Description

Double album on orange vinyls with gatefold cover

Hyperconfident, provocative, and almost cartoonishly larger than life, this rapper rode the strength of her style from mixtape queen to pop icon. Nicki Minaj’s fourth studio album, Queen, was released in 2018 and finds Minaj offering a darker atmosphere and focusing on her ferocious rap skills more than her well-tested commercial accessibility. With an hour-plus-running time, Queen stretches out languidly, making space for Minaj to follow various paths as the album moves on. The more pop-leaning moments are few here but there are melodic and radio-friendly fare, like the Ariana Grande-assisted Bed, lands closer to Minaj’s signature pop/rap hybrid formula, and she finds the sweet spot for this formula when she co-mingles sticky vocal hooks with vicious flows as on album-opener Ganja Burns. Queen is another chapter of Minaj’s good but largely meandering and inconsistent full-length album output.

Track list:
1. Ganja Burns
2. Majesty
3. Barbie Dreams
4. Rich Sex
5. Hard White
6. Bed
7. Thought I Knew You
8. Run And Hide
9. Chun Swae
10. Chun-Li
11. LLC
12. Good Form
13. Nip Tuck
14. 2 Lit 2 Late (Interlude)
15. Come See About Me
16. Sir
17. Miami
18. Coco Chanel
19. Inspirations (Outro)