Beam me up Scotty

"Many Nicki fans and hip-hop fans are celebrating the reissue of Beam Me Up Scotty as a reminder of how Nicki sounds like when she's at her best. But the truth is, ever since the mixtape was out until now, the quality of Nicki Minaj's rapping has never decayed. The revisit of her old works, and a reissue of one of them, as a successor of the album in which she crowns herself Queen (2018) - even if she's been calling herself that for a long time - feels appropriate. To hear rookie Minaj and seasoned Minaj in the same record, and to hear her old tracks where she speaks her queendom into existence, feels different now that we testified her dreams and predictions coming true".

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"Eleven years after its original release, a 2021 update of Beam Me Up Scotty reshuffles the track listing somewhat, cutting some of the original tunes and replacing them with a few new songs ... On the whole, however, the revamped edition of Beam Me Up Scotty loses none of the original's strengths. Listening back to Minaj just before her ascent to global fame, it's easy to hear a dexterous talent that sounds not just from another time, but strange and vibrant enough to sometimes sound beamed in from another planet".

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