This past Tuesday a new M.I.A. track from /\/\ /\ Y /\ was released. “Teqkilla” was full of the warped electro sounds that we’re familiar with and was easily a signature Maya “banga”. Days later and a regularly used Nicki Minaj jumps on for a quick verse to…
Nicki Minaj’s cliche style of rapping does not do anything for the song. You have to press rewind a few times just to make sure that was Minaj and not just some background vocals. After a few spins of this remixed track, it helps us to understand what Minaj was going for with “Massive Attack”; left-field ambush on radio but came off the wrong way. Either way, this remix was unnecessary.
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