Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday [Deluxe Edition]
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Artist: Nicki MinajEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2010-11-22
Music Label: Cash Money
Soundtracks:
- I'm The Best
- Roman's Revenge feat. Eminem
- Did It On'em
- Right Thru Me
- Fly feat. Rihanna
- Save Me
- Moment 4 Life feat. Drake
- Check It OUt feat. will.i.am
- Blazin feat. Kanye West
- Here I Am
- Dear Old Nicki
- Your Love
- Last Chance feat. Natasha Bedingfield
- Super Bass
- Blow Ya Mind
- Muny
Music reviews of Pink Friday [Deluxe Edition]
Music Review: Transcendent Skills, Pop Sensibilities
Rating: 5 Stars
Nine out of ten times MCs fall into one of three categories:
1.) Lyrical titans who come equipped with an Olympian flow, thought-provoking, cosmically conscious bars, and cuttingly clever, "Rewind that! What did he just say?" inducing metaphors, who still fall short of getting their due in the mainstream.
2.) Radio friendly pop acts who are light on actual content, but heavy on catchy hooks, trendy fashions, and other such fluff as will gain them the ear and the disposable income of the average suburban teenager.
3.) Grunting, barely sentient creatures who rap exclusively about bangin', trappin', and bling, and do it so poorly and with such a lack of lyrical sophistication as to make you start believing conspiracy theories about the government creating certain strains of rap to undercut the cultural and political hip hop of the 1990s.
And then there's Nicki Minaj, who combines the most desirable aspects of categories one and two in such a way as to leave little doubt concerning both her transcendent capabilities on the microphone and her unquestionable gift for exploiting the spirit of the times for her own financial gain.
Frankly, this young lady might just be the best thing rapping right now. Not "the best girl", but the best MC period, full stop, to emerge from the post-Jay-Z crop of young up-and-comers. Like her Young Money compatriots and mentors Wayne and Drake, Nicki is more than capable of employing a metaphor in such a way as to make the average hip hop afficiando stop and think, but she seems to exceed even these two in terms of poignant pathos, overall depth, and dramatic delivery.
Those who decry this album as being "too pop" or "not hood/street enough" are unfairly endeavoring to place the artist in a box, ignoring the full gamut of her talents, and are missing the point.
What's more, they are mistaken.
Pink Friday may not showcase as much of the raw, cut throat Nicki her stalwart fans have come to know and love from her mixtapes (Minaj herself laments the relative absence of this persona on the track "Dear Old Nicki"), but rest assured, she does make an appearance here or there, most noticeably on the diss track "Roman's Revenge" on which Nicki and Eminem rip Lil' Kim a new one, without naming names. If one considers this cut and Kim's attempted comeback "Black Friday" as the first round of a pay-per-view title fight, so far, Nicki Minaj is up 10-8 after dropping Kim early on with a flurry of devastating body blows. Whether the old vet has more in store for the later rounds, or even rises to answer the bell, remains to be seen.
Nicki the monster is also showcased on several other tracks on the album including "Did It On'Em" and "Blazin'".
But should the fact that not every cut is a gritty, grimey, battle rap detract from an appreciation of Minaj's clever, acrobatic flow and witty lyrics, both of which are more than evident on even the most radio friendly tracks on the album (such as the heavy-rotation singles "Right Thru Me", "Your Love", and "Check It Out")? Who doesn't enjoy seeing a talented artist flex their muscles and grow and evolve over time? Nicki Minaj has transcendent skills on the mic, and incredible pop sensibilities, and I'd rather see her employ them both to claim her rightful place as a supernova burning brightly in the cosmos of popular music than to see her languish, pigeon-holed in the ultra-limiting category of "girl rapper", as so many before her have done. Nicki is the first female MC with the potential to shatter such constraints since the late, great Left Eye, and I for one am going to enjoy watching her spread her wings, be they hood regulation camo or Barbie pink, for many years to come.
As a side note, the extra tracks make purchasing the Deluxe Edition a worthwhile investment, especially the bouncy, dancehall-influenced "Muny", a new millenium successor to Madonna's legendary pop masterpiece "Material Girl".
Now all we need is a compliation disc of all of Nicki's 2010 guest appearances on other people's tracks, and our collections will be complete.
Description of Pink Friday [Deluxe Edition]
Deluxe Version contains 3 bonus tracks. The long anticipated debut album from Nicki Minaj! Album features Eminem, Drake, will.i.am and Kanye West.Pop CDs
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