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  • Summary: The second album from Nicki Minaj focuses on her male alter ego Roman Zolanski and features guest appearances from 2Chainz, Chris Brown, Beenie Man, Bobby V, Cam'ron, Drake, Lil Wayne, Nas, Rick Ross, and Young Jeezy.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 30
  2. Negative: 3 out of 30
  1. If you enjoy contemporary pop whose market-tested blare offends both rockist philistines and IDM aesthetes, her second album is a worthwhile investment.
  2. Apr 9, 2012
    80
    Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, like a Whitman's Sampler, has something chewy for everyone.
  3. 60
    Roman Reloaded's triumphs all come early, on the album's hip-hop front end. In full flow, Minaj remains a delight.
  4. Apr 2, 2012
    30
    Tacked on to this mediocre rap album is a ghastly and desperate bid for a hit single that sees Minaj and producer RedOne snatching items from a veritable sale rack of tired Top 40 tricks and tossing them hastily over the most basic synth and drum-machine presets.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 87
  2. Negative: 32 out of 87
  1. Nicki Minaj in Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded shows her huge improvement, especially vocally.
    She escapes from her little hip-hop/rap box and she
    tries to experiment with pop music, in which I personally think that she succeeded. "Starships" is her best song so far, and accompanied by "Pound the alarm", "Whip It", "Va Va Voom" and "Automatic", I think it will rocket her popularity.
    It is very clear that in Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Nicki Minaj tries to impress and satisfy both her fans that know her from "Super Bass" and "Turn Me On" and her older fans that admire her hip-hop/rap abilities. Therefore, it isn't unreasonable that her album is expected to reach #1 in its first week.
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  2. She did her best and i like her voice,when she is singing/rapping.
    I don't give a 10 because "Roman in Moscow" is missing
    And i do not give a
    9 because i hate "Stupid Hoe"....
    The rest is nearly perfect,like "Starships" or "Next to You".
    Great record of a great Singer :D
    I love Nicki
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  3. 7
    Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded was one of the albums I couldn't wait to hear, and I can say that, she did a good job. I really enjoy it and it doesn't bore me.. Highlights are Roman Holiday, the song when crazy mean Roman Zolanski come back to says what's on his mind, Sex in the Lounge, one and only sexy song by Nicki, Whip It - great club banger with good production and Gun Shot.. great RnB/Reggae collaboration with Beenie Man, I can feel something that makes me feel so good, like it's pretty summer day... and i'm laying on beach and you know what i mean... However, there's one not so good thing about the album and that's Nicki's mixing several different music genres and I think it is the main problem...the album doesn't sound so good as a whole and you don't know what to think about Nicki.. she should choose main style and focus on it. Sorry for my grammar mistakes btw, English is not my first language :) Expand
  4. I just wanna believe that someone likes this xyt...Nicki started as a good rapper, with non oficial songs like Still I Rise, N.I.G.G.A.Z and Itty Bitty Piggy, and now that she is famous, she forgot that she's just a reductive form of Lil Kim and want to be a black and flopped version of Lady Gaga + Katy Perry . But i have the hope that she will recognize her fall and turn back to be a trash rapper and back to Trindad to never coming back to media. Expand

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