Multiple personas and smorgasbord of role-playing. Nicki Minaj’s accurately serves them in Pink Friday. It’s worthy to mention that this 25-year-old female MC tries to put a new dimension to the mainstream hip-hop music as she embellishes her very Nictionary-ish characterization (pronunciation, enunciation and... whatever) evidently in the rap, all the while scrounging some themes from perhaps her musical influences: Busta Rhymes’ guest verse on A Tribe Called Quest's 1991 track Scenario, Simple Minds' Don't You Forget
About Me and the Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star.
Minaj’s lyrics are generally slick, clever and funny: “/If you could turn back time, Cher/ You used to be here but now you gone: Nair/" she breaks at one moment, boldly threatening an adversary with a depilatory cream; “/That bitch is mad cause I took the spot? / Well, bitch if you ain’t shittin’ then get off the pot/”, raw-ring against The Slim Shady like a dungeon dragon, among others.
In an album featuring numerous (and I mean a lot) of notable names in the music industry such as Kanye West, Eminem, Drake, Natasha Bedingfield, and Rihanna, among others, it’s a disappointment that Pink Friday is at a lost in itself: whether to stick with ‘redefined’ originality or to blend in with the rest of the horde. Perhaps Nicki has been overwhelmed and has forgotten about consistency. Well, perhaps it’s bout time our Dear Old Nicki makes up her mind.
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