Nicki Minaj wore a super colorful ensemble for her performance on the Victoria Secret fashion show runway in New York City last night…..
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i know hiphop is a competitive art form but there can be some exceptions… if madonna aint mad bout lady gaga then i think kim can be cool with nicki… but she burnt the bridge.. how can u be mad or beef with nicki….. right now she’s popping… what kim had to do was a collabo and nicki would sort of pay homage…. when lil wayne said he’s the best out…. jay didn’t show any ill ways… he simply collabed with wayne…. and sonned him on the mr carter trrack…. ‘queen bee as i share mic time with my heir’ lol.. and jay kept it moving…. now if kim had collabed with nicki then she’d be popping with lots of young money features to her tracks… cause tyga would definitely want mic time… and so would drizzy
Why is she always dressed like a “Yo Gabba Gabba” character?
HAHAHAHA @ that last comment.
Ok. So. I have gone back and forth on how I feel about Nicki Minaj as an artist, a brand and as a young female black rapper. It’s hard. I’m in a tough place. And I hate to be long-winded or negative but I feel that Nicki Minaj doesn’t add anything really progressive to the game. I mean, she’s eating, and I’m proud of her for that. But it saddens me that after all of these years, black artists are still essentially sambo-in at the chittlin circuit. I mean, I’m definitely not trying to diminish her creativity at all but sometimes I question it. In education, we call it pseudo-creativity, when people just try too hard to be creative. All of the costumes and all, it doesn’t seem genuine. I also can relate to the fact that many little black girls don’t really get a chance to play dress up as a child, maybe it’s some repressed emotions. But to her defense, it really is just the industry at large holding rappers too heavily accountable to be on some, ” get money, have sex, buy clothes, and party” status quo and the rap music industry perpetuates it. I know I’m saying too much on this blog. But hey, if not at http://www.thelifefiles.com than where?
i will correct you, because you’re wrong.
the difference between nicki and “sambo/chitlin circuit” artists is freedom. back then, shucking and jiving was the only way to get on and stay on.
now, black artists run the gamut. FREEDOM. I personally don’t think of her as a sellout artist at all. but again – FREEDOM. Nicki has the freedom to do what she wants and if you don’t like it you can look away. that’s progress for an entire nation.
and is rap mostly “sinner” music. Yes. it has always been. It’s been about having a good time – bragging about how dope/better you are/were than others. In fact the foundation of rap – the formation of it was on battle rap – which is the essence of prideful boasting and peacock behavior over a beat.
it’s that aged minority from another era who want “conscious” rap – which on a whole was a small minority of all the rap music ever put out – it’s those guys who have an unrealistic expectation for rap. unfortunately they are the most vocal and the most deluded. the reality is that the most uncensored rap often has the most honest politics, but these dudes can’t see it.
rap is about what it’s been about – the same way rock and roll has been what it’s about – which is essentially the same thing. the artists don’t need to be “held” accountable because they are powerless. the moment people stop listening artists are done. the audience has all the power. ALL OF IT.
Go find an artist you love that meets your criteria. he/she exists. instead of coming to these posts complaining about what nicki should be doing, post a link for the nigga. be his street team. be the agent of change that you wish others to be. you might make some money while you’re at it if the artist pops and takes you with him. that i’d respect. but complaining about what nicki is not is like… utterly impotent.
expecting scarface to be pbs or national geographic is utterly ludicrous.
she looks like a fucking clown. i can’t.
Woa Anonymous. You are going a place that I never intended. Like I said, I have mixed emotions. I never called Nicki a sell-out nor did I say that she had to be a ” conscious” rapper, nor did I say that she was unconscious. As a devout rap fan, I have a RIGHT to my opinion and Nicki would appreciate it coming from the a place of love, not hate. You are placing my comments at a definitive and it was never that way. As I stated, I HAVE MIXED EMOTIONS. Not hate but love as well. Again, I said that I AM PROUD of Nicki and I agree, the artists are powerless at certain aspects. But are you really equating money with freedom. These artists aren’t free at all, in fact, they have been bound by this image. I’ve been listening to rap for a very long time, since 1991, and I don’t know how you equate battle rapping with shucking and jiving. Older school rap gave us a sense of empowerment. Even rappers like Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Salt n Pepper still kept a certain level of composure, gave positive messages and were still sex symbols. You don’t have to be extremely one type of an artist, I don’t think that you have to choose between being conscious and what you call, “sinner”. I’m not asking Nicki to change a thing for me cause that is not what we are here to do. And attacking my opinion is a fallacious (Ad hominem) argument because we aren’t talking about me and what I need to be doing. I’m not in the limelight. I don’t have my image on stage for the world to see. I’m not hating on Nicki cause I think she does have some hot tracks. When you make money off of your art, that is essentially what you are doing, you’re putting your art up for critique.