{"id":5262,"date":"2024-04-28T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T22:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2024-05-20T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T23:59:39","slug":"at-22-tracks-over-70-minutes-nicki-minajs-first-album-in-five-years-is-worth-the-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5262","title":{"rendered":"At 22 Tracks Over 70 Minutes, Nicki Minaj\u2019s First Album In Five Years Is Worth The Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

After delays, teases, rumors, and more, Nicki Minaj\u2019s epic and much-anticipated follow-up to 2018\u2019s Queen arrives to close out 2023 in style. At 22 tracks and over 70 minutes, the epic project features Minaj tag-teaming with fellow global stars like J. Cole, Drake, Future, Lil Wayne, and Lil Uzi Vert\u2014that is, when she\u2019s not aiming for the throne on solo cuts.<\/p>\n

Like 2010\u2019s Pink Friday (Minaj\u2019s debut album), Pink Friday 2 features Minaj showcasing the various ways she can carry a track. On some songs, she brings out her best bars, unloading clever one-liners and technically flashy verses. On the album\u2019s second track, \u201cBarbie Dangerous,\u201d Minaj spits over a hypnotizing piano melody and drums that hit like a punch in the gut. Switching between a smooth, controlled flow and a vicious double-time delivery, Minaj is in full control of the song\u2019s dynamics from beginning to end.<\/p>\n

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She makes her claim as one of rap\u2019s great innovators, spitting, \u201cName a rapper that can channel Big Poppa and push out Papa Bear\/Ho, I\u2019m mother of the year\/Every summer, I come out to walk bitches, make \u2019em disappear\/But to me, it’s just another year.\u201d<\/p>\n

On \u201cNicki Hendrix,\u201d she teams up with Future and taps into his toxic vulnerability, writing a song of love and love lost that would fit nicely into her collaborator\u2019s catalog.<\/p>\n

At her best, Nicki is uninhibited by style, substance, or delivery. She raps, \u201cBaby, did you think there were a million mes?\/I guess I underestimated you too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether engaging in a street cypher with J. Cole, chirping at exes with Drake, or lamenting what once was with Future, Nicki Minaj shows off every weapon in her arsenal on Pink Friday 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After delays, teases, rumors, and more, Nicki Minaj\u2019s epic and much-anticipated follow-up to 2018\u2019s Queen arrives to close out 2023 in style. At 22 tracks and over 70 minutes, the epic project features Minaj tag-teaming with fellow global stars like J. Cole, Drake, Future, Lil Wayne, and Lil Uzi Vert\u2014that is, when she\u2019s not aiming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}