Below are some music videos that premiered within the past two days.
Nicki Minaj premiered her lengthy new Chris Robinson-directed music video for “Moment 4 Life.” Both the video and song feature Drake, who plays Minaj’s love interest. The video follows a Cinderella plot with one of Nicki Minaj’s alter-ego’s, Martha aka Roman’s mother, making her debut visual appearance.
Nicki Minaj is official Platinum status, as far as album sales go for Pink Friday. Something was missing from that album, what was it? It was a guest feature from Lil Wayne. There were plans to quickly get Minaj and Wayne into the studio together but time did not permit. So now Wayne is jumping on “Roman’s Revenge” for remix: 2.0.
Eminem’s guest feature surpasses Wayne’s feature… that is all. Listen to the mastered version below.
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Viewers be on guard as the Jake Nava-directed video for Kanye West’s “Monster” will continue all opinions that the eccentric rapper is a devil worshipper. The terrifying video sees West playing and laying with a handful of dead female bodies: very dark. The video is still unfinished but the show stealer is none other than Nicki Minaj, once again. It’s a hype for a hype song, now go watch.
After doing so many collaborations, mixtapes, freestyles and features, The ninja, The boss, The BAH-BEE, finally has something that she can call her own. Her first studio album Pink Friday officially dropped this past Monday, revealing the pink-wigged Minaj’s soft and badass sides.
The 13 track album (+4 bonus tracks) featured amazing collaborations from artists like Kanye West, Natasha Bedingfield, Rihanna, Drake, Will.I.am., and Eminem.
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Although being the firecracker that she is, Minaj didn’t only showcase that with this album. On tracks like “Your Love”, “Right Thru Me” and “Save Me” she lets her listeners know that underneath her rough growling rap voice (that might sometimes freak the average person out), she is really is fragile, sweet and girly.
Today is Onika Tanya Maraj’s big day. Yezzuh, today, Pink Friday hit music outlets all over the US and beyond. We’ll have that review up for you all asap but besides the album’s thirteen tracks, enough bonus tracks have surfaced to make an EP. Two brand new bonus tracks leaked: “Catch Me” and “Wave Ya Hand.”
“Catch Me” is a funny little bonus track. Not funny in a comedic way but the fact that this sounds completely unfinished. When Minaj starts singing, something somewhere gets warped and leaves the song inaudible for a few seconds. It’s a decent song nonetheless.
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“Wave Ya Hand” is an exclusive bonus track to Best Buy. This song’s production sounds so similar to Swizz Beatz’s “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem.” That isn’t a bad thing at all and on top of that Nicki Minaj sounds very Dancehall on this track. Oh, make sure you tune in ’til the end. You will get to hear one of Minaj’s many insane voices. What is wrong with that girl’s head? We dunno but we love it.
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For a few months now it’s been no secret that legendary female rapper, Lil Kim, has it out for the popular Nicki Minaj. Lil Kim has been straight-to-the-point by voicing her dislike for Minaj several times. On the otherhand, Minaj left it for the listeners to assume her response in her killer verses from Kanye’s “Monster” and her song, “Roman’s Revenge,” featuring Eminem. Well Minaj let everything out when she sat down for an interview with Angie Marinez. Take a listen below.
As you can tell, it’s not that serious for Minaj. Lil Kim will always be a legend in Hip-Hop but with all things entertainment, there comes a time limit. Right now, the spotlight is on Nicki Minaj, so let her have her shining moment, or moments. It’s the Hip-Hop way to never let anything go by without a response but Lil Kim is only coming off as having issues, especially when Minaj has been nothing but respectful to her.
Now with that said, Nicki Minaj is pretty much “Blazin’,” right now. Kanye West, at least, think so…
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It seems like a handful are returning the favor to Nicki Minaj for her Pink Friday debut. Earlier this year, Minaj was the feature one of Drake’s tracks on his debut, Thank Me Later. Now, Drake is the feature on Minaj’s album, in a song entitled “Moment 4 Life.”
In the Boi-1da-produced “Up All Night” from Thank Me Later, it was a refreshing moment. Nicki Minaj toned down the antics and became serious; spitting heavy rhymes to match the urban production. She came through and added some extra heat for Drizzy.
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“Moment 4 Life” is the new one and we’ll let Minaj explain this one for you:
Moment 4 Life is about 2 kids that grew up on the same block. They shared their dreams of making it as rappers. They laughed together, they cried together. One day they realize that their dreams have come to fruition. Though they know all things come to an end, they celebrate. They wish that they could have this moment 4 LIFE.
Oh yeah barbz, ‘Moment 4 Life’ features Drake! I was really looking forward to our collaboration and it lived up to every one of my expectations. It feels like a marriage made in heaven
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Ahhh this is a tricky one because in unbiased opinion they both are really good tracks. We call this one a tie.
In other news Drake announced the title of his sophomore album to be Take Care and just like Drake, Nicki Minaj will have her own MTV documentary. Check out a preview after…
Barbie’s aka Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday got the leak treatment earlier this week so you know many people were too excited. Our review of the album will be up to accompany the album’s release but in the meantime let’s play a little game of comparing.
Nicki Minaj, before this album’s release, was a frequent feature on other artists’ records. Just as recent as Rihanna’s LOUD album, Minaj is featured on “Raining Men.” Now Rihanna returned the favor by featuring on a track from Pink Friday entitled “Fly.”
If you have not heard the Mel & Mus-produced “Raining Men” then you will probably take it in as a Beyoncé-esque/Bangladesh-esque track, as it sounds like one. From the deep bassline to the overall urban influence, this song sounds hot as hell on a top notch sound system.
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Now onto the new and shiny J.R. Rotem-produced “Fly” featuring Rihanna. This song has Top 10 written all over it. Here’s what Minaj had to say about the song:
FLY is one of my absolute faves. I wanted to work with Rihanna for a long time. I’m very proud of her accomplishments ; especially since she was born on an island like me
. This song is a female empowerment song. But then again, its not specific to just women. It speaks about flying, soaring high… in the face of every single solitary adversity that comes your way. I speak about how the media has attempted to box me in and how that has made me feel suffocated. After years of being dragged thru the mud, I’ve mustered up the courage to re-define myself. I believe that I represent an entire generation. My fans have become my family ; and together we have become a movement. Get ready for it.
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Well, each song is nice in its own way and whilst both may be very mainstream we see “Fly” making bigger moves on the charts because of its less-urban and more-Pop sound. Also, check out Rihanna’s “What’s My Name” performance on Letterman.
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