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Album Review: Nicki Minaj's bumpy ride to 'Queen'

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Finally, she dropped something. This album has been a long time coming. I personally dubbed Nicki as "scared" after delaying the project despite making barbie promises. I wasn't wrong. See, The Pinkprint , her last studio album, dropped in 2014. As per tradition of the pre-streaming era, artists release new joints two years after the last one(obviously to make their fans miss them; give them enough time to digest full length projects cos albums then were actually 'full'; and have more time to rest and cook good sh*t.) This puts Nicki's The Pinkprint follow-up to hit the charts in 2016. But it didn't. Artists were in rare cases pardoned and given an additional 12 months to get their sh*t together – literally and figuratively. But credence testing incidents occurred. 2015 was the year streaming took flight. Artists such as Taylor Swift, Pink, Katy Perry, Jason Derulo , Carly Rae Jepsen , Lorde and others dominated the pre-streaming era. But

Movie Review: Rampage

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Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Åkerman, Jake Lacy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Joe Manganiello. Directed by Brad Peyton THIS IS NOT SPOILER FREE. When was the last time you saw a giant Gorilla terrorize a city? I know, not too long, right? When was the last time you saw a giant sea creature, bigger than its normal size, destroy half a city? I know, y'all even tired of it. Okay, when was the last time you saw Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson save a seemingly dead franchise? Uhm, don't say it, I know, half of all the blockbusters in the last decade. The point is, this is nothing new. They didn't even shift from the usual rhetoric of the military attacking creatures blindly and only one man, the protagonist, has enough sense to do the right thing and he risks his life for it. Yes, but when was the last time you saw a flying wolf???? Never. You see, it's just like trying to cook simple Nigerian white rice. There are only a handful ways