we’ve been acquainted with Nicki Lewinsky, Roman Zolanski, the Female Weezy, the Harajuku Barbie, and most of all, with Nicki Minaj LLC ("I’m a brand, bitch! All Things Go-7.5/10 / 2. Sequenced differently, "Win Again" may have been the album’s triumphant centerpiece, simultaneously a mission statement, victory lap, and warning shot (and there should be no confusion as to whom Minaj is inferring with "Don’t write they raps and plus they flow shitty"). I’m a brand!"). Get On Your Knees-5.9/10 / 5. [16] Niki McGloster, uma editora de Billboard, deu ao álbum uma avaliação positiva dizendo que "Embora seja muito cedo para dizer se o Pinkprint é um clássico, é seguro dizer que é o seu melhor álbum até à data. No Metacritic, o álbum recebeu uma pontuação média de 72, baseado em 16 avaliações. The tour was officially announced a week before the album's release, on December 8, 2014. Stream-of-consciousness Auto-Tune freak-out "Mona Lisa" might be Minaj’s most bizarre album cut to date, gurgling "I’ll fuck around and shoot youuuu" through a Detail-produced benzodiazepine haze. With Nicki Minaj, Willy Monfret, Jessie Ware. I Lied-6.3/10 / 3. I can't believe I have to go to live classes on Monday, Externally sourced content is the sole property of its respective owners. Everybody keep on searching (Ja Ara é, Ja Ara é). Feeling Myself-5.5/10 / 6. Under scrutiny, the habit of neatly dividing Minaj’s music into "rap" or "pop" doesn’t hold up. I’m Kiera, owner of Prettyinkonly. In support of the third studio album "The Pinkprint", released on December 12, Nick presented a short film "The Pinkprint Movie", the story of which unfolds around a love drama that brings together three tracks from the album: The Crying Game, I Lied and Grand Piano. The Pinkprint received generally positive reviews from critics. Few songs from her mixtape era can hold a torch to her bars on Re-Up bonus track "The Boys", the verbal acrobatics on "Starships" B-side "Stupid Hoe", or the upper-handed smirk of her "Boss Ass Bitch (Remix)". Nicki Minaj is very much basking in the critical acclaim of The Pinkprint. It’s impossible to ignore her frequent mentions of pill-popping. "Anaconda" makes more sense recontextualized as post-breakup stress release, but that doesn’t make it much more listenable. It was met with a generally mixed response from music critics, receiving an average score of 60, based on 30 reviews on Metacritic, indicating "generally mixed or average reviews". But we know surprisingly little about Onika Maraj, the 11th-highest paid rapper in America according to this year’s Forbes list, whose first and second platinum-selling albums were critically panned for appealing more to teenage girls than middle-aged guardians of Hip-Hop Culture. The pinkprint is actually less catchy than most of Nicki's shit, but it's definitely more solid. The pinkprint is good, but it really doesn't touch J. Cole's album in either of those categories. But on The Pinkprint, Minaj addresses a different performance: that of the "strong woman," the self-sufficient bad bitch role model who works twice as hard as her male peers and looks good doing it (in other words, the performance of the "only rap bitch on the Forbes list"). This, Minaj declares, is what the weight of your expectations has wrought, as she emerges from underneath them for the first time, as a heartbroken 32-year old who has sacrificed having a family to become the best rapper alive. You want punchline-oriented Mixtape Nicki? Externally sourced content is the sole property of its respective owners. Original content ©2009-2021 FOTP. She’s wearing a goofy, cotton-candy beehive wig, but her tone is serious. Longtime fans, and those freshly back on the bandwagon, postulated that third album The Pinkprint would be a return to "Mixtape Nicki," the one from Southside Jamaica, Queens, who had more substantial concerns than pink wigs and global entrepreneurship. The Pinkprint Tour was the third concert tour by Trinidadian recording artist Nicki Minaj in support of her third studio album, The Pinkprint (2014). "The Crying Game" is a song by Nicki Minaj from her third studio album The Pinkprint. If there’s anything The Pinkprint makes clear over its sprawling 22 tracks (six of which appear only on deluxe editions), it’s that Nicki Minaj is exhausted. Michael Eugene Carter Archer (born February 11, 1974), better known by his stage name D'Angelo (pronounced di-Anjelo), is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.D'Angelo is associated with the neo soul movement, along with artists like Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Maxwell, and collaborator Angie Stone.. I have the Pinkprint at 6/10 and J.Cole at a 7.5 pushing an 8. You go learn your own lesson (Ja Ara é, Ja Ara é). She pauses for a single dramatic blink, and for a moment, she goes somewhere else: "I’m a human beiiiinnnnngggggg!" You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this, and you have to be that, and you have to be nice—it’s like, I can’t be all those things at once!" She’s working on the album’s finishing touches, though it’s just gone up for presale on Amazon, and people are blowing up her phone, asking for favors. Minaj yield more information about the album in September in various … "I popped a perc and I said thonk youuuu!" Of course, then came "Pills N Potions", a simpering Dr. Luke piano ballad, and "Anaconda", by Minaj’s own admission a novelty song and perhaps her most explicitly girl-oriented single to date. MEET OUR PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTOR! And it’s a serious album, in the sense that it asks to be taken seriously. It’s not a return to Mixtape Nicki, or a third round of Nicki The Brand’s world-conquering dance-pop. Here we have "Nicki Minaj: The Pinkprint Movie", a 16-minute video that includes several songs by successful recording artist Nicki Minaj, as the title already says, and she also wrote the entire thing. There was that confusing anecdote tucked into her BET Awards acceptance speech that almost felt like a cry for help: "The other day, literally I didn’t tell anyone this, I really thought I was about to die. On The Pinkprint, Minaj inches closer toward her goal of not just destroying the rap/pop binary, but smashing sexist challenges of her agency along with it, deading any lingering questions as to whether the most objectively successful female rapper of all time truly understands where her strengths lie. The closest thing to the carefree rave of Roman Reloaded here is "The Night Is Still Young", but even there she’s consumed with creeping nostalgia for a party that has yet to end. But they’re redeemed by the bonus tracks—a thrilling, confounding six-song set that elevates The Pinkprint from an occasionally transcendent, if unbalanced, break-up album to something far more intriguing. On this project, Nicki returns back to her Hip-hop roots, dropping the pop and dance-centric "I was a women’s studies minor in college," he stressed. Minaj dipped out; today, "Nicki Minaj controversy" is one of four sub-categories of the "Career" section of Rosenberg’s Wikipedia page. Months later, TMZ alleged that Minaj had smashed the windows of maybe-fiancé Safaree Samuels’ Benz; their exceedingly private 14-year relationship seemed to be over. For an artist repeatedly defined by her gender in an art form historically biased against it, the preoccupation made sense. "THIS is The Pinkprint," she declares on "All Things Go", and it’s loaded beyond a simple introduction a la "This Is the Carter". Though they might be delivered over sparkly pop synths, her rap skills have only sharpened over the last five years, and on The Pinkprint, they change form constantly. It's all about the pop life! When many thought they’d had her pegged—as a New York battle-rapper, a predictable pop diva, a brand—The Pinkprint presents Minaj in her most unexpected role yet: a human being. As with Drake and masculinity, Minaj’s music has long centered around the performance of femininity. Then there’s "Four Door Aventador", an uncanny Biggie impression slipped in between twisted Atlanta homage "Want Some More" and R&B floater "Favorite", with what feels like a knowing wink towards Rosenberg’s legion of "serious hip-hop" proponents. Which raises the eternal question: is she, though? It’s an outright rejection of any authority besides her own: "No, THIS is what my music sounds like.". Later, Minaj convincingly paints her ex as an opportunistic scrub: "You can never make eye contact, everything you got was based off of my contact," she snaps on "Bed of Lies". If there’s anything The Pinkprint makes clear over its sprawling 22 tracks (six of which appear only on deluxe editions), it’s that Nicki Minaj is exhausted. New video: Outrageous (Junkie XL Catwoman Mix), Dua Lipa to headline Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscars pre-party. The Pinkprint is the third studio album by American recording artist Nicki Minaj; it was released on December 12, 2014, by Young Money, Cash Money and Republic Records. Minaj firstly mentioned her third studio album in December 2012, when she nicknamed it "The Pinkprint" but later, in April 2013 at an interview with MTV News, she regretted it because she wanted to start a "new era." Hyperconfident, provocative, and almost cartoonishly larger than life, this rapper rode the strength of her style from mixtape queen to pop icon. Number Artist Album Average score Number of reviews Reference 1 Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2: 89 … Though she hasn’t always worn it on her sleeve, Minaj has always had an acute understanding of what’s "cool" in rap and beyond, and it’s finally started to click. She’s pissed, but she composes herself for the camera crew—they’re in the studio shooting footage for a documentary MTV will premiere a few years later, called "My Time Now"—to explain. Still, The Pinkprint’s singles underwhelm, even in proper context. The crew of collaborators ranges from trap innovator Zaytoven to casual diva Jessie Ware to house producer Maya Jane Coles to someone credited simply as "The Mad Violinist." Until this year, that side of Nicki didn’t get out much, at least on record. "When you’re a girl, you have to be, like, everything. The director is the experienced music video director Francesco Carrozzini. She railed against "non-mogul ass niggas" on the snarling misandry anthem "Lookin Ass", toting twin machine guns in the video; she recruited Lil Herb, Chicago drill’s rookie of the year, for gritty loosie "Chi-Raq", where she promised to "smack bitches, no Smack Cam, closed fists, no backhands." If that seems audacious, consider that most rappers don’t have to ask. She draws the word out for three full seconds, the same way she would a year later in her song-stealing verse on Big Sean’s "Dance (A$$)" ("In the islands of Waikikiiiiiiiiii…"). On intro "All Things Go", her delivery is pointedly plain as she reflects on her cousin Nicholas Telemaque’s 2011 murder, for which she blames herself, and references what may have been an abortion 16 years ago. It’s the ultimate statement as to whether anyone but Minaj herself understands what’s best for her career. Original content ©2009-2021 FOTP. She spent the winter unleashing a string of remixes hard enough to re-invigorate the "Best Rapper Alive" claims sparked years ago by her "Monster" verse and subsequently abandoned by rap fans whose delicate sensibilities were no match for glossy RedOne beats and Bud Light plugs. Nicki Minaj is fed up. "Only" remains vile, a jizz-fest masquerading as an unfunny in-joke over a photocopy of a photocopy of a trap beat. Of course he only came at Minaj because, as a believer in her potential, he expected more from her. On "Shanghai", Minaj barks red-blooded bars, the kind "real heads" froth over, on a beat that could’ve been an outtake from Fatima Al Qadiri’s Asiatisch. She toned down the technicolor costumes and wigs, making headlines when she debuted her natural hair at the premiere for The Other Woman, her first film role. For an artist repeatedly accused of pandering to the unrefined palates of teenyboppers, The Pinkprint’s production and feature roster is surprisingly sophisticated, if a bit scattershot. Little Monsters are signing a petition for Lady Gaga to release ARTPOP Act II. She’s right there on "The Crying Game": "Blood dripping out your arm, on my Asian rugs/ We was just planning a wedding, Caucasian doves" cribs a flow straight from 2009. In pure album sales, 2014 Forest Hills Drive debuted with 354,000 copies, while The Pinkprint debuted with 198,000. Minaj’s rapping on The Pinkprint is hardly a revival of her Smack DVD days, but the long-upheld fallacy of Mixtape Nicki as the gold standard against which her raps must be measured was due to be put to bed anyway. Released on December 12, 2014, The Pinkprint is Nicki Minaj’s third studio album. His language will sound familiar to any woman who has been patronizingly told, "I’m not sure if you have the capacity to understand what you’re doing the same way I do" (presumably, then, to every woman on earth). "Truffle Butter" with Drake and Lil Wayne is such a lay-up of a radio hit, instantly 100 times more likeable than "Only", that it’s hard to understand its bonus track placement as anything other than mischievous trolling—Minaj giggling to herself as she tosses off precisely what her critics craved as little more than an afterthought. "Pills N Potions" is cute but hollow, its sentimentality trumped by the album’s deeply personal opening triptych. Directed by Taylor Cohen. "I’m the antithesis of that dude!" Onstage at 2012’s Summer Jam, Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg openly trashed Minaj, the headlining act: "I know there’s some chicks here waiting to sing 'Starships' later: I’m not talking to y’all right now, fuck that bullshit. "Bitches ain’t got punchlines or flow; I have both, and an empire also," Nicki repeats slowly and emphatically, as though she’s speaking to an idiot; they’re lines from Re-Up bonus track "Up In Flames", but maybe you didn’t hear her the first time. Like the sappy The Pinkprint closer “Grand Piano” or the yearning “Save Me” from Pink Friday, there’s always a moment of pause when she goes full-ballad. The track was released on December 15, 2014 as a digital … The Crying Game-8/10 / 4. More impressive is "Feeling Myself", a show-stopping Beyoncé duet that reads as a divine premonition of Bey’s eventual Gangsta Grillz installment. Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. On May 28, 2013 in an interview with Peter Rosenberg, she said that she was going to "feed the core hip-hop fan" with her next project, and her desire to get back to her essence, returning to the place where she was before her debut album. Behind the scenes look at Nicki Minaj's popular album The Pink Print. she crows on "Want Some More"; it’s the most fucked up Minaj has sounded on wax, and she used to rap from the perspective of the lunatic child that lived in her brain. Please consider disabling AdBlock here on FOTP; we know ads are annoying, but they help keep the lights on, and we make sure ours are as unintrusive as possible. Powered by Invision Community. Only (feat. It’s 2010, six weeks before the release of her debut album, Pink Friday. 11 hours ago Genasis’ viral hit "CoCo", or the built-in inside joke of "Want Some More", its title a riff on Metro Boomin’s producer tag. You're fucking crazy if you think The Pinkprint … SHE DESIGNED A LIFE SHE LOVED! Dem no dey tell person (Ja Ara é, Ja Ara é). Highest critically reviewed albums Metacritic. The Barbs are mad that "Good News" by Megan Thee Stalion is rated higher than "The Pinkprint" Discussion in 'STAN Fair' started by wafae, Nov 30, 2020. If there’s anything The Pinkprint makes clear over its sprawling 22 tracks (six of which appear only on deluxe editions), it’s that Nicki Minaj is exhausted. Accessing to my courses will allow you to gain the skill sets you need to advance your business by using my secrets and techniques. 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I’m here to talk about real hip-hop shit." "I Lied" grasps despondently at the loose ends of her unraveled relationship over Mike WiLL Made-It’s most haunting production of 2014. "Feeling Myself" is a song by American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj featuring American singer Beyoncé from Minaj's third studio album The Pinkprint (2014). With Boris Kodjoe, Nicki Minaj, Willy Monfret. She slips sly contemporary references into The Pinkprint as little gifts for those paying attention: a quick nod, on "Feeling Myself", to O.T. And I didn’t even wanna call the ambulance because I thought, well if I call the ambulance, it’s gonna be on TMZ." It’s an album by Onika Maraj. On May 18, 2015 the music video premiered exclusively on music streaming service Tidal. Queen is the fourth studio album by Trinidadian-born American rapper Nicki Minaj.It was released on August 10, 2018, through Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records.It is Minaj's first album in nearly four years, following The Pinkprint (2014). The Pinkprint Review Lyrics: DISCLAIMER / 1. General music news, discussion, charts, polls, & reviews. Billboard magazine's Niki McGloster called it "her best album to date. Directed by Francesco Carrozzini, Taylor Cohen. It’s sort of a joke—her inflection is completely alien, or like a robot malfunctioning—but nobody laughs, and she quickly apologizes for ranting and goes back to fixing her eyeliner. Like I was saying my prayers to die. The song was written by Minaj, Jessie Ware, Andrew Wansel, Warren Felder, and Steven Mostyn, and was produced by Pop Wansel. With Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 25 reviews. Minaj entered 2014 with an agenda.