Album Review: Nicki Minaj - Queen

Self pro-claimed Queen?

Nicki Minaj created a lot of hype over her “comeback-ish” album Queen. She even said way before the release that this is her best body of art thus far. The aftermath: never hype your album too much if you are not sure it will succeed to reach the level you want. At least for me, after seeing her tease the album for six months and giving it all kinds of awards herself I was waiting for THE best album of 2018, THE best album of her career. You guessed it; I got disappointed and I was not the only one. I am not saying it is a bad album. It is just not as good as hyped.

There are a lot of good songs but on a 19 track album usually half of them are rotten tomatoes (like Drake - Scorpio and Migos - Culture 2). As Brian Rolli said on a Forbes review of Queen

“Nicki Minaj's 'Queen' Is A Great 10-Song Album Hiding Inside A Messy 19-Song Album.”

My personal favourite song is ‘Barbie Dreams’ because who wouldn’t love some good sampling and bars. The song is sampled from Notorious Big’s song ‘Dreams’ and it really gives the song something extra. It takes you back to the dreamy 90’s and damn people do love their 90’s — no wonder it became a hit.