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

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been meaning to take her to the NAGL thread for this shit

we need nagl 2010

wouldn't be opposed to Nicki as Miss NAGL '10

i <3 nicki. she's obviously v wayne-influenced but i think she's a lot more than just a wayne clone...this is what i wrote on the jukebox a while back:

I love her creative wordplay and commitment to quotability, and the fact that she’s raunchy but too surrealist and weird to box herself into just smutty ho-rap. Really versatile, too: she can handle everything from “Beam Me Up Scotty”, which wouldn’t sound out of place in a dancehall mix, to her touchingly vulnerable verse on the “Best I Ever Had” remix (”It’s so amazing…I figured out this world is ours for the taking”).

i'd add that she seems to have really strong musical instincts - she adapts herself to different beats really well. and she's improving all the time - as great as "beam me up scotty" was this time last year, i couldn't have imagined her pulling something like the "sweet dreams" remix off then.

i like her various voices - rev said elsewhere that it sometimes grates when there's a visual accompaniment b/c she often pulls stupid faces to go with them, she needs to cut that out. but they usually serve her well - like on "itty bitty piggy", when she cranks up the intensity and threatening vibe on that "i'm the wolf, where is little red riding hood" line, and on "saxon" when she bends her voice to the dubstep beat (much better than snoop or eve's excursions into dubstep imo).

i'm looking forward to her album dropping - tinged with a bit of trepidation, because her wacky instincts need to be balanced just right not to grate. and i wouldn't exactly mind if she dropped the babytalk either.

yeah, i dunno, some of my favorite rappers ever are of the 'wacky'/'animated' variety, but i don't feel like she really owns her schtick or pulls it off that well -- seeing her in the 5 Star video (anyone have the hilarious gif from that that they can post btw?) is like watching someone from a terrible sketch comedy troupe or something, like she's being funny on purpose but i'm still laughing at her more than with her.

can i just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agro8r4nyGQ

UGH firefox just crashed when i was putting together a "best of nicki" youtube post!

anyway: her spot on the new lloyd ep is sooo good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep-3uFBBASM

i think she does "menacing" a lot better than "wacky" tbh - her humour's best when it's incidental (cuz she is pretty damn funny anyway, without the voices or the faces)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86rlfqIK1PQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CGA8bZKz7I

"damn right a bitch qualified / i should work for homicide / kill these guys, put 'em on forensic files / m-m-man down when i bring the lam round / he say, nicki you the best hands down"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWjbzCNauH8

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

"i kick-kick game, can't injure nicki / that's why they nick-nicknamed me ninja nicki"

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

"bitch i'm the president / i be sittin on an elephant / countin all my money where stella went / and i don't need my groove back / unless that nigga lookin like tupac"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE3ST9bpDkc

"you know i pop-pop-pop it like a pistol / that's how i keep my wrists lookin like a disco"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IchZR3YWfTk

"yo, imma need a couple of them benz-z-z / i be out in china spendin yenz-z-z / gucci on my lenz-z-z, my leather so sensitive / scratch my 9 o'clock, wanna shop, make you tentative"

^^i think all of those are why i kinda shrug off the wackiness, because she's so often not

rev said elsewhere that it sometimes grates when there's a visual accompaniment b/c she often pulls stupid faces to go with them, she needs to cut that out

ha, I was just thinking earlier when I watched "Bedrock" vid that she needs to be banned from making videos because the more I hear her, the more I like her and the more I see her, the less I like her

lex posted a few of my faves (that "shopaholic" verse is SICK) but here are some more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5PlZnZqh4

"you see me on the stoop man these birds just salute me/whether i'm in the coup or the hoopty,deucy/i'm always wit a dude that'll off your kufi/let him eat my coochie and cop me pucci/ house in the boonies rock a doobie/ cop the 22 then spark a loosie"

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

"bank rolls get me all them pretty furs/'cuz my pussy game cold when he hit it he say BRRRR"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pStlhYQiiE

"ho ho ho, red stockings too/ comin down ur chimney/ur chopped and screwed"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y27lUwOgEi8

"pussy this pussy that/ pussy thick pussy fat/ break me off a piece of dat/ pussy kit pussy kat/ i smell pussy need a pussy tic pussy tac"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JliQHuT4cnA

"I used to make a dollar stretch like a pilati, now I gotta play the potty in guiseppe zanotti/Gotta push the masserati, candy paint on the body/ Making money off the hobby, taking flicks in the lobby"

defintiely agree that the WACKY/barbie shit is not her best, but I like the animation and the facial expressions and stuff, she's actually ENTERTAINING and funny.

man she's REALLY working out her gaga complex in this video

http://i45.tinypic.com/qox8b9.png

which video is that jordan??

i really can't wait for the "shakin it 4 daddy" video - she killed it on letterman

for the new luda joint called "my girl bad"

oh the "comin out swingin like TIGER WOODS' WIFE" one, will check it out

(be thankful that there's no ellipsis there i guess)

there are a few choice ellipsis lines from both

that video of michelle trachtenberg rapping the second verse of "shakin it 4 daddy" is really hilarious, amazing & endearing

http://www.google.com/search?q=sound+of+the+city+nicki+minaj+michelle+trachtenberg&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

yeah i noticed the ellipsis lines u_u still a good track though.

while i'm here may as well post that excellent new cassie single ft. minaj on top form - yo cassie, you a bad bitch, imma call you lassie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxW6iHjaEho

whoooooops

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/02/here_is_a_video_4.php

THAT IS SO AMAZING because that is EXACTLY WHAT I DO - she missed my favourite bit to rap along to though, "when i pull him by the collar BOY HE GONNA HOLLA"

she did the faces too!

lloyd song is really nice

you heard the whole ep yet? sooo good

nicki and thicki were hilarious on letterman together, should be a travelling comedy duo

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

wooooow

wtf is thicke doing!!

lol there are abt 4 parts that wld be terrific thicke.gif's

dave pronouncing "nicki minaj" justifies her existence so much more than any of her music

Shakin' It 4 Daddy hook -- "She's shakin' it for daddy, she's shakin' it for me" -- makes it sound like Alan is there w/ Robin.

― Andy K, Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:48 PM (Yesterday)

still can't hear that song without thinking of that interpretation of the lyric

haha yeah me either - i think that was in a-kells' amg review too

his tongue at 2:30

dave pronouncing "nicki minaj" justifies her existence so much more than any of her music

― waka flock*a*teens (some dude), Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:50 AM Bookmark

best since he had to say "ga ga ga ga ga" imo

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shit is pretty hypnotic

haters gonna hate but this is amazing - really excited for her album now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj_4y9xeaiA

I like Nicki Minaj but I really don't like this song. The beat stopping every two seconds like each line is a home run drives me nuts.

Also, "Swinging on a vine... MANGO."

her interviews depress me because she comes off pretty humble and self-effacing for a rapper (especially a female rapper, considering how psycho most of the big ones have been historically), and i agree with a lot of what she says about how rap shouldn't take itself too seriously, i just really can't stand her idea of fun.

that song is kind of !

i love nicki in theory, it's just that she's so bad in practice.
would love to hear her do something well scripted.

Not feeling this at all. Feels kind of clunky.

damn, rich four four went extremely hard (in a post about mariah)

Nicki Minaj, whose catchphrases, self-fellating comparisons, and Family Guy approach to referencing (it doesn’t matter if it’s smart or applicable, so long as it’s a reference!) make her an ideal collaborator for this project. Minaj doesn’t only shit on the notion of artistry, she does so on the entire notion of communication. (I’ll say a lot more about this scourge on pop music when her album comes out, as I like her less each day that goes by. For now, my assessment of Minaj is that she is a geyser of unclever nonsense, and as such, a human waste of time.)

"family guy approach to referencing" is exactly the right way to describe the young money era

always loathed family guy so yeah, i would agree. 'unclever' wrt this stuff is a nicely precise turn of phrase too, moreso than stoopid or whatever etc.

otoh the artistry/communication line seems flawed in the sense that minaj is plainly an ultimate representation of the culture around her rather than some sort of lurid solo maverick (whatever some might feel) - ie clearly a communication is being made, even if it is shitty in comparison to what we as oldsters hold dear.

(stranger still is running with that angle whilst at the same time writing off mariah's memoirs in opposition to her not keeping up with the times like she did on e=mc2; if mariah had managed to pull a more collaborative album off successfully in 2010 how would the artistry and communication involved therein been any more valid than minaj's? would the "creative energy" sparked off by working with drake really have been something to savour?)

i'm with lex, awesome song. and i don't know, i'm all for taking young money to court for next-level dumb shit but i kind of feel like you guys are missing the point for being all "swinging from a vine mango LOL" one a song like this tbh.

guys this song is hideous

I dunno. They at least make sense as a couple.

Sounds like they may just be goofing; but if true, what’s not to like? She’s the best, and he seems cool these days..

Why would people complain about this? It’s not like she’s dating Elon Musk.

Just so we're all on the same page, the rumor is that she's dating Eminem

That's just for everyone who, like me, came into this thread and had no idea what anyone was talking about

well, that and the fact that there's an album cycle

her snl performance was the worst shit ever

if that's music i'd like a refund

the backing track was awkward but the dancing was cool, and chun-li is super fun imo

that weird flaccid breathy sax loop is kind of awkward tho

chun li street fighter wins sorry.

the performance was sub karaoke levels shite. logging off, later

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haha, wild mic drop

I blame Katherine
wgaf

Dating a man convicted of first degree rape and manslaughter, real nice....Remy was right I guess

im prob just old but she seems too over-saturated / all her shit now sounds m/l the same to me

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

God, that's one of my favorite songs on earth but please don't release your pet goldfish into the wild! They can be a very destructive invasive species.

I would be absolutely knocked-over shocked if she truly never releases music again. I mean, I have no problem with her saying she's "retiring," I just don't know why we have to take it seriously. 9 times out of 10 "retiring" just means "I'm taking some time off and don't want people harassing me so I'm just gonna say I'm retiring"

amazing diss of itty-bitty-piggy era nicki from 2010 by baltimore rapper keys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W8_xOWd4-Y

did the Barenaked Ladies make "Chickity Choco, the chocolate chicken" theirs as well?

― how's life, Friday, February 15, 2013 9:44 AM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is cracking me up

lol, that was definitely me until age 14

what a rotten person

Yeah, it's really a bummer

oh no what happened?

she's getting friendly with the alt right, giving props to Ben Shapiro

trying to take down Megan the Stallion and siding with Tory Lanez

aside from like everything with her husband being a sex offender

she's been shit for awhile now yeah

I'm not sure I'm 100% caught up with all the rotten shit she's done lately, but I just wanted to note that the "Megan's law" line that set her off recently was great.

i like "hiss" a lot in general. annoying but typical that it's being reported as a diss track when it's pretty much meg's repudiation of all the heinous vitriol she received during the whole shooting/trial saga, the handful of lines suggesting specific 'critics' aside. of course mrs. goofy's embarrassing/pathetic behavior has now made it a 'nicki minaj diss' in the public eye but oh well, what probably would have just been a strong statement track (like previous single "cobra") is now on its way to becoming an actual hit from the looks of it