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Originally posted by Lyrical.
Nicki writes all her raps. The only lyrics people may help her write are her choruses, i.e. the more poppish songs.
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we have no way of determining that as fact.
The main thing i don't understand is that you all know this is a business and there are very few rappers in general that you look at the credits and see their name soley...even with sample credits...you still don't see just one name).
In any genre, there are people that thinks it takes away credibility if you don't write your own material but it doesn't take away credibility to see multiple names listed as songwriters and that doesn't include all of the writers...I believe the top 5/7 get listed or something.
to me, the foolish ones are the following:
those that don't write and are not getting paid with a publishing deal for the songs they perform as an artist
those that do write and are not getting paid with a publishing deal for songs they perform.
That's why I'm cool with rappers doing it and even Celine and Beyonce and others that receive flack for not writing their material (one gets ha coins from those songs and the other has their name in the credits but still gets ha coins)...they both win.