It was too funny and sad watching Nicki transform from the hood girl from Queens spitting fire to a white girl dressing up in Lady Gaga-esque attire singing K$/Katy Perry rejects. And the way she tried to pass it off as "experimenting" is just The backlash was warranted.
Her Grammy performance was the ultimate WTF moment in her career.
Due to the new Billboard Rules, only 2 black artist have went #1 on Hot Rap Songs in the last 2 years -- 1 being Flo Rida.
Wayment, no way. Let's take a closer look at this.
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In 2013, the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart was topped by a Caucasian person 44 out of 52 weeks—including 37 straight weeks, January to October, where it was topped by either hip-hop duo Macklmore & Ryan Lewis or blue-eyed soul singer Robin Thicke.
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Take Rihanna: native of Barbados, obviously a woman of color and, let’s be clear, primarily a pop star. Since her 2005 breakthrough, she has been tentatively embraced by R&B radio, but only intermittently. Until 2012, she’d only scored one No. 1 R&B hit, the 2008 ballad “Take a Bow”; that’s compared with her 10 chart-toppers on the Hot 100 in this period. Many of Rihanna’s Hot 100 No. 1s—songs as massive as “Umbrella” and “Disturbia”—were R&B chart underperformers (Nos. 4 and 88 R&B, respectively). But under Billboard’s new R&B/Hip-Hop chart formula, all of the megastar's millions in sales and radio audience count, regardless of their source. The week in 2012 that Billboard kicked off the new R&B chart, her “Diamonds”, a song receiving only modest black radio airplay, shot from No. 66 to No. 1 under the new methodology.
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The new 2012 methodology didn’t hurt Thicke—it boosted him in the wrong way, killing whatever cred he had. “Blurred Lines”, Thicke’s 2013 bid for pop crossover, succeeded like gangbusters on the Hot 100—it was his first Top 10 pop hit and eventually topped the big chart for 12 weeks. As for R&B/Hip-Hop, under the old chart system, you could imagine “Blurred” hitting the top for a week or two, if for no other reason than Thicke’s strong track record with the R&B audience. Instead, under Billboard’s new everything-and-the-kitchen-sink formula, “Blurred” topped the R&B/Hip-Hop chart for an absurd 16 weeks, making Thicke look less like the integral part of black radio he once was and more like a white interloper.
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"I Invented Sex" - Trey Songz featuring Drake (1wk)
"It Kills Me" - Melanie Fiona (9 wks)
"Sex Therapy" - Robin Thicke (2 wks) "Say Something" - Timbaland featuring Drake (1 wk)
"Everything to Me" - Monica (7 wks)
"Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" - Alicia Keys (12 wks)
"There Goes My Baby" - Usher (4 wks)
"Deuces" - Chris Brown featuring Tyga & Kevin McCall (9 wks)
"Can't Be Friends" - Trey Songz (13 wks)
"Fall for Your Type" - Jamie Foxx featuring Drake (2 wks)
"Moment 4 Life" - Nicki Minaj featuring Drake (4 wks)
"Look at Me Now" - Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes (7 wks)
"Sure Thing" - Miguel (1 wk)
"Motivation" - Kelly Rowland featuring Lil Wayne (6 wks)
"I'm On One" - DJ Khaled featuring Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne (10 wks)
"Marvin & Chardonnay" - Big Sean featuring Kanye West & Roscoe Dash (1 wk)
"She Will" - Lil Wayne featuring Drake (3 wks)
" in Paris" - Jay-Z and Kanye West (6 wks)
"Lotus Flower Bomb" - Wale featuring Miguel (4 wks)
"Make Me Proud" - Drake featuring Nicki Minaj (3 wks)
"The Motto" - Drake featuring Lil Wayne (2 wks)
"Love on Top" - Beyoncé (6 wks)
"Climax" - Usher (10 wks)
"Mercy" - Kanye West featuring Big Sean, Pusha T, & 2 Chainz (5 wks)
"No Lie" - 2 Chainz featuring Drake (4 wks)
"Adorn" - Miguel (1 wk)
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"Diamonds" - Rihanna (11 wks)
"I Cry" - Flo Rida (1 wk)
"Gangnam Style" - PSY (1 wk)
"Thrift Shop" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz (15 wks)
"Can't Hold Us" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dal (14 wks) "Holy Grail" - Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake (12 wks)
"Berzerk" - Eminem (1 wk)
"Rap God" - Eminem (1 wk)
"The Monster" - Eminem featuring Rihanna (9 wks)
"Timber" - Pitbull featuring Kesha (15 wks)
"Fancy" - Iggy Azalea (4 wks)
Now I didn't realize the situation was THIS dire. All kinds of TRAGIC.
Yeah.. I don't even think the Nicki stans themselves will try to argue the fact that she deserved at least some of the backlash for being such a mess. I'm here for 2014nika though.
Urban was always never really in demand or popular. Its been like that for years.
What are you talking about? This isnt about how in demand Urban is, its about how in demand Iggy is in the black community. The fact that her smash "hip hop/rap" song isnt even charting on Urban radio is proof that White people are the ones supporting it...
What are you talking about? This isnt about how in demand Urban is, its about how in demand Iggy is in the black community. The fact that her smash "hip hop/rap" song isnt even charting on Urban radio is proof that White people are the ones supporting it...
That was the point everyone was making..
Was this even a question? I use the hell out of Fancy but I thought we all knew this?
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"Timber" is the 2nd longest running #1 on Hot Rap Songs, ever.
And the way she tried to pass it off as "experimenting" is just 
Urban was always never really in demand or popular. Its been like that for years.
