The new highly anticipated Nicki Minaj album is one best heard on the radio. In December, Minaj released her newest, album titled “Pinkprint,” featuring 20 tracks. It features Beyonce and Chris Brown and a long list of other famous friends.

The 32-year-old, originally from Trinidad, came into our lives five years ago with her smash hit “Pink Friday,” which spawned the even bigger hit single, “Super Bass.”

Unless you live under a rock you’ve probably heard “Super Bass,” which has just under a half-billion views on the VEVO YouTube channel, and was the highest selling single of all time, according to Billboard.

Because of her massive success from “Pink Friday” and her second album “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,” as well as her duets with other pop icons like Justin Bieber, she had a lot of pressure riding on her newest album.

There are a few songs on the “Pinkprint” album that are instantly likable, but if you sit down to truly listen to the content, the risqué lyrics may surprise some audiences. In one of the most upbeat and catchy songs on the whole album, “Truffle Butter,” Minaj and Drake rap about having sex in public.

In her song with Beyoncé, they just sing over and over, “I’m feeling myself … I’m feeling myself.” Not only is that song not catchy, but it also makes you glad when it ends. It’s painful to listen to how slow Minaj is and how she threw away a chance to use Beyonce’s vocals.

The whole album is really slow, riddled with foul language and uncomfortable sexual references. At times, it is even embarrassing to listen to. It shows in her album sales, too, according to Billboard magazine, which reported Minaj only sold fewer than 300,000 copies in her first week and not much more after that.

Minaj has tried acting since her last albums. She is also going to the X Games next summer. Minaj is not just a rapper anymore. Perhaps these distractions have affected her processes.

Minaj is trying to be risky in “Pinkprint.” She is trying to be fresh. In a recent interview on the Lifestyle channel’s “The Real,” the hosts tried to build up her latest album, but Minaj deflected their questions, refusing to pick a favorite song and diverting the topic.

Maybe Minaj knows it’s not her best stuff, either.