Definitely don't think it's her best verse ever (maybe "itty bitty piggy"? Or "sweet dreams"?), it's just a landmark one for her (polling "itty bitty piggy" would have garnered maybe two votes max)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 4 October 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
the repetition, rather. It's not like she's lil b or something. xpost
― da croupier, Monday, 4 October 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
croup otm
― ayo for dayo (The Reverend), Monday, 4 October 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my stars
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 October 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
'consensus' doesn't mean 'what lex thinks' fyi
― algernod shiplies (some dude), Monday, 4 October 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
my problem with this verse is that i feel like she hasn't found a way to make her rampant accent switch ups work in the context of a continuous flow -- even when you read the verse back w/o listening to it you can notice these breaks ("eat your brains", "all up in the bank with the funny face", "so let me get this straight", "bride of chucky") where it's like she stitched together bits of 6 different verses -- the middle part of the verse works well cuz she actually builds on something for a few bars
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 October 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno, i kind of think the choppiness makes the whole thing work in a blockbuster whizz-bang-boom type way
― ayo for dayo (The Reverend), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 4 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
rev otm - you think she's done and then she comes back at you with another voice
"consensus" = just going by what i've seen other people say really
lots more votes than i thought there would be!
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 06:03 (thirteen years ago) link
rev and croup otm, stop listening to waka
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
if nicki's album is half as entertaining as waka's i'll reimburse everyone's purchase of 'pink friday'
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 October 2010 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
itty bitty piggy is terrific. i would enthusiastically voted for that poll.
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
and lol @ some boring fucks i know nothing about being all 'oh my stars it's that contrarian scalliwag some dude!' because i said something other than omg this song is amazing
― algernod shiplies (some dude), Monday, October 4, 2010 12:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
lol'd at this
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 06:35 (thirteen years ago) link
croupier was otm, tho -- her use of 'monster' in the track was ...totally purposeful
― thank you based mod (deej), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 07:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah people who call her use of 'monster' lazy in a song called 'monster' are looking for lazy zings imo
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
man, dayo, there is no way that you and I exit some dude's "scalliwag" comment with any degree of integrity
in my defense, my thought process approached, "oh yes, 'some dude,' i've seen his name here before... is he particularly aligned with challops? okay, sure, why not. i can't read people on the internet anyway."
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
relatively-new-to-ilx-blues
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
meanwhile i too am down for an "itty bitty piggy" poll
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Monday, October 4, 2010 11:21 PM Bookmark
i am pro-waka and have been for like a year now
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link
waka has an album?! is it good? idk if i could take a whole waka album, "hard in da paint" is so good that it's enough, really
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
WAKA
― just sayin, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
had kind of a breakthrough Nicki Minaj moment the other day listening to "Bottoms Up" when she's bouncing between all these different personas, doing the cutesy/sexy(?) babytalk shit, then the really deadpan Anna Nicole Smith shoutout at the end, it all felt like it was saying something really IMPORTANT about like body image and celebrity culture and shit -- was pretty stoned tho, idk. but I like her more now.
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"OK, first things first" is almost as much of a space-filler syllable block as "OK I get let me think I guess it's my turn" -- her shit is just sloppy is all I'm saying
― I had figured that jeremih birthday sex was some indie band (some dude), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
first things first manyou fucked with the worstsome dude stickin' pins in your postslike a fuckin' nurse
― 50.bison (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
nick is the only person on this song that comes close to riding the beat
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 November 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
missed an i there, we're not on nickname basis yet
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 November 2010 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
automobile gangsta probably should've won too
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 November 2010 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
'oh my stars it's that contrarian scalliwag some dude!'
this is the best
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 November 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
this sentence was made for nicki minaj's british accent tbh
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Friday, 12 November 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
last night i listened to a DJ cut this song after jay's verse
― /\/K/\/\, Saturday, 13 November 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
its hard for me to express how disappointed i was but you can probably understand
yeah when I saw A-Trak DJ he did that
I went up him and was like "wtf why did u cut off nicki that's the best part lol"
― The Brainwasher² = (The Brainwasher) X (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 13 November 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
FAT MOTHERFUCKER GUESS WHO'S IN TROUBLE
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 13 November 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
what did he say?
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Saturday, 13 November 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
he was like "I had to keep it moving" lol
― The Brainwasher² = (The Brainwasher) X (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 13 November 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
the horrible curse of the modern DJ
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Saturday, 13 November 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to that jay verse is the worst way to keep things moving
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
kanye doing a napoleon dynamite impression and mumbling through the next couple bars is worse than anything in jay's verse imo
― Local Hardman (some dude), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bit.ly/f3nl8U
― john jjjusten jingleheimer smh (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the entertainment value of "LOOOVE" is self-evident from its meme status, "GOSH!" is just like ugh kanye what's wrong did you run out of adam sandler movies to quote?
― Local Hardman (some dude), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
fwding through it is now a pavlovian reaction for me, it's just the worst
kanye's verse isn't that defensible either, don't get me wrong, but i can definitely listen through it without HATE kicking in
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
don't get why everyone hates on this kanye verse. one of the very few recent ones i like a lot.
― Jacques_Lamure, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know if many people are hating on that verse besides me and lex, who are kind of the big outspoken opponents of the whole album fwiw
― Local Hardman (some dude), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont really like any of kanye's verses on the album
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"mix that goose and malibui call it mali-BOOYA"
c'mon son
― EIEIoOoOO (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
that's probably my least favorite line on the album
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
altho i think it's totally something that kanye would say irl and find funny
this is one of those albums where i'm like "OMG that's the corniest line ever" then kanye drops one that tops it in the next song
― EIEIoOoOO (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
posts like this are why I found it completely puzzling that some dude ranked Kanye's album in his top 50 of the year
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, January 6, 2011 10:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah but i also posted in the kanye thread around the same time that it would be in my year-end somewhere in the 30s or 40s. i was more an opponent of the album's #1 masterpiece status than the album itself but yeah there are things i've said that suggest otherwise i guess ::shrug::
― Johnny Cheever (some dude), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
xp rly? agree the beat is cool but there are so many bad parts
― flopson, Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
imo it is some of the worst rap of 2010 bookended by some of the best. i understand the temptation but i could never rate it
― flopson, Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I know a lot of people do, but I don't really have beef with any of the verses.
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
All the silly Ross/Kanye/Jigga parts just make me laugh tbh.
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
the jay z verse goes on for so long!
― flopson, Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Really the only totally unforgivable thing in the song is Jay-Z thinking he can try to rhyme "common" with "monster".
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
It doesn't seem any longer than Kanye or Nicki's verses?
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It's shorter than either.
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
It's basically just ppl doing the same "Jay-Z is old, what business does he have still rapping" routine that's been going on for the past 2 years.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Kanye = 28 barsJay = 20Nicki = 32
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ha i was gonna say
― Johnny Cheever (some dude), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean 16 bars is kind of the standard so Jay's verse can be considered long in that sense but not in the context of the song
― Johnny Cheever (some dude), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
new links up - http://kkingdomm.com/news/2011/01/monster-kingdoms-nickicentric-edit/
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
thx
― i don't vacuum, i'm roomba pimpin (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
where does this verse rank in the pantheon of famous guest verses? is it the most famous in like 5 years? after consulting various young ppl in my world of young ppl, i came across a lot of "nicki minaj really kills that verse" by people that would never have cared about nicki because the singles off 'pink friday' are so poppy & bad -- really think the "monster" verse opened her up to a bigger audience
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
probably not nearly as much as her similarly loopy verse on a top 10 hit?
― i don't even vacuum, i'm roomba pimpin (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
eh idk
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"Bottoms Up" is a bigger hit (and a better verse imo) but c'mon "Monster" is obv so much more revered as her standout calling card moment
― Johnny Cheever (some dude), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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