I'm glad they're finally recognizing her for a solo song besides Super Bass, even if it's not her absolute best song.
And this is the second mainstream song they've BNT'd so far this year? I like the website, but that's one of the many things about it that's always annoyed me.
Too clubby. Too pop radio-ready, not enough rapping rapping. What's this dubstep breakdown doing here? No, no, too much rapping rapping on this one, too many characters. Too weird. Too campy. Too much Sophia Grace Branlee here. This is the tug-of-war dialogue surrounding Nicki Minaj since she stopped exclusively killing features and started putting out her own catalogue of scattershot, hit-or-miss solo material. But on head-bobbing Roman Reloaded highlight "Beez in the Trap", Nicki hits a spot sweet enough to render every single gripe obsolete for four and a half minutes. She's pure gloat here, appropriating the mock-sugary smack-talk of a drug-dealing high schooler. For its daunting swagger, though, her persona is patiently understated, swollen with coiled energy over a tough bubble-pop beat. "Bitches ain't **** and they ain't say nothing," she raps, "A hundred mother ****ers can't tell me nothin'". For once, not even the most finicky Goldilocks can argue.
I'm glad they're finally recognizing her for a solo song besides Super Bass, even if it's not her absolute best song.
However, she could have really used that song for herself. No 2 Chainz would've been more interesting.
