Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

This is good. The bit in the video clip where her eyes are really massive is probably going to stalk my dreams though.

aren't her eyes always that way?

video made me think of that classic j0rdan post comparing nicki's creepy voices to suddenly realizing you're watching some kind of surreal fetish porn

This is her first solo song that I like.

how much time does Nicki spend rapping using the voice kids use to say "vroom vroom" these days?

This reminds me of TINAT-era Missy.

at this point the "me on my pedal bike" baby voice barely registers on her top 5 most boner-shrivelingly unsettling vocal tics

love this song so much, that video is a total mess tho

also this song gets much better if you imagine that she's dissing azealia banks

also this btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgcvdsCIflg

xp hahahaha

WAU at that juke rewurq.

my favorite thing about it is how just when you keep expecting it to go on with those disjointed footwork beats for the duration, it hits with that big 4x4 drop and just explodes.

the funny thing was how quick on the draw that remix was. it popped up a day or two after the original.

Oh fuck this rewerq

This will be getting a lot of play 'round these parts.

'Stupid Hoe' officially improves after drinks...

one of the songs to really predict that trend was soulja boy's "donk," which nicki used for one of her biggest early mixtape tracks, so it kinda makes sense that she sounds in her element doing stuff like this and "dance (a$$)" i guess.

― @51TimesNo (some dude), Saturday, January 21, 2012 3:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

hahah I was gonna post that 'donk' was the forerunner of this and a$$ but felt I would get gunned on by the goon crew

apparently this is the "stupid hoe" producer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Kuts

pretty interesting

that's def a CGI leg she's holding in the first part of the video

this song is awesome, I've decided

First listen: this song is awesome, best thing she's put out in the last year. Nice to see some different voice-pastiches getting thrown into her Batman toolbelt here - particularly, I don't think I've heard the thing she does around 1:55 forward. It feels (to me) like she's verging into a wide set of real-life character impressions, like part of that could be Any Girl's Mom, and then the part that's Any Girl Practicing R&B Singing In Front Of The Mirror...I dunno. There's potential there.

I wish she would drop the candy-colored wig thing for just a little while - I love the look but I'm kind of into her dialing it down as this flattened-makeup, no-eyebrows thing she's doing in parts of this.

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:10 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha what an amazing video. i think i love this song now (liked it before but not like, raving about it - it's lots of fun but as a straight-up rap song i don't think it matches up to the early mixtape stuff that well). tim is right that the massive-eyed warped nicki face is the most unsettling bit.

at this point the "me on my pedal bike" baby voice barely registers on her top 5 most boner-shrivelingly unsettling vocal tics

idk whether shipz meant "boner-shrivelingly unsettling vocal tics" in a good way or not but it's certainly a positive imo

all of this does make me sad that "massive attack" will forever be the Lost Minaj Single, it's still ridiculously good and better than any single since apart from "super bass"

all of this does make me sad that "massive attack" will forever be the Lost Minaj Single, it's still ridiculously good and better than any single since apart from "super bass"

^^^^

Though she oughtta released "Muny".

http://caribbeancelebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Nicki-Minaj-Stupid-Hoe_4.jpg
http://ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/images/uploads_img/edge_species.jpg

argghghghgh make it stop

you realise those animals are regularly right outside my window, now i'm gonna think nicki's spirit animal is watching me

A GOOD THING surely

you have slow lorises in australia?! i didn't know that, i am kind of jealous. ridiculous creatures

one, two... *thinks*
do the nicki minaj blink

video is insane

I've never liked Nicki Minaj but Stupid Hoe is so so so good, and that juke jukewerk my goodness, I'm in heaven right now

proper descriptor is anime eyes btw

That song is like Missy + Gaga + Devo

the song itself (ignoring the video) is kind of like an attempt to recreate "itty bitty piggy" but not actually as amazing - i approve of the general direction though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMZ5s7o2F88

i think rhyming "Roman Zolanski" with "Roman Polanski" might be the one misstep. But she's so talented, she's allowed. http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

props for the 80s spelling of "hoe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjSmiGMN1ek

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

i think rhyming "Roman Zolanski" with "Roman Polanski" might be the one misstep.

brangelina/jennifer reference is a bit #twothousandandlate too #no1curr

"bitch, you see where brad at" is kinda dope tho

who is the dude that shows up in the video a few times

dave cool, you seem to know a lot about hip hop http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

it's pretty cool, as music is concerned. http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

"bitch, you see where brad at" is kinda dope tho

yeah it would've been a dope line in 2004 or whenever all of that actually happened

i think of a dated reference like i would a sample of a song i've forgotten. just because its not in the zeitgeist doesn;t mean its not dope to flip it. (cf, Biz Markie, "Reagan is the prez but i voted for Shirley Chisolm")

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

idk, i feel like brad/angelina/jennifer refs have sort of transcended being just a pop cultural event w/ a time & place -- it's like referencing a fairy tale or something at this point

that might be the case if it wasn't for tabloids ceaselessly beating the dead horse over the years - i'm just tired of hearing all their names - like referencing britney/justin or something might have that effect, idk

i think its a pretty nitpicky point, lex, but i always respect your passion and opinions on ilx. http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Is she dissing lil kim in this?

People say so, but I don't see any specific Kim references to indicate shots fired... Who knows?

And yeah, this is definitely very "Itty Bitty Piggy" and not quite as incredible, but after the direction Pink Friday took overall (in part by commercial necessity), it's good to see Nicki signalling that this is at least PART of what she's going to be doing going forward.

I guess I thought the party about you should have befriended me seemed like a shot at kim...cuz didn't nicki basically say she idolized kim coming up then kim was bitchy to her?

is kim putting out an EP? is any notable minaj adversary?

tbh it may or may not be consciously about kim but i'm pretty sick of the narrative that sets EVERY WOMAN IN HIP-HOP against each other