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Originally posted by Tsuko
People complained about Kanye and Eminem and Drake for being too pop and soft aswell a lot. Starships, Pound the Alarm, etc. is a whole different level to any of their albums or anything on Pink Friday. Va Va Voom would've probably been okay, but those others are too much.
And you don't need more than 5 albums to make yourself legend status in hip hop. 50 Cent hasn't released 5 albums yet, and I'm already seeing him listed up there with the greats sometimes (although he's not THAT good, but that's not the point here).
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Thing is, she started off in that soft place, like them, however they all took their criticism and got better. Nicki obviously had other motives in mind and other girls she wanted to compete with.
For her to put out something like Starships possibly ruined any credibility she could have had as an urban artist. I say possibly, cause its not impossible to recover. But... For that to not go number one, which you know she wanted, is pretty sad.
I wonder, if Super Bass had made it around PRA and LFN, where would she be now...? She might not have had to put out anything that screamed desperation at all. She could have led off her sophomore effort with a song that had urban appeal and got the album sales from it. Her current total... Is honestly what her debut week should have been. Which is still paltry when you compare it to Drake and Wayne's numbers.