With the wild costumes, the exaggerated persona and blunt, controversial lyrics, I can see the appeal for Nicki Minaj with certain people. However, I'm not feeling it just yet. She doesn't come off as being someone that evolves the game right now. She did a live performance on SNL that was completely lackluster in my opinion... but the Lonely Planet video was rather humorous. IMO, as long as we still got people like
Eve and
Lin Que making records, Nicki has a ways to go before she goes down as one of the greats.
Hmmmm.. other good female Hip-Hoppers?
There's
God-Des & She... but since they're open about their sexuality they'll never get their proper due in the industry. Hip-Hop culture still has a ways to go before they're publicly accepting of the gay & lesbian communities. I mean, if Khia could do a record called "My Neck, My Back", why couldn't
this number rock that same crowd?
And dare I say it? I still think
Bahamadia was one of the smoothest, yet most slept on Hip-Hop females out there. Her stuff wasn't the "rough, thug stuff" back in the 90s so the masses didn't connect with it.