In 2012 alone:
*A$$ got people talking
*Stupid Hoe got people talking
*Her outfits got people talking
*The Grammy's got people talking
*Starships got people talking
*The All-Star Game performance got people talking
*The PF:RR cover now has people talking
I hate the word sellout because usually when people call someone a sellout its because they are trying something different and no doing what you think they should, but Nicki is a TRUE sellout.
She really is.
I mean, she went from Itty Bitty Piggy to Starships within 3 years.
That quote is misleading and wrong; she's saying that she inspires and is inspired by what's happening in pop culture, not that she's the one who defines it or anything.
Having a couple fans dress up as you doesn't make you "pop culture." In that case Rihanna, Katy, Gaga, Ke$ha, any popstar with some sort of costume/wig replicated by fans is so larger than life that they represent pop culture? It's that easy?
When you get done and finish, from HERE and FOREVER AND A DAY pink hair will ALWAYS be associated to Onika Minaj, she brought colorful wigs to the forefront of pop culture in a way they never had the chance to see light. She put rap music for females not only back on the US map, but she made it a GLOBAL thing and introduced many different countries to something they were unfamiliar with from female artists (especially black ones).
The bitch didn't say she was the forefront of pop culture, she said she's influenced it and she has, if yall would stop spending so much time being straight up H.A.T.E.R.S you could have gotten that yourself from reading the entire article and using a few brain cells to come to that conclusion. Pop culture is not one dimensional not does it stop with one person or one thing, Nicki Minaj represents pop culture at this time as do many others.
People only like newbies on the block until they become a THREAT.
End thread. I remember all the gorls who were BOPPING to "Your Love" back in '10 but if she released something like that now they would seethe and burn her at the stake. Everyone was on her bandwagon, they just started slowly getting off.
In 2012 alone: *A$$ got people talking
*Stupid Hoe got people talking *Her outfits got people talking
*The Grammy's got people talking *Starships got people talking *The All-Star Game performance got people talking
*The PF:RR cover now has people talking
That's all debatable.
How can you prove that people were really talking about any of that? Especially the bold ones.
I remember girls in my neighborhood having that same wig Nicki Minaj had in the 5 Star Chick/ that black bang wig that was long and the front and then got shorter toward the back. That was 2009-2010. Girls outgrew wanting to have that same hairstyle like Nicki lol