One’s a Rap Queen taking the world of Pop by storm just as easily as she did Hip Hop. The other, her Mercury fuelled counterpart well on her way to British superstardom well before the release of her ‘Classic’ debut album.
This week, in what Female Rap champions will no doubt bill a victory, Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea have made a number of wins on the UK’s Official Charts, thanks to new releases launched in the last month.
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For some strange reason, Nicki Minaj seems to believe that releasing music videos en masse serves as compensation for a lack of live performances.
Tonight, in continuing that unfortunate trend, she releases a music video for ‘The Re-Up’ spawned single ‘Up In Flames’, no more than two weeks after releasing (and abandoning) the video for her Lil Wayne assisted single ‘High School‘.
Is this video any good?
You decide below…
As recent Hip Hop wins have shown, using the Hot 100 to determine how well a song is not always a good idea.
For, while some cuts may not sell enough week by week to score or hold Top Ten spots, they do sell enough to give the acts and labels behind much to smile about.
Find out what we mean in today’s chart check below!
While those unaware of her brand may not know it, Nicki Minaj is one of Pop’s most powerful trendsetters.
So, as to capitalize on a name that has sold 5 million albums worldwide in the space of three years, Beats By Dr.Dre have teamed up with the Rapper to launch her own line of headphones, named the ‘Pink Pill’.
Watch her shoot the first ad for the project below!
Nicki Minaj is well and truly about that ‘One Woman Army’ life.
After enlisting Ciara’s voice for her 2012 release ‘The Re-Up’, the ‘Here I Am’ Rapper has now returned the favor by contributing to multiple songs on the singer’s ‘One Woman Army’ LP, dishing on the cuts with MTV.
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Nicki Minaj has finally unwrapped the video for her latest single ‘High School’.
The Lil Wayne assisted cut is the latest (and likely last) to be lifted from the re-release of the Young Money madam’s sophomore album ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re Up’.
What are you waiting for? Watch Nicki in action after the jump…
The US music market has seen sales generated by digital releases surpass the $4 billion mark this year- according to a report by our friends over at Hits Daily Double.
No doubt excellent news for a business plagued by declining physical sales in recent years, heights reached by digital outlets have many to thank for this new feat. Many, which include R&B leader Frank Ocean, Rap domina Nicki Minaj and Roc Nation’s Rihanna.
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Chris Brown‘s new album ‘X’ now has the Nicki Minaj factor, for the singer announced moments ago that the hotly anticipated set will be feature a “mean” verse from the charismatic femcee.
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Though we loved its material (albeit a little one dimensional) the promotional plan employed to push Nicki Minaj‘s ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ was in fact nothing short of an unorganized mess.
Ditching the structure and strategy that saw her debut album ‘Pink Friday’ score points on a commercial and critical front, the ‘white wash‘ look, mass release of ‘un-promoted’ singles, lack of televised performances and constant need to remind the world that she was ‘still Hip Hop’ saw her isolate the casual listener that had taken all of ‘Friday’s singles to Gold or Platinum status.
Of course, while this didn’t stop the album from being the highest selling Rap LP of the year, it was clear that the once glamorous and in tact Minaj was in desperate need of a branding overhaul if her third album was to do as well as her first.
Now, as to right the wrongs of yesteryear, the ‘Your Love’ MC is readying a campaign that may leave some of her naysayers no choice but to applaud her.
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