The only song on Pink Friday with no rapping at all, “Save Me” proves that Minaj confesses to being a “monster” even when she’s unspooling prettiness over a piano ballad. Dawn-style gauziness with a tough-as-nails streak of vicious verses unlike anyone else the genre has seen in years.
But it’s to Minaj’s intergalactic talent that she had staying power almost immediately, augmenting this P.M. It was an “easy” route to radio sure, it was surefire and catchy and lovelorn. And it’s quite possibly the pinkest song the genre’s ever seen: those soft-focus chords, twinkling sound effects and do-be-do-be-do-do-dos sampled from Annie Lennox’s “No More ‘I Love You’s’” turned rap’s competitive masculinity upside down. The song that started it all, “Your Love” first appeared on Minaj’s 2010 mixtape, Barbie World, and found mainstream radio success before her album was even underway. This marked an early sign that she could have fun trying anything. Her feature on “Knockout,” the highlight of his highly anticipated and poorly received rock album Rebirth helped give the new wave banger a honeyed hook and cheeky vibe akin to No Doubt.
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While Nicki Minaj’s full solo personality was still gestating, she was receiving notice as the rising star of Lil Wayne’s Young Money clique. We’re here to present a counter argument with 13 highlights of singing in her career, proving in no way that she should limit herself to doing just one thing anytime soon.
Yet a vocal chunk of the hip-hop cognoscenti still believe that Minaj’s propensity towards tender piano ballads and uptempo EDM pop jams on her records is what stands in the way of them being hailed as full-blown classics. Just look at Drake, Fetty Wap, Young Thug, Chance the Rapper and D.R.A.M., to name a few. Now, it’s basically expected for a successful rapper to sing. Obviously hip-hop has changed a lot in recent years. Then there was the disrespect of Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg, who dissed Minaj’s follow-up Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded‘s massive hit “Starships” as “not real hip-hop,” causing Minaj and her Young Money crew to pull out of Summer Jam in protest. When Nicki Minaj first released her debut album, Pink Friday, in late November of 2010, many were shocked that the firebrand with the show-stealing verse from Kanye West’s “Monster” spent so much of the album singing. Not to mention, his most successful single “Lollipop,” which was extremely mainstream, went 4 times platinum and was in the top 5 of the Rolling Stones list of best songs of 2008! In addition, his fansite (Lil Wayne Headquaters) is ran by 4 white guys in which 3 are from Europe! So I guess they are ‘wiggers’ too huh? Smh.Over the years Nicki Minaj has really taken some heat for her singing, as if her crooning somehow detracts from her rapping. Wayne’s tour was one of the highest grossing tours in 2009 and he has THE BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM in 2008! And that didn’t come from just appealing to blacks but all races! He made really smart moves prior to the release of the “Carter 3.” The entire year of 2007, he appeared on almost every artists’ songs/singles, from Gym Class Heroes, to Shakira, to Enrique Iglesias, while still appearing on major hip hop artists’ music. You sound so foolish! So because some of those white people are Wayne fans implies that they are somehow ‘white n******’ (wiggers)? IGNORANCE!
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