I'm so confused.
Are y'all sure it's an EP/new music? I mean.... PFRR just dropped in April.
If she still has Champion, IAYL, Hov Lane on the urban side - why would she be releasing a whole separate thing to distract from Roman Reloaded? Wouldn't that halt sales? That seems dumb. I'm completely lost.
Oh my god, neither Mama Do The Hump (I associate produced the video btw) nor Girls Fall Like Dominoes are hip-hop. Rapping in a song ≠ hip-hop. Especially when the songs have huge sung pop choruses lol.
They do have elements of hip-hop though, to be fair. Like hip-hop in the same vein as Eminem's big lead singles imo.
Nicki raps in Pound the Alarm, but I don't say it's hip hop. I don't say Party Rock Anthem is hip hop even if it has rapping. You can get hip hop songs that don't have singing in them. Rihanna and Beyonce sometimes do hip hop songs where they don't rap on them, just sing over a hip hop beat.
Mama Do the Hump IS hip hop, and it's one of the biggest hits of the year in the UK, and if that song was released in the US, it would get airplay on both urban and pop radio I think. Eminem's lead singles are also hip hop songs. Some of them (especially Without Me, for example) are very pop-friendly, but they're still hip hop.
Hip hop is a very broad genre. And urban radio aren't THAT strict. They'll play songs like Super Bass, Va Va Voom, Marilyn Monroe. People want a crossover hit from Nicki, that's all. There's NOTHING wrong with a hip hop song having a catchy chorus, or a lot of synths.
Nicki raps in Pound the Alarm, but I don't say it's hip hop. I don't say Party Rock Anthem is hip hop even if it has rapping. You can get hip hop songs that don't have singing in them. Rihanna and Beyonce sometimes do hip hop songs where they don't rap on them, just sing over a hip hop beat.
Mama Do the Hump IS hip hop, and it's one of the biggest hits of the year in the UK, and if that song was released in the US, it would get airplay on both urban and pop radio I think. Eminem's lead singles are also hip hop songs. Some of them (especially Without Me, for example) are very pop-friendly, but they're still hip hop.
Hip hop is a very broad genre. And urban radio aren't THAT strict. They'll play songs like Super Bass, Va Va Voom, Marilyn Monroe. People want a crossover hit from Nicki, that's all. There's NOTHING wrong with a hip hop song having a catchy chorus, or a lot of synths.
I have one question. Is there a reason why you doubt Nicki's Hip-Hop outside of America, when Drake releases and is successful with his music in the UK?
Not sure what you mean... Drake's had only one hit song in the UK - Take Care, which is dancey anyway and featured Rihanna and The xx's production, meaning it'd do well regardless. He was cut out of the UK Radio Edit of What's My Name, but I suppose that could count as a 2nd hit song as he's in the video. Album sales aren't impressive - 70k to date for Take Care.
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Wasn't M4L released in the UK? That's a Hip-Hop song.
I'd consider M4L an R&B song, and it flopped, as did Girls Fall Like Dominoes (despite Nicki coming to the UK to promote GFLD). And they're not pure hip-hop songs imo, they're more crossover and very pop-friendly, no different to Fly or Your Love.
I just don't think Nicki will ever do well with hip-hop outside the USA, and her label knows it, so they don't even attempt. She has never been marketed as "hip-hop music".
For example, say you're a casual music buyer/listener in the UK: unless you had her albums or watched one of the smaller black music channels (where they play her hip-hop videos, though none have been released as singles), you'd probably wouldn't even know she did pure hip-hop. You American Barbz forget that very few of the songs that had her featured were released outside the USA. The first time most people heard of "Nicki Minaj" outside the USA was her bit in Bedrock, and then 2012 with Jay Sean - a pop song - and perhaps Monster.
Check It Out (for better and worse) was the first proper Nicki Minaj single in the UK, and set the tone of her career here tbh. Her UK fans just aren't there for her hip-hop songs, or even tracks like Fly, which was promoted quite well but only got to #16 in the charts.
I think after Automatic, Marilyn Monroe will be the next UK single, then Whip It to close the era.
Not sure what you mean... Drake's had only one hit song in the UK - Take Care, which is dancey anyway and featured Rihanna and The xx's production, meaning it'd do well regardless. He was cut out of the UK Radio Edit of What's My Name, but I suppose that could count as a 2nd hit song as he's in the video. Album sales aren't impressive - 70k to date for Take Care.
I'd consider M4L an R&B song, and it flopped, as did Girls Fall Like Dominoes (despite Nicki coming to the UK to promote GFLD). And they're not pure hip-hop songs imo, they're more crossover and very pop-friendly, no different to Fly or Your Love.
I just don't think Nicki will ever do well with hip-hop outside the USA, and her label knows it, so they don't even attempt. She has never been marketed as "hip-hop music".
For example, say you're a casual music buyer/listener in the UK: unless you had her albums or watched one of the smaller black music channels (where they play her hip-hop videos, though none have been released as singles), you'd probably wouldn't even know she did pure hip-hop. You American Barbz forget that very few of the songs that had her featured were released outside the USA. The first time most people heard of "Nicki Minaj" outside the USA was her bit in Bedrock, and then 2012 with Jay Sean - a pop song - and perhaps Monster.
Check It Out (for better and worse) was the first proper Nicki Minaj single in the UK, and set the tone of her career here tbh. Her UK fans just aren't there for her hip-hop songs, or even tracks like Fly, which was promoted quite well but only got to #16 in the charts.
I think after Automatic, Marilyn Monroe will be the next UK single, then Whip It to close the era.
she can definitely smash with a urban song in the UK