{"id":601493,"date":"2023-12-14T19:50:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/will-the-real-nicki-minaj-please-stand-up\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T19:50:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:50:36","slug":"will-the-real-nicki-minaj-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/will-the-real-nicki-minaj-please-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"#Will the real Nicki Minaj please stand up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25dafbf0f04\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/will-the-real-nicki-minaj-please-stand-up\/#Pink_Friday_2_is_a_bizarre_misstep_indulging_the_same_hip-hop_trends_Minaj_claims_to_hate\" >Pink Friday 2 is a bizarre misstep indulging the same hip-hop trends Minaj claims to hate.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pink_Friday_2_is_a_bizarre_misstep_indulging_the_same_hip-hop_trends_Minaj_claims_to_hate\"><\/span><i>Pink Friday 2<\/i> is a bizarre misstep indulging the same hip-hop trends Minaj claims to hate.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258342\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Nicki_Minaj._Photo_by_MICHAEL_TRAN_AFP_via_Getty_Images_oikflf\/nicki-minaj-photo-by-michael-tran-afp-via-getty-images.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Nicki_Minaj._Photo_by_MICHAEL_TRAN_AFP_via_Getty_Images_oikflf\/nicki-minaj-photo-by-michael-tran-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Nicki_Minaj._Photo_by_MICHAEL_TRAN_AFP_via_Getty_Images_oikflf\/nicki-minaj-photo-by-michael-tran-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Nicki_Minaj._Photo_by_MICHAEL_TRAN_AFP_via_Getty_Images_oikflf\/nicki-minaj-photo-by-michael-tran-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 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960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Nicki_Minaj._Photo_by_MICHAEL_TRAN_AFP_via_Getty_Images_oikflf\/nicki-minaj-photo-by-michael-tran-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Nicki_Minaj._Photo_by_MICHAEL_TRAN_AFP_via_Getty_Images_oikflf\/nicki-minaj-photo-by-michael-tran-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Nicki_Minaj._Photo_by_MICHAEL_TRAN_AFP_via_Getty_Images_oikflf\/nicki-minaj-photo-by-michael-tran-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Will the real Nicki Minaj please stand up?\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Nicki Minaj. Photo by MICHAEL TRAN\/AFP via Getty Images<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258330\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            In March 2022, Nicki Minaj sat down with Joe Budden for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LSmMQEsBzmE\">a wide-ranging conversation<\/a> about <i>Billboard<\/i> metrics, plastic surgery, trend-chasers and more. A little under an hour into the conversation, the topic shifts to her influence in the world of fashion. \u201cYou would think that the biggest female r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er of all time\u2026 would have been on the cover of American <i>Vogue<\/i>,\u201d Minaj said. \u201cBut she hasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Last month Anna Wintour finally got wise and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/nicki-minaj-december-cover-2023-interview\">Nicki finally got her cover<\/a>. It\u2019s a tidy microcosm for Minaj\u2019s career more broadly, a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of ambitions manifested through faith and sweat that laid the groundwork for our current bumper crop of female rappers and sketched out one potential path for the synthesis of hip-hop and pop music in the digital music era. When she was five years old, she <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-nicki-minaj-parents-8400364\">prayed to become rich<\/a> enough to buy her mother a house; now forty and a mother herself, Minaj has retreated from the public eye in recent years with little left to prove to anyone, even herself. Still, her appeal endures \u2014 the streaming release of <i>Beam Me Up Scotty<\/i> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/music\/nicki-minaj-celebrates-success-beam-me-up-scotty\/\">peaked at No. 2<\/a> on the Billboard Charts more than a decade after its original DatPiff drop. Judicious remixes of Ice Spice\u2019s \u201cPrincess Diana\u201d and Sexyy Red\u2019s \u201cPound Town\u201d kept Minaj top of mind this year, as did an Aqua-remixing collaboration with Spice for the <i>Barbie<\/i> soundtrack that quickly found global success.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258346\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nicki Minaj &amp; Ice Spice \u2013 Barbie World (with Aqua) [Official Music Video]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CUj2AWEJnwQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('258346');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258331\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Part of Nicki\u2019s charm is that she\u2019s always herself, first and foremost. Even when contorting her style to the form of EDM-readymades, she sounds like Nicki Minaj. Perhaps equally important, even with a plethora of sons running around, no one else\u2019s music sounds like Nicki; they bite the flows and the clothes, but amassing and deploying the resources required for heavily-produced blockbuster albums requires more than mere creative inspiration. One person who doesn\u2019t see Minaj in her recent albums? Nicki herself.<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cWhen I look back at a lot of my music, I\u2019m like, Oh, my God, where was the me in it?\u201d she told <i>Vogue<\/i> last month. \u201cFor this album, I went back to the old <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> plan.\u201d The back-to-basics, \u201cI\u2019m bringing back the old me\u201d framing is a tried-and-true album cycle narrative, but it\u2019s jarring to hear coming from Minaj. If we\u2019ve been listening to Nicki watered down, what does it sound like to hear Nicki fired up?<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258332\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Nominally a sequel to her 2010 debut album, <i>Pink Friday 2<\/i> does not answer this question. Its sonic palette hews more closely to the textures of 2014\u2019s <i>The Pinkprint<\/i> and 2018\u2019s <i>Queen<\/i>, but largely fails to deliver the same intoxicating vulnerability or sharp-tongued bars. There are a handful of highlights, but the misstep feels particularly bizarre given some of the weakest songs stem from the same kinds of artistic decisions she\u2019s mocked in recent interviews.<\/p>\n<p>            The tone is quickly set by the one-two punch of \u201cAre You Gone Already\u201d and \u201cBarbie Dangerous,\u201d which find Nicki rapping over barely-altered tracks by Billie Eilish and the Notorious B.I.G. respectively. On the former, she sketches out an image of pre- and post-partum stress, exacerbated by the concurrent passing of her father. The latter is more predictable fare: these bitches are weak, they copy the queen, beef and jealousy will be answered with bullets. These tracks gesture towards the ethos of 2007 Lil Wayne but fail to achieve the same ownership over the source material. Held up against the relevant comps from Nicki\u2019s own oeuvre (<i>The Pinkprint<\/i> opener \u201cAll Things Go\u201d and <i>Queen<\/i>\u2019s hilarious \u201cBarbie Dreams\u201d), these songs fall flat, neither transformative nor superlative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258356\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nicki Minaj - Barbie Dangerous (Official Audio)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9UyqYiAZpsg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('258356');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258333\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Nostalgia is rife on <i>PF2<\/i>, which features prominent samples on 11 of 22 tracks. Six of these are barely chopped or altered, as if watching Minaj karaoke and freestyle in real-time. The approach isn\u2019t new for Nicki, who has managed a cheat code sample on most of her studio albums, but the sheer quantity, and how recognizable they are, is remarkable, nearly equivalent to the number of rips on the 2009 mixtape <i>Beam Me Up Scotty<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            That isn\u2019t to suggest none of these songs work. Rick James-sampling lead single \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d finds a sister in \u201cPink Friday Girls,\u201d which repurposes Cyndi Lauper\u2019s \u201cGirls Just Want to Have Fun\u201d to similarly high-octane effect. As on 2014\u2019s \u201cAnaconda,\u201d throwbacks serve as a tool for bringing the past into conversation with the now, like a DJ at the club dropping an \u201880s hit in between new cuts by BNYX and ATL Jacob.<\/p>\n<p>            More traditionally overhauled samples offer a renewed glimpse at Minaj\u2019s lyrical prowess. Jersey club-derived Lil Uzi Vert feature \u201cEverybody\u201d gives Nicki room to cut loose, bragging that she\u2019s a \u201cmultimillion-dollar home(body);\u201d elsewhere, album highlight \u201cFTCU\u201d flips a scream-along club anthem by Waka Flocka Flame into a rumbling club anthem ready to test the low-end of your speaker system (\u201cSpotify ain\u2019t gotta lie, they really streaming my music\u201d she smirks).<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258334\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Even if you agree with Minaj\u2019s assessment that \u201cEverything that feels nostalgic is making people feel better right now \u2018cause we\u2019ve had a couple of tough years,\u201d leaning so heavily on the past feels like a tacit admission of weakness. Take it from Nicki herself, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/nicki-minaj-in-conversation-with-jada-pinkett-smith\">speaking to Jada Pinkett-Smith last October<\/a>:<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258335\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left block_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"block_quote_wrapper paragraph_wrapper\">\n  \u201c&#8230;artists are trying to become the person they looked up to instead of giving us a new flavor! And it\u2019s irking the crap out of me! &#8230; they lose me when I\u2019m seeing the person who they are trying to be like or sound like more than I\u2019m seeing who they are&#8230; if I\u2019m hearing too much of that artist who already has hits out, when I\u2019m finished listening to your song or watching your performance, I\u2019m going to go and play that artist. I\u2019m not going to go and look more into you.\u201d\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258336\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Minaj has been on a particularly hot streak of selective features in the five years since <i>Queen<\/i>, leaving a vicious mark on tracks by BIA, and Kim Petras, to name just a few. That makes the lyrical flatness and static flows pervading <i>Pink Friday 2<\/i> all the more disappointing. The zany voices and camp theatrics of the original <i>Pink Friday<\/i> and <i>Pink Friday 1.5: Roman Reloaded<\/i> are nowhere to be found. Pussies are tight, asses are thick; the menace Nicki previously conveyed through her snarling, no-holds-barred vocal delivery is now relegated to tossed-off bars about gang affiliations and boilerplate warnings that her team will \u201csnap like chat\u201d and \u201cpull up from the three\u201d to shoot you. Sure, it\u2019s probably true that these verses feel familiar because we\u2019ve grown accustomed to the nuances of Nicki\u2019s style and because so, so many women in hip-hop cite her as an inspiration. But it\u2019s hard not to feel a pang of longing for the Nicki Minaj who brutally berated stupid hoes and threatened to put her \u201cdick in your face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            To be fair, Minaj has characterized <i>Pink Friday 2<\/i> as a more mature album, and pruning is as important to new growth as watering. Whether she sells that characterization is a little more complicated. Nicki the Rapper and Nicki the Romantic rarely mingle on this album \u2014 fans of \u201cSuper Bass\u201d and \u201cYour Love\u201d will have to get their fix of bars and ballads in separate places. And there\u2019s a thematic inconsistency here too, between Minaj\u2019s more demure role as a mother and the iconography of a sex-positive popstar.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258368\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>It\u2019s hard not to feel a pang of longing for the Nicki Minaj who brutally berated stupid hoes and threatened to put her \u201cdick in your face.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258337\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            \u201cNot saying that I\u2019m not a freak with my husband,\u201d Minaj told Pinkett-Smith last year. \u201cBut I don\u2019t choose to express the sexual side right now in that overt way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>             Threading this tension isn\u2019t easy, but <i>PF2<\/i> somehow features the line \u201cThese bitches gotta shake they ass to show sex appeal\u201d just three tracks before \u201cVanilla ice cream comin&#8217; down my ass cheeks\/these them throw it back, make it clap cheeks.\u201d The juxtaposition makes her aversion to the sexually explicit rap dominating the airwaves scan as disingenuous potshots at her contemporaries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            A little cognitive dissonance is nothing new for the Barbz, who have stuck with Minaj through controversies including marrying a convicted sex offender, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2020\/01\/27\/nicki-minaj-brother-25-years-life-raping-11-year-old\/4592043002\/\">her brother\u2019s conviction for child sexual assault<\/a>, her support of accused sex offender 6ix9ine, and an episode of COVID vaccine skepticism that earned her a shoutout from Tucker Carlson. One imagines there are at least a handful of former Nicki diehards who find some of this behavior a bridge too far, although you\u2019d never know it from her chart performance. But even out of frame, the context is there, practically tangible on tracks like J. Cole-feature \u201cLet Me Calm Down,\u201d which details the arc of Minaj\u2019s relationship with Kenneth Petty from high school to the present day. The moral question here is more complex than engaging with the music of Kodak Black or Kanye West, but it certainly amplifies the squeamishness of listening to Dr. Luke collabs \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d and \u201cCowgirl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            On a purely musical level, <i>Pink Friday 2<\/i> fails to live up to her previous albums or chart a new path forward for Minaj, despite powerhouse performances on \u201cLast Time I Saw You,\u201d \u201cNicki Hendrix,\u201d and \u201cFTCU.\u201d Forget the peaks of \u201cMoment 4 Life\u201d or \u201cCheck It Out;\u201d even after a decade of sharpening her skills, the songs here barely hold a candle to \u201cBlazin.\u201d If this is the result of the \u201cold game plan,\u201d let\u2019s hope she goes back to the new one.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-258343\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>Rap Column is a column about rap music by Vivian Medithi and Nadine Smith for The FADER.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Vivian Medithi<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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