In reply to TK.

@TL Would you call Kanye a pop artist? I wouldn't call Nicki a pop artist, not because I'm afraid she'd be offended but simply because she's not solely that. She has put out around 300+ songs and about 10 of them are pop which means the remaining 290+ are hip hop, therefore making her a Hip Hop artist who also dabbles in pop. To only acknowledge those 10 songs & solely call her pop is equivalent to only acknowledging "808's & heartbreaks" by Kanye & dismissing all the rest of his music (which happens to be the majority). It's insulting. Why is that just about every other artist can make a handful of songs outside of their original genre & can still be identified as what they actually are at their core, but not Nicki? She gets offended being called "pop" because most of the time it's someone from the hip hop community calling her that and they're using it in a negative & offensive way. The way they use it, pop = garbage, so yeah she's gonna be offended cuz they're basically calling her garbage. Was that particular interviewer using it negatively? no, but the fact is she has to sit & defend herself against simple minded idiots all day, she was probably already in defensive mode which is understandable. Summer Jam is perfect example of ppl using the pop term negatively. Rosenberg got up there and disrespected her based on ONE song that wasn't even intended for the hip hop audience. She didn't cancel the show because he referred to her as pop, she cancelled the show because he & his radio station were unprofessional idiots. You don't ask someone to HEADLINE YOUR SHOW, then get up on stage before they perform & disrespect their music & fans. If he didn't like that ONE song fine, but he should have been professional enough to STFU, that was not the time or place. She had every right to be offended by that.

You're saying you want her to take pride in all of her work but she already does. She loves her hip hop AND pop tracks, but people are so simple about it acting as if she has to choose one or the other, just acknowledge & respect her as an artist who loves & does BOTH, that's all she wants. The simple, closed minded people can't understand that though, TL.