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8.2
72018
8.2 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Some of the best production on a major-label hip-hop record this year
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8.0
72029
8.0 |
Fact
The Pinkprint is ultimately Nicki’s most cohesive project. It’s her most revealing about her recent and long-term emotional struggles
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8.0
72040
8.0 |
All Music
A bold progression from her previous work with some porno and punch line classics thrown in, The Pinkprint is certainly scattered, but it's well written and weighty where it needs to be, and it remains intriguing the whole way through
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8.0
72041
8.0 |
The Music
And so, we finally have the album Minaj promised us five years ago
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8.0
71972
8.0 |
Exclaim
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
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8.0
71983
8.0 |
State
She may have finally succeeded in creating a great hip-pop album
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8.0
71998
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
A grand statement full of hard raps, shiny pop and personal detail
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7.5
71974
7.5 |
Pitchfork
When many thought they’d had her pegged—as a New York battle-rapper, a predictable pop diva, a brand—The Pinkprint presents Minaj in her most unexpected role yet: a human being
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7.5
71975
7.5 |
A.V. Club
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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7.0
71973
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
Cementing herself as an artist who manages to be consistently engaging in spite of the varying quality of her material
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7.0
71988
7.0 |
Beardfood
The Pinkrint is her most personal release yet, by a dramatic margin
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6.7
72027
6.7 |
Consequence Of Sound
As a breakup album that takes heartbreak in every direction possible, it provides a template worth imitating
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6.0
71971
6.0 |
Digital Spy
Overall The Pinkprint is a mixed bag. Unfortunately there are some forgettable moments, but they are counterbalanced by some truly great tracks
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6.0
72039
6.0 |
Time Out
‘The Pinkprint’ is at least successful in revealing the human side of an artist who can often come off like a cartoon character
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5.5
72061
5.5 |
Paste Magazine
There’s a lot to wade through, though, and for every good moment, there’s another that should have ended on the cutting room floor
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5.2
72035
5.2 |
Earbuddy
The Pinkprint is a tonal mess, and like Jay-Z, Minaj spends most of her album rapping about things that are important to her. That’s about as much as the two albums have in common, but for Nicki Minaj, that’s enough
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4.2
71976
4.2 |
Pretty Much Amazing
She does indeed “reinvent” her style, but in a way that simultaneously distills her tracks to feeble stabs at heartbreak-r&b
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4.0
72088
4.0 |
The FT
The best moments are when Minaj sticks to what she’s really good at: straight-up rap music
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4.0
72110
4.0 |
Clash
For the most part this seems like a step in the wrong direction: a Nicki Minaj album from somebody who’s thoroughly fed up of being Nicki Minaj
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