Minaj’s latest release is a complicated being, one that might never sit easy, but the layers she provides for the listener to peel through provide for an engaging and ultimately satisfying experience.
A bold progression from her previous work with some porno and punch line classics thrown in, The Pinkprint is certainly scattered, but it's well written and weighty where it needs to be, and it remains intriguing the whole way through.
The Pinkprint — while fat-trimming could’ve been afforded –- stands as the sweet spot where a newly stripped image and sound align. The union properly widens the scope not of Nicki Minaj, but of Onika Maraj.
Riding diabolically hot beats from producers like Mike Will Made It and Hit-Boy, she breathes fire and oozes soul every time she touches the mic. This is a rap royal in full flex.
Nicki is more personal, more timeless and more connected to her own artistry here, serving some of the most superlative work of her established career on The Pinkprint, as the rap queen uncovers the most vulnerable side to her yet
The Pinkprint runs a middle path between pop over exertion and real lyricism, creating an everything for someone aesthetic that Nicki doesn't allow to shift into wastefullness.
The Pinkprint is ultimately Nicki’s most cohesive project. It’s her most revealing about her recent and long-term emotional struggles
The PinkPrint is the closest Nicki Minaj has ever gotten to balancing her tendencies, and the furthest she’s ever been from emotional stability.
It’s not a return to Mixtape Nicki, or a third round of Nicki The Brand’s world-conquering dance-pop. It’s an album by Onika Maraj. And it’s a serious album, in the sense that it asks to be taken seriously.
The Pinkprint overwhelmingly shifts the MC out of the competitive mindset into a more personal one than anything she'd previously put her name on.
The Pinkprint is her most fully-realized record to date, a personal, imaginative, sex-positive, expanded vision of Pink Friday and Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded that isn’t a radical shift, but instead improves upon what Minaj can execute well.
If The Pinkprint is a letdown compared to The Blueprint, then Minaj brought it on herself. However, as a breakup album that takes heartbreak in every direction possible, it provides a template worth imitating.
This third album is the New Yorker’s most cohesive collection yet, but also her least thrilling.
The Pinkprint has moments. Some are great, but most are not.
Nicki Minaj just isn't that good anymore, sadly.
Minaj’s third album comes off as a bog-standard chart-ready hip-hop/pop crossover, full of autotuned choruses, guest spots, scatterings of dance music, big singles and ample padding – at 19 tracks it feels twice as long as it should be.
The Pinkprint not only doesn’t succeed in breaking free from Nicki’s pattern of lame, but, in fact, might mark her least impressive release to date.
One of the female rap albums that most marked and influenced the decade. Nicki found the perfect balance between pop and hip-hop showing that she is not only a lyrical beast in terms of rap but also has decent vocals that show her vulnerability such as the exciting "Grand Piano" that closes the album.
I feel like the album missed a lot in the middle with some fillers like "Want Some More" and "Trini Dem Girls" but it quickly pays off in the final part bringing ... read more
Em "The Pinkprint", a rapper Nicki Minaj atinge o ápice de sua qualidade, é uma obra muito pessoal com ótimas composições onde a rapper conta sobre sua vida e sua jornada, e também vemos muita versatilidade, os vocais de Minaj ficaram perfeitos no R&B, tem até um leve toque de soul, os vocais dela em "Grande Piano" são de arrepiar, também em "I Lied" e "Pills N Potions", sendo essa ... read more
The official sophomore album from the somewhat controversial discography of popular Trinidad-based rapper Nicki Minaj has finally reached my ears! I describe her discography as controversial because of the number of negativity it has received. Ik i’m fairly infamous for the fact that her latest record Pink Friday 2 is my favourite album of all time, but like I have said many times, I am fearless of hate and am just here to express my opinion. Anyhow what’s surprising about this ... read more
1 | All Things Go 4:53 | 83 |
2 | I Lied 5:04 | 78 |
3 | The Crying Game 4:25 feat. Jessie Ware | 83 |
4 | Get On Your Knees 3:36 feat. Ariana Grande | 83 |
5 | Feeling Myself 3:57 feat. Beyoncé | 89 |
6 | Only 5:12 | 77 |
7 | Want Some More 3:49 | 77 |
8 | Four Door Aventador 3:02 | 65 |
9 | Favorite 4:02 feat. Jeremih | 66 |
10 | Buy a Heart 4:15 feat. Meek Mill | 70 |
11 | Trini Dem Girls 3:14 feat. LunchMoney Lewis | 67 |
12 | Anaconda 4:20 | 77 |
13 | The Night Is Still Young 3:47 | 83 |
14 | Pills N Potions 4:27 | 87 |
15 | Bed of Lies 4:29 feat. Skylar Grey | 79 |
16 | Grand Piano 4:19 | 86 |
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