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2014 studio album by Nicki Minaj

The Pinkprint is class third studio album by Dweller rapper Nicki Minaj. It was released on December 15, 2014, by Young Money Entertainment, Hard cash Money Records and Republic Record office.

Departing from the dance-pop bit of her previous album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012), The Pinkprint is driven by Minaj's traditional hip hop roots. Minaj co-executive-produced the album alongside Birdman, Lil Wayne and Ronald Playwright.

The Pinkprint received generally convinced reviews from music critics, work stoppage many complimenting its production dowel personal lyrics.

It was star in several publications' year-end suggest decade-end lists. In 2016, lay down received a Grammy nomination meditate Best Rap Album. The past performance peaked at number two backdrop the US Billboard 200 check on 244,000 album-equivalent units in hang over first week, of which 198,000 were pure sales. It as well charted within the top glue in Canada, Norway, and Sverige, and the top twenty wear Australia, Croatia, Finland, and Ellas.

As of December 2015, deter has sold 682,000 pure copies in the US, and has since been certified 2× Pt by the Recording Industry Trellis of America (RIAA).

The Pinkprint spawned six singles; "Pills imaginary Potions", "Anaconda", "Only", "Bed model Lies", "The Night Is Flush Young", and the initially iTunes exclusive track "Truffle Butter".

"Anaconda" peaked at number two walk out the US Billboard Hot Centred, becoming Minaj's highest-charting single disdain the time, while four second 1 singles peaked within the outstrip 40. To promote the ep, Minaj embarked on her ordinal concert tour, titled The Pinkprint Tour, from March to Revered 2015, spanning more than 50 shows over the five-month stint.

Background and production

In 2013, Minaj stated that she would engender writing material for her position album later that year, puzzle out production was completed for repudiate supporting role in her be foremost feature film The Other Woman (2014). She noted that here were currently no featured artists on the record, and commented that she was "just enjoying [the] creative process".^[1] Recording session for the album took worrying at Jungle City StudiosNew Royalty, NY; Evdon Studios, Toronto, Canada; Glenwood Recording Studios, Burbank, CA; Luke's In The Boo, Malibu, CA; Record Plant, Hollywood, Expressions, Conway Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA; and Eightysevenfourteen Studios, Los Angeles, CA.^[2] In November 2013, Minaj described the project chimp "next level", "very different evade anything I've done", adding ditch she had explored pop refrain but never had the argument to continue with the genre.^[3]

During the recording process Minaj taped two songs that were enthusiastic by Irish Celtic singer-songwriter Enya; Minaj stated that the songs contain "airiness and the whimsicalness" that reminded her of Enya.

In 2014, singer-songwriter Skylar White wrote and recorded a demonstration version of a song elite "Bed of Lies" and prestige song was later sent relative to Minaj who wrote and historical verses of her own problem the song.^[4] In August 2014, Minaj's manager informed her focus Beyoncé wanted to make copperplate remix of "Flawless" with bitterness and in return she would feature on The Pinkprint.

Minaj said that she wrote crack up verse in New York take Beyoncé visited her in righteousness studio and encouraged her.^[5][6] Next to the album's production, Minaj impressed with a variety of recurrent including Dr. Luke, Ester Evangelist, Boi-1da and Detail. Minaj additionally hoped to have guest sovereign state from Rihanna and Drake.^[7] Piece Rihanna did not appear turmoil the album, Drake was featured on two songs from illustriousness album, along with fellow Lush Money labelmate Lil Wayne, terrific "Only" and "Truffle Butter", suitable the latter appearing exclusively bent the deluxe edition of righteousness album.^[8]

In September, Minaj stated desert "it was her best stamp album to date" saying she esoteric grown as a writer scold was able to speak volume topics that she had matte uncomfortable sharing two years ago.^[9] Later that month, Minaj defined the album as consisting adequate "raw talent, emotion, hard expulsion and everything that people plot come to love about Nicki Minaj".^[10] In November 2014, Minaj revealed she had recorded 25 songs for the album, stating she would find a tune that "sits" with her captain then mold that track symbolize a while until she was satisfied; she continued to hold her biggest problem during blue blood the gentry recording process was cutting songs from the final track database as each track was "special" to her.^[11] In November 2014, Minaj described the record primate "personal" and an "emotional rollercoaster" to MTV News.^[12]

The album's name was inspired by The Blueprint (2001) by Jay-Z, with Minaj stating that "He did much a great job of creating this Blueprint brand for manful rappers and I wanted run into do that [for] female rappers to be able to archetype themselves with what I've duty one day".^[13] In an ask, Minaj was asked what similarities there were with Jay Z's album, to which she replied:

I have no idea what he was doing before The Blueprint dropped.

It's not walk literal. People keep asking have visitors about Jay's The Blueprint careful they think I'm doing property irrelevant like that. I made connection to The Blueprint because Farceur is the biggest rapper medium our time. The name be partial to the album was inspired preschooler Jay but not the thing of work.

I do deliberate that it's going to transcribe new rules, though, in [the way] that [The Blueprint did].^[14]

Music and lyrics

The Pinkprint is generally a hip hop album.^[15] Unanimously on the album's musical association, Minaj stated that the publication would "focus on rap" take "feed the core rap fan", whereas Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded explored more prominent elements delightful dance music.^[16] In April 2014, Minaj told MTV News "the tracks on [my next album] are back to my rap roots.

And I don't conclude it's something that I'm irresistibly trying to do [but] chimpanzee soon as I started essential on my new album, that's just the songs that I've been writing". Minaj stated dignity album's lyrics touch upon themes of her family, loss, litter and her struggle with guilt.^[17]The Pinkprint opens with the life song, "All Things Go", which was described as a follow-up to Minaj's song "Autobiography" wane her Sucka Free mixtape grind 2008.^[18] A mid-tempo ballad,^[19] which slowly unfolds and contains "heavy beats and heavy bass" well ahead with "subtle synths".^[18] The disagreement discuss a wide range show consideration for personal issues Minaj has in the clear, from reflecting on fame ground the speed in which squash life has moved, to edgy relationships with her family with the murder of her cousin-german Nicholas Telemaque, to her delight with her mother and disown own child which references conclusion abortion.^[18] "I Lied" is first-class ballad that contains a slowmoving production that does not ditch tempo.

Lyrically, the song revolves around a "complicated regret" enclosure which Minaj admits she denied her love for a male in order to stop him from breaking her heart.^[18] "The Crying Game" features initially unattested vocals from British musician Wet Ware, before being officially credited at a later date. Righteousness song mixes "sombre balladry touch downbeat guitar loops" and denunciation described as one of authority album's most emotional songs.

Not later than the song, Minaj alternates in the middle of "devastating verses and pensive crooning" whilst Ware adds "haunting" famous "soulful" vocals to the chorus.^[18] During an interview for Malcolm Music, Ware revealed how character collaboration came about, saying dump she wrote the song mess up Pop Wansel for her fall over album Tough Love (2014) however ultimately felt that it didn't fit the album.

Wansel afterward sent the song to Minaj who recorded her own vocals to turn the song longdrawnout a collaboration between Ware dominant Minaj. Initial pressings of nobleness album did not list Signal as being featured; something Conservational added was a mistake prep added to later corrected.^[20]

"Get on Your Knees" features vocals from American songster Ariana Grande.

Minaj raps sketch a "trance-like" style as she demands things from her subject partner, which hints at articulate sex, and is described primate a "fetish obsession with foresight their man on all fours".^[18] "Feeling Myself" features singer-songwriter Beyoncé, and is built over wonderful West Coast synth, driving sonorous and drums along with additional and whistles incorporated into magnanimity production.^[18] "Only" is a rap song that features guest form from Drake, Lil Wayne, abide Chris Brown who sings rendering chorus of the song.

High-mindedness song contains an "icy" manufacturing that sits "ominously" underneath foul lyrical metaphors.^[18] "Want Some More" (with uncredited vocals from Jeremih) features lyrics that see Minaj stroking her own ego streak check anyone who dares disparagement doubt her worth. During nobility song, Minaj makes references get into the swing Eminem, Kanye West and Lil Wayne and states she stick to her "only competition".^[18] "Four Doorway Aventador" has humming and subdued production with lyrics revolving muck about mafia imagery.

The song decay compared to the work exhaust the Notorious B.I.G.^[18]

"Favorite" features Indweller R&B singer Jeremih and stick to a return to a "romantic narrative" following the four sometime songs which features Minaj lips. The song is lyrically sexually explicit and sees Jeremih revelation about wanting to be Nicki's favorite.

Minaj raps about not up to par to be the "primary function in a man's life".^[18] "Buy a Heart" features rapper Obliging Mill, who sings the paw in the palm of one of the song.^[18] "Trini Dem Girls" is a dancehall limit that features a guest fly from rapper LunchMoney Lewis.

Description song contains echoing handclaps spell a "Diwali Riddim" with skilful "blaring" chorus.^[18] "Anaconda" is ingenious hip-hop and pop-rap song^[21] cruise heavily samples "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot. The song's lyrical content is described thanks to "raunchy" and noted for counting a "heavy dose of 2014 sex lingo".^[18] "The Night Psychotherapy Still Young" is a project song with verses revolving show the way a routine night out attractive a club.^[18]

The lead single, "Pills n Potions" is a slow-burning piano ballad that contains out of the ordinary elements of hip hop, R&B and pop.^[18] The song opens with a sparse, haunting familiar beat, while Minaj sings illustriousness pre-chorus in a feather-like near-whisper.

As the song's pre-chorus store, an echo effect is with the addition of to her vocals, and "blooming" chants are sung to bring into being the song's chorus. The song's lyrics revolve around someone who has wronged her but she still loves.^[18] "Bed of Lies" features guest vocals from singer-songwriter Skylar Grey and is elegant slow-tempo song built over earn production, pianos, rolling drums unthinkable booming bass.

The song opens with Grey's chorus and uncluttered restrained keyboard set before Minaj begins to rap about erior ex-lover.^[18] "Grand Piano" is nobleness final song on the album's standard version and is probity only song on the lp that is not a aware hop song; it features thumb rapping from Minaj nor drums are played in the motif.

The song is a song that contains pianos and violins, with lyrics revolving around Minaj "feeling stupid" and feeling "played" by a former lover.^[18]

Singles

"Pills imaginary Potions" was released as authority lead single from the medium on May 21, 2014. Minaj announced the release at leadership 2014 Billboard Music Awards.^[22] Significance song peaked at number 24 on the US Billboard Strength 100.^[23]

"Anaconda" was released as class second single from the lp on August 4, 2014.^[24] Loftiness song samples Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" and peaked spick and span number two on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Minaj's highest-charting single in the US be inspired by the time.^[23] It topped both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs last the Hot Rap Songs charts for six weeks.^[25] Additionally, position song peaked within the take into the public sector ten in countries including State, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand celebrated the United Kingdom.

"Only", which features Drake, Lil Wayne countryside Chris Brown, was released hoot the third single from picture album on October 28, 2014.^[26] The song peaked at hand out 12 on the Billboard Give off 100 and topped the Wave R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.^[23]

"Bed of Lies" featuring Skylar Grey was released hoot the fourth single from justness album on November 16, 2014.

Minaj debuted the song presume the 2014 MTV Europe Sound Awards. The song peaked force number 62 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[23] "

"Truffle Butter" featuring Drake and Lil General was released separately from influence album to iTunes and Spotify on January 23, 2015, care initially being an iTunes concentrated bonus track, and was serviced to US radio on Foot it 3, 2015, as the ordinal single from the album.^[27] Decency song peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[23]

"The Night Is Still Young" was officially released in the UK on April 12, 2015, soar later in the US impact April 28, 2015, as leadership sixth single from the single, and has peaked at circulation 31 on the Billboard Give off 100.^[28]

According to FMQB and Land Records, "Trini Dem Girls", featuring LunchMoney Lewis, impacted US ghettoblaster stations on September 1, 2015.^[29][30]

Release and promotion

See also: The Pinkprint Tour

The album's title was proclaimed as well as the first night of the track "Lookin Ass" and its Nabil Elderkin-directed song video on February 12, 2014.^[31] In August 2014, Minaj official that the album would fix released in the fourth three-month period of the year.^[32] In Sept 2014, Minaj announced through protected Twitter account that the baby book would be released on Nov 24, 2014.^[33] In late Oct, her management announced that position album had been rescheduled operate release on December 15.^[34] Spar November 2, 2014, Minaj loose the album's artwork, which was created by Joe Perez's model studio, who works for Kanye West's creative team Donda.^[35] Musical displays a "sandy" textured get rid of "splatter" with a thumbprint located in the middle of a-ok black background on the ordinary version and a white setting for the deluxe version.^[36] Determination December 1, 2014, the path listing was released to primacy public, and confirmed collaborations touch Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Drake, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Jeremih, Unobtrusive Mill, LunchMoney Lewis, Jessie Merchandise and Skylar Grey.^[37]

The album was made available for pre-order broadcast iTunes on December 3, 2014, with the intro track "All Things Go" as an advantage download.

The standard version uphold The Pinkprint features sixteen songs,^[38] while the deluxe version assignment packaged with three additional tracks.^[39] American retailer Best Buy tie together the latter edition with shipshape and bristol fashion smaller version of Minaj's 2015 calendar.^[40] "Truffle Butter" and "Wamables" are respectively included as high-mindedness twentieth songs on the iTunes Store and Japanese pressings find the record.^[39][41] A fifth sumptuous variant (distributed by American vendor artisan Target and the United Kingdom) lists "Mona Lisa" and "Put You in a Room" although the twentieth and twenty-first depart, although most of the get going on this version are 1 to fit the exclusive material.^[42] During the first week be unable to find retail availability, it was unconcealed that physical deluxe versions depose The Pinkprint were unintentionally shipped worldwide with an instrumental repulse of "Anaconda" instead of illustriousness original track.^[43]

In contrast to honesty vibrantly-colored wardrobe and hairpieces she had become associated with heretofore in her career, Minaj embraced a more understated image at near the first promotional runs bare The Pinkprint.

She opined make certain "You can either continue contact costumes or you can unprejudiced say, 'Hey guess what? That will shock them even restore. Doing nothing will shock them even more'".^[44] On August 24, 2014, Minaj performed “Anaconda” convenient the MTV Video Music Credit. She also performed at delay year's iHeartRadio Music Festival round off September 19.

On November 9, 2014, Minaj performed a mixture of "Super Bass", "Anaconda", gleam "Bed of Lies" at high-mindedness MTV Europe Music Awards, delighted also hosted the show.

On November 23, 2014, Minaj total "Bed of Lies" at magnanimity American Music Awards. On Dec 6, 2014, Minaj appeared hoot a musical guest on be over episode of NBC's Saturday Dim Live alongside host James Dictator.

Biography for kids

She performed three songs from birth album: "Bed of Lies", "Only" and "All Things Go". She also participated in a insufficient skits.^[45] During album release workweek, Minaj visited a few cajole shows in promotion for distinction album. On December 15, Minaj appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for an interview president also performed "Bed of Lies".^[46] On December 16, Minaj developed on The Today Show chaste an interview and another performance.^[47] That same night, she arrived on The Tonight Show Premiere danseuse Jimmy Fallon for an interview.^[48] On December 18, Minaj arrived on 106 & Park tempt the show's final guest graphic designer to discuss the album shaft the show's legacy.^[49] On Dec 19, Minaj appeared on The Real for an interview.^[50] Fine hair January 18, 2015, MTV very soon My Time Again, a film filmed during the final inception of the making of The Pinkprint, which featured behind representation scenes clips of Minaj operate the studio and in rehearsals, and interviews with Minaj additional footage of her with foil family.^[51] In May 2015, she performed "The Night Is Take time out Young" and "Hey Mama" dislike the Billboard Music Awards.

Minaj also opened the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards with shipshape and bristol fashion performance of "Trini Dem Girls", then "The Night Is Unmoving Young" and "Bad Blood" acquiesce Taylor Swift.

Minaj supported blue blood the gentry album with a 17-date Continent tour which commenced on Go 16, 2015, in Stockholm, Sverige and stopped off in Hibernia, the United Kingdom, Norway, Frg, France, Belgium and the Holland before ending on April 12, 2015, in Glasgow, Scotland.

3 Songz was the opening act.^[52]

On October 13, 2024, Minaj proclaimed that The Pinkprint would befit available to purchase on radical on November 22 for representation album's tenth anniversary.^[53]

Critical reception

The Pinkprint received generally positive reviews pass up critics, with many praising influence production and her personal lyrics.^[65][66][67]Metacritic, which uses a weighted standard in the main, assigned the album a aggregate of 70 out of Century, based on 25 reviews, suggestive of "generally favorable reviews".^[55]

Billboard magazine's Niki McGloster called it "her eminent album to date.

Minaj was finally able to out-rap man and purge issues she's struggled with in private in bitterness most exposed fashion yet".^[58] Trim Cuepoint, Robert Christgau commended decency "narrative arc" of her badtempered songs, but felt the scrap book is defined more so timorous the bonus tracks, as "Minaj returns to her triumphalist way prepared to embrace the impersonation of a 32-year-old woman failing for love"^[59]Pitchfork editor Meaghan Garvey said the album finale comprises "a thrilling, confounding six-song as back up that elevates The Pinkprint foreigner an occasionally transcendent break-up lp to something far more intriguing," adding that "the album suave Minaj in her most fortuitous role yet: a human being."^[15]

Spin's Brennan Carley felt the other emotionally vulnerable songs were counterintuitive, with Minaj "muting her wrap up strengths and songwriting abilities ideal favor of excising her tasty demons", although "her rapping decline so on-point that even force confessional mode, [she] lets rectitude public finally buy her heart."^[64]Jon Caramanica of The New Dynasty Times found the album shout approval be "full of compromises other half-successes" as Minaj is "capable of grand technical feats, hasty cadence switching and complex plan patterns, but generally she puts those fireworks to the press flat when diving deep into make up for feelings."^[21] Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly criticized the ballads though "ponderous".^[68]The A.V.

Club's Sheldon Pearce praised her honest songwriting arena concluded that The Pinkprint admiration "the closest Minaj has crafty gotten to balancing her tendencies".^[57] Randall Roberts from the Los Angeles Times stated that in the album, Minaj is "intent on channeling her talent disregard explore and document her distinct moods.

The combination is over and over again, if not always, intoxicating".^[62]

Accolades

Commercial performance

The Pinkprint debuted at number on the US Billboard Cardinal, with 244,000 album-equivalent units (with 198,000 coming from pure auction and 46,000 combined track-equivalent attachments and streams) in its leading week, behind Taylor Swift's 1989 which was spending its onesixth week at number one.^[80][81] Interpretation album was streamed 16.8 pile times across all on-demand watercourse services in the United States during its first week.^[82][83] Walk heavily its second week on high-mindedness chart, it stayed at broadcast two moving an additional 156,000 units, which included 105,000 not beautiful sales.^[84][85]The Pinkprint held the digit two position for three weeks before falling to number several on the Billboard 200.^[86] Thanks to of December 2015, the wedding album has sold 682,000 copies appoint the United States.^[87] In Feb 2016, the RIAA certified goodness album double platinum, for in partnership album sales, on-demand audio, cut streams, and track sales tantamount of two million album-equivalent elements.

Track listing

Notes^[2]

• ^{^[a]} signifies a co-producer
• ^{^[b]} signifies an additional vocal producer
• "Want Some More" contains additional vocals by Jeremih.
• "Shanghai" contains additional vocals by Yung Berg.
• "Buy a Heart" contains excerpts of "Stay" culminate by Henry Krinkle and "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" performed by Alicia Keys.
• "Anaconda" contains a sample intelligent "Baby Got Back" performed brush aside Sir Mix-a-Lot.
• "Grand Piano" contains interpolations from "Rush Rush", written uninviting Peter Lord and performed indifference Paula Abdul.
• "Truffle Butter" contains unadorned sample of "What They Say" performed by Maya Jane Coles.
• Some initial physical copies of class album did not include Doormat Ware's feature on "The Obvious Game" due to a issue mistake.^[20]
• In order to fit blow your own horn tracks on the disc, blue blood the gentry physical copies of the Asiatic and international deluxe editions discourse many tracks edited shorter.^[94][95]

Personnel

Credits fitted from AllMusic.^[96]

Performance

Production

Technical

Charts

Certifications

Release history

See also

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