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Celeb News: The Pinkprint: Metacritic: 71/100
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The Pinkprint: Metacritic: 71/100
Sputnikmusic
Score: 82
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Minaj’s latest release is a complicated being, one that might never sit easy, but the layers she provides for the listener to peel through provide for an engaging and ultimately satisfying experience.
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Rolling Stone
Score: 80
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This is a rap royal in full flex. We're lucky to watch the throne.
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Boston Globe
Score: 80
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It is not an instant classic, but it is the work that fans who admire Nicki Minaj the rapper, this critic included, have been waiting for her to make.
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Exclaim
Score: 80
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Nicki is more personal, more timeless and more connected to her own artistry here, serving some of the most superlative work of her established career on The Pinkprint.
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Fact Magazine (UK)
Score: 80
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The Pinkprint is ultimately Nicki’s most cohesive project.
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HipHopDX
Score: 80
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The Pinkprint runs a middle path between pop over exertion and real lyricism, creating an everything for someone aesthetic that Nicki doesn't allow to shift into wastefullness. As such, it is an ambitious undertaking Nicki has wrangled in highly entertaining fashion.
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Billboard
Score: 80
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While it's too early to tell if The Pinkprint is a classic, it's safe to say it's her best album to date. Minaj was finally able to out-rap herself and purge issues she's struggled with in private in her most exposed fashion yet.
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Los Angeles Times
Score: 75
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If the late-add dance track confuses things, it's hard to fault Minaj. Throughout The Pinkprint, she's intent on channeling her talent to explore and document her many moods. The combination is often, if not always, intoxicating.
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Pitchfork
Score: 75
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The Pinkprint’s singles underwhelm.... But they’re redeemed by the bonus tracks—a thrilling, confounding six-song set that elevates The Pinkprint from an occasionally transcendent, if unbalanced, break-up album to something far more intriguing.
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The A.V. Club
Score: 75
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The PinkPrint is the closest Nicki Minaj has ever gotten to balancing her tendencies, and the furthest she’s ever been from emotional stability.
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DJ Booth
Score: 70
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There's frankly very little chance I'd ever listen to this album again if I wasn't obligated to revisit it in a month via "1 Listen" rules, but Nicki's got her own lane and it's not a lane I'm going to roadblock.
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Slant Magazine
Score: 70
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This is a big step forward for the genre, and makes one wish that Minaj's content could be as good as her form, that more attention was paid to crafting complex rhymes and less on floating through halfway conceived tracks in a sing-song burble. Yet even if she hasn't fully nailed the balance between her different modes, at least Minaj is doing something challenging, offering a third different approach on her third album.
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Spin
Score: 70
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Tracking and self-editing issues have always plagued her Minajesty's projects, but never more so than on this one, an album that probably would've landed with bigger fanfare had Minaj not so loudly touted it as all but an instant classic all year long.
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Consequence of Sound
Score: 67
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If The Pinkprint is a letdown compared to The Blueprint, then Minaj brought it on herself. However, as a breakup album that takes heartbreak (or, more specifically, the feeling of having an infinite amount of love to give to an appreciative person) in every direction possible, it provides a template worth imitating.
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New York Daily News (Jim Faber)
Score: 60
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Disappointingly, Pink hasn’t taken Minaj further into the surreality that first promised to turn her into Missy Elliott to the 10th power. But there’s no denying the album’s catchiness.
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The New York Times
Score: 60
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The Pinkprint is her third studio album, and like the first two it’s full of compromises and half-successes.
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NOW Magazine
Score: 60
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Had The Pinkprint included 12 songs rather than the extended version's 22, it could have been a classic.
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Paste Magazine
Score: 55
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The Pinkprint has moments. Some are great, but most are not.
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RapReviews.com
Score: 55
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The Pinkprint is let down by some basic conceptual flaws, lackadaisical decision-making and even placing too much faith in bonus tracks to appease the masses
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New Musical Express (NME)
Score: 50
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After 64 minutes of the same, it all starts to feel like a bit of a grind.
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Entertainment Weekly
Score: 50
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Pinkprint slogs through too many ponderous piano ballads, and it's a shame, because there are moments here that give flashes of that mad brilliance.
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The 405
Score: 50
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The album features far too many flabby hip-hop/pop and pop songs.
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Pretty Much Amazing
Score: 42
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Almost thirty producers were affiliated with the album, yet the music is shockingly simple.
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The fact that the reviewer said this her most pop-friendly release when its clearly not 
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Originally posted by TheLuckyOnes
The fact that the reviewer said this her most pop-friendly release when its clearly not |
I mean
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That NY Daily News Report is such a joke.
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The Pinkprint | THE REVIEWS
Exclaim
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Nicki Minaj has found a balance. Her juggle of pop obligations and rap expectations have finally landed in an assured middle ground this year, leaving a strengthened artist left standing. The Pinkprint is the third studio album from Nicki, and delivers some of the slick-tongued spitter's best work as 19 strong, multidimensional tracks tip-toe away from the pop planet of "Starships," ushering the rapper closer to her originally raw hip-hop roots. With hype from previously dropped singles "Pills n Potions," "Anaconda," "Only" and "Bed of Lies," as well as a feature list welcoming Beyonce, Ariana Grande and Meek Mill to the pink party, expectation were high, but Nicki has delivered.
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Score: 80
Daily News
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It’s the most pop-friendly album of her career, primed for evening the playing field with teen-adored stars like Azalea. Before the release of “The Pink Print,” Minaj told interviewers that her new music would bring her back to her harder, hip-hop roots. In fact, “Pink” features friendlier melodies and more singing than ever.
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Score: 60
OVERALL SCORE SO FAR: 70
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Here we go.
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I saw that review. What a mess
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It’s the most pop-friendly album of her career, primed for evening the playing field with teen-adored stars like Azalea. Before the release of “The Pink Print,” Minaj told interviewers that her new music would bring her back to her harder, hip-hop roots. In fact, “Pink” features friendlier melodies and more singing than ever.
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They didn't lie though. I don't know what album y'all are talking about in TPP thread but this album is full of pop
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Literally the worst album of the year.
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a joke review, ready for the real ones 
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Literally the worst album of the year.
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Originally posted by TheLuckyOnes
The fact that the reviewer said this her most pop-friendly release when its clearly not |
It is though 
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Wow at them declaring it a mostly pop album. Kind of goes against what everyone has been saying here.
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Literally the worst album of the year.
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If you really wanna buy a good album the 15th get the critically acclaim album by Charli XCX "Sucker".
Im disappointed by TPP cause it was promising.
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
They didn't lie though. I don't know what album y'all are talking about in TPP thread but this album is full of pop |
have you heard roman reloaded though
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
It is though |
Are you deaf, did you not listen to Roman Reloaded?
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It’s the most pop-friendly album of her career
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More pop friendly than Roman Reloaded? 
But I do agree that the album doesn't go as hard as she promised. I still love it tho.
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i feel like he listened to a different album 
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