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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMZ5s7o2F88

love her. No thread on her. Drake talks about her a lot. She pops up on that Young Money "Bedrock" shit, which is a late entry for song of the year for me 2009. Think she's going to be huge?

Here's "Bedrock."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha80ZaecGkQ&feature=fvw

is she retarded?

the female rapper of choice for people who thought Left Eye was just too subtle and subdued

When she's good, she's pretty enjoyable, imo.

The Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape is pretty solid, esp. the title track, although that's as much due to the Sasha sample as anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IEWM3etQsg

The Sweet Dreams Remix with her and Wayne from No Ceilings is another highlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcnBdbb86t0&feature=related

Honestly, I'm not sure how she'll sustain over proper album-length stuff, but as a female Wayne-equivalent for mixtapes and remix purposes, I'm fine with it.

"equivalent" is probably not the right word

no, it isn't. by a long shot.

i just meant, if she sticks to her female sub-wayne shtick for the next while, i'll be fine with it.

what's the source of the sasha sample?

I have NO IDEA. Been trying to figure this out - Lex told me it was Sasha and the internet seems to confirm this but other than that google is no help whatsoever.

But seriously that "hackle mi body" loop is wondrous.

huh, my No Ceilings doesn't have that

Official No Ceilings release had an extra three or four tracks at the end.

Cool N Dre (feat. Birdman)
Oh Let's Do It
Single (yes, as in Ne-Yo)
Sweet Dreams (feat. Nicki Minaj)

"equivalent" is probably not the right word

― some dude, Friday, January 1, 2010 4:57 PM (32 minutes ago)

man i was saying this to sarge the other day but equivalent aint THAT far off, she's an 09 wayne clone to the t - can ride a beat just fine but way too many pee pee puns and annoying ass vocal inflections for my taste

xp: naw, mine doesn't have any of those

not to say all the other verses are great, but Gudda Gudda's verse completely stalls "Bedrock" in it's tracks

She blew up a long time ago around here but I guess this is her "base" - she's definitely about to takover the pop world in 2010 and I'm excited for that she's awesome. Love her mixtapes but she's definitely improving, all of her recent guest spots steal the show. Excited to hear the "up owt my face" remix with Mimi

i enjoy her verses - i mean she is totally a wayne clone right down to sports references and stuff, but she can flow really well & i def enjoy her crazy wacko 98 different voices a verse schtick

idk if she's gonna blow up per se but "i get crazy" is pretty cool. i could see her having a real hit next year, i think being part of young money is a good look for her because she's so much better than all those dudes. def more than a token chick thing

i like her schtick on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb-L-j8JBYg

(not representative of the thicke album fwiw)

She wasn't always a Wayne clone tho, her pre-Wayne shit is good too, if typical of ur average female mixtapes rapper from NYC ..

It's like I just fell off the turnip truck, and I desperately want back on...

Official No Ceilings release had an extra three or four tracks at the end.

Cool N Dre (feat. Birdman)
Oh Let's Do It
Single (yes, as in Ne-Yo)
Sweet Dreams (feat. Nicki Minaj)

― Alex in Montreal, Friday, January 1, 2010 5:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

huh? Wayne's "Single" has absolutely nothing to do with Ne-Yo's "Single" as far as I can hear

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/48035705.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1262409986&Signature=JJy934JNMfIdYyeIjNk8uTx2%2BWI%3D

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!!

chun li street fighter wins sorry.

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

?

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

https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/nicki-minaj-elon-musk-endorsement-1483017

Yuck

lol why is anyone surprised?

Hadn't really been following her lately and hadn't seen previous pro-Trump garbage from her

Like most generally awful narcissists it's a short walk to Trumpism

What a dumbass

Nothing brings me joy like the Vance memes & knowing he leaned into it like a boss

Top Tier Comedy

Character = 100

But make no mistake, Vance is an assassin. Don’t debate him. On anything. Quick as a computer. Maybe quicker.

He’s the best blend I’ve ever seen of us&them pic.twitter.com/6dpSKljsNT

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) December 11, 2025

They not like Us/Them

geeking out to JD Vance is her weirdest thing yet

Now she's posting TERF shit

We have the option to ignore her

Certainly A Choice or A Take, Nicki’s made here

DJP OTM honestly

DJM OTM OBV

She’s hitting bottom hard or, more likely, angling for a pardon for her brother. Erika Kirk brought her out at the Turning Point event to talk about our “handsome, dashing president”.

this irredeemably pathetic person

I thought she wanted a pardon for her husband, who was charged with sexual assault. Looked up her brother: oh look, child rape. She certainly enjoys surrounding herself with a type, I think the Republican Party is probably right for her.

alt-right for her

investing the energy to be outraged by all of this seems silly?

it's ok it doesn't require me to expend much energy

Hate and bigotry will never make sense to me.

investing the energy to be outraged by all of this seems silly?

what’s the “silly” part

the entirety of the energy behind my investment in the whole thing stems from confusion. in order to be outraged, i think a general understanding of the situation is a prerequisite, which excludes me.

kind of funny in a nihilistic way too? also feeds my brain's ideas about the nonexistence of free will and everything being scripted. ultimately i find it very discouraging for the human spirit, if such a thing exists in the first place. no outrage here whatsoever.

and what is the value of the energy invested in policing people's outrage?
people are allowed to discuss what they want. that's kind of why ilx exists in the first place.

i was looking at the US iTunes chart last night for an unrelated reason, but i noticed that "Super Freaky Girl" was #1. thought that was odd for a two-year-old song and only now am i realizing that it's probably a show of support from MAGA folks.

wild. i cannot imagine your typical red hat lunatic enjoying her music at all.

maybe not but i can imagine them buying a song on itunes to own the libs.

fine, she can tour MAGA strongholds with Azalea Banks and the rest of us can ignore her

who buys from itunes anymore?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/07/apple-download-chart-battleground-pop-politics-megan-thee-stallion-nicki-minaj

Over 20 years after its launch, Apple’s online music store has found a surprising new life – as a battleground for online turf wars. Last week, at least five songs rose to the upper reaches of the Apple Music (formerly iTunes) download charts, powered by different internet factions. Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion fans waged war against each other as foot soldiers in the rappers’ feud; Britney Spears fans mass-bought the singer’s years-old songs Liar and Selfish as a way to troll her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, who released a song also called Selfish last month; and rightwing media influencer Ben Shapiro encouraged his fans to drive Facts, his new rap song with Canadian former wrestler Tom MacDonald, up the charts. Far from a measure of objective popularity, the chart reflected political biases, years-old feuds and outright pettiness.

Fans mobilising to push certain albums or songs up the Apple Music download charts is nothing new – in 2018, a group of Mariah Carey fans mass-bought the singer’s 2001 flop Glitter as part of a campaign called #JusticeForGlitter. But musician and writer Jaime Brooks says that the cratering of the digital download market in recent years – around 152m digital songs were sold in the US in 2022, less than half of 2018’s 412m – has allowed campaigns that are smaller and far less coordinated than #JusticeForGlitter to disproportionately affect the charts. “I don’t think anybody’s actually using their phones and iTunes to listen to files any more, except people who have not upgraded their setup since 2012 – there are a lot of people like that in America, but not enough to sustain these huge numbers,” she says. “This [downloading] is a purely performative gesture – it only ever happens as a result of some kind of factional culture war that somebody has the money and inclination to try to represent on the charts.”

Ben Shapiro encouraged his fans to drive Facts, his new rap song with Canadian former wrestler Tom MacDonald, up the charts

what the fuck

anyways. i refuse to give spotify my money - so will download the occasional song. but usually go straight to the artist when i can.