Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday’ disc maybe getting good reviews in some circles, but Debra Antney isn’t impressed.
Antney, who happens to be Waka Flocka’s mom and Nicki’s former manager, gave Vibe her review of Minaj’s debut cd, and it wasn’t at all flattering.
Is this a case of sour grapes? Perhaps, but Antney has repeatedly said in the past that her split from Nicki was amicable.
So lets check out Antney’s ‘Pink Friday’ review as told to Vibe’s Tracy Garraud.
“It’s
terrible. I like some stuff, but she went too left. I don’t think
people were ready for her to come [out with pop]. When I had Nicki, I
really wanted her to sing. That’s why I took her for training cause
Nicki loves singing, but she kept saying to me, ‘Deb, I can’t do it yet
because people won’t understand.’ And that’s why the [rap] mixture was
done to introduce them to all of Nicki. I think [Pink Friday] was very
disappointing to a lot of her fans. She didn’t need a lot of [the]
features. That was one of the biggest things like… you gave people so
many features, give them you now. Nicki could be so much better
because—outside of anything that people say—she’s very multi-talented. I
really wish that she would learn to be more of an artist.
I
didn’t particularly care for [“Roman’s Revenge”], but when Eminem came
in I liked it. He made the song. [Nicki] didn’t have to go there with
[Lil’ Kim]. My views on that is that she came too far to go back that
route. And Kim does not even have to go there. There are no comparisons
to them. Some things are best left unsaid. The whole things is stupid.
I’m very disappointed that she would go that route. ‘Cause I know all
that she was taught. She don’t have to go there with anybody. That was
the stuff we always discussed. People had to learn to love Nicki— that’s
how the door opened up. It wasn’t about Kim or Foxy or any of the rest
of them. So I was just a little disappointed [by her album], but If she
likes it, I love it.”
