The BoysNicki Minaj · 2012

pitchfork

“Nicki Minaj is often painted as an artist who possesses two mutually exclusive halves. She's either radio or street; she's "Starships" or that "Monster" verse, but never both. Some of her best songs are those on which she tries to fill in the gap between those two extremes. Take "The Boys", a new single that'll appear as an extra on the Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded reissue-- a zig-zagging pocket sy”