Nicki has been getting an awful lot of hate on ATRL lately. While I'm not a huge Nicki fan myself, in her defense, I am a bit curious. Keeping in mind she debuted in 2010 and that she is a female rapper, how did she manage to get so many hits in such a short span of time?
Hits / Honorable mentions(?)
∙ BedRock (Young Money)
∙ Your Love
∙ Bottoms Up (Trey Songz)
∙ Monster (Kanye West)
∙ Moment 4 Life
∙ Super Bass
∙ Fly
∙ Where Them Girls At (Flo Rida)
∙ Dance (A$$) (Big Sean)
∙ Turn Me On (David Guetta)
∙ Starships
∙ Girl on Fire (Alicia Keys)
∙ Beauty and a Beat (Justin Bieber)
∙ Bang Bang (with Jessie J)
∙ Anaconda
∙ Hey Mama (David Guetta)
∙ Check It Out (will.i.am)
∙ Did It On'em
∙ Stupid Hoe
∙ Give Me All Your Luvin' (Madonna)
∙ Beez in the Trap
∙ Pound the Alarm
∙ Pills N Potions
∙ Only
∙ Truffle Butter
∙ Flawless (Remix) (Beyoncé)
∙ My ***** (YG)
(I'm sure some of these may not be "hits", as well as the fact that there may be a couple more songs that could be defined as "moderate hits" that I did not include.)
Because she sold out from a rapper to a pop artist?
EDIT: Not to mention half of those are features and she's in the song for like 30 seconds, and a lot of those aren't even hits. If you count Top 40 as a hit... well...
She'll be an icon of the 2010s & nothing will change that. She single-handedly repped female rap this decade & has not been challenged for the throne at all.
Nicki has been getting an awful lot of hate on ATRL lately. While I'm not a huge Nicki fan myself, in her defense, I am a bit curious. Keeping in mind she debuted in 2010, how did she manage to get so many hits in such a short span of time?
Hits
∙ Your Love
∙ Bottoms Up (Trey Songz)
∙ Monster (Kanye West)
∙ Moment 4 Life
∙ Fly
∙ Where Them Girls At (Flo Rida)
∙ Dance (A$$) (Big Sean)
∙ Girl on Fire (Alicia Keys)
∙ Check It Out (will.i.am)
∙ Right Thru Me
∙ Did It On'em
∙ Stupid Hoe
∙ Beez in the Trap
∙ Pills N Potions
∙ Only
∙ Truffle Butter
∙ Flawless (Remix) (Beyoncé)
∙ My ***** (YG)
Honorable mentions
∙ Check It Out (will.i.am)
∙ Right Thru Me
∙ Did It On'em
∙ Stupid Hoe
∙ Give Me All Your Luvin' (Madonna)
∙ Beez in the Trap
∙ Pills N Potions ∙ Only
∙ Truffle Butter
∙ Flawless (Remix) (Beyoncé)
∙ My ***** (YG)
Not you putting Only and Truffle Butter under the honorable mentions section when they're one of Onika's biggest urban smashes.