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Originally posted by LDYGG
Yeah, like someone said, she's basically the only "female rapper" in the mainstream game right now, so of course she's the "premiere" this and "premiere" that.
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This.
If Nicki didn't start out releasing dance/pop songs now, she would have eventually. If she stayed just rapping, people would have forgotten about her, or became bored. She needed to get herself to stand out, and not be known as just another "female rapper" .
Rappers are expected to just rap, they may hop on someone else's track, it may be dance or pop but they still rap on it. I guess with Nicki, it confuses people cause they expect a rap album because she's a rapper. But why sit here and only reach out to one kind of audience, and only be played on certain radio stations? If PF, and PF:RR was only a rap album, it may not have sold as much as did, and may not even have promoted as much. I mean rap is taken as such a serious thing, and some people may think Nicki sold out or change from who she when she first came on the scene.
At the end of the day, she knows what she's doing. She knows that she gonna be on more charts, sell more albums, get more awards. and work with a lot more people if she's diverse.