Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)

they had much smaller asses, though

biggie could fill out a thong

I haven't tolerated those lines.

But whatever.

sorry

he thought he was on the rap bro thread when he wrote that "we"

True

"The word "nigga" causes so much debate in our community while the "nigga" behavior gets praised and worship."

Nicki noooooooo http://instagram.com/p/kXxSthL8Vv/

Don't know if this flips the male gaze, but maybe puts it on blast a bit, what with her walking around rapping about having no time for guys intercut with disembodied male eyes leering at her before she machine guns them down. Also didn't read that as anti-broke dude so much as anti-dudes who front and talk shit but are going nowhere. I mean, unless we're about to retroactively declare "No Scrubs" to be classist reinforcement of patriarchy, not really sure how it differs much from something like that give or take several dozen curse words.

That rape line's still beyond unnecessary.

can we not blurred-lines nicki please

(by "we" I mean "we, the thinkpiece public," not "we, this thread")

I think we have to get past the "black people are annoyed by the Malcom X imagery, esp. during Black History Month" storm first before we get to the "is this actually progressive?" argument

Too late, katherine:

http://massappeal.com/nicki-minaj-eat-crusty-boxer-briefs-nia/
http://jezebel.com/nicki-minajs-new-song-is-a-rapey-waste-of-time-1521690861

The use of the imagery was clumsy bc it looked like the title was talking about malcolm rather than her identifying w/ malcolm, she shoulda just dressed up like him a la KRS One

although people would prob still be like "At least KRS One wasn't showing off his 'assets'!"

That Mass Appeal piece was terrible respectability politics run amok.

I'm not giving Jezebel any clicks.

Yeah, that Jez piece isn't any better. Conflates that rape line with her going pop.

this track loses a lot w/o the visual i think... it's mostly just a sketch of a song otherwise

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Part of the appeal is this, I think, like no chorus, just going hard for 40 bars or however many there are

Kinda like Dreams & Nightmares Intro

Don't think I can make it past the first paragraph of that Mass Appeal piece

sacha jenkins! haven't seen that name in awhile

TREY SONGZ NO

https://soundcloud.com/buyamadeustrack/trigga-look-yall

oh noooooo

Kinda like Dreams & Nightmares Intro

― 龜, Thursday, February 13, 2014 7:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

-_-

"lookin ass" is more like a mixtape freestyle than anything

I chose that example also cause of the way she modulates her emotional output

Don't know if this flips the male gaze, but maybe puts it on blast a bit, what with her walking around rapping about having no time for guys intercut with disembodied male eyes leering at her before she machine guns them down. Also didn't read that as anti-broke dude so much as anti-dudes who front and talk shit but are going nowhere. I mean, unless we're about to retroactively declare "No Scrubs" to be classist reinforcement of patriarchy, not really sure how it differs much from something like that give or take several dozen curse words.

― Greer, Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is p much what i think. the status stuff is not progressive and has never been but...

I agree w Maura, that said we've tolerated gross lines from dudes that can rap their ass off forever

― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the context. i don't know, the rape line is easy to condemn and i'm not sure i want to defend it but this is the context. i don't think any woman, even scattergun nicki, would go there in a blasé, it doesn't mean anything, it's just a metaphor, mealy-mouthed way. it's a "how does it feel to be on the receiving end, once, of something women experience all the time" moment. is it the best way of making her point? is it progressive? probably not. does it perpetuate rape culture? unfortunately, you can't argue that it doesn't. but look at the comments underneath the video. and look at this trey songz nonsense. this song and that line has dudes shook.

also, looking at this from the perspective of the evolution of nicki minaj: look, she's historically gunned for fellow women. not just the lil kim maybe-specific stuff but "these bitches are my sons" etc. the people on the receiving end of her disses were almost always women, rarely men. the past year or so she's visibly shifted her focus to eviscerating men - "i'm out", "boss ass bitch" and now this.

this track loses a lot w/o the visual i think... it's mostly just a sketch of a song otherwise

well...yeah, did you think it was anything other than this? nicki's obviously still in the "whetting your appetite with remixes and freestyles" stage of the album campaign

I guess my reaction is "what kind of weak-ass dude do you have to be to be shook by this?" which is pretty much an entirely different thread

I guess my reaction is "what kind of weak-ass dude do you have to be to be shook by this?" which is pretty much an entirely different thread

well...indeed. but there they are, shook.

i hadn't even seen the malcolm x artwork til i read that thinkpiece.

the real bummer is that lex might be right that Nicki is trying to say something but hip hop has such an ingrained, gross sex-as-violence, sex-as-financial-transaction, sent as gassed to onto rt dominance attitude that what passes as feminism to her is lashing out in the same way as men do

:/

Wtf autocorrect - that's sex as assertion of dominance

yeah i agree with that

It's her Dogville, basically.

it's her descent

sent as gassed to onto rt dominance

upcoming nicki minaj promo video Sent Ass Gassed

Aww, she thinks she's Bey. http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2014/02/nicki-minajs-new-album-will-not-have-a-release-date/

Trey Songz made a response song. I'm not going to link to it, I just want you to know that it exists.

I find the fact that Trey did a response song funny/interesting considering that he was on an official remix for the Mariah single, which came out on the same day, and we all know how Mariah and Nicki feel about each other.

It's interesting that Trey Songz thinks anyone gives a fuck what he thinks

I do :(

Really? Like you were hoping Trey Songz would weigh in on this song?

Oh, no. No. I thought you were commenting on his general relevance.

https://soundcloud.com/nickiminaj/chi-raq-by-nicki-minaj-ft-lil

hoping this hard-ass rapping-ass rapping is foreshadowing the album rather than getting it out of her system beforehand

Amen.

*knocks down a fucking building*

dope

love this

this is cool but hopefully nicki picks better beats for her album... this and the "lookin ass" beat are pretty rudimentary and boring imo

this beat is straight garbage actually

the album is great c'mon

i think the stuff here is basically everything we wanted from nicki like 5 years ago but in a year that no one cares

haven't heard it since release week but i remember being pleasantly surprised by some tracks

Yeah it’s growing on me bracket

Probably too harsh

Opening track is beautiful

agreed!