by
Nicki Minaj
- Record Label: Universal Republic
- Release Date: Apr 3, 2012
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Apr 25, 2012If you enjoy contemporary pop whose market-tested blare offends both rockist philistines and IDM aesthetes, her second album is a worthwhile investment.
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Apr 9, 2012Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, like a Whitman's Sampler, has something chewy for everyone.
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Apr 6, 2012If you believe that art and commerce and provocation and fun – and hip- hop and disco and teen pop – can all be one and the same, here's a record for you.
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Apr 5, 2012You can see Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded as a great rap album dragged down by pandering, but you could equally see it as a triumph that one of the biggest pop records of the year leads off with a half-dozen tracks of blistering, filthy, idea-jammed hip-hop.
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Apr 4, 2012It may not be a definitive knockout punch, but she can keep her title.
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Apr 4, 2012Minaj is at her best-at her most compelling, most ingenious, most human-when she indulges every weird mannerism that comes into her busy brain.
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The SourceAug 22, 2012Nicki's shining moments are her straight-up, hip-hop tracks. [#252, p.87]
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Apr 12, 2012At 22 tracks, its formulaic and mechanistic approach begins to wear thin at times--there's just too much going on to properly digest it all--but as a compendium of chart-ready fodder, Nicki has honed in on precisely what works for her with remarkable ease.
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Apr 3, 2012The album unfolds an immeasurable amalgam of genres and inspirations, all fused together in a diamond-encrusted bubble of futuristic, day-glo hip hop. The energy is palpable, the pace rarely lets up, and personality pervades throughout.
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Apr 6, 2012On all of these songs, Nicki is dartboard focused-- she's rapping harder here than on almost anything from Pink Friday... But much of Roman Reloaded sweats with a too-big-to-fail desperation.
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Apr 3, 2012While Roman Reloaded is certainly more confident than the too-safe Pink Friday, Minaj might need to mature a couple more albums' worth before she's capable of wrangling the many Nickis into coherence.
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Positive: 360 out of 611
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Mixed: 79 out of 611
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Negative: 172 out of 611
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Apr 3, 2012One of the worst album of the year. Absolutely awful.