Back in November 2014 Nicki set down with Billboard and said

"My album is going to be important to Hip Hop" it's the very last sentence of the billboard article

http://m.billboard.com/entry/view/id/106122

But the album seems to not be important, it isn't acclaim like Hip Hop albums of Kendrick, it wasn't a success like Drake mixtape, it's not trendy like the new Dr. Dre Compton album and it wasn't a controversial buzzy album like "The New Classic"

Why wasn't the Pink Print album important to Hip Hop despite Nicki saying it was gonna be, is it because the majority of Pink Print is Pop with the majority of the Urban tracks produced by Dr. Luke?

not the new classic's achievement being a "controversial buzzy album"

It was. Didn't it inspire a wax sculpture or something?

It's pretty established that Ms. Minaj's perception of her cultural importance doesn't exactly square with reality

It was tho

Because it's mostly pop

Wow that was very delusional of her, how much has the album sold WW? i think she overestimated interest

Lookin Ass sounds like it belongs to a classic rap album. But she went in another direction and that was a mistake. She needs to drop Dr Luke for starters

Because it's not good. Hip-hop is not like pop music. Hip-hop is all about quality, something that was severely lacking on The Pinkprint!

800k

pop

She said she wasn't going to do Pop, she even told DJ Whoo Kid to not mention the "p word" (pop) ever again to her.

I'm glad she did Pop because TNISY is a masterpiece

oh no i agree i just think this would have worked better without that!

Because it's trash.

Why did she change her mind?

Most would mean more than half. Theres 23 songs. Name the 12 songs that are pop.


It was a moment in female rap and the era isn't done

It just wasn't important, point blank period.