Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (Music CD)

Nicki Minaj follows a platinum debut, a handful of 2011 Grammy nominations, a string of appearances on her peers' hit singles, and a performance alongside Madonna during the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show with her second album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. "Starships" offers a Katy Perry-styled singer that can convincingly drop both a MF-bomb and a weed reference, while the vicious "Stupid Hoe" gives birth to the genre of millionaire booty music and suddenly, sipping sizzurp in your own private jet seems entirely possible. A handful of equally inspired numbers that come from this angle of gangsta-girl-in- a-post-wonky-pop-world add to the excitement, and with RedOne and a batch of other innovative producers providing a kaleidoscope of beats, the album is an amusement park for production lovers.