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High ResolutionI haven’t seen any pictures of Nicki Minaj from last night on my dashboard yet, so I want to go on the record and say that this is the only acceptable way I’ve seen to wear Tommy Hilfiger since like, 1997. Tommy Hilfiger (the person) filled a table full of other guests whom he also dressed. One of them was Zooey Deschanel, and she looked vanilla as hell.
Some boring white model would have worn this dress with straight beige hair and a nude lip. But Nicki Minaj can wear the shit out of anything, and if she doesn’t get invited to the Met Gala every year so I can watch her get dressed, I’ll be infinitely disappointed.
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"She likes to play different characters. So I don’t know what’s going on there,"
-President Obama, [“…Obama said, sounding knowledgeable about Minaj,”] when asked whether or not he thought Nicki Minaj had endorsed Mitt Romney.
President Obama knows what’s up.
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When you disrespect Nicki Minaj — and I don’t care if it was in front of 2,000 people, which can equate to 2 million people when it’s streaming live — you’re disrespecting my fans. See, I don’t have a problem with anyone saying what they have to say to me. But don’t make those 3 million people that downloaded ‘Starships’ or whatever they downloaded, don’t make them feel like they’re inferior in any way for their personal taste in music.
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If it’s all love and you want the fans to see everyone, know that Nicki Minaj sold a lot of tickets for yesterday, and know that she deserves love and respect. And for you to single out one female on the bill, if that’s not some bitch-ass shit — for this person to single out the only female on the bill? I’m holding it down for women.-Nicki Minaj, discussing the Hot 97 Summer Jam situation with Funkmaster Flex.
The Five Best Moments from Nicki Minaj’s Hot 97 Rebuttal
Nicki Minaj does an excellent job of speaking to her own importance and I’m pretty sure she doesn’t need us to do it for her.
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Roman Reloaded: The Nicki Minaj Backlash Debated
When’s the last time you read something at Gawker that was just completely on point? For me, it was this morning.
I’ve been attempting to write a long post on Nicki Minaj, and why we need Nicki’s narrative and why I, personally, can’t begrudge her career moves like Roman Reloaded simply because I’ve waited so long for a female emcee with a narrative like hers. Those are things I have feelings about, you guys. Really melodramatic feelings. The last several paragraphs of this debate do it nicely, though, so maybe I won’t.
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Artist: Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj // Massive Attack (featuring Sean Garrett)
God, I used to throw so much hate on this track and I have absolutely no idea why because the part about the tom-toms is absolutely perfect. Now that Roman Reloaded has been leaked, I started listening to this, metaphorically shaking my fists at the sky and shouting, “REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES!”
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Name: Whip It
Artist: Nicki Minaj
Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Whip It - Nicki Minaj
From Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.
Nicki Minaj’s album leaked five days early and today is my last day of work. If I get anything done today and if I am not at least a little drunk by 5:30, I will be surprised and disappointed. I haven’t had enough time to listen to the entire album yet, but so far, I think I like it better than Pink Friday, and I definitely think it’s a stronger example of her creative ability.
(Source: illuminatisking)
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High ResolutionI probably look obnoxious today. That’s how bright this lipstick is, even in the terrible fluorescent lighting in my office. This is the first lipstick that has ever changed my mood. I’ve worked around the clock this week; last night I fell asleep with my work computer in my bed. After wearing neon pink Nicki Minaj lipstick to work, I don’t feel like throwing forks at the wall for the first day in almost two weeks.
And I’ll fall asleep wearing it, too, so I wake up feeling like this tomorrow.
Good thing I drove to my old apartment last week to retrieve it from outside my building, essentially doing UPS’s job for them. The irony is that for the two years that I lived in that building, I called UPS and pleaded with them to leave my packages unattended outside while I was at work. Finally, they mis-delivered a package to the outside of my old building and just left it there. Now that’s customer service.
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High ResolutionNicki Minaj Photographed by Steven Klein for the March Issue of Vogue
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High ResolutionIt looks like I’ll be dressing as a dramatically hooded version of Little Red Riding Hood, accompanied by a mysterious pope, in a costume slightly reminiscent of The Handmaiden’s Tale, for Halloween this year.
Related: Do you think Nicki Minaj has read The Handmaiden’s Tale? I would like to think she has.
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Apparently my best girl put out a video while I was busy working and driving home from work to work at home. I’m going to skip to the end - this is a visually arresting video, obviously Hype Williams is great, the cage is a loaded image that isn’t treated like one here, people are going to say she copied Lady Gaga, she did copy Lil Kim. The end.
Other than the obvious fact that I cringe whenever women use words like “hoe” to insult each other (and is “hoe” even one of those words that we are still using?) this video is basically what I do in my daydreams all day. Mostly the part where she is morphs into a leopard and gyrates back in forth while wearing various shades of neon.
Here’s a thing though. If you’re dissing Lil Kim and looking exactly like her in the same video, this guy named Sam Lansky and I are probably both going to hope you stop doing one of the things.
But when a parody of something is virtually indistinguishable from the thing being parodied, the whole point has a way of getting lost, and everything ends up just self-cannibalizing. That is, if you were indeed trying to throw some shade at Lil’ Kim, this video more aligns you with her than separates you from her.
This video looks a lot like a re-vamped, CGI version of Lil Kim. Not that there is anything wrong with that! There is nothing! I spent a lot of tortured, awkward years almost very literally praying for that very thing, so I know I can’t be a chooser! The double dutch thing is great, because a lot of this sounds like one of those double dutch rhymes from middle school. Double dutch is an under-used awesome thing to watch.
But Nicki also uses the word “hoe” over 40 times in 3 minutes, which is something I don’t think I’ve ever done, even in the deepest depths of my alcohol-induced misery after all of my boyfriends spent a month hooking up with all of my best friends.
The excessive use of the same awful line over and over in this song is sort of like my entire art major - Nicki has gotten really good at doing things she’s just okay at to avoid doing things she’s really good at, because that might not be as easy to like. Once you’re the only female on the Billboard charts, you can write verses all day. You don’t need to pander around with your hooks.
FEELINGS! Some of the lyrics are clever, most are disappointing, yeah yeah yeah Lana Del Ray.
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It’s nice to be able to identify the best thing you bought during the week.
Although it’s now in a dead heat with something else pink, thanks to TGT.
Are Tumblr and Nicki Minaj slowly turning me into a pink girl? God I hope not.
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Nicki Minaj - “Stupid Hoe” (2011)
The only part of this track that doesn’t work is Nicki’s final proclamation that she is the female Weezy- because she’s not. She’s better.
“Look bubbles go back to your habitat/ MJ gone and I aint having that.” The beast.
I am so embarrassed that I forgot to blog this yesterday, because this is basically a Nicki Minaj fan blog and I really want you all to stay up to date on the latest news so that you can properly anticipate her album. I hope she starts writing songs about dudes instead of other girls at some point, but I know my expectations are through the roof, so whatever, this track is sweet, especially the end.
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Discovering that Nicki Minaj and Snooki were excitedly whispering about meeting each other and nervously confessing their love for each other backstage at the VMA’s is somewhat like finding out that my slightly crazy artsy best friend from college gets along with my slightly crazy party girl best friend from high school.
They shared their secret crushes:
“Did you know that I’m obsessed with her?” Nicki said.
Countered Snooki, “I’m obsessed with Nicki!”
And traded compliments on each others’ impressive hairdos:
“I mean I’m jealous!”
“OK, whatever! I wanted you to wear your pouf today so we could be matching.”
“I did,” confessed Snooki, “but it deflated from the heat, you know what I mean?”
And I really, really wish I could have been there to give each of their poufs affectionate squeezes.
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High ResolutionWhat I would really like to know is, if you’re Nicki Minaj, do you just not worry about whether or not you look like a class act while you’re drinking your wine, because that’s something no sane person would ever question about your life? What do you do in this situation if you’re just a normal person trying to pull off some neon pink lipstick and your wine glass is making you look like everyone’s favorite drunk grandma?
a little bit self-centered
just make sure the plane you're on is bigger than your carry-on baggage.
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