I'm Nicki Minaj, Nicki Lewinsky, Nicki the Ninja, Nicki the Boss, Nicki the Harajuku Barbie

i will say that i far prefer the betty boop voice to the, um, other voice

she is so smashable right now, rawr

yeah this one's a minor classic imo. mmts and nicky complement each other well.

really like the production too, sounds simliar to the lil c 'rubberband banks' type beats young dro & grand hustle were coming out with a while ago.

the two tracks that keep springing to mind for me are usher's "lil freak" and omarion's "i get it in". the former, cuz it's like a less try-hard, desperate take on it. the latter, cuz it comes off at first at being completely generic, but that actually allows for a lot more compelling odd touches, like mmts's backing vox for one, and most obviously in the way that backdrop allows weird character rappers like gucci and nicki to be really playful.

...trey?
...i was like, yo, trey?
...do you think you could buy me a bottle of rosé?
OK LET'S GET IT NOW
i'm with a bad bitch, he's with his friends
i don't say hi, i say keys to the benz

rumrumrumrum

This is one of those songs where most of what's going is totally ordinary and forgettable but you would be insane to change the channel b/c any minute now Nicki is going to show up and just totally fucking freak out on the mic. If she was consistently this brilliant she'd be the best MC in hip-hop, I mean Jesus this sounds great on the record:

I'm with a bad bitch, he's with his friends
I don't say I hi I say keys to the Benz
Keys to the benz!
Keys to the benz!
Mu'fuckin' rite, yeah, B to the 10
If a bitch try to get cute imma stomp her
Throw a-lotta-money-at-her then yell fuck her
Fuck her!
Fuck her!
Then yell fuck her!
Then imma go and get my Louis belt, slug her

http://twitter.com/OFFICIALWILEY/status/22039642832

:D

would like to think wiley's never spoken or had dealings with nellee hooper in his life and just pulled his name out of the air there

thanks to mark ronson i am thru to her manager now thanks mark and woolf secure nicki please
about 10 hours ago via web

tenner says this will end with him sacking his manager again for the 76th time this week

i got memphis bleek as well jus need to finish that
about 11 hours ago via web

LOOOOOOOLLLLLL

:o

genuine lol

SHE'S ON A DIET BUT HER POCKETS EATING CHEESECAKE

http://i51.tinypic.com/33454ch.jpg

Her stylist must loathe her. Cute hair, but both of her outfits made her look like a pregnant hooker.

she does look like she's in labor there

everyone knows i like to rag on nicki but it's really some fucking bullshit that they couldn't fit her into the real show

performance-wise

She was way more entertaining than, say, Usher.

her & katy perry should be the nucleus of a view-style show hosted by female pop stars

^

http://i55.tinypic.com/f4qqag.jpg

i would watch this show

OMG at that .gif

she is the gift that keeps on giving

she looks like an actaul oompa loompa in that .gif

can someone find a gif of drake saying "i quit" that doesn't have the 'justin bieber' part before it

the guy in the white shirt in that pre-show performances was almost out-goofing nicki at one point

http://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/post-feminist-consumerist-theory-in-action-nicki-minaj-will-i-am-and-valerie-solanas

i guess i should try to catch the3 mtv awards but between this thread and stuff i've read elsewhere i think i've got a pretty good sense of what transpired

i wanted to make it nicki minaj vs noam chomsky but then was like nah, too dry

My kid and a pal were doing their Nicki imitations at lunch at school the other day--raising their voice loudly in an affected way on the last words of each line.

xxp thats written by the same guy who did the kanye west/foucault thing after power right? that schtick is pretty played out, particularly when done in this pseudo-ironic, tongue-in-cheek style

hahaha kp that's beatrix kiddo

i should have my name legally changed to that

http://youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/awkward-front.jpg

who can blame him, i didn't post for a long time there and i'm not even sure who HE is.

p.s. thank you unemployment for delivering me back to ilx/ile!

he's only been here a year or two, used to post as killah priest.

what forks said

u otm tho tbrr w/u

this has me dying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GmzofW_Gs

genuinely sounds less put-on than kate nash's accent

:D

bottoms up and monster both feel like steps in the right direction to me
i just really need this girl to get like 20% more substance and i dunno maybe the same amount of style?
I was watching a BET tv-doc about female rappers and Nikki D basically said all props to nicki for being a success but she isn't saying much of anything and that's kind of where I'm still at.

i have no idea what forks is talking about

anyway this is a bit rich coming from a magazine that laps up the jizz of people like kaws, but it's still a nice gesture & a pretty cover

http://cdn.nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Complex-Nicki-Minaj-Cover.jpg

Jordan, u seriously don't follow me? I like Nicki's style and she's got nice flow but her raps are fucking lamentable, she hasn't seemed capable of a live performance onstage (she's been dubbed in the five or six appearances I've seen televised) and while recent singles suggest she's fucking about in a direction that's more pleasing to me she's still lyrically garbage

idk man

the whole "she's not saying anything" argument doesn't mean much to me -- she raps about flossing & i think she can do it pretty well -- she can flow like a motherfucker, my problem is that i just can't get past the robin williams thing

she IS pretty hairy

for nicki style is substance

then again, some might say her schtick is pretty played out, particularly when done in this pseudo-ironic, tongue-in-cheek style

a+ cover

wtf does "she isn't saying much of anything" even mean?! she isn't being deep'n'meaningful? she has a limited set of themes? i mean hell0 welcome to most rappers we love. how precisely are you defining "content" here?

her raps are fucking lamentable

this though is just flat-out wrong, and has never actually been right. she has a couple of horrible singles and a few blah guest spots in the debit column but a whooooole load of greatness on the other side. wtf do you even mean here? give me an example of how her lyrics or whatever it is you're referring to is lamentable. not "your love" or "check it out" which everyone hates.

for me, she had to win me over style-wise. the voices, the barbie schtick, the cartoonish shit - i'm on board with it for the most part now, but it was her raps that made me a fan in the first place.