After stealing the show on Kanye West’s ‘Monster’ and Rihanna’s ‘Raining Men’, New York-based Nicki Minaj has secured the ears of the world for her, now hotly anticipated, debut album. For anyone familiar with her early mix-tapes, Pink Friday is a surprisingly commercial prospect, taking the R&B route on tracks like ‘Right Thru Me’ and Buggles-sampling, Will.I.Am-featuring single ‘Check It Out’. She’s at her most potent however, when returning to her roots to channel her alter-ego Roman Zolanski. On standout track ‘Roman’s Revenge’ her Trinidadian-inflected flow trips over stuttering beats, seeing her run rings around guest star Eminem and prove her pink wig is one of the least striking things about her.