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Discussion: Nicki: RR is a New Genre
Member Since: 6/6/2011
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Originally posted by Rebel
Her nose in the first pic...... the "new genre" ........
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I just noticed her nose :deadbanan2:
I am sure its make-up and a bad photoshop though... I hope.
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yessssss onika
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Member Since: 4/10/2011
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Before I or anyone trashes the good sis Nicki we should wait for the album to come out
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Member Since: 8/23/2011
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Originally posted by SLAYANNA NAVY
Maybe this new genre is the "Stupid Hoe" genre, if so i definitely see it working out, maybe that way Nicki can win a grammy
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Member Since: 6/4/2010
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Originally posted by MrBeyonceFan
Taking notes from The King i see
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It didn't sound so egotistical when she said it though. She was like, "my own little gumbo of music, like my own little genre"
Nicki has just been saying and doing the absolute most since her Grammy performance
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I hate what she said that a female rapper doesn't need to talk about her ***** to sell records.....
Why would she make Kim her idol and then just try to act "better" than what Kim did? Also, she acted like Missy didn't have 4 platinum albums and one double platinum album.
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Member Since: 8/30/2011
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Originally posted by itsAllen
Before I or anyone trashes the good sis Nicki we should wait for the album to come out
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I think it's safe to say she won't be pioneering anything with this album produced mostly by RedOne and Dr Luke.
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Member Since: 10/3/2010
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Originally posted by Reed
But waiT. The mentality is that if her pop songs are more successful than her hip-hop songs, she's sold out. If they flop like Check it Out did, then it's ok she's hip-hop.
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Onika just can't win
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I can just hear BoomKack speaking through her.
She really was possessed and needs an exorcism from her ASAP.
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Member Since: 8/19/2011
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Originally posted by Pierre
I want to hear this album right now.
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!!! I'll decide if what she's saying is true or not.
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Originally posted by Shape
waiT. Let's look at that list again
Only TWO songs out of 6 that could be considered "pop"
Can we stop moaning about pop Nicki now?
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The problem is that it's clear she's only putting any sort of effort/quality control into the pop songs.
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Member Since: 8/23/2011
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Also a bit of a contradiction:
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But the major criticism was that the album was too pop, more singing than rapping.
I’m very happy I made that choice.
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she refuses to acknowledge any deliberate pop ambitions
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Member Since: 6/13/2010
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She was making a new genre of pop/rap in 2010 when she was the feature queen and her verses were so interesting. Now she's singing Turn Me On and Starships...
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Member Since: 12/6/2011
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Originally posted by katara
Didn't Gaga say the same about BTW? And how did that turn out?
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It ended up selling 6M in about 9 months, spawning 4 Top 10's on BB and is going to be supported by a tour that has a lot of sold out stadium shows and is getting more dates added because of the demand. Is that bad?
So sick of ****** posts like these.
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
The problem is that it's clear she's only putting any sort of effort/quality control into the pop songs.
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How is that "clear"
I think she's putting work into all of her music, but she's being smart about what to release to build hype, and what not to release. She knows Starships will get her on pop radio again
She knows she'll sell 400K+ just from the hip hop market, now she just wants to see if she can get another 80-90K from the pop market. It's smart
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Originally posted by madonnas
I hate what she said that a female rapper doesn't need to talk about her ***** to sell records.....
Why would she make Kim her idol and then just try to act "better" than what Kim did? Also, she acted like Missy didn't have 4 platinum albums and one double platinum album.
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No she's addressing what everyone used to tell her when she was on the come up. Fendi especially basically molded her into a sex vixen from the get go and the general consensus was that she couldn't be successful unless she rapped about sex or "her *****" lol. Thats why she was so sexualized earlier on. Fendi took charge of her career at the start. She's not saying this is what every other female rapper did before her. She's saying she didn't have to do what everyone said she had to do in order to become successful.
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It lives on
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All here for the new genre
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What kind of parasite
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Originally posted by Shape
How is that "clear"
I think she's putting work into all of her music, but she's being smart about what to release to build hype, and what not to release. She knows Starships will get her on pop radio again
She knows she'll sell 400K+ just from the hip hop market, now she just wants to see if she can get another 80-90K from the pop market. It's smart
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I don't think she's being "smart" about what to release at all. It took 3 misfires before she found something that "stuck." And she had to resort to a ****ing RedOne-imitating-Dr. Luke track, I mean come the **** on.
I'm sorry, but from a lyrical/hip-hop/MC perspective, Roman In Moscow, Stupid Hoe, Starships, Turn Me On and Roman Holiday are ****ing trash. She literally has recycled the same two themes (Lil' Kim and NOTHING) for nearly every single verse
The problem isn't that Nicki's becoming "too pop" or "too whatever."
The problem is she ran out of things to say and is just riding on the hype of her early work at this point. If a new rap chick came out spitting as weak as Nicki has on every single track barring Roman Reloaded this era, we would be dragging her up and down the boards for filth.
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