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Discussion: Do You Respect Nicki Minaj As An Artist?
Member Since: 6/16/2010
Posts: 19,686
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Originally posted by MrBeyonceFan
I mean pink friday was a great cd but she is rap one min then po the other i ms. Old nicki
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It is the only real option for a female rapper if she wants to be successful. The 'musical' climate of now sort of requires some pop elements. Note that most rap hits have a feature of a pop singer. Nicki is lucky because she can sing her own hooks and doesn't need a feature to have a mainstream hit. Being a double threat is no bad thing.
She has proven herself as a rapper in songs like Romans Revenge, she can sing too so why shouldn't she?
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Member Since: 6/9/2010
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Originally posted by Vin
Nice spin.
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All I'm doing is emphasizing what you've already said.
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Member Since: 5/25/2010
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Originally posted by i spit on haters
Vin is such a flaw free poster, idgaf what anyone says.
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Let's do lunch.
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Originally posted by Stepfon
Here is my POV and I will probably get attacked for it but I really don't give a damn. I respect Nicki Minaj as an artist the same way I respect Lady Gaga as an artist. Nicki is basically taking the same path that Gaga took with The Fame to build her fanbase so they will follow her as her career goes on, I feel that with some of her looks Nicki is trying way too hard to be 'weird' and 'outside of the box' but since I don't stan for her I try not to look at her in such a OCD manner and I try to keep it basically strictly music, I feel like as Nicki's career goes on she will go more into depth with her rap and take it back to how she was before she became 'mainstream' Bea basically spilled the real tea though.
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Whenever I see the initials, "POV," I always think of ****.
That is my response to you, Stepfon.
...Vin
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Member Since: 3/18/2008
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I do, she's a great rapper.
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Member Since: 6/8/2008
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Originally posted by Vin
Whenever I see the initials, "POV," I always think of ****.
That is my response to you, Stepfon.
...Vin
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I wouldn't accept anything less from a Kesha stan
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Member Since: 6/9/2011
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Originally posted by Vin
Whenever I see the initials, "POV," I always think of ****.
That is my response to you, Stepfon.
...Vin
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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Member Since: 10/10/2009
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
I do, she's a great rapper.
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This. She easily oscillates between fun and deeply meaningful songs, her sound is 100% unique, and by all means she seems genuine. What's not to respect about that?
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Member Since: 7/2/2011
Posts: 15,547
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Yup.
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Originally posted by inspiration4
This. She easily oscillates between fun and deeply meaningful songs, her sound is 100% unique, and by all means she seems genuine. What's not to respect about that?
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This.
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Member Since: 12/31/2010
Posts: 26,257
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She's having fun with her career, she went from being a ghetto bad bitch and borderline hoodrat to a woman who doesn't take anything too seriously and is just having fun with it. She can rap, can sing, and just is enjoying the life she has. Who could blame her?
Rappers don't have to be exclusively in the rap genre. We need to be more musically open-minded and accept that if the music's good, it shouldn't have to matter who it came from.
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Member Since: 5/25/2010
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Originally posted by Reed
All I'm doing is emphasizing what you've already said.
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You need to learn what the word "emphasizing" means, Reed.
What you did, however, was take offense to my opinion, and, by adding
your own opinion, attempted to spin it into something off topic.
...Vin
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Member Since: 12/31/2010
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Originally posted by Bentley
She's a joke.
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And yet she wrote and spat out the best rap featuring verse of the last couple of years on Kanye's track.
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Member Since: 7/12/2010
Posts: 9,704
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Originally posted by Vin
I suppose it's subjective.
In my opinion, Harajuku street fashion -- keyword, fashion -- is the
mixing with the practical and impractical and creating a cohesive piece, not
throwing everything on and being "wacky colorful." There are no rules to
Harajuku, but I believe, the people who really know what they're
doing, are doing it with thought and finesse:
These are example of true Harajuku fashion, in my opinion,
as opposed to Nicki Minaj and your street example.
...Vin
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Ok. I'm pretty sure that if Nicki wore half of that stuff, you would still find a reason to say she looks foolish.
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Member Since: 6/10/2010
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Member Since: 6/9/2010
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Originally posted by Vin
You need to learn what the word "emphasizing" means, Reed.
What you did, however, was take offense to my opinion, and, by adding
your own opinion, attempted to spin it into something off topic.
...Vin
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Off topic? You brought up Ke$ha and Gaga in a thread about Nicki.
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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Yes, I respect her. I will forever be a true fan. I may not agree or see why she is taking certain routes but at the end of the day I favor her personality and music and grind. She has climbed all the way from the bottom of the TOTEM POLE! All I want her to do is get more emotionally artistic and HARD and to speak for people like she did in fly ! I live for OLD NICKI, nicki minaj ( all i do is win, roger that, ) ROMAN (ROMANS REVENGE), AND ONIKA (SAVE ME, HERE I AM, DEAR OLD NICKI, Fly, SO SPECIAL). H ere and then I can appreciate popnika only for a 1# hit like Super Bass and GFLD, a SMASH pop song here and then is great . but I absolutely hate it when she puts out verses like " Y U MAD"
at the end of the day, I care for her future. Verses like " Y U MAD" aint going to do **** for her future.
I want more rapping from her as well. I noticed on her album I felt like she did slightly more singing then rapping. All i'm saying is that I want more bars and verses on her own album.
I pray to God that she used Pink Friday to attract the crowd for the main attraction. I want her to gain MORE respect through her music, she has already gained respect through her grind.
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Member Since: 6/9/2011
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Originally posted by Reed
Off topic? You brought up Ke$ha and Gaga in a thread about Nicki.
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To simply compare & contrast.
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Member Since: 7/15/2010
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Meh. Half of her debut is really good, the other is bad.
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Member Since: 6/10/2010
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Originally posted by Wick
Half of her debut is really good, the other is bad.
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Member Since: 6/9/2010
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Originally posted by i spit on haters
To simply compare & contrast.
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We're in a thread about our level of respect for Nicki as an artist not comparing her to other artists.
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