I got to know from you guys- who is hot in hiphop right now, and who is not? There is a lot of talk about rick ross being the hottest right now, and i think i can buy that, but i want to hear from you guys. Please, remember that i said HOT, not the most lyrical or the person who has sold the most rap albums, but just plain simple- who's hot.
I know people will still get me wrong and start mentioning eminem, and jay-z and them. When last did you hear a song from those guys on the radio? And when was the last time they featured on someone else's track and made an impression. I just want to know who you think is hot right now.
I would like to mention some other people that are on the scene and making waves. Nicki Minaj still has her buzz from last year, although i can't say it is on the level it was last year. Maybe lil kim was right- maybe she is just a burning match. But, i think otherwise, because she is very versatile, and skilled.
Lil Wayne? I still don't get that his 6 foot 7 foot song- i think it is not hot enough to be an album single- and the first single at that. But he is still moving units from his EP I Am Not A Human Being, so that gives you an idea that people are still waiting on new material from him. Drake? I don't know...i guess he is just aight right now. But i do believe he still has a lot to give.
Whiz Khalifa is definitely hot right now, and his album just dropped- Rolling Papers. I haven't gotten it yet, so i can not rate it. I am going to know how much it did in its first week in stores today. But already, estimations don't put him above the first week of lasers.
Yeah, that takes me to LUPE FIASCO. Lupe is not the type to jump on so many songs, because of his style, but he is doing pretty good. The official first single off the album (LASERS) "The Show Goes On" has already been certified GOLD; that means it has sold 500,000 copies as a single. I think that is pretty good. So, as for this year, Lupe Fiasco still has the highest selling rap album- that is for rap albums that dropped this year.
Yeah, you got to mention the guy who put lupe on- Kanye West. Kanye still has the buzz from last year, but i was really thinking he was going to own the first quarter of this year with that ALL OF THE LIGHTS track. That track is a banger, and i thought it would performance better than it is doing so far.
Wale is also hot, and a lot of people are complaining about his move to Rick Ross's Maybach Music imprint. Me, i think it is a smart move. He signed with the label this year, and he is already everywhere...i am just happy he is not going to end up like J.Cole. Cole has a lot of talent, but i guess jay-z does not have his time, because seriously, he is meant to have dropped his album by now. I guess the Roc Nation is not going to be as strong as jay planned it to be.
I got to mention my man GAME, even though he is more or less bubbling under the radar. He has been dropping dope mixtapes for the last 24 months or so, but i think we need an album from him, so he needs to work on that. He was widely complemented on the dopeness of his last mixtape- Purp and Patron, which was a double cd mixtape. I downloaded it and i got to say it was beyond what i expected from game. But, i think he needs to focus more on getting his album out.
Okay, those are all the artist i recognize...artist that made my radar, pls feel free to add yours. Thank you.
First of all, i must apologize for bringing you news that lil kim and nicki minaj had squash their beef, it was an april fools' joke that sohh.com played on its readers, and since i got the story from their, i thought it was true. They are a very reliable source, and i didn't think they would joke with something as crucial as that, and jeopardize loosing their credibility. I am sorry once again, and i have to say it was not really my fault, because at the time i was posting the news up in here, i thought it was true. So, let me say it again, the 2 female rappers, lil kim and nicki minaj have not squashed their beef. In fact, nicki minaj is about to release a new beef song aimed at lil kim, and people are saying it is going to be featured on lil wayne's carter 4. I wonder why that is so, but i am sure this is no april fool's joke. Below are some lines from the track- "Eh yo, Pink Friday, Eminem, 8 Mile," Nicki raps, "It must hurt to sell your album off PayPal/Especially when you're in the game, 15-20/You was hot when Shaq teamed up with Penny/Man, you was 'Magic', I mean/Look at you now, h*e, you're just tragic/You a tragedy, you a parody/Last name Ann, first name Raggedy/These goofy b*tches is stupidity personified..." ("Tragedy")
Hmm! Why is she releasing it now, after people have started to forget about the whole thing...i just wonder. More on the news below- Just when you thought it was over, Nicki Minaj swings back at Lil' Kim on a new diss record. A snippet of the unfinished track made its way to Funkmaster Flex, who reports that it may end up on Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV. This time, the Young Money Barbie doesn't beat around the bush, taking direct shots at the Queen Bee. Hit-Boy confirms that he produced the marching beat and that the final version will also feature production from Boi-1da. It will go by a title other than "Tragedy" in its final form. (Rap-Up)
Okay, so we would have to wait and see how things turn out.
Nicki Minaj broke another record with her album, Pink Friday- it has been on the top 10 charts for 14 weeks, that is the longest by any female rapper. Okay, but i would like to give my opinion, "right through you" is not a rap song, "you love" is not a straight up rap track, sort of like a sing rap kind of song...and the one with drake, i can't remember the title, is definitely not a rap track. Although i have not heard her whole album, but judging from all the tracks she has projected from the album, i can say the album should be under the pop category- or maybe rap/pop. I am sorry if you are a fan and you are reading this, but i am just being honest here. Or, maybe i am from the past, and this is the future- i don't know.
I wish her all the best...congratulations to her, at least she is reaping a lot, and making a name for herself. At least, she has roman's revenge, which is a rap track, although it has a lot of gimmicks in it,and it was a diss track...controversy sells.
Enough of my talk, read the story below: The female rap vixen dropped her certified platinum debut album Pink Friday fourteen weeks ago. Since then, the album hasn't left the Top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 chart, thereby breaking yet another record for the most weeks in the Top 10 by a female rapper. Last year Nicki had a whole slew of broken records under her pink heavyweight belt, as "Your Love" reached the number one spot on the Billboard Rap Songs chart (a first for female rappers since close to a decade), Nicki had the most appearances at one time by a female rapper on the Billboard Hot 100, and then became the first female MC since Eve to achieve the number one spot on the Billboard charts. (RapFix)
In hiphop, and the entertainment industry generally, there is always one rumor or the other, some true, some false, and you can hardly tell which one is true...Anyway, diddy has been managing Nicki Minaj for a while now, and they were probably seen together in a lot of places, which is obvious, and all of a sudden, a rumor came up of her and diddy dating.
She has addressed the issue below: "God, no! It was so disgusting to me that people would even link me and him. I grew up watching him. I look at him like a Russell Simmons figure, definitely not as someone I'd be getting it poppin' with." (BlackBook) "[Dating Diddy?] That is, wait, can I just say, I hold everybody's hands! I hold my bodyguard's hands! Noooo [I'm not dating Diddy!] Listen, sometimes I think they know these things are false. But when people ask me, I think, 'I didn't even know I was gonna have to even address that.' -- when I'm ready [to announce new management], you'll know." ("Sucker Free")
She also made it known that she was single- "I have no romance in my life at all, and it's not important to me right now. I have love for people who are on my team that I see every day and for my family, that's what makes me do what I do. I also have love for people that I interact with. If I have too much of the romantic love, I feel like it will distract me. Right now I feel like a robot." (BET)
I just got off youtube.com to watch the documentary, it is titled "carbon copy"...you can follow this link to watch it- carbon copy. Okay, back to the subject, i must say that i am a big lil kim fan, i think she is the best and most consistent female rapper ever. I respect mc light and the other pioneers, but you see that i put "consistence" in my defining kim- i am a Man, but i got all her albums, and i loved all she features she did with her male counterparts in the industry back in the day, she has always held it down, in my own opinion. I would also like to say that i think Nicki Minaj is dope, and for a second there, i thought kim should just chill, but until i watched this video, i didn't understand what kim had been saying all this while. I think you need to watch it before you go on reading- carbon copy.
I remember when people were complaining about GAME going to hard at G-Unit, but the fact is that the man that has the lower advantage should fight the hardest in any battle. People are scooping up anything nicki drop right now, and they would not take anything kim drops as a fact, so she has to go the extra mile. And you have to understand that Nicki Minaj dissed her first...even before Roman's Revenge.
If you look at nicki's pictures (start with the one i put up) and kim's from back in the day, and the whole Barbie movement, you would know she is a huge lil kim fan. I mean a stan. Don't get me wrong, that does not take away from her talent, but i am just saying.
Yeah, you can watch the video to black friday hereblack friday official video. Thst id the diss track to nicki.
Whatever, i do not like negativity, but i like the creativity it brings out of people, so let us see what happens after this.
Yeah, according to Lil Kim via her twitter page, she says she has sold 113,000 copies of her latest mixtape, BLACK FRIDAY, which is aimed at Nicki Minaj. I guess it is going to contain a couple of more diss tracks aimed at Nicki, and have some other tracks, Anyway, she claims she sold 113k copies of the mixtape via paypal, at $9.99, so if she is right, she just made a million off a mixtape.
I would be happy for her if it was actually true, because a lot of peole online are doubting it, but i don't, asides from Kim being a very dope rapper, i guess the mixtape was bought by some nicki minaj hatters.
Below is what was on her twitter page: Thanks to you guys!! #lilkimblackfridaymixtape sold 113,000 copies in 28 hours which made me the #1 seller on paypal ever =) !!! THANK U! RT about 4 hours ago via web Lil' Kim LilKim
Nicki Minaj says Kanye West is her mentor, but i bet she would not have said that if he was not a successful artist. I am saying, if kanye was still all creative and all, and he was not selling, i bet she would not name him her mentor. I know it is all about being successful, but success is a relative term and can mean a different thing to different people- but a lot of what is going on in the hip hop game, or the music industry as a whole is just all about sucking up to the person on top, regardless of skill or talent. I am not in any way saying kanye is not skilled; in fact i think he is a super creative producer and artist, i am just saying what i am saying and i hope you get it.
Below is what Nicki had to say about kanye: "Well I was great friends with Amber Rose when they were dating and she hadrecommended me to him for his album and finally I guess he relented [laughs]," Minaj said of meeting West, before explaining how her "Monster" verse was created. "One day I got a call from her and she said Kanye wanted me to come down to Hawaii and record for the album. He told me I could pick what I wanted to be on. I heard the beat for 'Monster.' I fell in love with it and that’s how the "Monster" verse happened." Their partnership did not end there. When Minaj was getting closer to releasing her own album, she said she needed Kanye West to be a part of it. "When it came to me putting my album out, I was like ‘I can’t have an album without Kanye. He has to be a part of it.' He’s become my mentor, he gives meadvice, he hits me, takes random pictures off-line and says ‘Oh this is a good picture of you.' He’s really into fashion so he’s a good person to have a well-roundedconversation with."
Well, i guess her decision is personal and it has nothing to do with my opinion.
After Lil Kim dropped her Black Friday track, which is a reply to Nicki Minaj's Romans Revenge track, the whole beef has pipped down. I was actually thinking nicki would drop another diss record. But it is possible in the near feature; she could use the opportunity of the romans revenge remix she is recording with Busta Rhymes to drop some subliminals. Anyway, a lot of people have been talking about the matter that i think would be worth reading. Below is what songstress, Ciara had to say:
"I love both women. I think that Lil Kim is truly one of a kind. Her moment that she had in music was amazing. I loved the aggressiveness of Kim's music, as well. It was very authentic. Nicki Minaj, I love her. I like her movement, energy, style. I like that she's being bold. She's breaking barriers and beyond. She's a female rapper but also has pop appeal. I think that's beautiful when any woman is able to do that. I'm not really a big fan of women not being able to get along in our music world, and in general. But I can still say a lot of great things about both ladies." (VIBE)
Below is what Keri Hilson had to say:
"I don't really know what to think of that beef," Hilson said in an interview. "I don't put too much thought into it because you don't really know what's really going on. I know because I've had similar 'rivalries' and I know how much was spun by the media -- I know there's something there, I've seen enough to know there's something there but I don't know what to base it on. I'll say this, I respect both of them. Lil Kim is a pioneer for females in rap and rapping and being as vulgar and forthcoming as she was. She definitely was one of them and Nicki Minaj is doing her own thing. Of course she's said she was inspired by Lil Kim and we can see that. I don't think that means that they have to compete. You can be inspired by so much in life and still carve out a lane for yourself which is what Nicki Minaj has done." (Rap-Up)
And lastly, what Diddy had to say:
"My whole take on the situation is that I love Lil' Kim no matter what's going on, no matter what's being said," Diddy said in an interview with Funkmaster Flex. "Kim definitely has a responsibility for my success. Me working with Nicki Minaj has nothing to do with going against Kim. When Kim works with other producers, when she raps with other artists, I'm not getting upset. It's not a problem...I think a lot of us who have been here for a long time including yourself, Flex, we have inspired a lot of people. We have motivated a lot of people, we have touched a lot of people in a certain way. We have been those cats that people aspire to be. I wouldn't be around Nicki if I ever heard [anything] negative said about Kim. I've never heard [anything] like that." (Hot 97)
Well, everybody is trying to be diplomatic...i don't know what to say about that. I do like the two artists involved, but i can say i would go with kim. Nicki is more pop, and i love her songs; she makes lovely concept songs, but for Hip Hop, it would always be the Queen B. But, i have to say that, after kim, it is Nicki, and this is coming from someone that has been stuck on hiphop since the early 90's.
Lil Kim just replied Nicki Minaj's Roman Revenge diss record with a track she titled Black Friday. I heard a snippet of the track, and i don't know men; i think kim needs to come harder than that. I am a bigger lil kim fan, but i think she needs something that would have that shook value, or maybe it would have been netter if she didn't drop anything at all. Maybe when i hear the full track it would make more sense, but right now, i think Roman's Revenge goes in better than this black friday track.
Follow this link to listen to the track http://allhiphop.com/stories/multimedia__music/archive/2010/11/25/22504423.aspx
Baby, Birdman, Brian Williams, C.E.O of Cash Money Records, the label Nicki is signed to has let us know what he feels about the whole issue with Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim. I can't say he was one sided, but what do you expect from him? He has to protect his investment.
Read what he had to say below:
In an interview with Vibe.com, Cash Money’s Birdman spoke on a variety of topics including Lil Wayne’s release from Rikers Island, The Carter IV, and even the beef between rappers Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim. According to Birdman Lil Kim may have “asked for” her current rivalry with the rising Young Money star. “Real talk, but maybe Kim asked for it,” said Birdman when asked about Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj. “Usually we don’t try to make money like that…that’s not our theory. We make great music. We have never been the type to make songs about motherfuckas. I think Nicki is speaking in general, not just Kim personally. A lot of motherfuckers have been hating on her success. To me, they are all asking for it. I don’t think any of them has as a talented clique as Nicki. We a movement.” A feud between Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim was initially sparked back in June when Lil Kim called out both Nicki Minaj and Diddy at a concert in Baltimore. The feud has continued since that time with Nicki Minaj recently denying reports that she dissed Lil Kim on “Roman’s Revenge,” her song with Eminem. Aside from speaking on Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj, Baby also revealed that there will be a Young Money/Cash Money tour starting in February 2011 and that The Carter IV will be released early next year as well. “Well, we have the Young Money/Cash Money tour starting in February so we have a lot of new music coming out. Carter IV is coming out at the top of next year,” Birdman explained to Vibe.com
A couple of months ago, there were word exchange between new comer, Nicki Minaj and veteran Female Rapper Lil Kim- nothing on wax, it was just kim saying nicki was jacking her style and not paying respect. But, nicki has taken the bull by the horn and dropped a track, Romans Revenge, which has some lines obviously aimed at kim. Well, nicki's album is about to drop, so i understand why she waited this long to drop something on kim. I am from the old school, and i think it's about to go down- that is if kim hits the studio and drops something. Of cos i know nicki got skill, retarded skills, but kim gonna...kim go hard. Lil kim has been known to even go against male rappers in the past, so i don't think battling nicki would be a big deal to her. I see it as entertainment, so let the games begin. Personally, i think if they go back and forth it would bring some spice to hiphop.
Below is some lines from the track which also features EMINEM
Minaj has finally responded to the ongoing disses from Lil Kim. Now after months of keeping quiet, what's Nicki's response? Lil Kim's a has-been. On her new track "Roman's Revenge" featuringEminem Nicki sends not so subliminal disses towards Kim saying, "Look at my show footage all these girls be spazzin, so what the f*ck I look like getting back to a has-been. Yeah I said it, HAS-BEEEN. Hang it up, FLAT SCREEN. PLASMA... I'm a bad b*tch...I'm a cunt and I'll kick that h*e...PUNT...You need a job this ain't cutting it, Nicki Minaj is who you ain't f*cking wit." (Hip Hop Wired)
Who else could she have been talking to with those lines? Ofcos kim. I asked that question, because nicki denied that the song was aimed at kim. Read more of that below.
"No, I'm talking about everyone who has been in interviews talking and I think it's good for people to hear me respond to a lot, people have said so much about me so I don't ever single anyone out because no one is worth being singled out," Minaj explained in an interview when asked if she was dissing Kim. "No one is worth having their name mentioned out of my mouth and they never will get that. But you know, I've been quiet for such a long time, I've been the nice guy, I've been the person that gave everybody their props. I complemented everybody from day one and I think that as a rapper, you can't be a rapper and not speak on things being said about you. So, I use my music to say what I have to say." (99 Jamz)
I think it is too obvious who she is talking to with those lines, but i guess she doesn't want to play to much offensive. She wants the hype, but she does not want the problems that come with it. Kim said something on the matter, but i didn't really feel what kim was saying, maybe she was drunk or something. But, i would let you judge by yourself.
"I got more love for Queens than this b*tch do," Kim said at a Queens, New York concert. "I will erase this b*tch's social security number. First of all I don't even need a record right now and I'd kill that b*tch with my old sh*t. I'll kill that b*tch with my old sh*t...Right now I'm in Queens, repping, because I got love for all the boroughs. Y'all see me in places where y'all be like, 'How the f*ck she there?' I touch my people -- like I said, I got a catalogue, this catalogue p*ssy. I'll kill this b*tch with my old sh*t. My records ain't just enter the charts, they made history. What the f*ck is this bullsh*t, this sh*t come and go. What the f*ck, is you kidding me? ... We gonna get back to partying, I just want to let y'all know, right, I don't ever let nothing take me off my grind..." (Real Talk NY)
I think Nicki got the public ear right now, so a lot of people would't be checking for kim, so she need to just put out a hot track or just ignore nicki, because it can go wrong for her. Nicki might also be a HAS-BEEN in about 3-4 years, so i wonder why she has to call kim a has-been, but the truth of the matter is that she got a lot of love from the masses right now, so she would have a upper hand. But i put a hundred on it- Lil Kim would crush Nicki in a beef. Forget all the style flipping and metarphor dropping that nicki be doing, kim goes in hard, just go and check out her catalogue if you are a teen or in your early 20's and don't know what kim be about.
One of the mc's that has had beef with kim in the past, 50CENT, had this to say about the whole situation.
"I just herd that em nikki joint good sh*t. I know kim tight. Lol she gonna ride on her and em. Lolhttp://plixi.com/p/55347613," 50 tweeted Saturday (November 6) referring to Nicki Minaj and Eminem's record. (50 Cent's Twitter)
You know 50 got a big mouth and he usually say what he feel, no matter how crazy it might be, so you know 50 is speaking straight fom the heart. Let us wait and see how it unfolds...pending then, i would like to hear from you; tell me what you think. Who's side are you on?
I am not big on album sales of rapper's, but when the artist in question, Nicki Minaj, seemed to be so concerned with it, i decided to carry out my analysis of how many copies i think her Pink Friday debut album would do in its first week in stores. I have to say that i do not single out nicki as being so concerned about sales rather than the quality of album, i think every rapper, from Jay-Z to Kanye West to Eminem pays too much emphasis on record sales this days.
With that said, i would like to continue on what i plan to do; check nicki's album sellabily. I think, with all she has behind her right now, she can not but move massive units. She has a huge following; which consist of rap listeners, females, pop fans, lesbians, and every other person that is hung up on what is hot on radio.
Also consider the fact that every collaborative effort she has been involved in has shot up the Billboard Chart, and her label, Young Money/Cash Money records, which houses platinum selling rappers, Drake and Lil Wayne, is the hottest on the hiphop scene right now.
I think, with all this, her November 22 release, Pink Friday would move between 500-700 thousand copies in its first week.
Seriously, when i came up here, i didn't know what i was going to write about; i am hungry, and tired from a hard days work, but like how most of the rappers on Young Money make up their rhymes(without thinking), i am going to write this artilce. Please, do not have the mind that i am trying to disrespect their style; in fact, i respect the fact that they(lil wayne, nicki minaj,...) can actually just spit out the first thing that comes to their minds, and still make it rhyme, and make some sence. I think that is incredible. And for the record, i do not really put drake in this bracket; i think, if you take time to listen to drake's rhymes, you would know he actually sits down to think, and write what was(is) on his mind at any particular time.
Okay, before i go off key again, like i do when i am hungry, i would like to say or give my opinion on Nicki's style of rap. Oh, before i go on, i would like to know if the rumours that she injects herself with some....some...whatever to make her butt grow bigger before any photo shoot or Video, or interview, or whenever she knows she is going to be seen by a lot of people. I just wanna know. I think it is cool though; she has to make her money, so if spitting tight rhymes alone would not get people's attention, then put in a little sex appeal.
I think the only thing i don't like about her style is the way she does that lil wayne retarded type of flow too much sometimes...imagine me, in my late 20's rapping along to something like that. Asides from that, i think she is cool with the lyrics. In fact, she surprises me most times. I think i started looking out for her after i heard her spit on the remix of that Gyptian track, "hold you" or something like that. I ain't gonna lie, i was blown away. Infact, that alone made me love that song. I think Gyptian should give a million dollars for that alone. Lines like "body smoking, cigarette/give them the roller blades, tell em to skate". They blew me away. And for the record, i pulled the lines straight from my head, not some lyric site...just to show you that i really like her rap on that song.
But, i have to say i can not stand Massive Attack. That was a big flop. I think that song was made when they were all high or something, and thought people would like it...becasue it is different. And i also think Baby probably felt it was wack, but didn't know how to tell Sean Garrett that it was lame. Garrett did the prodcution...the same guy that produced the Mario "break up" track.
Okay, what really made me bring this up is all the hype that she seemed to be getting lately...i think she is the biggest female rap star since Foxy Brown and Lil Kim, but when Kanye West said she had the potential to be the number 2 best rapper(irrespective of gender) EVER!!! Now, that got me mad. Anyway, that is just how i feel. And i give it to her; i give it to anybody that has paid their dues. Wayne paid his dues; rapping for years, dropping albums since 1999, till he blew up in 2008. And she also paid her dues...do a youtube search of her, and you would see that she really did pay her dues...she has been underground, grinding her music since 2005.
I think she deserves all the fame, following the principles and rules of success. And i also think she is a very good rapper, lyrically.
NICKI MINAJ, the new female rap sensation is having some sort of beef with legendary female rapper, LIL KIM. There has been a lot of back and fort comments on someone not paying homage, and someone having hate, blah! blah! blah! Before i take sides, and i don't even think i am going to take sides, i would just spit the truth, the facts, and let you judge for yourself. Lil kim has been in the rap game for over 15 years, although she has had some major set backs with her rap career in the last 3 years or so; Nicky minaj is the hottest female rapper right now. Lil kim was the queen of rap for more than a decade during the heights of her reign; NICKY MINAJ has been in the game just 2 years. Lil kim has 4 solid albums(that have all gone platinum) to her name; Nicky is yet to drop her sophomore album. Lil kim has been rumored to have done a couple of plastic surgeries that make her look very horrible right now; Nicki minaj is young and beautiful. Lil kim is very lyrical and has held her own in songs that she featured or was featured by male rappers; Nicki minaj is also lyrical in her way and has done collaborations with some male rappers of her time.
Okay, those are the facts, let me do a little analysis, and give you my own opinion on the issue. I think the whole beef is about lil kim demanding that nicki pay homage to her for at least using her whole style. I think you have to agree with kim that nicki minaj stole the whole sexiness swag lil kim was\is known with, so she said she didn't mind, and didn't have any problem but she atleast wanted a prop of some kind. I guess she wants nicki minaj to admit the influence "lil kim" had on her, maybe probably through an interview or something.
And nicki is not down with that as she has shown with all the subliminal disses she has been sending to kim via twitter. So let me come in and say my piece, and i will try to make it short. I think lil kim has a right to question nicki, because it is clear that nicki did steal her whole style, and the whole barbie movement that kim made popular in the 90's and the 00's.
That's it, that's all i am going to say about the whole issue, because i don't want to get to emotional...........................Okay, let me confess, i am a big lil kim fan and i think she is the best female rapper of all time; she is the G.O.A.T when it comes to female rap, and i don't think anybody can take that away from her, and i don't care what DRAKE wants to make people think with his bias unwarranted judgement of the whole issue.
And about nicki minaj? I have to confess, i didn't like her when i first heard her, cos she sounded so much like lil wayne, and i was wondering who this "female version of lil wayne" was, but after a while, i kind of understood her, and started seeing her potential. I heard a couple of featuring she did and i liked them; i guess i didn't like her delivery, but when i listened to what she was actually saying, and the metarphors she was dropping, i gave it to her. Now, i think i like her whole package; she is cool, and she would go places with the present generation of rap listeners.
I have to add that i don't really like her new track, "massive attack", the single to her upcoming debut album. I did some research and heard some of her old stuff before she signed with young money, and she was really really good on them. I mean underground tracks she dropped back in 2007.
Okay, i think, through all my rambling, i have been able to give you my opinion on the whole situation.
Below is what lil kim had to say about the issue:
"Here's my thing, all females that come in the game, we all need to stick together and I always try my best to embrace them but what happens is when you come into the game and realize that I'm not going away and my fans are still here and they can't just step over me. They can't just step on me and then they're kinda like, they get upset and then they don't want to be my friend anymore and I think that's really childish, you know what I'm saying? It's stupid because all I ask for is to be respected -- pay homage at the end of the day, a lot of things go on behind the scenes that people don't know about and it will be aired out. You can't hide the truth -- when I came out to do this promo tour, it was a reminder of where it came from because if you're gonna swagger jack somebody and take their style, at least pay the respect and the homage..." (Kendra G)
Below is what RAY J had to say about the whole issue: "I'm not saying no names, but you know who," he continued, referencing biting Kim's style after calling Kim the greatest female rapper ever. Lil Kim added, "We love her. We just want her to pay homage," making an obvious reference to Minaj. "If you don't pay homage then f*ck you," she concluded. (Hip Hop DX)
And below is what DRAKE had to say:
"I know you be calling women b*tches in sh*t but I can't say you the baddest b*tch. I can't do that because I respect you, I love you too much and you look too beautiful. So I just wanna say you the baddest WOMAN to do this rap sh*t. I don't give a f*ck what Lil' Kim or nobody else is talkin about, you're the baddest chick to ever do this sh*t! " Nicki turned around laughing, then came back and hugged him. He told her "I love you." Then he left the stage. (Necole Bitchie)
So, you just decide for yourself what you think about the whole beef.
I got to know from you guys- who is hot in hiphop right now, and who is not? There is a lot of talk about rick ross being the hottest right now, and i think i can buy that, but i want to hear from you guys. Please, remember that i said HOT, not the most lyrical or the person who has sold the most rap albums, but just plain simple- who's hot.
I would like to mention some other people that are on the scene and making waves. Nicki Minaj still has her buzz from last year, although i can't say it is on the level it was last year. Maybe lil kim was right- maybe she is just a burning match. But, i think otherwise, because she is very versatile, and skilled.
Drake? I don't know...i guess he is just aight right now. But i do believe he still has a lot to give.
Yeah, that takes me to LUPE FIASCO. Lupe is not the type to jump on so many songs, because of his style, but he is doing pretty good. The official first single off the album (LASERS) "The Show Goes On" has already been certified GOLD; that means it has sold 500,000 copies as a single. I think that is pretty good. So, as for this year, Lupe Fiasco still has the highest selling rap album- that is for rap albums that dropped this year.
Yeah, you got to mention the guy who put lupe on- Kanye West. Kanye still has the buzz from last year, but i was really thinking he was going to own the first quarter of this year with that ALL OF THE LIGHTS track. That track is a banger, and i thought it would performance better than it is doing so far.
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