Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

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http://www.rap-up.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nickicover-475x475.jpg

smh/lmao @ the cover

Awful.

That warped stretchy leg thing is for real?

Also, no arms?

i just tweeted that i couldn't tell whether that's meant to be really weird body modification or just bad photoshopping. surely the former? no arms, extra-long legs...what's the relevant sci-fi film reference, there must be one.

is "massive attack" going to be on this? that's the only single i love so far. "check it out" and "your love" aren't even listenable :(

no massive attack isn't on it

I like her latest single "right thru me," pretty much her most honest/lacking-in-pretense song since "autobiography"/"can you hear me" it's like a real life version of "your love"'s fairy tale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLjxnKixyaA

naw dudes it's just really funny

Had them rip my arms out the socket. Detachable arms cuz arms r for common folk. #itspinkfridayhoe *dead*
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Holy shit, "Right Thru Me" samples Joe Satriani! 14 year-old me's tastes are colliding with 36 year-old me's tastes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4fPv450OYM

im guessing she's trying to look like a barbie? is that it?

omg

love her

xps re arms

i like "right thru me" quite a bit, but...idk, i felt that nicki's ability to be a RAPPER at the same time as a POP STAR was one of the things that made her pretty special in today's climate, and it's a bit sad to see no evidence of that in her solo career proper apart from the failed first single (which is still leagues better than the slush that's followed it)

yeah the further "Massive Attack" recedes into the distance of practically never having existed, the more I appreciated as a better representation of her stilted cartoon swag than the shits she's been releasing since then. you wouldn't think it'd be that hard to translate Nicki's schtick into a Missy-style goofy hit, but she's struggling with it.

the image of her on this cover is super dope but the rest is pretty much shit, from font on up

gis gives me like 6 different covers, which one should i be looking at?

http://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nicki-minaj-pink-friday-e1287158467502.jpg

what are those lines at the top??

now i have to ponder which disappoints me more: the squandered potential of nicki as a rapper or the squandered potential of this cover

The no-arms thing is pretty cool. I have no problems with the font. But those bars at the top of the photo are pointless. I know there would be too much wasted space without them, but they're still pointless.

if they were worried about space they could've had her flush along the bottom of the image w/ the title in different font up top

the lines kind of look like blinds, or shop shutters about to come down? like she's in a window display. they could have made a bit more effort if that's what they were going for though.

yeah i could see that -- i feel like that would've been a doper motif, tho maybe a bigger budget would've been called for -- as it stands now it looks like the image of her as barbie got shopped onto a wedding invitation

dope cover, but legs are a little too big imo

looks like pink has an album called nicki minaj friday

lol

http://www.korean-drama-guide.com/images/soory-i-love-you-banner.jpg

she's on the cover of out. good article.

anyone else see her present an award on the BET Hip Hop Awards? wow that was painful.

the legs are supposed to be absurdly long though & it's a hilarious cover

anyone else see her present an award on the BET Hip Hop Awards? wow that was painful.

― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:22 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

how about the acceptance speech?

not nearly as bad as her Mad TV sketch "multiple personalities" presenter schtick

i like 'right thru me'

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lol

i also liked the GOOD music freestyles aside from Common's

there was a lot of WORDPLAY

big yawn

who is cyhi da prince

he is lame

where does kanye find these people

he was probably working the door at a fashion show

did u hear about Kanye's new "fashion advisor"/"confidant"?

i'm jealous of him

what does he think about wearing running shoes as casual kicks i wonder

did u hear about Kanye's new "fashion advisor"/"confidant"?

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i'm jealous of him

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 16 October 2010 20:16 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because you want to haves the bum sex with kanye?

"bum sex"

cyhi da prince sounds like everything deej says about pill

ha

what i say of pill applies to a lot of rappers. not sure why pill is so much better than this dude

cyhi da prince is a smarmy punchline rapper -- the big yawn from atlanta -- pill is just a trap rapper archetype who will drop a grocery bag or two -- also pill has dope lyrics on his first mixtape -- i can't even imagine a cyhi da prince song

archetype, cliche, potato, potahto

yeah... i'm saying that cyhi isn't an archetype or a cliche... he's just straight up garbage

also that song sounds exactly like that Taio Cruz one; who let any of that happen

this is so gonna crop up in a future nicki verse

and quite right too

basically making obama her personal translator

― lex pretend, Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:47 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://thatgrapejuice.net/2012/11/song-nicki-minaj-im-legit-ft-ciara/

also YASSSSSSSSS

the re-up = a victory lap

all deluxe re-releases are victory laps, almost by definition. the original Roman Reloaded was pretty much a victory lap itself, though. she's just running in circles.

"i'm legit" is totally one of her best songs ever though imo

http://www.vevo.com/watch/nicki-minaj/freedom-explicit/USCMV1200166 omg looooooool

yeah uh...this isn't very good. Some really nice moments in the verses but that chorus just sucks the life out of the room. And video is ridic.

i am all about "i'm legit" and "i endorse these strippers"

it's criminal that there are three boi-1da beats on this album smfh

"Freedom" really is a contender for worst song of the year, opening couplet is "they never thank me for opening tours/ but they ain't even thank Jesus when he died in the cross"

Jesus died for somebody's percentage of the door, but not mine.

Jesus died for somebody's percentage of the door, but not mine.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:42 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Post of the year.

OMG I endorse "I Endorse These Strippers"

"I Endorse These Strippers" is pretty wonderful. The rest of this...zzzzzzzzz

"i'm legit" is legit too.

ol girl starting to look a lil jocelyn wildenstein though.

her lines are getting mad repetitive

these bitches is my sons x29429824818811

who's the random cat at the end of "i endorse these strippers"

these bitches is my sons x29429824818811

― some dude, Friday, November 23, 2012 2:22 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i think you pointed this out a while ago and yeah, it's getting a little much

i complained about it itt when the o.g. album dropped but there's a song on The Reuploadedless with TWO of those lines in diff't verses

I like the line in general

these bithces is my somes dude

Reup = 2 for 7

i don't even fuck w/ "i endorse these strippers" that much... it could be so much better i.e. her verse on the 2 chainz album

i like the "these bitches is my sons" thing better since she started going OTT with it, it's like a calling card or something

http://athousandflowers.net/2013/07/29/5-myths-about-nicki-minaj-that-you-should-really-stop-believing/

*applause*

lol

lol

But I will leave you with this anecdote from Drake about one of his first encounters with Miss Minaj, who he had a major crush on:

"I remember one of the first nights that we were out in Miami and I went to Jerry’s. I was like, ‘You want food, you hungry?,’ and she was like, ‘Yeah, I want some food.’ I was like, ‘I’m in, we gon’ eat food together.’ I came to her door and she took the food and shut the door in my face! I was just like, ‘Man, this is gonna be a long road for us.’"

that was amazing, especially as i imagine nicki hasn't given that incident a second's thought since

"Myth: Nicki Minaj is bad.

Actually, she's good!"

http://www.facebook.com/AThousandFlowers/posts/490887497671020

clicked on link, saw claim that Chief Keef can rap, rolled eyes and closed link

do people really question nicki's technical skill as a rapper?

that seems really silly to me.

she's obviously concocted this entire pop mythology and weird stylistic quirks around that in her delivery but, at heart, she's a New York technician IMO.

also are we discussing this so not gonna happen kinda lol but mostly sad DJ khaled proposing to nicki thing?

I feel like there's a long tradition of people (men and women) assuming female rappers can't rap by default. You don't really need to compare Nicki to guys who do something completely different from her to make the point that she has skills (esp when one of those people is terrible).

i posted the vid on a Khaled thread but i don't think we really discussed it. it's hilarious but obv a joke/stunt to promote their new singles together so w/e.

Nicki's flow and vocal ability are crazy but if 'technical skill' encompasses the ability to consistently put together words that rhyme and make sense and sound good, she's pretty erratic. and her 'serious' verses are generally dull as dirt. compared to most of her contemporaries still pretty near the top, though.

yeah i guess i don't necessarily mean "technical skill" (in this sense) as a positive or negative term...I just mean in terms of being able to deliver rhymes very quick, crisply, etc etc....I'm not saying like Chino XL is the greatest rapper of all time or anything...but Nicki is definitely "skilled" in that sense, I guess I don't feel super strongly about her other than I enjoy her being around when I hear her, so I leave it to others to evaluate her as a rapper on the whole.

I don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but Nicki Minaj raps her verse on the upcoming Big Sean album as a crack mom, and it is truly, truly abhorrent

Lots of jokes about welfare checks and taking her teeth out to give blowjobs and the like; she is the worst

oh gosh

she's a muthafukkin monstah

ONIKA TANYA MARAJ

https://soundcloud.com/nickimnewspaper/nicki-minaj-ft-ptaf-boss-ass

amazing but off to the station to head back to montreal from family time so cannot elaborate on its perfection

if he play you, then rule #2: fuck his best friends then make them yes-men. get a dick pic and then you press send. and send a red heart and send a kissy face, and tell him that his friends love how your pussy taste

oh my god the singing bit

oh my god, all of it

Love the Ten Crack Commandments updated for 2014

the world does not need any more Ke$ha goatse

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