Nicki Minaj is often painted as an artist who possesses two mutually exclusive halves. She's either radio or street; she's "Starships" or that "Monster" verse, but never both. Some of her best songs are those on which she tries to fill in the gap between those two extremes. Take "The Boys", a new single that'll appear as an extra on the Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded reissue-- a zig-zagging pocket symphony whose bubblegum is so sugary it might actually raise your glycemic index just by hitting your ears.
Still, Nicki manages to deliver some of her most ferocious lines in a single beaming breath: "I tell 'em Nicki be chillin'/ I'ma keep hurting their feelings/ Because you'll never be Jordan/ You couldn't even be Pippen/ You couldn't even be trippin'/ You can't afford a vacation/ I'm out in Haiti with Haitians/ I go to Asia with Asians/ You mad dusty/ You a lil' dusty possum/ I just come through with the six like my name was Blossom."
Nicki Minaj and Cassie have joined forces for a video in the model of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's "Telephone": An epic, rainbow-bright, gender-bending tale of revenge crimes against the entire male population. I didn't even know they made colors so vivid. The clip is for "The Boys", a bubblegummy single that will appear on the reissue of Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, which is out November 19.
Can't wait 4 The Re-Up.
