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Originally posted by Eaten By Lions
A part of what bothers me about this is how entitled Nick is and how misplaced it is. I've said from day one: Iggy may not be the best rapper but she is a hustler. She had several years of the "buzzed about artist" phase, she just kept lining up promo spot after promo spot (remember VH1 Divas?) and it still seemed she was locked out of the mainstream grid. She spent years trying to convince people she would work for mainstream, but to no avail. Nicki was nowhere during this time and she was NOT advocating for her fellow female rapper. Not that she is entitled to, but that's just how it was.
Now that Iggy is successful and sharing the same stage Nicki wants to attack her and put her stake in. She wants to claim she's done so much for female rappers when Iggy did all the heavy lifting for herself. She wants to claim Iggy is inauthentic when Nicki herself has sold out for every shiny penny offered to her. Again, nothing wrong with this except for the lack of honesty.
This attack was petty. Nicki is so pressed to use her platform to put down another artist like that. And don't tell me it wasn't when every music source on the web is reporting it. Even if it wasn't just about her, without a correction from Nicki herself, it may as well be.
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How could Nicki advocate for Iggy she didn't even know who Iggy was. Iggy just got her first number one. Nicki has always said "S/O to female rappers past and present" why she single anyone out they don't single her out when they get awards. That statement their should be enough. Maybe you don't understand rap, but all that hustling that she did was necessary. There are rappers out there who don't have a forth of the attention that iggy has gotten in the last for years.
I feel like you're totally wrong about Nicki being entitled. I want you to understand that before Nicki NO new female rappers got mainstream attention again until Nicki came along. None of these female rappers could even get hits on billboard. There are legends in the game that couldn't release albums again until they saw that branding a female rapper was cool again. It has been said by MANY people that Nicki brought back female rap. Just listen to how when Nicki is brought up to older rap vets they say "that lane was open because there was no face for female rap"
It's very wrong of you to say that Nicki corrected herself and said it wasn't about Iggy and you're still saying it is. You must've missed the fuse interview where Nicki said she saw Iggy as a big person for giving Nicki her props, because you take that what you think as shade to heart, because Nicki Minaj is the MOST hated female rapper. Iggy hasn't seen anything of what Nicki Minaj has almost EVERY female tried I throw subs at Nicki and she have them props, after props, after props, and they STILL throw shade. Nicki went back and even said wasn't about Iggy and people still won't accept that. Those female rappers NEVER did that for Nicki.