 The Village Voice 's Sean Fennessey commented that " Monster " was the track that announced Minaj 's " brilliance " to most people , stating that when the posse cut " crept up the Hot 100 , the song became more than track six — it became an essential part of this album ’ s story , delivered months early . " Alex Denney of NME mused that the track " proves a riotous bit of respite " and features West " sending up his rep with a self @-@ mocking diatribe about drowning his pain in a blizzard of blow jobs and mass adulation while Nicki Minaj sets the dials to ‘ ridiculous ’ with a fire @-@ breathing , raga @-@ inflected verse . " Embling of Tiny Mix Tapes felt that with " super @-@ sized cipher cuts " like " Monster " and " So Appalled " , West balanced out some of the darker moments of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , and that the song contained heavy " shit @-@ talking . " Slant Magazine 's Cole Matthew also commented that posse cuts " Monster " and " So Appalled " were amongst the hardest tracks ever produced by West . 
