Wake up sleeping beauties, Its Barbie Bit**es!

 

‘Now class is finished, you’ll be home by 3, tell all them rap bit**es what you know ‘bout me’ ~ ‘What You Know’ - Nicki Minaj.

 

Amazing how one person can come into the game and turn the rap world on its axis… but that is exactly what Nicki Minaj has done.  In a time where the female mc has become an endangered species, the enigmatic self-titled Harajucku Barbie dropped an atomic bomb on the rap game, without even releasing a studio album! (She broke in through the back door via underground mixtapes.) And it’s not just because she is eye candy to any man, or woman, with a pulse.  All eyes are on Nicki Lewinski, with her laughable, crazy lyrics and acute rhyme sense and style.

 

But it seems as if Ms Nicki has managed to wake the femme fatale from their extended slumber.  All of this was going through my head as I’m watching the Remix video to Luda’s ‘My Chick Bad’ with Nicki, Trina, Eve, and Diamond.  This video showcased my question perfectly and got me wondering who else is out there putting anything down?  After some research, it looks like some conservation efforts are underway to redeem the femcee role in rap.  So many albums are coming out this year, let’s take a second to name drop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buzz started last year with the news that Missy Elliott was planning to release her 7^th album ‘Block Party’ on January 19^th, but as of this date, no album and a Coming Soon release date.  The Queen of Miami, aka Trina, released her new album ‘Amazin’ on May 4^th and debuted in the #1 spot on the Billboard charts.  (*Interestingly, Nicki Minaj and Lady Saw collaboed with Trina on ‘Dang a Lang’ for this album.)  Philly’s finest Eve revealed on Twitter back in January that she left Interscope Records and plans to drop an album this summer tentatively titled ‘Lip Lock’.  Nas’ ex-wife Kelis is shaking up the charts with her pending ‘Flesh Tone’ album slated for release on May 18.  Even British rap artist M.I.A. is making a comeback with plans to release an album this summer.  Call it coincidence or strategic planning, but Nicki Minaj is taking her time with her studio album and also plans to release an album, yet to be titled, this summer.  Hmm….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This summer has the potential to change hip-hop/rap as we currently know it….if these femcees stick to their supposed plans.  It will be great to welcome them back to the stage and the mic.  I hope we’re going to hear lyrics outside of who’s the baddest and who has the best…well, you know.  And I’m curious to see if the ladies will continue to play nice, and how the ‘vets’ are going to handle the get crazy newcomer….I’m just sayin…. Roger That!