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Celeb News: Nicki addresses "sell-out" comments in new interview
Member Since: 12/15/2009
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Originally posted by Lil Misty
Atleast Queen Latifah was good at what she did
Lets be honest
Nicki
Can
Not
Sing.
I liked Nicki back when she rapped with credibility and had nice lyrics. I love Romans Revenge. Point being, stop singing, start rapping
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This.
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Member Since: 12/28/2011
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I'm backing her up all the way.
Excluding live performances...
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Do people actually take note that artists make music for a living? Being a recording artist and a performer is a career path. If a regular "non-famous" person had the opportunity to increase their profits and income, most of the time they'd take that chance. It is no different in the music world. People seem to think that celebrities are exempt from the conventional norms of everyday society, when in fact they are not. The only difference is that they live their life in the public eye. People are out there to make money, including songwriters, musicians, performances and producers. Otherwise, they'd give out their albums and songs for free. That's why you have to make the product (that being music) as marketable as possible. What really bugs me is when people go hard on artists like Nicki for "selling out", when they'd do a similar thing to become more successful in their life if they had a choice. I know someone will probably shake their head, reply to this post and debate to everything I said, but I'm just being realistic here. The music industry is a game. Nothing you see or hear is entirely real.
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Member Since: 12/22/2011
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All these gorls talking about sell out this and sell out that are too much...nicki got yall mind. It's a shame that time and energy is dedicated to ppl you have issues with. Nicki stay winning...keeping them gorls thirsty and hungry.
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Member Since: 3/27/2008
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This time last year she released a song with lyrics "i fly with the stars in the sky, i am no longer trying to survive, i believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean your alive", exactly a year later she releases a song with the lyrics "put ya hand up and touch the sky, we higha than a muth****a". Her lyrics have evolved from meaning and intimate to generic trash marketed toward brain-dead radio listeners. Thats why I have lost my respect for her.
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Member Since: 12/22/2011
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Originally posted by LeonazNumber#1
This time last year she released a song with lyrics "i fly with the stars in the sky, i am no longer trying to survive, i believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean your alive", exactly a year later she releases a song with the lyrics "put ya hand up and touch the sky, we higha than a muth****a". Her lyrics have evolved from meaning and intimate to generic trash marketed toward brain-dead radio listeners. Thats why I have lost my respect for her.
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And you haven't heard intimate lyrics in fireburn, champion, marilyn Monroe and many other tracks...oh well...you will deal and she will win. Hopefully for the one fsn she lost, she has gained another...don't you ever get to thinkinnnnn you're irreplaceable...lol
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Member Since: 4/30/2009
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Originally posted by Hooligan
Nicki raps on all of her songs no matter how "pop" the beat may be, and that's a fact.
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all of Nicki's "rap" singles flopped and she was marketed as a pop star. You can't compare.
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Member Since: 4/30/2009
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Originally posted by brIt-()nstar
So you mean to be "hood" is to limit your own potential, sis?
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When did I say that? :-/
I said, she wasn't talking all of this **** about "the hood" when her same "hood" ass was trying to come up IN THE HOOD WITH HER "HOOD FANS THAT HELPED HER GET SIGNED IN THE FIRST PLACE. Why wasn't she dissing them then? Why was she trying so hard to act hood before she got signed? Because, she's a sellout.
Bitch shared a couple of ki's with Gaga and Katy Perry and now she think's shes the next Madonna? Girl, bye.
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Originally posted by Reed
Assuming you listened to the first half of her newest album, what would classify that as? You know she has a new album out right? Wait, do you even know who Nicki MInaj is?
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Yes, I heard that album. Out of 19 songs, only like 6 songs are really rapped (that's not even half) and she didn't even put much effort into them (recycled lines, getting upstaged by her guest appearences, etc). It's cool that she wan'ts to be versatile and reach to other audiences. But at the same time, She's not becoming a rapper who does pop music. She's becoming a pop artist who sometimes does rap music. It's no real balance. Drake and Missy's music had balance.
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Originally posted by kitten****
And she's stated quite often how much she felt that that wasn't her. That that was what she thought she was supposed to be as a female rapper. Technically, that would be more of the "selling out" point being that "selling out" tends to mean to conform (keyword) to a certain image/perception so you can become more successful ("Anyone who sacrifices artistic integrity in an effort to become more successful or popular") IF YOU REALLY WANNA THINK ABOUT IT. She came in as a rapper on total unfamiliar grounds as she was initially a singer and actor, wanted to be successful so she followed the 1-2-3 step female rapper formula but just couldn't ****ing do it knowing that she wanted to incorporate all her other attributes in it. And ever since she left that behind and stated that, she has never went back on her word.
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So basically, she's saying: " i faked being hood to fit in and get on, and once I got on I'm no longer a hood girl and I'm SOOO above that" lol, MESS!
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Originally posted by Sláy
She isn't trying, she IS fitting in. She has the pop appeal that Missy, Kim and all the other gurls could never have, and I stan for them, I saw her blowing up ages ago. She has that appeal, far more likeable/marketable.
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Missy NEVER tried to fit in musically and still manage to get bigger hits/album sales than Nicki ever will. Missy's music didnt sound
like Britney Spears and all the hot pop starts out at the time.
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Member Since: 6/10/2009
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Yasss Nicki drag them hoes down.
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Member Since: 10/31/2011
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wow,that was good,and it helped me to realize that maybe she's not fake,
I was a hater once Starships came out,because I felt like it's not her,that she wanted just more money,
but after I read this interview I changed my mind.
I have respect for her now,and I can't stop listening to PF:RR since yesterday,
even though,I don't think it's amazing album,but it's good,and it's growing on me all the time.
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Member Since: 12/22/2011
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Originally posted by LoveVsMoney
Missy NEVER tried to fit in musically and still manage to get bigger hits/album sales than Nicki ever will. Missy's music didnt sound
like Britney Spears and all the hot pop starts out at the time.
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Why would missy be thrown in...she went pop during get ur freak on and work it...before and after there were no examples...
I personally think missy Elliott is the queen however Kim is more known and missy isn't the best lyricist. It all doesn't matter because nicki will remain successful despite your shade...Kii.
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Originally posted by slw84
Why would missy be thrown in...she went pop during get ur freak on and work it...before and after there were no examples...
I personally think missy Elliott is the queen however Kim is more known and missy isn't the best lyricist. It all doesn't matter because nicki will remain successful despite your shade...Kii.
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Not really. Most of those songs are considered urban with pop appeal, and can still be played on any urban station. I'd like to hear Starships blasting on Hot 97 or any real hip hop station.
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
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Originally posted by TheOnlyOne
I'm sorry, but no.
This is why I can't stand artists like Nicki and Lady Gaga. They come out on the scene as one persona with a very distinct song, and then a few years later, switch up practically everything and claim they were just faking in the beginning. That does not excuse anything for me. Nicki had a legion of fans based on who she was and what she rapped about. So, no one has any right to say us former fans are salty are wrong. If Nick was the girl she is now when she first came out, I would've never wasted a moment of my time even checking for her. If this is who she is now, great, but I am not supporting it nor do I like it. She will remain a sell-out to me.
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But, Gaga was smart enough to debut that way and even years before her first major release you could see the transformation into what she is today. It wasn't like she released a Norah Jones/Michelle Branch type of album and then suddenly put out The Fame years later.
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Member Since: 12/22/2011
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Originally posted by Monster
Not really. Most of those songs are considered urban with pop appeal, and can still be played on any urban station. I'd like to hear Starships blasting on Hot 97 or any real hip hop station.
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I love missy but how is her radio play nowadays...how are female rappers in general actually. I can imagine 3-4 but she's released much more than that. I just find it odd to compare missy with her. Missy is respected more as a producer and her creativity than her mind blowing lyrics...and she is my fave female rapper so no bias.
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[Queen Latifah] is someone who I tip my hat to because Queen Latifah looked at it and said, "Okay, wait, hmm, I mean I wanna be 40 years old rapping. I — the hip-hop fans may not want to hear me when I'm 40 years old rapping. So I'm going to shapen and move in a way so that every aspect of who I am can be seen." Queen Latifah does musicals, movies, voice overs for cartoons — is she a sellout or is she winning? So these other bitches that only did rap and now they're washed, and they're living in, you know, low-income housing — is that winning? Just so that a ***** in the street can give me a ****ing dap? The same ***** that didn't buy my album any ****ing way, that downloaded the ****? Get the **** out of here.
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Bitch went ****ing AWF. Damn.
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I understand her frustration but let's be honest, when you release something like Turn Me On - something that sounds straight off Dance Dance Revolution - after cultivating this "tough female rapper" persona, people are going to question your authenticity. It was just such an abrupt stylistic turnaround.
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Member Since: 12/22/2011
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Originally posted by Monster
But, Gaga was smart enough to debut that way and even years before her first major release you could see the transformation into what she is today. It wasn't like she released a Norah Jones/Michelle Branch type of album and then suddenly put out The Fame years later.
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True...I'm just not seeing how pf:rr is drastically different from pf. Both had pop, dance, r&b and rap...she just took pf to another level...I wonder why ppl comment without doing their research...smh. again, ppl will seethe foam and eventually accept and deal. Nicki got yall minds...and her success isn't diminishing...only a bad bish.
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Member Since: 12/22/2011
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Originally posted by Benzene
I understand her frustration but let's be honest, when you release something like Turn Me On - something that sounds straight off Dance Dance Revolution - after cultivating this "tough female rapper" persona, people are going to question your authenticity. It was just such an abrupt stylistic turnaround.
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Um, so songs like check it out, save me, fly, last chance are supposed to represent hood nicki...Idgi...nicki doing something keeping ya minds occupied. I love it.
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