In reply to ForTheSlowOnes.

@Tori, trust me, i get it. However, Nicki could legitimately release the dopest rap record of all time tomorrow and some people still wouldn't openly give her the props she deserves commercially or critically because they don't like her personally. When she drops a sick verse or record its "oh she didn't write it" or when it doesn't do well "oh she's a flop". Taste in music is fully subjective and its clear that you feel some type of way about her personally, so her new music will never meet your standard and that's totally fine. You may not have liked the queen era and thats okay, it wasn't my favorite either, but we both know the talent is still there & she's still able to adapt to the ever changing landscape that is the music industry.

We have to remain within context, rap in general isn't what it used to be, i think we could both agree that 95% of the songs charting are trash, let's be honest here. There's a complete lack of substance, lyrical talent and oringality within today's popular music. But everyone else is allowed to have fun and make trashy meaningless records but when Nicki puts out a subpar track, "its a huge problem, she's falling off, she's flopping". The other girls put out records that are just as stale or even worse (in manny cases) but for them its "yass, she's serving, she's the new queen" lol. Implying the rhetoric that "because she's been in the game for a 11+ years her music should always be better then theirs" is null because even if she does step back completely and just hone in to deliver a complete masterpiece, people will call her a flop in the interim, for not being on the scene. You might say that Nicki proclaims she is the best, therefore she has to always be the best well; for the most part she has lived up to that standard, her cadence & flows are still among the best of all time, her metaphors & wordplay are still miles ahead of most her competition and her versatility is out of this world. She hasn't even dropped her album yet and you're already writing her off based on the last era, and singles you didn't like. I'll be honest, Megan doesn't do it for me, like at all. But I'd never go to her posts and bash her nor would i ever write her off, same with Cardi. Everyone is going to have good eras and not so good eras, we're not going to like everyone's music but let's not be so quick to label people as flops just because they're facing turbulence. Especially when they're still relatively doing better then everyone else.