Hey y'all, DJ Louis here, just dropping a preview of our latest pop pantheon All Access episode.

As many of you know, Nikki Minaj dropped her fifth studio album, Pink Friday 2 last Friday.

So I invited Hung Up's Hunter Harris on the show to break down this record, what's working,

what's not, and whether Nikki working in an album format is a worthwhile pursuit

at all. If you enjoy this preview, you can listen to the rest of the episode by going to patreon.com

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of my

conversation with Hunter Harris. Okay, so I'm here with writer and creator of the legendary

substack hung up. It's Hunter Harris. Hunter, welcome back to the show or welcome to the Patreon show.

Thank you. I am so excited to talk today. I'm very excited to talk today. And I think we both

have a lot to say on this. I say with trepidation. I'm very excited to talk today. And I think we both have a lot to say on this.

I say with trepidation. I think to get into the topic today, the first thing I want to do is sort of like

situate us a little bit in the last few years of Nikki and what that's been like. So in your

estimation, and we can talk musically, celebrity wise, pop star wise,

however we want to pull this apart. How would you characterize the last, let's say,

five years of Nikki Minaj since Queen? Like what has that been like for her as a musician?

And what has that been like for her sort of public persona in your mind?

When I'm thinking about like most general, I see her as, like, transitioning from a sort of rap girl competitor to almost like elder stateswoman.

I sense that around the time of queen, I mean, that's when we were seeing, like, the entrance of, like, Cardi B.

Like, that whole feud was, like, at B, like that whole feud was like at its,

I would say, most fiery, where then she got married, then she had a baby.

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