16th December, 2014
Nicki Minaj has released her much anticipated third album on the same day D’Angelo makes a come back to the music scene.
“The Pinkprint” marks a return to the roots of one of the most successful female rappers, whose career has soared in the past several years through more mainstream pop songs and collaborations with superstars such as Justin Bieber.
Minaj, 32, goes intensely personal on her third studio album. On “All Things Go,” Minaj speaks of coping with the violent death of a cousin and hints at coming to terms with a past abortion, rapping: “My child with Aaron would have been 16 any minute.”
The Trinidadian-born New Yorker also defends her rise to fame, rapping: “Let me make this clear / I’m not difficult / I’m just about my business / I’m not into fake industry parties, and fake agendas / Rock with people for how they make me feel, not what they give me.”
Despite the introspection on the album, Minaj initially made headlines for a very different reason — what critics saw as Nazi overtones on the video for her single “Only.”
On the video, Minaj appears as a dictator on a throne with red-and-white banners bearing the letters of her Young Money label. Minaj apologized, saying she had not intended the slightest Nazi association.