You do understand that a review is a report of someone's opinion right? I didn't really think that question would ever need to be asked, but here we are

"Obviously, Minaj can rap with the best of them"

she is capable of doing so, she has shown that ability in the past a couple times.
Problem is tho, you're not going to see it in her solo career

P.S. savaah, when someone rates an album a 4, it doesn't mean that album's a milestone.
For example look at the currently featured review for Motorpsycho, that album is little more than a
compilation of previously unreleased songs put together, something that you would not really call a
milestone. The reviewer gave it a 4 anyway because surprise:he loves it.

well not on here that's true which is why it's a 2 to me god bless

which is an actual reason to dislike an album unlike lol this isn't real art xD

she is capable of doing so, she has shown that ability in the past a couple times.
Problem is tho, you're not going to see it in her solo career


The best thing she has done has been the collaboration with kanye in monster and some lines of her part were lame and stoopid as hell

she has a lot of other great verses, but the only albums of hers that are worth more than one listen are Pink Friday and Beam Me Up Scotty, everything else is just dissappointing

Album Rating: 3.0

Pink Friday isn't very good, neither is the one after it.



Beam Me Up Scotty is pretty though

"Unlike other female rappers, who just brag about how awesome they are,Nicki Minaj brags about how awesome she is with some actual punchlines."

Lol how was this approved as the description for Nicki Minaj?

oh word haha didn't realize ^^

Album Rating: 3.0

Haha it's cool

Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound Off



"So I pulled up in the Jag, Mayweather with the jab like

Dun-d-d-dun-dun-d-d-dun-dun



My anaconda don't, my anaconda don't

My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun



Oh my gosh, look at her butt

Oh my gosh, look at her butt

Oh my gosh, look at her butt

(Look at her butt)

Look at, look at, look at

Look, at her butt"



just gonna point out that she only actually says 2 of those 10 lines



also, since I haven't really weighed in: I'm all for constructive criticism, but complaining about my review's score without actually counterarguing any of my claims (and no, saying that "Minaj can rap with the best of them" is obviously false is not an example of a legitimate counterargument) is kind of silly. I'd love to engage in meaningful conversation about the content of my review but complaining about how my score is "0.9 away from an absolutely classic album" isn't the kind of content I want to discuss.



To be quite honest, the score I gave isn't important to me at all. It was kind of a snap decision - I went with what felt right given the content of my review. I could have assigned a random number, anything from a 3.5 to a 4.3 or 4.4, and it really wouldn't have mattered. And that's totally fine with me - I care first and foremost about the content of the review. If there were a way to review this without even assigning a score, I would have, so we wouldn't have all this jabbering about a mis-scored album.



Point being: if you want to actually discuss the review beyond how "fake" Minaj is (everyone puts on masks to some extent, Minaj just does it more overtly, and this album, to me, is a rejection of her past somewhat), whether this review is "objective" (it's not, no interesting album review is objective), whether her rapping is better or worse than a Jimmy Page solo (irrelevant for the most part, but it's unfair to assume it's worse), or whether she's "musically talented" (why do we even care if she can program a drum machine or not?), I'd love to hear your comments

"Obviously, Minaj can rap with the best of them"

"Stopped reading there. I wish I knew how to say No in thirty different languages."

haha, she outrapped Nas on Champion. of course she can rap with the best of them. quit being so dense.

"if “Anaconda” wasn’t overt enough in its grrl-power message"

Jeez! Maybe this has been discussed to death but the song is basically the opposite of feminism! Telling women that thet have to have huge asses to titilate men is not feminism!

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

"hhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha, these hipsters and mutants are lame as shit, the part of nicki's voice bringz the

lulz."



A) I'm not a hipster.

B) if you actually heard this (obviously you didn't because you gave it a 1 and this album is worth more than that), you'd see

that her voice is actually really good in several songs (check The Crying Game, especially). If you can listen to "Grand Piano"

and tell me that her voice still sucks, you sir, have no ears. This album as a whole is better

than its singles.



I've never been a Minaj fan and I liked this and I don't even listen to rap or hip hop.

Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound Off

@benkim check the link I posted about halfway down page 1 of comments, it pretty much explains where I'm coming from in a way more articulate manner than I ever could. Essentially, the mix-a-lot sample in the chorus (the one I assume you're referring to) is deconstructed in the verses and video and it's actually more about female empowerment and flipping gender relationships than women titillating men

Album Rating: 3.5

Hey Nicki hey Nicki, asthma

@Brostep, what would you call the best track off this?(one where she actually raps)

Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound Off

Feelin myself, almost no question

I can just imagine the 13 year olds sat in their rooms covered with Megan Fox posters, masturbating over the Anaconda video and thinking "hurrr hurrr this iz da sickest shit evaaa".