Nicki Minaj – "Pink Friday 2: The Hiatus"

[wavey.]

I thought yall were paying Pink Friday dust🤔

[SHOOTER]

Majesty
Barbie Dreams
Rich Sex
Run & Hide
Chun Swae
Chun-Li
LLC
Good Form
Coco Chanel

She gave me the bars I wanted but someone please tell her to stop singing.

[Hashtag Pow]

Aug 11, 2018 0:08:33 GMT -5 wavey. said:

I thought yall were paying Pink Friday dust🤔

No. We use it in her catalog. What we DON'T use is Nicki acting like it was some masterpiece in the history of music. 



The Pinkprint is really just miles ahead of all of her other projects. There was some EMOTION on that album. The writing took time! She delivered without being challenged. Now she's being challenged, and she's still opting to coast instead of rising to the occasion. I can't believe it's been 4 years since it came out. I still play WANT SOME MORE and WIN AGAIN like they are new songs. 

[Linnethia Monique]

Aug 10, 2018 22:30:46 GMT -5 think pink. said:

Chun Swae is a career highlight.

I disagree. Swae Lee's hook is way too long, she's not saying anything, for 6 minutes there should've been a change somewhere in production, and she's doing that cackling sh!t which already omits the last 30-45 seconds into the bin.

[Ivy Leegue™]

Pitchfork cited Coco Chanel as the crown jewel of Queen.

[think pink.]

[Deleted]

OK need time to digest but after listening only once I do admit that I actually like this so far. Sure there are filler but much, much less than her previous efforts. There are some bops. Dare I say second best album so far? Clearly I still love Chun Li that beat and flow don't lose its luster even with the new songs. Good Form is a BOP. She literally is an asshole in Barbie Dreams but living for her taking an axe to these men 😂 yes read bitch read. DJ Ice Cream is too fat to not be eating pussycat. To really gauge real feelings on any album it needs to sit with me for a good month as I explore different aspects and hear it in different moods. Musically speaking she brought it so far. Good on her. My biggest issue musically has always been lyrically as lately (her singing has and remains an Achilles heel) haven't been feeling either aspects, but when she spits on a hot beat there is no denying her flow is sicker than the rest. Her flow can be effortlessly and akin to the goosebumps I get when bitch who can sing hits dem runs. It's a gift.

[#LisaRinna]

Let me go listen chile.

[jumpb4uthink]

SPIN
www.spin.com/2018/08/nicki-minaj-barbie-dreams-review-stream/

Nicki Minaj’s Hilariously Mean “Barbie Dreams” Might Just Make Queen Worth It

ItEchoing Biggie, Minaj reminds us throughout “Barbie Dreams” that “she’s just playing.” Still, what makes the song so great is that it’s just mean and personal enough to make you wonder if maybe she isn’t. The song doesn’t leave you thinking about whether Minaj went too far, but instead reveling in her gleeful hacking away at the pride of the men who dominate the genre. For one song, at least, Queen accomplishes its goal.

[Keelzit]

Just finished listening to the album. Overall, I liked it a lot but I could do without the last 5 tracks (except Coco Chanel which goes off). She definitely delivered by serving bops, bars and stellar production. She's going nowhere, as if there was any doubt in the first place. Now I'm just waiting for the radio show to be uploaded cause I heard she went into detail about some of the songs.

[Normi]

Call me Becky but Come See About Me is in my Top 3 for the album although it's the weakest Nicki ballad (Marilyn Monroe > Save Me > Grand Piano)

[Mayman]

Aug 11, 2018 7:40:15 GMT -5 Keelzit said:

Just finished listening to the album. Overall, I liked it a lot but I could do without the last 5 tracks (except Coco Chanel which goes off). She definitely delivered by serving bops, bars and stellar production. She's going nowhere, as if there was any doubt in the first place. Now I'm just waiting for the radio show to be uploaded cause I heard she went into detail about some of the songs.

Episode 2 is up now.

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Barbie Dreams is #29 on Spotify.

Are AM and Spotify weighed the same for the charts? I don’t know why there’s such a big disparity between her performances on both platforms.... BD is doing well on AM as well as a few other songs whereas BD is the only song from the album on Spotify (while Trippie Redd has higher, and multiple songs).

[Ivy Leegue™]

Aug 11, 2018 8:08:37 GMT -5 Normi said:

Call me Becky.

You got it, sis!

[Mayman]

Aug 11, 2018 9:04:20 GMT -5 @swella said:

Barbie Dreams is #29 on Spotify.

Are AM and Spotify weighed the same for the charts? I don’t know why there’s such a big disparity between her performances on both platforms.... BD is doing well on AM as well as a few other songs whereas BD is the only song from the album on Spotify (while Trippie Redd has higher, and multiple songs).

Apple Music updates every few hours while Spotify is once a day. More songs will debut tomorrow on Spotify since the album was released at 12pm so it didn't have a full day for the charts.

[Linnethia Monique]

Nicki needs to learn how to edit her album because the one issue that resides over all of her albums is that they are too long and littered with throwaway tracks. Condensing her album to a strong 12-13 tracks and putting the rest on a deluxe version would help her out immensely seeing how it’s a constant critique that started showing up with Pink Friday.

[jumpb4uthink]

Barbie Dreams is #2 iTunes solid green, closing in on solid red On My Way.

[#LisaRinna]

Aug 11, 2018 9:26:30 GMT -5 Linnethia Monique said:

Nicki needs to learn how to edit her album because the one issue that resides over all of her albums is that they are too long and littered with throwaway tracks. Condensing her album to a strong 12-13 tracks and putting the rest on a deluxe version would help her out immensely seeing how it’s a constant critique that started showing up with Pink Friday.

Yeah she def needs to learn the concept of quality over quantity. Her albums are always a good 3-4 or more tracks too long.

[ILLUSION]

#1 in 80 countries I saw on Twitter, I wonder if that's true

[ILLUSION]

Billboard review:

Nicki Minaj Reclaims Her Throne On 'Queen': Review

8/11/2018 by Kathy Iandoli

For practically a decade, Nicki Minaj has existed on an island. Many felt it was one of her own making. On the contrary, it was merely a reflection of the on-goings of male-driven hip-hop in the early Aughts where women were celebrated yet hardly given ample room to grow.

Minaj’s second mixtape, 2008’s Sucka Free, set a subtle tone for what her future would bring, and with the blink of an eye it was 2010 and she was a full-fledged Young Money star with debut album Pink Friday. In the midst of the Barbie madness, the barriers to entry were still unusually high for women at the time, planting Nicki on that aforementioned island. Sure, we had a number of prominent female rappers swimming in hip-hop’s undercurrent, yet at the mainstream level it was just Nicki wading along. She paddled right into the pop space, hanging with Madonna, Beyoncé, and later Ariana Grande. Yet by the time she turned back around to see what hip-hop was doing in her absence, a new crop of female talent was growing in the space, arguably eclipsing at times what she thought she had a firm grasp on.

It’s a harsh reality to face, though her fifth studio album Queen reinforces exactly what it is that Minaj uniquely brings to the table that no other rapper, male or female, can touch.

Earlier in the year, Minaj dropped off tracks “Chun-Li” and “Barbie Tingz,” yet only the former made the cut on Queen. It was a wise decision, as “Chun-Li” was clearly the stronger of the two, and the very obvious ethos of the project is to show Nicki’s undeniable rap capabilities while still proving she’s a pop princess. She succeeds at both fairly seamlessly.

The opener “Ganja Burns” exemplifies this return to form, where Minaj drops lines like “all my power’s back, now I’m scary to zombies” on the rhythmic track, highlighting that she’s here to reclaim her spot. It’s a prevalent theme on Queen, as other cuts like “Hard White” show Nicki sending subliminal messages like “I'm who they wishin' to be / These hoes is on the 'gram, Nicki pitchin' the ki / 'Bout to cop Neverland, Michael up in the tree / You got bars and still broke? You might as well took the plea” and “I ain’t ever have to strip to get the pole position” over a menacing Boi-1da and !llmind beat. It doesn’t take a rap genius to know who she’s referencing within those lines, but challenging her opponents, both real and theoretical, has been something Minaj been doing for years.

Major standout “Barbie Dreams” flips the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Dreams” with rappers and athletes and no one is safe --not even Drake. Of course Nicki also reps for the pop constituent, bringing Ariana Grande into “Bed” and The Weeknd on “Thought You Knew” while punctuating her rapping with singing on “Nip Tuck” and “Come See About Me.”

Minaj also enlists Foxy Brown for some gruffly patois-tinged bars on “Coco Chanel.” It's not an unlikely pairing considering the two only really cosign each other, but the power of that cameo may fly over younger artists’ heads who aren’t hip to the legendary Brown or even the legacy of Biggie. A nod to the late Prodigy of Mobb Deep on “Hard White” may also slip under the radar, subtly proving that maybe Nicki didn’t release this album for a fair-weather millennial crowd.

Keeping the trap happy on “Sir” with Future and “Chun Swae” with Swae Lee -- as well as “LLC” and “Miami” -- Minaj leaves no stone unturned in showcasing every one of her strengths.

Queen arguably runs a little long: its 17 tracks (plus an interlude and outro) feel like a lot in the midst of Kanye West’s newly adopted 21-minute album business model. But for an artist like Minaj, who had the top spot locked for years, it’s only right that she would serve numerous examples of her skills on her theoretical comeback project.

You can’t really call this a comeback, though. Nicki Minaj has been and will continue to be omnipresent, yet in an age where someone new enters the space and social media opts to “cancel” the predecessor (almost always involving two women), an album like Queen is necessary. This isn’t a project to annihilate the competition since the island is now well-occupied. Queen exists to exemplify Nicki’s proven longevity, which is enough of a rarity to finally declare her as well-deserved rap royalty.

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8469731/nicki-minaj-queen-album-review?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

[deepston]

Damn, Bed was such a bad choice for a 2nd single. They should push Barbie Dreams asap.

[ILLUSION]

[bat1990]

Nicki Minaj Reclaims Her Throne On 'Queen': Review

8/11/2018 by Kathy Iandoli
subtly proving that maybe Nicki didn’t release this album for a fair-weather millennial Generation Z crowd.

Fixed it for you Kathy!

F--k you and your infantilization of my generation. The majority of us were at least in late elementary school if not middle or high school when Biggie died.

[Caviar]

[Deleted]

Barbie Tingz is still my favorite thing from this era tbh

Shoulda been on the album
Chun-Li, Rich Sex, Coco Chanel, Good Form, and such however are still giving me life

[die Lotterie]

Aug 11, 2018 12:38:20 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Excuse my ignorance, but who is "they"?

[Caviar]

Prob the label

[think pink.]

[ILLUSION]

Something is up. How did this not make the album then? Plus she tweets today about changing Ganja Burn? Plus the Queen radio show next week? Is she re-releasing next week? Or dropping another EP/album? I don't understand

[Deleted]

I stan Messy Minaj