The early American reaction to Nicki Minaj's follow-up to Pink Friday has been "mixed" – which is entirely appropriate, given that the album itself has an almost schizophrenic character.
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The loudest, meanest audience in America
Monday 05 September 2011
Jamie Foxx is set to revive Showtime at the Apollo, television's original, and most gladiatorial, talent show
In the pink: First lady of hip-hop Nicki Minaj is a bewigged global phenomenon
Thursday 04 August 2011
But as the singer tells Nick Haramis, she is still a determinedly private person
The Barometer: Dirty Hands, M.I.A. Pete and the Pirates, Smith Westerns, Fixers, Tribes, Pandit, Kyla La Grange, Lil Wayne ft Cory Gunz
Friday 14 January 2011
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Something From The Weekend: Shane Warne; Gary Speed and Brett Favre
Monday 13 December 2010
The Good, the Bad and the Odd
Album: Lil Wayne, I Am Not A Human Being (Island)
Friday 15 October 2010
Originally planned as an EP, I Am Not A Human Being has been bulked up to album length presumably to compensate for the extended wait occasioned by Lil Wayne's current incarceration before the promised Tha Carter IV arrives.
Hip-hop's Lady Gaga leads a new generation
Friday 08 October 2010
The rising stars of rap are consigning bling, booty and drive-bys to the history books. Gillian Orr finds new reason in the rhymes.
Album: Eminem, Recovery (Interscope/Shady)
Sunday 20 June 2010
What'd be nice, after the umpteenth Eminem album about Eminem, would be a record that stands on its own legs and addresses the world beyond.
How British R'n'B finally came of age in America
Friday 02 April 2010
Urban star Taio Cruz has just topped the Billboard 100
Jason Derülo - R&B's new No 1 nice guy
Friday 12 March 2010
Jason Derülo beat both Dizzee Rascal and Florence to the top spot on the singles chart. Matilda Egere-Cooper is on the end of his charm offensive
Rapper Lil Wayne begins one year jail term
Tuesday 09 March 2010
Rapper Lil Wayne, his lawyer Stacey Richman by his side, listened to the judge in a Manhattan criminal court sentence him yesterday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.
Caught in the Net - Badu's bonus bodes well
Friday 19 February 2010
People have been frothing over Erykah Badu's recently leaked track "Jump Up in the Air Stay There", featuring Lil Wayne and Bilal.
The Barometer: Surfer Blood; Joanna Newsome; Caribou; Erykah Badu; Major Lazer; 50 Cent
Friday 05 February 2010
Surfer Blood Swim (To Reach The End)
Album: Eminem, Relapse: Refill (Polydor)
Friday 01 January 2010
With album sales declining as a result of the cherry-picking tendencies fostered by downloading, you might have thought a logical response would be to trim away the extraneous fat that albums developed during the compact disc era, and return to something like the all-killer, no-filler approach of the vinyl era: a slim portfolio of excellence, rather than a bagful of odds, sods and obvious outtakes.
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