September 3, 2010
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Nicki Minaj is going to rock the 2010 VMAs, and we’ve got the video footage to prove it. Check the video, a sleek narrative of Minaj as a young girl to the flame-on siren she is today. Last month, MTV released a VMAs promo for Drake.
In addition to being one of the baddest female mic ...
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September 3, 2010
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Nicki Minaj says her debut album, “Pink Friday” will run the gamut of her life dealing in relationships.
“This is me explaining every single relationship that I’ve ever been in and explaining it in a way that every woman in this world can understand it.”
Speaking to MTV, Minaj said as one of the top female mic ...
August 21, 2010
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Young Money artist “Drizzy” Drake shot a video promo for the VMAs recently. It conjures the “Rat Pack” vibe of the 1950s and 1960s ala Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Dean Martin. (Who of those would Weezy be?). Of course, their are rumors that Kanye and Taylor Swift are ...
August 5, 2010
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Young Money artist Nicki Minaj, hip-hop’s newest queen, says her debut album “Pink Friday” will have some hip-hop gems on it.
Speaking to MTV, the former Myspace phenom says she’s enjoying making music without having to cater to other artists.
“It’s been very exciting to finally just make music that I love and not really having to ...
July 15, 2010
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In the late 1990s, after simmering under the surface of New York City rap for a few years, Foxy Brown exploded on the scene opposite Jay-Z in the anthemic “Aint No Ni$$a“.
The song, looking back, did more for Jay-Z than it did for Foxy, although it put her on the A list of female rappers.
But ...
July 8, 2010
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Rapper Nicki Minaj said the date her long awaited, highly anticipated debut album will be released via Twitter on Thursday.
“November 23,” Minaj tweeted Thursday to a shocked flock of followers. Two days before Turkey Day.
Not since, well, a couple months ago, has a new artist’s initial album been so highly sought after.
Before Minaj label mate ...
June 8, 2010
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Rapper Lil Kim said in best more than 10 years ago, “I’mma throw shade if I can’t get paid.”
Now the rapper, feeling threatened from the newest female emcee to make waves, Nicki Minaj, just may make good on the threat.
Lil Kim’s controverial comments made during a performance last week have thrown shade on the rise ...
April 7, 2010
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At LaGuardia High School in New York, Onika Maraj was as silly as silly puddy. You can tell from the daffy-duck faces she makes even now. But when did the femme fatale known as Nicki Minaj emerge on the hip-hop scene?
In 2002, a group of eUuniverse employees created Myspace. In two short years, the site ...
January 12, 2010
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With the Barbiefication (that’s my word, don’t even try it) of American femininity going on now. It’s vewy, vewy (Elmer Fudd voice) interesting that even Mattel, the Dr. Frankenstein behind the Barbie doll, is pushing a new campaign to have her take on new occupations as a way to transcend the dim-witted blonde arch type ...
December 15, 2009
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When Nicki Minaj first hit the scene a couple of years ago, the hip-hop community was beside themselves at how this “model chick” who looked like she belonged on the cover of a magazine or a video vixen could have rap skills lethal as swords.
While the male-dominated music industry sneered at her she continued to ...