Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday - review

(Island)There is an argument that, of late, mainstream hip-hop and R&B has lost its once zealously guarded edge of originality. The genres appear comfortable in a sonic rut – the raveish synthesisers that added an icy edge to Rihanna's Umbrella, Auto-Tuned vocals, arpeggios of 'rock' guitar – while the rest of pop music has caught up. The result is that everything on Radio 1 from Nelly to Ellie Goulding sounds roughly the same. The jolting WTF? shock that used to be delivered hearing a new T...

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