But years later, the only real reason to be singling out "Monster", a great song from a uniformly great album, is Nicki Minaj. If Kanye was the album's Master of Ceremonies, then Minaj was the lion, the lion tamer, the sword juggler, and the entire clown car at once. Every voice she'd ever experimented with in the previous three years flashed past you in an Autobahn blur, and every line became a standard. She began by eating our brains. By the time she screamed "ROAAAR" at the end, an eternity later, she had a new career. The conversations that led to the current moment, where she feels poised to claim Best Rapper Alive status from most anyone who cares to debate such things, began here.
It's frustrating that she's never really come close to those heights since. If she had a solo song where she came that hard the acclaim would never end
