It is Nicki at her absolute most ******* insane. Seriously, it could fit on an ODB album. Her most experimental song.
If we're talking about her at the most insane, Come on a Cone >
P4K puts it perfectly:
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Nicki Minaj didn't learn how to be weird overnight. Early clips that show her attempting her malfunctioning-fembot style display someone very interested in the idea of being weird, but uncertain what kind of weird was worth pursuing. It was hard to look directly at her for a while, but once it all locked into place, she more or less immediately became one of the most thrilling rappers around. On "Come On A Cone," she moves far past "weird." Her performance on this song is something else entirely: demented. Chaotic. Gloriously unpredictable. Fearless. One of the most creatively unhinged vocal takes in pop-rap history -- or at least an immediate contender for the top ten. Whatever cheap hyperbole you could fling at this performance, Nicki bats down with one of her palmetto-sized eyelashes: listen to her liquify the words "come on a cone" until they are just another sound pinging around in Hit Boy's bouncy castle of a beat. There aren't really suitable phrases for that yet.
As a rapper, Nicki doesn't work in "oh ****!"-quotable lines that often. In fact, her most memorable couplet on this song ("When I'm sittin with Anna, I'm really sittin with Anna/Ain't no metaphor or punchline, I'm really sittin' with Anna") denies the need for figures of speech completely. But this song is a parade of "oh ****!" moments: the way her voice trembles exactly once on the word "Alaska", or how she flails between gasp and squeak on the chorus like a landed marlin. And, of course, when she invites us all to join her in a deeply felt chorus of "Dick in your face." At one point, "Come On A Cone" was nothing but an instrumental on someone's hard drive. Now it's an exorcism.
THAT might actually be her most experimental track to date.
Talking about me, you talking about me?
I dare a mother****er, to be talking about me
Them bitches must be smokin a couple of OC
They want the outline, I give them a goatee
Talking about me, you talking about me?
I dare a mother****er, to be talking about me
Them bitches must be smokin a couple of OC
They want the outline, I give them a goatee
I think I might like the live version with the ab-libs more, but then I don't know.
