Don't know if this flips the male gaze, but maybe puts it on blast a bit, what with her walking around rapping about having no time for guys intercut with disembodied male eyes leering at her before she machine guns them down. Also didn't read that as anti-broke dude so much as anti-dudes who front and talk shit but are going nowhere. I mean, unless we're about to retroactively declare "No Scrubs" to be classist reinforcement of patriarchy, not really sure how it differs much from something like that give or take several dozen curse words.
― Greer, Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this is p much what i think. the status stuff is not progressive and has never been but...
I agree w Maura, that said we've tolerated gross lines from dudes that can rap their ass off forever
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is the context. i don't know, the rape line is easy to condemn and i'm not sure i want to defend it but this is the context. i don't think any woman, even scattergun nicki, would go there in a blasé, it doesn't mean anything, it's just a metaphor, mealy-mouthed way. it's a "how does it feel to be on the receiving end, once, of something women experience all the time" moment. is it the best way of making her point? is it progressive? probably not. does it perpetuate rape culture? unfortunately, you can't argue that it doesn't. but look at the comments underneath the video. and look at this trey songz nonsense. this song and that line has dudes shook.
also, looking at this from the perspective of the evolution of nicki minaj: look, she's historically gunned for fellow women. not just the lil kim maybe-specific stuff but "these bitches are my sons" etc. the people on the receiving end of her disses were almost always women, rarely men. the past year or so she's visibly shifted her focus to eviscerating men - "i'm out", "boss ass bitch" and now this.
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 February 2014 13:22 (ten years ago) link
this track loses a lot w/o the visual i think... it's mostly just a sketch of a song otherwise
well...yeah, did you think it was anything other than this? nicki's obviously still in the "whetting your appetite with remixes and freestyles" stage of the album campaign
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 February 2014 13:23 (ten years ago) link
I guess my reaction is "what kind of weak-ass dude do you have to be to be shook by this?" which is pretty much an entirely different thread
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Friday, 14 February 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
well...indeed. but there they are, shook.
i hadn't even seen the malcolm x artwork til i read that thinkpiece.
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 February 2014 13:30 (ten years ago) link
the real bummer is that lex might be right that Nicki is trying to say something but hip hop has such an ingrained, gross sex-as-violence, sex-as-financial-transaction, sent as gassed to onto rt dominance attitude that what passes as feminism to her is lashing out in the same way as men do
:/
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 February 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
Wtf autocorrect - that's sex as assertion of dominance
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 February 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
yeah i agree with that
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 February 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
It's her Dogville, basically.
― longneck, Friday, 14 February 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
it's her descent
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 February 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
sent as gassed to onto rt dominance
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 February 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
upcoming nicki minaj promo video Sent Ass Gassed
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 February 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Aww, she thinks she's Bey. http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2014/02/nicki-minajs-new-album-will-not-have-a-release-date/
― Murgatroid, Friday, 14 February 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
Trey Songz made a response song. I'm not going to link to it, I just want you to know that it exists.
― Greer, Friday, 14 February 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
I find the fact that Trey did a response song funny/interesting considering that he was on an official remix for the Mariah single, which came out on the same day, and we all know how Mariah and Nicki feel about each other.
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 15 February 2014 00:18 (ten years ago) link
It's interesting that Trey Songz thinks anyone gives a fuck what he thinks
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 16 February 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
I do :(
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 16 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Really? Like you were hoping Trey Songz would weigh in on this song?
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 16 February 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Oh, no. No. I thought you were commenting on his general relevance.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 16 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/nickiminaj/chi-raq-by-nicki-minaj-ft-lil
― all is fair in love and womp (monotony), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 09:18 (ten years ago) link
hoping this hard-ass rapping-ass rapping is foreshadowing the album rather than getting it out of her system beforehand
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 10:06 (ten years ago) link
Amen.
― Assholes on Boats: A Billy Zane Retrospective (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 10:07 (ten years ago) link
*knocks down a fucking building*
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
dope
― Raptain Chillips (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
love this
― Evan R, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
this is cool but hopefully nicki picks better beats for her album... this and the "lookin ass" beat are pretty rudimentary and boring imo
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
this beat is straight garbage actually
naw, I love that beat
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
i don't think it's a huge deal cuz it seems obv she's going for a tossed off/demo freestyle kinda vibe with these tracks but the beats sound like the leftovers of the leftovers
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
I had an immediate "oh fuck this is amazing" reaction to the beat. So low key menacing.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
yeah...the fact that she's been in the studio w/ Mustard is encouraging but really i think a lot of her recent stuff is just getting exclamation points for not being "Starships" xp
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
i agree with j0rdan re: this beat but def not "lookin' ass", that's an amazing beat, so low-key menacing
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
I think they're both low-key menacing
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
And rly good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHePDabs_w&feature=youtu.be
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Saturday, 3 May 2014 06:39 (ten years ago) link
LOOK UP TO JADA I LOVE HER AND WILL
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Saturday, 3 May 2014 06:41 (ten years ago) link
her "go-hard" tracks are as bad as her Lady Gaga impersonations, I'm saying
― nova, Saturday, 3 May 2014 07:20 (ten years ago) link
you're boring
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Saturday, 3 May 2014 08:11 (ten years ago) link
lol
― nova, Saturday, 3 May 2014 08:15 (ten years ago) link
this is amazing. her voice!!!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 3 May 2014 11:02 (ten years ago) link
nicki is truly 2014 mvp
oh look, a "bitches is my sons" song
― some dude, Saturday, 3 May 2014 11:21 (ten years ago) link
Flipping the idea of having a good hook here
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, 3 May 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
yea the chorus is garbage but im p in on this tbh
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 3 May 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I like Nicki on it, rly looking fwd to the "actual" single
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, 3 May 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
i dunno. the fact that she's said she's not doing a "Starships"-type pop single doesn't preclude the possibility of a super whiny "Right Thru Me"-type single.
― some dude, Saturday, 3 May 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
Chorus is awesome
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, 3 May 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
yaaas bitch yaas bitch? rly?
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, 3 May 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure this has happened before, where the discussion around a new nicki song rapidly veers into being 90% about the male guest. CUT IT OUT WHO CARES ABOUT HIM
― lex pretend, Saturday, 3 May 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
Not me, fuck that guy. And tell him
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, 3 May 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
xp i mean, fair enough if thats something that happens idk but its not a guest verse its the chorus of the song
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 3 May 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link