The Pinkprint
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82
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.
80
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
80
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.
80
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.
80
The Pinkprint is ultimately Nicki’s most cohesive project. It’s her most revealing about her recent and long-term emotional struggles
80
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.
75
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.
75
The PinkPrint is the closest Nicki Minaj has ever gotten to balancing her tendencies, and the furthest she’s ever been from emotional stability.
70
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.
67
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.
60
This third album is the New Yorker’s most cohesive collection yet, but also her least thrilling.
50
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.
50
Nicki Minaj just isn't that good anymore, sadly.
43
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.
welcome to this review of me going insane in the track ratings section, hope you enjoy:
onika maraj, better known as nicki minaj, is a rapper born in trinidad and tobago but raised in queens, new york, and she was probably my favorite female rapper for a while, but after maturing and going through her discography, sometimes she can be mediocre/trash as HELL, like on this album.
she started out her career in 2007, releasing a couple of mixtapes that were well received by critics like ... read more
onika maraj, better known as nicki minaj, is a rapper born in trinidad and tobago but raised in queens, new york, and she was probably my favorite female rapper for a while, but after maturing and going through her discography, sometimes she can be mediocre/trash as HELL, like on this album.
she started out her career in 2007, releasing a couple of mixtapes that were well received by critics like ... read more
If Pink Friday established her as a voice with versatility and Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded established her as a voice with commercial impact, The Pinkprint at last establishes her as a voice altogether. It’s her most accomplished album to date. Especially its first half, where Nicki Minaj—no, not ‘Roman Zolanski’ or ‘Barbie’, but Onika Maraj herself—highlights her vulnerability on “All Things Go”, “I Lied”, and “The Crying ... read more
The third and least uneven of Nicki's albums to date, especially if you count the bonus tracks. This is the first album where I actually feel that Nicki is enjoying herself, and it shows on tracks like "Shanghai" and "Want Some More", where Nicki is taunting her competitors while maintaining that there actually aren't any competitors on her level yet. This kind of braggadocio has been a constant from the start of Nicki's career, but this is the first time since ... read more
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Track List
- All Things Go
- I Lied
- The Crying Game
- Get On Your Knees [ft. Ariana Grande]
- Feeling Myself ft. Beyoncé
- Only [ft. Drake, Lil Wayne, & Chris Brown]
- Want Some More
- Four Door Aventador
- Favorite [ft. Jeremih]
- Buy A Heart [ft. Meek Mill ]
- Trini Dem Girls [ft. Lunchmoney Lewis]
- Anaconda
- The Night Is Still Young
- Pills and Potions
- Bed of Lies [ft. Skylar Grey]
- Grand Piano
- Big Daddy [ft. Meek Mill]
- Shanghai
- Win Again
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Added on: September 9, 2014