worst Nicki Minaj song on the radio right now

it also bothers me that on "omg" usher just sounds like a will body double & on this joint nicki is just playing the role of fergie -- there's no collaboration... it's just grafting other pop stars onto black eyed peas songs -- with usher it felt a bit more okay because he had already showed that he was just gonna jump on whatever trend could keep his career alive, but with nicki i feel like there should be more of a meeting of a minds than what this is

also her rap verse shouldn't be buried after 3 mins of will.i.am

that factor is way more depressing on "omg" probably because usher can do way more than he does and it feels like he's really limiting himself. i don't feel like nikki ends up as subsumed, but i don't think "check it out" sounds that much like a bep song. really, it's more in line with will's last solo album, which i liked most of.

i don't really care how this fits into nikki's career arc tho.

in fact i like it more for will than for nikki.

the will.i.am bits on this are even worse than...the rest of it, which is pretty bad, apart from nicki's rap, which arrives way too late in the day to rescue it

fuck all the talk about having threesomes w/ cassie & amber rose, i think the most subversive thing nicki's ever said on record is "i'm with a bad bitch/ he's with his friends" because she says it so casually that it's almost hard to notice

also i'm still trying to figure out the ratio of gross crassness: hilarious brilliance of "and we be doin donuts while we wave in the 380/ we give a lot of money to the babies out in haiti"

^^yeah agree

with the bad bitch line, but also the haiti one

from a straight rhyming perspective tho i've gotta give it up for "wave in the 380" & "babies out in haiti"

thirded.

that's "wavin' the http://www.naaminis.com/pix/380big.jpg"

and pretty sure the "bad bitch" and "he" aren't to be taken as the same person, sorry guys

"roman's revenge" is my #1 radio jam right now -- hardest diss track in forever too

I've been listening to it for three days straight – my new office jam. Last semester I used to get the editor pumped with "B.M.F."

i heard it for the first time today and that beat is too garbage for me to even wanna listen to the rapping

oh for god's sake

okay THIS is the song that she was recording on her MTV documentary that made me go "wait, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-?"

who's it a diss against?

Kim, but there's only like 2 lines that are even slightly more pointed than a billion Nicki songs randomly dissing nameless female rappers, "hardest diss track in forever" is pretty ridic

lol, I wonder if the diss track is dead in today's rap

really wish somebody would make a nicki-only edit of this. love nicki's parts but hate hate hate em's parts. two peas and a tripod?? ugh, the payoff is so not worth it.

MAAAAAANNING
MANNING ELI

yea this placed in my ilx ballot, its a jam

obv that em line is hideous but the rest is the 1st time ive been able to tolerate him in ages

yeah it's kind of crazy how much he sounds like old school Shady

the "two peas and a tripod" line doesn't bother me as much cuz there's actually a 'story' that builds up to it

Roman's Revenge would have made my Pazz and Jop were it a single in 2010.

Nicki raps like everything I hate about 2011 and Eminem raps like everything I love about 1999. Pretty much best verse of 2010 next to Earl's rap over "Drop" and Roc Marci's "Raw Deal"

eye-em-oh

yeah but the story feels so contrived, seems like he did it just to use the punchline, opposite of old school shady - putting the cart before the horse as it were xp

there's not much that separates ems verse on roman's revenge from his verses on love the way you lie

also it sounds like eminem show-era eminem, which was an eminem who had already used up his vitriol on the MMLP

sorry I'm gonna start talking about em now

I like his line "I swear to god I could piss off a happy meal"

there's not much that separates ems verse on roman's revenge from his verses on love the way you lie

― dayo, Friday, January 14, 2011 10:22 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is pretty rong

there's not much that separates ems verse on roman's revenge from his verses on love the way you lie

― dayo, Friday, January 14, 2011 10:22 PM (20 minutes ago)

i'm not gonna call it the "best verse of 2010" (smh) but there's a definite focus that recalls early em

fuck you kevin k3ller, werent you like jackin it to Avalanches records when Em was doing his best material?

nah i was listening to eminem actually

i was also 10 yrs old fwiw

smh

whiney when you call even a good eminem verse the best verse of 2010 (or even an ok jay-z song the best rap song of 2009) do you really expect ppl here to not shake their heads at how boring and old that makes you seem

you're right, gucci mane's "my car orange like an orange" raps are much more impressive than this, carry on, ILX

there's not much that separates ems verse on roman's revenge from his verses on love the way you lie

― dayo, Friday, January 14, 2011 10:22 PM (20 minutes ago)

i'm not gonna call it the "best verse of 2010" (smh) but there's a definite focus that recalls early em

ehh early em was a lot more playful, w/ good punchlines that had lots of creative metaphors (like form like voltron and blast you w my shoulder missiles to pick one I was just listening too)

this nu-em still has the obsession w rhymes and the sound of words but largely drops that kind of lyrical playfulness

~lets it go~ xp

like whatever, some dude, it's not like i'm not banging Mouse On The Track and Roachy Gigz and Odd Future all fuckin day either, its just that i don't throw away my old toys when i'm done playing with them.

And also, Em's rap on this is incredible and I'm not gonna stand idly by while someone growing his first pube on ILX shakes his head at me

since you guys are all here, i'm getting tonight's DJ arsenal ready... Is it racist to spin out "Arab Money"?

uh... pretty much, yeah

:(

like whatever, some dude, it's not like i'm not banging Mouse On The Track and Roachy Gigz and Odd Future all fuckin day either, its just that i don't throw away my old toys when i'm done playing with them.

And also, Em's rap on this is incredible and I'm not gonna stand idly by while someone growing his first pube on ILX shakes his head at me

― I Lost A COGHdrop in His Pato (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, January 14, 2011 10:57 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't really listen to any of the people you referred to and i'm not exactly a poster boy for casting aside old rappers. i'm just saying, picking the occasional defensible nu-Em or nu-Jay track and championing it as THE BEST OF THE BEST just looks so square that even if you think you're right you should probably be ready to take some shit for it

"i ain't into s&m / but my whip off the chain" is a v dope line imo

also the grocery bagging on this works for me -- the british nonsense at the end is of course unforgivable

i'm torn re the beat tho -- when it flourishes it is jarring & not in a good way -- they should've stayed as minimal as possible imo -- the backing vocals are awesome

His faggot baiting is more obnoxious than ever, but he's just as good at being obnoxious as he was in 2000, if that makes sense; and paired with Minaj it's a real competition. They foil each other perfectly. In addition, Minaj's "playing a character" shows up how poorly the difference between Em and Slim Shady looks like in 2010.

fwiw earl on "earl" > earl on anything else this year also > anyone else on anything else this year

between the two they don't merely fag bait -- they bait everyone. Equal opportunity malice.

his verse is way more sexist than it is homophobic, aside from the use of the word "faggot"