Pink Friday ... Roman Reloaded

"Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" is the second studio album by Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj. It was released on April 2, 2012 by Young Money, Cash Money and Universal Republic. Stylistically, the record is divided by the first half's hip hop tracks and the second half's dance-pop songs. Minaj raps in her unhinged alter ego "Roman Zolanski" over the former tracks' hard-edged beats and mostly sings on the latter half; she returns to rapping on the album's final track "Stupid Hoe". Music journalist Jody Rosen delineates the album's music as comprising "'Side One' for the hip-hop headz, 'Side Two' for teenyboppers." Slant Magazine's Matthew Cole comments that the album…