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

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

it's just a total mess, altho the bridge is nice

i don't really think the "you're missing the point by paying attention to the lyrics!" argument applies to this single at all considering it's barely catchy and mostly totally unpleasant to listen to (and sean garrett is involved, who woulda thunk?!) -- that argument applies to, say, "every girl"

Family Guy approach to referencing (it doesn’t matter if it’s smart or applicable, so long as it’s a reference!)

i don't know who this guy is but i am appropriating this perfect summation of that style of joke as needed in the future

Let's discuss the new M.I.A. single: "London Bridge"

I guess I'll concede to having missed the point... INDEX FINGER

"massive attack" is way more pleasant to listen to than "every girl" (and i like "every girl" fine) - it could use a touch less garrett vocals, but it's no more a mess than "i'm that chick" or "bird flu" or any number of stop-start drum-heavy tracks. and coming up with something like this is a huge relief considering it could've been something like "spotlight".

'Bird Flu' felt so much more natural than this, which feels clumsy and half-formed.

i'm not sure if i LIKE this record yet, but i was kind of expecting some kind of generic cash moneyish thing probably about sex: the fact that it's weird and massive-drummed and abrasive and aggressive are all making it !!! to me. also: sounds really terrible on PC speakers, massive on headphones, i only wish i led a life that would involve hearing it on a massive soundsystem somewhere this week

also the 'mango' line is followed by an off-mic voice going "mango?" as if to be, like, really? i kind of lol'd at this

well, the video is somehow more messy & half-realized than the song is

http://videos.onsmash.com/v/qsexlwwAJJZjNLqe

the bridge on this joint is pretty good -- i kinda wish they had used that beat for the beat and nicki singing as the chorus

ok, kinda great...like the goofed-out kid version of "Hard" or something. Did she just say it wouldn't be "proper" to shoot someone with a rocket launcher? a+

"the bridge on this joint is pretty good -- i kinda wish they had used that beat for the beat and nicki singing as the chorus"

yes exactly. she has such a good voice and so much to offer in this direction (that's largely gone unexplored)--it's kinda baffling they didn't have her singing a hook. like where was drake when they were recording this? maybe that'll be the next single in the pipeline though.

also lex ur crazy. no way in the world this is "pleasant" to listen to, in any sense of the word. interesting, mayyyyybe.

but yeah this mostly sucks. i'd rather listen to the last 45 seconds or whatever looped for 3 minutes than the song itself.

the stop-start clunkiness of the song is exacerbated by the radio edit too

the radio edit is o_0 - you can't say "jumbo" any more??

still disagree it's a mess, the stop-start beat and the weird explosions and shots and shit going off everywhere really suit the song. it's meant to be disorientating!

i really like the video too (and how is that confused...it's just situating minaj's pink-wigged barbie steez in middle east/jungle settings) - makes it totally clear that her angle is less "rap gaga" as "new missy". i don't find her humour any more senseless than some of missy's lyrics tbh.

also, a mug's game trying to predict commercial success but i def think this is the right strategy for minaj

I can't make up my mind about this

wow yikes the video for this is a total disaster. minaj looking really awkward for like the first time ever and hype williams sapping all the rest of the focus out of it with endless slow fades to random shit and ridiculous-ass sean garrett.

http://videos.onsmash.com/v/qsexlwwAJJZjNLqe

i also gr8tly appreciate the last few posts, hard for me to remember what i already wrote a week ago yesterday sometimes

― r|t|c, Thursday, April 1, 2010 1:33 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

but you're right, minaj looks suuuper awkward & uncomfortable at the end doing her shakria rip off thing

minaj looking really awkward for like the first time ever

uh

i'm serious - i mean she may look awkward by yours or anyone else's standards generally but at least she always seemed in control of whatever it is she wanted to be up until now

(lol yeah ok jordan but i did fluke saying different stuff tbf)

i agree with rtc -- even tho i think she's been shameless & a biter, she's def seemed in control -- the shakira panting at the end of the video looks like some jenna parody sketch out of 30 rock

tbh her schtick comes across to me way better when the whole song/video/style is all hers and she's not just grafting it onto some generic Yo Gotti or Mariah song. i don't know if i like it per se, but i respect that that's her single instead of something more like what she's been featured on.

otm

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