Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

(think this is true of many things now besides just straight pop btw, cf rick ross (the rap lana del ray) or trey songz or whoever really)

i always put this down to collapse-of-industry desperation necessitating the creation of a loyal stanbase who buy into an artist as a brand, a lifestyle, not just someone performing good songs

yes

rick ross (the rap lana del ray)

lol waht... explain this please.

rawse and songz are pertinent examples b/c i'd have been fine with them puttering away as third-tier artists without any real charisma or compelling persona who just alighted on the occasional hot song, which is their natural condition and that's totally fine, but to see them fêted as great artists is seriously o_0 o_0 o_0

rick ross (the rap lana del ray)

lol waht... explain this please.

― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 9:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i assume it's the illusion of an idealised "type" that neither are actually up to pulling off most of the time

can we please leave ross out of your rape discourse

(think this is true of many things now besides just straight pop btw, cf rick ross (the rap lana del ray) or trey songz or whoever really)

i always put this down to collapse-of-industry desperation necessitating the creation of a loyal stanbase who buy into an artist as a brand, a lifestyle, not just someone performing good songs

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:13 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i mean just in terms of branding i was thinking about it being like good little random adverts that come and go versus the furore and hype over what the next guinness or levis ad was, where the brand is pre-established and the work of the ad becomes about how it reifies the image already known

these all are uselessly broad strokes to be talking in though tbf

do people feel me on the foreground/background point i was trying to make or did that all just come noise

was kinda hoping someone would run with it and make me look good

*come out

to show them

I haven't gotten used to thinking of people in terms of "branding" tbh

Why does MTV censor the word "trap?"

"Come On A Cone"
"Beez In A Trap"
"Stupid Hoe"
Would've made a good 3-song EP.

"I Am Your Leader" can sneak on there too even though I don't like the chorus.

people who put together EPs or mini-albums of this that exclude "gun shot" are not doing it right

Maybe I need to hear it more but as of right now the chorus of "Gun shot" sounds like "forget about the Price Tag" so it's not really doing it for me.

"HOV Lane" is cool too.. I forgot about that one. So I'll up mine to a 5-song 10-inch.

Rhyming "roman zolanski" with "roman polanski" in a song is so fucking stupid that it chills me to the marrow every time

I kind of agree but then I heard jeezy rhyme 'chanel swag' with 'chanel bag' yesterday so

that's a pretty standard jeezy rhyme though so I can't be mad at this point in my jeezy-listening career

I think the root of the problem is that you have a Jeezy-listening career

"this small stretch of songs would make a nice EP" is a really annoying way of saying "this album has three good songs"

thank you

I think I could pare your interesting posts down to a short essay

5 good songs

Rhyming "roman zolanski" with "roman polanski" in a song is so fucking stupid that it chills me to the marrow every time

― azealia canks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:00 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://nickiminaj.wikia.com/wiki/Roman_Zolanski

i like that rhyme but iirc you complain about this often

jesus christ the nicki wiki

<3 the nicki wiki

i kinda feel like she probably came up with the name 'roman zolanski' without consciously realizing it was one letter off from someone pretty famous who it wouldn't really be cool in any way for her to shout out, so that line was just her awkward way of belatedly acknowledging and dismissing that

i still dont get who roman is?x
8 days ago by A Wikia contributor

xpost

are you fucking serious right now?

i kinda feel like sean price probably came up with the name 'mic tyson' without consciously realizing it was one letter off from someone pretty famous who it wouldn't really be cool in any way for him to shout out,

i kinda feel like professor griff probably came up with the name 'confrontation camp' without consciously realizing it was one letter off from something pretty famous that it wouldn't really be cool in any way for him to shout out,

whiney otm

newsflash i think nicki is a moron

lol i haven't thought of confrontation camp in years. i reviewed that album for pitchfork!

I mean I feel like if your story was really true she would have just called herself 'roman polanski', not knowing that it was the name of a famous person

nicki's "alter egos" are the most overplayed aspect of her entire career

I can't really tell who is who, I just listen for the cool raps

well yeah -- in the "roman" songs she's rapping in the same way about the same things and from the same perspective as every other song

her saying that she's rapping as "roman zolanski" is as meaningful as if she said she's rapping as warren beatty

not sure even the general public cares a whit about Roman/Nicki or Slim Shady/Em/Marshall Mathers.

of course not

t.i. vs t.i.p. remains the most hilariously pointless distinction of all

"i'm you...right before your label got worried that people would confuse you with q-tip"

maybe not but 'marshall mathers' was maybe my fav em song once

what about Bizarre and "Peter S. Bizarre"

wasn't the idea of D12 that each of the six members had two alter egos? bad idea jeans ahoy

In order to make up the dozen, it was decided the six members at the time would each create an alter-ego. Proof's was Dirty Harry, Bizarre's was Peter S. Bizarre, Kuniva's was Hannz G. (which later became Rondell Beene), Kon Artis' was Mr. Porter, Bugz' was Robert Beck and Eminem created the famous character Slim Shady.

for some reason I thought masta ace was in D12. guess not!

what?!