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The Rundown: Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint - Nicki Minaj returns with a vengeance for her third album The Pinkprint.  Peep the track-by-track look of her latest defense of the throne.— Michael Harris (@IceBlueVa)(Photo: Cash Money Records)

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"All Things Go" - Nicki Minaj sets off the tone of her third release getting personal over a melodic Boi-1da and Vinylz track. Looking back on life, she shares the bittersweet as she discusses her aborted child who would be 16 now, the loss of her cousin and her relationship with her family. "I'm not into fake industry parties and fake agendas," she clears up. "Rock with people for how they make me feel, not what they give me / Even the ones that hurt me the most, I still show forgiveness."(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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"I Lied" - Mike WiLL Made It supplies the hypnotic vibes here as Nicki stays on the cusp of falling in love and getting her heart broken, all while flexing her vocal skills and spitting admissions like, "Even though I said f**k you, I lied, I lied / I thought eventually, you would let me go / That was my insecurities and my ego / Missed my jump shot, missed my free throw / Miss the way we kiss, miss the D, yo."(Photo: Kevin Mazur/AMA2014/WireImage)

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"The Crying Game" feat. Jessie Ware - Nicki speaks on a tumultuous relationship that could explode at any minute over a thumping bass. "Saying we don't miss each other, but it's all fictitious / Saying that we had enough, but enough of what? / Another slap to the face, another uppercut / I'm just abusive by nature, not 'cause I hate ya," she spits.(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

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"Get on Your Knees" feat. Ariana Grande - Dr. Luke provides the echoing funk on this one as Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande tell the fellas to get on their knees and beg for it. The Queens MC lets you know how she like it when she summons, "Gimme brain, assume the position / Make me way smarter like you was a magician... / Get head like a beautician, got me twitching, finish your mission."(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

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"Feeling Myself" feat. Beyoncé - Nicki and Beyoncé have no issues letting you know that they run the game, man or woman. Destroying egos in the process, the YMCMB queen states a few facts like,  "B****s ain't got punchlines or flow / I have both and an empire also." Bey even stunts with a few bars of her own as she rhymes, "Changed the game with that digital drop / Know where you was when that digital popped."(Photo: Tim Edwards/WENN.com)

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"Only" feat. Chris Brown, Drake and Lil Wayne - Breezy, Weezy and Drizzy come loaded and armed as they ride out with the first lady of YMCMB declaring why each one is a beast and flirting with Nicki in the process. Onika even teases the boys a little with, "Yo! I never f****d Wayne, I never f****d Drake / On my life, man, f**k's sake / If I did, I'd ménage with 'em and let 'em eat my a** like a cupcake."(Photo: Cash Money Records Inc.)

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"Want Some More" feat. Jermih - The Queen of the Barbs goes ham over this amped up Zaytoven production and gives you the facts of why she's at the top of the hip hop mountain. For all the fellas stunting on female MCs, Nicki serves them up nicely and dishes stinging lines like, "One minute they hate me, then they love me / Ain't got nothing for me, these dudes is funny / That's why I'm throwing shade like it's sunny / Who had Eminem on the first album? / Who had Kanye saying, 'She a problem?'"(Photo: Dana Edelson/NBC)

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"Four Door Aventador" - Queens's finest pays homage to Frank White here as she lifts his "I Got a Story to Tell" flow. Showing off her story telling ability, Nicki's bars include, "Meet me at the Rucker, take the Bruckner / It's just me and Young Yucka, taking suckers / For they money and they whips, putting kitten on lips / Dividing the dividends, get the money and dip."(Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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"Favorite" feat. Jeremih - Jeremih serenades Nicki as to why he wants to be her favorite boy toy while Nicki sets her sites on a baller who she's having fantasies of submitting too. Putting her feelings on the table, her ride or die chic bars detail, "Yo, I just wanna be ya rider / You should pull up in that Spyder / You should let me hit the mic / And I ain't talking about the fighter... / Let's pull an all-nighter."(Photos from left: Jason Merritt/Getty Images, John Ricard/BET)

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"Buy a Heart," feat. Meek Mill - Meek Mill and Nicki Minaj ponder falling in love over this spaced out flirtatious track. There seems to be something brewing by the way Nicki rhymes, "Rahmeek, I'mma have to tell the truth if I speak... / You said you was in love and I still didn't budge / 'Cause I already seen how you be going in when you be in them clubs... / I could tell you was fantasizing that you would come slide in me and confide in me."(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Clear Channel)

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"Trini Dem Girls" feat. Lunchmoney Lewis - Dr. Luke provides the island vibes for Nicki Minaj to share her Trinidadian experience as she whines it up on this dancehall production. Never one to shy away from her bedroom conquests, the YMCMB vixen brags, "Put it in his face like a cop badge / He wanna pound it like a hashtag / He gonna have to get the wash rag / If he shoot it up, I'm gonna bust back."(Photo: PA PHOTOS/LANDOV)

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"Anaconda" - Nicki Minaj takes Sir Mix-A-Lot's classic "Baby Got Back" and gets her freak on with her platinum-selling re-working for The Pinkprint. Declaring she can tame any monster, the Queens MC boats, "This dude named Michael used to ride motorcycles / D**k bigger than a tower, I ain't talking about Eiffels / Real country a** n**a, let me play with his rifle / P***y put his a** to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil."(Photo: Cash Money Records)

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"The Night Is Still Young" - Nicki Minaj gives the ladies something to turn up to with this smash that's sure to rock the clubs and the pop charts. The feel good track about enjoying life finds the Pinkprint MC getting the party started with lines like, "Yo, ayo tonight is the night that I'ma get twisted / Myx Moscato and vodka, I'ma mix it / Roll that spaceship, we about to get lifted."(Photo: Ian Gavan/MTV 2014/Getty Images for MTV)

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"Pills N Potions" feat. Ester Dean - Ester Dean rides shotgun and handles the chorus on Nicki Minaj's testimonial to heartbreak and love gone astray. Reminiscing on the days of old but being forced to move on, Nicki's tattered heart lines include, "N****s be sick when they remember all the bad they wished you / N****s be mad when they can't come and live lavish with you / But I sped off in a Benzy, I see the envy, when I’m causing a frenzy / So I pop pills for 'em, cop cribs in the hills on ‘em."(Photo: Cash Money Records)

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"Bed of Lies" feat. Skylar Grey - The YMCMB star delivers one of the strongest break-up songs ever with an assist from Skylar Grey. Knowing her worth and what she brought to the relationship, Nicki rhymes, "You could never make eye contact / Everything you got was based off of my contacts / You a fraud but I'mma remain icon-stat."(Photo: Lester Cohen/WireImage)

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"Grand Piano" - Nicki Minaj sings her heart out over this will.i.am and Kane Beatz violin-laced production. Showing her vulnerability, Onika's ballad is another sad love song about being played by love. (Photo: Samir Hussein/Getty Images for MTV)

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"Big Daddy" feat. Meek Mill - Nicki and Meek get their stunt on over this Cardo beat and let you know what they bring to the table. The lavish lifestyle may pull him in but Nicki knows what it'll take to keep a man as she spits, "Pulled up in something that look like a million, n***a put me up on / Ain't gotta sell it, but he say the p***y a drug that he re-up on."(Photos from left: Christopher Polk/AMA2014/Getty Images for DCP, Rick Diamond/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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"Shanghai" - Yung Berg lays the sonic backdrop for Nicki to kill the mic here as she lets you know her boss status. The gloves are off as she goes in with lyrical blows like, "All of these b*****s in pocket, I’m ‘bout to make a deposit / Tell ‘em to go ‘head and gossip, as long as your house is the size of my closet."(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for BET)

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"Win Again" - Nicki winds the album down putting a stamp on her queen status and that the throne is not up for the taking. Drawing her line in the sand, she warns MCs, "I came out looking to party, and now I'm owning that building / You b*****s can't get my spot until I start raising some children."(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

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"Truffle Butter" feat. Drake and Lil Wayne - The three-headed YMCMB monster closes out the deluxe edition of The Pinkprint as they spit their crew's prowess on "Truffle Butter." In case anyone needs a reminder, Nicki points out, "Yo, thinking out loud / I must have about a milli on me right now / And I ain't talking about that Lil Wayne record / I'm still the highest-selling female rapper, for the record / Man, this a 65 million single sold / I ain't gotta compete with a single soul."(Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)