Make Way: Nicki Minaj Has Arrived in Italy
A colorful, comical world, very “American”sexually and visually excessive that is worth almost 50 million listens, only on Spotify. Not everything he touched became of quality obviously, but he knew how, also thanks to an undeniable technical ability and a constant flirt with the pop world, building a credible career, becoming an absolute female icon in urbanwinning a huge number of awards. Nicki Minaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj, returns to perform in Italy after nine years. At the opening, space for Anna: there could only be her, an Italian-style Nicki Minaj, to open the way. The concert, the only one in our country, will be held on Wednesday 3 July, this evening, at the Fiera Milano Live in Rho, Milan. On stage Nicki, in addition to her hits, will perform songs from her latest album, “Pink Friday 2”. Get ready for an impressive scenography with ledwalls, a staircase, geysers and colorful visuals just like proposed in the other European dates.
The live setlist starts with songs that are a declaration of intent and status: “I’m the Best” and “Barbie Dangerous”which ideally connect his first album with his latest. Nicki has clashed with hip hop on several occasionsexplaining that she didn’t feel like she belonged to the scene, but in the end she always went back on her steps showing love for this culture, which Nicki has always interpreted, it must be said, in her own way, more in the name of entertainment than of depth of language. and values. “Pink Friday 2”, as the title suggests, is the follow-up to the artist’s debut album released in 2010, which achieved triple platinum status. A return to her roots? She herself defined it as: “fierce, fun and unapologetic”. Lately she has also taken Ice Spice under her wing, with whom she has signed “Barbie World”a reinterpretation of the historic song by Aqua included in the blockbuster film “Barbie”.
A piece that cannot be missed in the show. In the setlist there is also a song that really allowed her to make a change: it is “Monster” by Kanye West, Jay-Z, Rick Ross and Bon Iver, a song released in 2010at the beginning of her career. A technically excellent flow that made the young star’s informers widen their eyes. From that moment on, Nicki Minaj, now forty-one years old, he was able to create an alter ego for himself that, whether you like it or nothas changed the rap world, giving space to an idea of an uninhibited and self-confident female rapper, who has nothing to envy from male rappers. But on the contrary, she crushes them like an “Anaconda”, to quote one of her most famous and shameless songs, which will obviously resonate on stage. Even “Super Freaky Girl”, a hit from “Pink Friday 2” cannot be missed, just like “Super Bass”one of his most famous pieces from his debut project, as well as “Starships”also in the setlist. The setlist that Nicki Minaj will propose in Italy, barring unforeseen circumstances, will be the same proposed in the other European dates. You can read it below:
I’m the Best
Barbie Dangerous
FTCU
Beep Beep
Press Play
Big Difference
Pink Birthday
Feeling Myself
Cowgirl
High School
Needle
Ganja Burn
Chun Li
Red Ruby From Sleeze
Black Barbies
Barbie World
Roman’s Revenge
Monster
Last Time I Saw You
Holy Ground
Crocodile Teeth
Swallow
Run Up
Super Freaky Girl
Anaconda
Super Bass
Moment 4 Life
Starships
Everybody
