8. Set up for her to emerge as the victorious ‘Monster’ MC on Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, fans and critics unanimously agree that Minaj defeated West himself, alongside the track’s other guests. Midway through the track she breaks down the riddim, tapping into her Trinidadian roots. Privacy Policy An official Paris Goebel-choreographed music video was released exclusively via TIDAL on May 18th, 2015, with filming at multiple locations including Coachella. It is pop that has been mechanically engineered to produce an adrenaline rush, crashing with wild abandon into your brain's pleasure center the way a toddler vigorously attempts to slam a square peg into a round hole.
Not to mention the Mariah Carey-esque outro of "oooh dick in your face" and one of the most gut-punchingly funny couplets in her catalog (see below) offered only to confirm her clout in the high fashion world. All Rights Reserved. Once Nicki agreed to hop on Beyonce’s “Flawless (Remix)” a deal was in place for Bey to reciprocate on The Pinkprint.
An elite group of Nicki Minaj's songs transcend any genre and border on the nonsensical, hewing far closer to experimental noise than hip-hop per se.
Don't ever come for Nicki.
FACEBOOK For clarity's sake, this list is compiled only from songs where she serves as the lead artist – if we made room for her scene-stealing guest verses, we would never finish a workable ranking.
Fans are on a mission to make one of Nicki’s greatest songs the first diamond record by a solo black artist. -- C.W. If you do encounter an accessibility issue, please specify the Web page(s) to Even at this stage, her eclectic cultural references, proclivity for adopting different voices, and magnetic charisma are on immediate display. She had talent, sure, great heaps of it, but it was Nicki's maniacal energy – capable of hosting three distinct personalities in a single verse – that hit the public conscious like a thunderbolt. Your email address will not be published. Just as Nicki began to accrue serious hype as a tough as nails MC, "Your Love" arrived and completely flipped the script.
This era of her career was met with merciless skepticism from those doubting her chops as a pop star, but who would be clueless enough to deny this is anything but pure confectionary goodness?
2 Chainz, "I Luv Dem Strippers" (2012), In 2012, 2 Chainz was one of rap's most reliable assists – so naturally he'd turn to another guest verse MVP for his studio debut, Based on a T.R.U.
With an album and tour on the way, let’s dive into her decorated discography to narrow down the best Nicki Minaj songs ranging from her brash mixtape era to her bubbly pop anthems and much in-between. Richard Marx' debut single "Don't Mean Nothing" features Joe Walsh on guitar. There are at least six pop hooks here that get strung one right after the other, as if Nicki was so determined to make a hit that she eschewed the concept of song structure entirely, opting instead to slam sonic speedballs in succession. Moral of the story? Bless whoever is responsible for such a leak, the world is a far sweeter place with "Your Love" in it. -- CARL LAMARRE, 19. The tuneful hit became the Barbie-inspired Minaj’s first number one on the Hot Hip-Hop/R&B chart and was later nominated for best rap performance at the 2012 Grammy Awards before losing to JAY-Z and West's “Otis.” The T-Minus-produced record has sold over 2 million copies.
-- J. Lipshutz. Even if the song doesn’t have the same staying power of the rest of Nicki’s catalogue, the video broke the internet when it first premiered and continues to rack up views thanks to Minaj’s homage to perfect posteriors. Minaj delivered arguably the verse of her career on Kanye West’s “Monster,” off his 2010 album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. With the last verse, Minaj steals the show, alluding to her Fendi prints, the sex toys that she would eventually bring on stage during tour appearances, and her love for Harajuku girls. Lily Allen wrote "Something's Not Right" for the soundtrack of the Peter Pan prequel, Pan. EMAIL ME, With her 109th entry on the Billboard Hot 100, a total spanning nearly the entirety of the 2010s, rap and pop icon Nicki Minaj finally got to the Hot 100's pinnacle for the first time with her featured appearance on the remix to ascendant star Doja Cat's breezy disco-rap banger, "Say So.". Diddy - Dirty Money, "Hello Good Morning" (Remix) (2010), Before Minaj became a features savant, she was a rebellious MC eager to flatten the competition. Even so, the arrival of Nicki Minaj onto the scene circa 2009 and her subsequent rise to rap's uppermost echelons felt nothing short of revolutionary.
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The latter half of Nicki's sophomore album, Pink Friday... Roman Reloaded, is a blur of EDM-lite, the sonic equivalent of mixing crushed M&Ms into a batch of amphetamines and snorting it with Skrillex at a beach party. Once upon a time, Meek Mill and Nicki Minaj were a premier power couple in rap. But they are wrong; if anything, it's a blessing that our Barbie-in-Chief would be proactive enough to repurpose any threats to her ultimate Barbie-dom on her first album.
Serving as their first collaboration, Bey and Nicki are unflappable Black queens who wake up on the right side of the bed every morning. Jay Sean "2012 (It Ain't the End)" (2010), In 2010, with the supposed apocalypse rapidly approaching in December 2012 (simpler times! With a No. “Anaconda” served as the second single on 2014’s The Pinkprint album arguably the most bootylicious Nicki Minaj song of all-time. Meek's street edge mixed with Minaj's vivacious charm proved to be the perfect union on this radio heater. Many had trouble conceiving of "Stupid Hoe" as anything but an elaborate joke when it arrived as the lead single from Nicki's sophomore album.
‘Catch Me’ later appeared as a bonus track at the end of her debut album, Pink Friday, and would lay the pinkprint for Minaj’s futuristic sound. ‘Lookin’ Ass’ catches Minaj in her rawest form, calling out misogyny and providing girl code at the same time.
Facts: there has never been a more endearing delivery of the phrase "how do you do that shit?" Automatic (2012) Barbie Dreams (2018) Barbie Tingz (2018) Beautiful Sinner (2012) Bed (2018) Bed Of Lies (2014) Beez In The Trap (2012) Black Barbies (2016) Blazin (2010) "I Luv Dem Strippers" is fairly self-explanatory, but Her Minajesty proves effortlessly boss and domineering in the strip bar, dropping brilliant wordplay ("B--ches, stay pressed, I call them a space bar") and cracking the hell up at her own The Little Engine That Could reference at the song's close. Minaj might regret making “Starships,” but that doesn’t mean her early-decade pop/EDM crossover efforts weren’t hugely successful. Calling it a radical break from everything she had made thus far would be an understatement; "Stupid Hoe" defies any traditional definition of either pop or hip-hop, hewing much closer to noise rock in its intentions than a rap song. Best Bars: "Sheneneh, you a fraud committin' perjury/ I got before and after pictures of your surgery.". -- A.U. Your email address will not be published. Privacy Policy On Instagram, Nicki admitted that the Swizz Beats-produced record was originally meant for Diddy’s album, but she begged him to keep it and is one of her favorites to this very day. Amidst the exaltations of no flex zones, aggressive stunting on exes and regrettable Donald Trump similes, Rae Sremmurd's 2015 debut album SremmLife contains one female voice, and Minaj uses her unique position to eye-roll the onslaught of masculinity and collect her cash. Featuring Drake, ‘Moment 4 Life’ finds Minaj comfortably spitting bar after bar in her celebratory ode to the new acclaim she’s found. Simply put, ‘Itty Bitty Piggy’ is Nicki Minaj in her purest form. Best Bars: "I'm a bad bitch, I'm a cunt/ And I'll kick that ho; punt/ Forced trauma; blunt/ You play the back, bitch, I'm in the front.". With the EDM explosion taking over mainstream pop in the early 2010s, Minaj joined in as an enforcer of the sound, going head-to-head with the pop stars of the era. The slept on record samples Simple Minds’ 1985 smash “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” After West’s wish to get on “Right Thru Me” went ungranted, Nicki and Ye blazed through one prolonged verse a piece after Minaj freestyled the standout track’s hook. Produced by Swizz Beatz, the track features a hard-hitting tribal bass and space-age synths – a slick hybrid sound that would come to dominate the best Nicki Minaj songs. After hopping on Drake’s “Up All Night,” Drizzy came to the aid of his Young Money sister. -- TATIANA CIRISANO. Some would think after adopting 'Barbie' as a moniker for both yourself and your legion of fans, that building a track sampling Aqua's '90s cult hit "Barbie Girl" would be too obvious. Discover Nicki Minaj’s best guest spots.
With a few lyrical changes, ‘Your Love’ confirmed that Minaj had the ability to become a mainstream solo star. Story. "Pound the Alarm" is an incredible artifact; few other songs spring to mind that somehow encapsulate every single radio trend from 2012 and pack it all down to a four-minute spree of utter chaos.
Fishbone has always enjoyed much more acclaim than popularity - Angelo might know why. Known as the “Big Three” of the Young Money roster, Lil Wayne, Drake and Minaj all provide thrilling and equally enticing verses to this track. Sometimes rappers have one song that goes for the jugular and doesn’t let up.