Deep Album Cuts Vol. 262: Nicki Minaj
Last week I did a Drake playlist, and since Drake, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne are doing a Young Money reunion concert in Toronto in August, I might as well do the Nicki playlist now too.
Nicki Minaj deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Keys Under Palm Trees
2. Easy (f/ Gucci Mane and Rocko)
3. Can Anybody Hear Me?
4. Fuck Da Bullshit (with Lil Wayne, Drake, Gudda Gudda and Birdman)
5. Here I Am
6. Roman's Revenge (f/ Eminem)
7. Blazin' (f/ Kanye West)
8. Muny
9. Come On A Cone
10. Roman Holiday
11. Champion (f/ Nas, Drake and Jeezy)
12. Masquerade
13. I Endorse These Strippers (f/ Tyga and Thomas Brinx)
14. Senile (with Tyga and Lil Wayne)
15. Four Door Aventador
16. Want Some More (f/ Jeremih)
17. Favorite (f/ Jeremih)
18. Win Again
19. Coco Chanel (f/ Foxy Brown)
20. Miami
21. Come See About Me
Tracks 1, 2 and 3 from Beam Me Up Scotty (2009)
Track 4 from Young Money's We Are Young Money (2009)
Tracks 5, 6 and 7 from Pink Friday (2010)
Track 8 from Pink Friday (Deluxe Edition) (2010)
Tracks 9, 10 and 11 from Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012)
Track 12 from Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (Deluxe Edition) (2012)
Track 13 from Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded: The Re-Up (2013)
Track 14 from Young Money's Rise Of An Empire (2014)
Tracks 15, 16 and 17 from The Pinkprint (2014)
Track 18 from The Pinkprint (Deluxe Edition) (2014)
Tracks 19, 20 and 21 from Queen (2018)
The Young Money era was pretty crazy. There's really never been a time when 3 of the biggest rappers in the world where on the same label and putting music out constantly and collaborating regularly, for like a decade. You could make an argument for Aftermath in the 2000s, but Dr. Dre wasn't really releasing solo music the same time as 50 Cent. I was a huge fan of Lil Wayne who kind of found his proteges disappointing, but it's hard to argue that Drake and Nicki didn't make a profound impact on the game and make some classics.
It's interesting to think about how much Nicki Minaj's sound and image changed over a few years, and how much she changed rap. Her breakthrough mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty, which was re-released on streaming services last year, came out at a time when she was as much Gucci Mane's protege as Lil Wayne's -- Gucci actually has more features on the tape. But by the time Nicki released her debut album Pink Friday 19 months later, she was 100 times more famous and had evolved her delivery a lot over a huge number of features. By Roman Reloaded, her singles were getting more and more pop, but she was doubling down on her eccentricities on album tracks like "Come On A Cone" and future meme "Roman Holiday," and I find that stuff pretty entertaining. She kind of backed away from that direction on The Pinkprint, probably her best album, but I do miss the really weird unhinged Nicki a little. I like that she had Jeremih on two tracks on that album, but I can't believe that neither was a single.
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