Pink Friday
One of the most exciting new voices in hip-hop makes her proper full-length debut, doing a lot of singing and not nearly enough rapping.
After spending 2010 dominating the Top 40 as a guest-verse MVP, Nicki Minaj moves in front of the “featuring” credit for her first full-length, Pink Friday, which strips much of her appeal by diluting her rapid-fire, foul-mouthed rapping with far too much generic radio pabulum. Reinforcing the notion that all female…
The first question that may arise after perusing the tracklist of Nicki Minaj's proper debut full-length, Pink Friday, is this: Where is her label boss, Lil Wayne? Pink Friday , is this: Where is her label boss, Lil Wayne? Lack of Weezy F Baby aside, Minaj's release boasts flexibility. It could just as logically cascade over piles of discarded clothing on the floors of Forever 21 as it would crackle through a busted bathroom speaker at a downtown dance club.
By the time 2010 rolled around, debuts like Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday could still fall into the “highly anticipated” category, but the reasoning was different.
The album is a whirling dervish less concerned with differing permutations of sexiness than getting violently up in your face.
<p>The latest saviour of hip-hop oscillates between thrillingly raucous and distressingly bland, says <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong></p>
As tempting as it is to want to give Nicki Minaj a break on Pink Friday, what with overblown expectations, there’s one very important fact to keep in mind: Nicki Minaj has become a hip-hop sensation because of how unique and adventurous she is behind the mic, not because we were in need of another bland pop star.