Nicki Minaj just dropped her newest album The Pinkprint which is meeting fast interest for veering from her traditional style of late and doing it well. Despite her obvious talents, many listeners have felt that Nicki’s style has been a bit inconclusive straddling the line between the pop and rap worlds but not completely sitting into either. This time around for her third studio album Minaj has switched things up and included some more personal and emotional tracks to go alongside the more manufactured commercial pop tracks of her last releases. Those types of songs are of course there as well, but there is also more opportunity for the hip hop fans to enjoy Nicki’s legitimate talent of rapping.

As for the title, The Pinkprint is making a reference to Jay-Z’s album The Blueprint, with obvious feminine tones to a confident comparison. The album has a mixture of battle worthy rap songs, radio pop songs, and the newer emotional ballad type songs. While it is a wide variety of songs that won’t be likely all be favorites to genre purists, it does properly demonstrate how wide her talents are.

For the most part Nicki Minaj has been quite low key about her personal life and relationships, and this album is the first time she has addressed certain personal aspects of her life. The album allegedly in driven in many parts by the breakup she had with Safaree “SB” Samuels, a longtime boyfriend and alleged husband. On the track “All Things Go” she addresses the pain of losing a child. Whether it is a personal tell all or a more creative move it stands clear that Minaj is opening up her emotional side.

“This is a more vulnerable me, and to write vulnerable records is very scary. You’re putting out a lot of personal information just to the world, and you don’t always know how people are going to receive it. And once you’ve given it to them, you can’t take it back,” she said.

Nicki has also been showing the world more of another side of her, her acting side. The rapper recently made an appearance on Saturday Night Live where she did impersonations of fellow powerhouse divas Beyonce and Kim Kardashian. Nicki shared with E News that she did not check in with either woman before attempting to spoof them, but that she did carefully review her SNL material ahead of time.

“I always proofread and study what I’m gonna do. I would never do something that would be offensive to some people I like in the industry,” she said.

Minaj said that she read it before and loved it, and was sure Beyoncé was going to love hers as well. She said she did not know know whether she could really nail Kim, but the producers thought it was good, and she knew she was going to have a lot of fun with the Beyoncé one.

Nicki had so much fun on the show in fact that she shared in an interview with Today that she might have “found her calling.” If Minaj ever decides to give up the rap game, that would be one spot to go looking for her.