The Pinkprint
by Nicki Minaj
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8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 1069 Ratings

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  1. Felipe_Kohn
    Mar 13, 2015
    3
    The same method used in Pink Friday: Roman Reload. In one half of the album, she is a **** in another she's the Pop/Rap's Princess. It's obvious that I like the track "All Things Go" opening the work and the other songs like "Pills and Potions" and "Bed of Lies". "Get on your Knees" and "Feeling Myself" let me down. And I hated the masturbation wheel in "Truffle Butter".
  2. ThatOneReviewa
    Oct 29, 2015
    1
    I do not see how anyone with respect for music, or anyone with respect for themselves for that matter, can like such an awful monstrosity such as Nicki Minaj. Literally all she raps/sings/whatever the vocals are called..well, lets just call it "rapping", but the only thing she "raps" about is sex and drugs. "Anaconda" is the worst song on the album (although it has become the creator of aI do not see how anyone with respect for music, or anyone with respect for themselves for that matter, can like such an awful monstrosity such as Nicki Minaj. Literally all she raps/sings/whatever the vocals are called..well, lets just call it "rapping", but the only thing she "raps" about is sex and drugs. "Anaconda" is the worst song on the album (although it has become the creator of a few jokes that are quite funny).… Expand
  3. themickeymose
    Dec 15, 2015
    1
    Disappointed. This album is gross and sexist. Very vulgar. The song anaconda is the worst. Objectifying men, really???? and yet you want to win awards for this? i dont know anymore.
  4. gagaeb12
    Oct 29, 2016
    0
    хуяж гробаж пердаж сринаж гарбаж гараж багаж силиконаж плагиаж попсаж писспринт пинкшит пигпринт
  5. mttlxndr
    Dec 16, 2014
    2
    I like Nicki, the world was overdue for a female rap artist, and she came out fighting with Pink Friday and Roman Reloaded. The Pinkprint however is a truly awful body of work. EVERY single track bar All Things Go, The Crying Game and Bed of Lies are dire, drab and mind-numbingly boring. The lyrics have improved, but it's as if she's openly choosing to ignore her own strengths and give usI like Nicki, the world was overdue for a female rap artist, and she came out fighting with Pink Friday and Roman Reloaded. The Pinkprint however is a truly awful body of work. EVERY single track bar All Things Go, The Crying Game and Bed of Lies are dire, drab and mind-numbingly boring. The lyrics have improved, but it's as if she's openly choosing to ignore her own strengths and give us an albums worth of weakness. A Hip Hop/Rap forgettable failure.… Expand
  6. Grutzmacher
    Mar 29, 2015
    1
    good musics, but it is not the best album her, for me is the WORST, 'The Night Is Still Young' is the best music, pop/hip-hop, but she keeps looking like a prostitute. I like her, but, Nicki needs change
  7. Bringman
    Jan 5, 2016
    0
    This album isn't rap, it's pop-rap/trap. I still can't understand the Minaj's fanbase, this album it's horrible, please, stop saying that she do good music, she's just like fetty wap, a trash idol. This album is full of bad songs, the "pop side" of the album have "Pills N Potions", a boring horrible song, "Bed of Lies", an other electropop song without a original style, "Grand Piano", theThis album isn't rap, it's pop-rap/trap. I still can't understand the Minaj's fanbase, this album it's horrible, please, stop saying that she do good music, she's just like fetty wap, a trash idol. This album is full of bad songs, the "pop side" of the album have "Pills N Potions", a boring horrible song, "Bed of Lies", an other electropop song without a original style, "Grand Piano", the best song of the album, a medium pop song where the Minaj have a good voice, but the song it's pretty boring, "Feeling Myself", a pop-rap song with maybe the worst flow of the history (comparable with Souja boy's songs) and "The Night Is Still Young", the worst songs in the album, simply horrible, the "trap side" of the album have "Anaconda", a pure trash song, "Only" maybe one of the best songs of the album, but it's still a horrible song, will be better without Drake and Lil Wayne, and "Truffle Butter", the same horrible sh*t. I hope that one day Nicki Minaj will stop to do this annoying noises.… Expand
  8. Colourofsin
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    Boring. Heard this a million times! A couple good songs and one wasn't even her own flow. Seriously, she is okayish lyrically but her beats were trash.
  9. MrMusic
    Dec 15, 2014
    0
    The album is good, because it returns to its roots of hip hop. But the songs lack some spark, are too boring and repetitive. I think a good album but not the best. Expected to do an album like Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste, which is perfect and innovative, something is missing in The Pinkprint.
    The best songs: Pills N Potions, Anaconda and Feeling Myself.
  10. GuilhermeMeirel
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    Nicki Minaj at his worst, worst album
    nothing commercial, all surface to appear to be a rapper she is not
    nothing commercial, talking vulgar or futile things to sell as it did when I was crazy outfits and wigs roses
    trying to be Katy Perry or Lady Gaga
    nicki, on your next album will make you an alter ego or will turn white as iggy? so you can get a number one on the billboard
    boring
  11. Mybustha
    Jun 1, 2016
    0
    I'm honest, Nicki can do better, or is better if i say, she can't do worse than this, this album is a collection of what's the problem of today's music, autotune, horrible rapping, crappy electronic beats and lyrics about drink and f*ck, this album should only be forgotten
  12. more
    Dec 15, 2014
    1
    overall it is really a sad depressing record. Where all the love appearing is toxic, where the raping game doesnt brings her anymore fun.
    it's funny that a woman that has acceded the social status she owns, get her life entangled, with such a morose issues as, the size of her ass (man! what it's gonna be past 40), the size of her man's ... ego and the mood of her relatives. ****    overall it is really a sad depressing record. Where all the love appearing is toxic, where the raping game doesnt brings her anymore fun.
    it's funny that a woman that has acceded the social status she owns, get her life entangled, with such a morose issues as, the size of her ass (man! what it's gonna be past 40), the size of her man's ... ego and the mood of her relatives. **** please... breathe. as for the last track, "i win again"... when did she wrote that sh*t? in her schoolyard years?!?!    … Expand
  13. perfectiover
    Feb 2, 2016
    0
    After a failed attempt at trying to resemble the look and sound of Lady Gaga with "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded", Nicki Minaj decides to go back to her more urban roots. Sadly she results in a tiring, flat-sounding, boring hip-hop record. The first five tracks are dull, and bring nothing to the table. Then we get more up-tempo songs like "Anaconda" or "Truffle Butter" that come off asAfter a failed attempt at trying to resemble the look and sound of Lady Gaga with "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded", Nicki Minaj decides to go back to her more urban roots. Sadly she results in a tiring, flat-sounding, boring hip-hop record. The first five tracks are dull, and bring nothing to the table. Then we get more up-tempo songs like "Anaconda" or "Truffle Butter" that come off as extremely sordid. Anything other than those two extremes are fillers and sound awfully like rejects from other big name rap artists. There is absolutely nothing good about this album. Nicki Minaj seems to think that she's "the baddest" but she's not. There are many female rappers, like Iggy Azalea, that have more talent in their fingers than Nicki Minaj has in overall.… Expand
  14. wrwzcnda
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    This is album is a pop album, not a hip hop album. If it is considered hip hop, then this album is garbage. I don't know what route she wanted to take but it's a total fail. This album is an easy skip or ignore for the year.
  15. BIGMAN22
    Apr 28, 2016
    1
    not many good songs. only a few actually sound good. not sure why a lot of artists cant make an album with more songs to enjoy instead of a few. oh well.
  16. stanley834
    Mar 31, 2019
    0
    Bad, utterly trashy, & highly offensive. Nicki is a talentless witch who makes shoddy stereotypical rap songs such as partying, sex, drugs, etc. Also a terrible candidate for Sugilite from Steven Universe. Please stick to good rap artists such as Azealia Banks, Angel Haze, Dreezy, Tkay Maidza, Stefflon Don, IAMDDB, & FLOHIO.
  17. RK13
    Jun 5, 2017
    2
    Following the success of Pink Friday... Roman Reloaded, Minaj's Pinkprint just does not seem to justify the latter's success. There are a handful of good songs such as Get on Your Knees- however remains Minaj's weakest album to date.
  18. Juan7
    May 12, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ¿Hay algo bueno que pueda lanzar esta mujer sin colgarse de polémicas o escándalos?… Expand
  19. JohnB12
    Nov 20, 2020
    0
    This album was not good at all. She really didn't do much with this album. It was the same old thing she has always did.
  20. itsvmb
    Oct 27, 2016
    3
    пролог: понос хуйня зашквар гарбаж дерьмо поебень попса моча высер клоунада аудио порнуха снятая жителями махачкалы
    проще говоря, дешевая поп жвачка с полным отсутствием какой-либо смысловой нагрузки. в лучших традициях минаж    пролог: понос хуйня зашквар гарбаж дерьмо поебень попса моча высер клоунада аудио порнуха снятая жителями махачкалы
    проще говоря, дешевая поп жвачка с полным отсутствием какой-либо смысловой нагрузки. в лучших традициях минаж
  21. brashadcarr23
    Nov 10, 2018
    1
    this album is **** but at the same time its still her best release to date which isnt showing much. the only song i like is feeling myself
  22. Luis96
    Jul 29, 2022
    1
    This was her last good album.She's been releasing trash ever since. This is why cardi b easily snatched her crown
  23. Lucasswiftie
    Jul 20, 2019
    0
    A bosta do rap. Lixosa queima essa bosta que nem o capeta quer. Horrível. Mulestada dos inferno
  24. Meaddle
    Aug 7, 2019
    0
    Pop album of pop singer Nicki Minaj didnt deserve more than 0 points. I'm sorry but it is.
  25. Azaleus
    Aug 11, 2019
    0
    This album is an **** trash. Literally not even one good song. Everything is so boring and only sassy boys would enjoy it.
  26. Cleymored
    Dec 9, 2019
    0
    Never heard anything this stupid in my entire life..

    Hypocrite deserved to flop and we glad she did. Soon enough her murderer husband is gon’ go k*** her anyways so we good.
  27. Oswald329
    Aug 28, 2020
    2
    Claramente aún le falta mucho para poder llamarse "Reina", deja mucho que desear...
  28. masol
    Apr 2, 2021
    0
    Departing from her more pop-oriented sound that dominated much of her early career; Minaj
    released The Pinkprint in 2014. Her third studio album that returned to the old, hard-hitting
    style of rapping Minaj had previously garnered fame and attention for as an underground rapper. Never had the world ever seen her be so vulnerable; so honest and so genuine in front of an audience as    Departing from her more pop-oriented sound that dominated much of her early career; Minaj
    released The Pinkprint in 2014. Her third studio album that returned to the old, hard-hitting
    style of rapping Minaj had previously garnered fame and attention for as an underground
    rapper. Never had the world ever seen her be so vulnerable; so honest and so genuine in front of
    an audience as large. Spawning the “vulgar” and record-breaking smash hit Anaconda that
    peaked at #2 on the Hot 100; the album was met with mixed reviews with some even being
    highly negative.
    As the Guardian put it in their 2014 article, “She has no idea what her strengths are”, many
    critics seem to think the album lacked cohesion and that Minaj’s artistic input seemed to be all
    over the place with the multiple sounds she portrayed on the album. Many even seemed to think
    the album expressed her confusion as an artist and that she is “yet to find her own sound”
    To say these statements were presumptuous would simply not be enough. For starters; Minaj has
    always been an incredibly versatile artist; dabbling in pop, gospel, rap, pop-rap and even
    alternative music. From the very beginning of her career; she has offered a diverse portfolio,
    giving the audience a little bit of everything. Hence why she’s been crowned the Queen of Rap
    and why she has managed to keep the title for over a decade. There’s a reason she’s the only
    female rapper to have made a million dollars off of a mixtape.
    To say the album lacks cohesion could not be any further from the truth. The album slowly
    progresses into a more mellow sound track after track despite none of the tracks sounding similar
    to the other. Her music has always been about uniqueness and unapologetically being herself.
    2
    While others, such as Drake, are praised for a similar approach; why is it that Minaj is deemed a
    bad influence and shunned?
    For, wasn’t it Minaj who even made it possible for female rappers to dabble into multiple genres
    and produce versatile albums that did not follow the same old Lil’ Kim influenced styles of
    rapping? For many; the Pinkprint was a therapeutic outlet; an album that inspired millions and
    helped them grow stronger and move on from harder times. I personally was able to learn selfacceptance and love by assessing the lyrics of this masterpiece and by listening to it on repeat.
    The Pinkprint isn’t simply an album; it is a letter by Minaj to her family and friends. From the
    heart shattering venting in All Things Go to the up-beat twerk anthem Anaconda, Minaj stays
    loyal to her image and brand and reminds us to love ourselves, to be ourselves, to love others and
    to always be brave, upfront and outgoing. She reminds us what it means to be a boss and to be
    self-reliant and powerful. As she says in one of the tracks, Pills n Potions, “people will love you
    and support you when it’s beneficial”, life is all about growing from heart-break and agony and if
    it’s anyone that can capture that lyrically and verbally it is Nicki Minaj.    … Expand
  29. assaltickiminaj
    Apr 17, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. awful, horrible, terrible, ugly lyricism. bad singing and flow. production aged as rotten milk. the worst rap album to ever exist.… Expand
  30. robertrequena
    Apr 21, 2021
    0
    It really sucks. Weak lyrics, weak beat, no actual rap. All about her. Self calling yourself the queen won't make you one.
  31. Baharbartier
    Apr 21, 2021
    0
    Peace of **** I hate HATE THIS ALBUM Cardi B is new queen of rap that has a lot of masterpeace
  32. bardiscovery
    Apr 23, 2021
    1
    Beyoncé, Drake and Ariana carried this album. Have no good songs expect Beyonce's verse on FM
  33. LucasSwift
    Jun 17, 2022
    0
    Esse álbum até que tem uma ou duas músicas boas mas se você for perder seu tempo ouvindo esse longo álbum inteiro, a podridão de várias faixas nesse compilado de lixo te faz pegar ranço até daquelas duas que você achou boas
  34. Weare
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    Nossa que álbum horrível, parece um compilado de piores batidas de rap, e voz chata, que troço ruim, não gostei

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#5 Most Discussed Album of 2014
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#5 Most Shared Album of 2014

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Absolute Punk (Staff reviews)
    Jan 13, 2015
    68
    An understandable desire to have her traumas understood by everybody inevitably results in a bland mush of melodrama. Despite this, The Pinkprint is Nicki Minaj’s most successful album by a fairly wide margin, as she becomes more empathetic than at any point in the past while Pink Friday’s DMZ between pop and rap becomes little more than a historical footnote in her career.
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  2. Clash Music
    Jan 8, 2015
    40
    For the most part, though, this seems like a step in the wrong direction: a Nicki Minaj album from somebody who’s thoroughly fed up of being Nicki Minaj.
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  3. Paste Magazine
    Jan 5, 2015
    55
    The Pinkprint has moments. Some are great, but most are not.
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