Thursday, March 21, 2013

NICKI MINAJ: The Last Woman Standing.


Hip Hop has enjoyed the presence of beautiful and lyrically gifted female rappers since its golden era, the likes of Monie Love, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah,Yo-Yo, Da Brat, Boss, Nikki D, Rage, Eve, Lauryn Hill, Lil Kim, Foxy*Brown, Angie Martinez, Amil, Left Eye, Salt N Pepa, Rah Digga, Missy, Sole, Bahamadia, Vita, Charli Baltimore. These ladies have contributed their individual role in the game and have set the mark for other Femcees to follow, but in recent years Hip Hop has seen the decline of female rappers with alot of them stepping back into the shadows, most of them obviously retired  so they can start a family as its not easy to be in the game and keep the real family tradition of raising kids, its quite easier for men to cope with this but not for the ladies who turn mothers because the bond and obligation women have to their children is not the same as with men.

One would have expected that as the rap amazons are retiring, a new breed of female lyricist would be ready to replace them and work the paths their predecessors took, but this is not the case, the vacuum is so wide now that female rappers had to start coming back from retirement, who can blame them? But thanks to Nicki Minaj for stepping up to revive the glory of  femcees, her coming brought back the glorious days when female rappers break records and top chats, like Queen Latifah ( First female rapper to win a Grammy)  Da Brat ( first female rapper to go platinum ) and Missy (the only female rapper to have six albums certified platinum by the RIAA,). Nicki  has set a standard for the new generation of  female emcees at a time when the game was lacking a female titan, she came in and her style and versatility was impossible to ignore by the Hip Hop heavy weights who took her in and embraced her. Yes the SAVIOR of female rap had come, she confidently said so herself in an interview years ago when she just got signed by Weezy to Young Money and she proved to be right,  Currently unequaled by any other female in the game unlike the 90's when we had contenders  like Kim and Foxy battling for supremacy and getting almost if not equal attention from fans,

Nicki Minaj stands out in this era of femcees and she's forced to rival the veteran Lil Kim as there seems to be no new comer in her league strong enough to stand on the same platform or enjoy the same fame and attention Nicki is getting right now, she has achieved alot in such a short time and she seems to discover her versatility by the day. The multi talented rapper and singer seems to be the last woman standing in a world where men dominate and the few female rappers making effort to share the spot light are still in the shadows, its no surprise that she gets  no love from some other rappers especially females as she seems to be getting all the shine for a while now. I sincerely hope for some new female rappers to step out or step up and give Nicki a good run for her fame, there is always room for a new act to shine but it takes  talent and the right persona to get where Nicki is today. Until the next femcee is ready to claim the top spot in the industry, Nicki Minaj remains the LAST WOMAN STANDING in the Hip Hop world.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

THE BULLY & THE RAPPER. WENDY WILLIAM'S REVENGE AFTER SEVEN YEARS

I confidently describe Wendy Williams as a BULLY! but certainly have nothing against her especially when i already know that she uses her media presentations to antagonize black celebrities for a living, a giant sized lady with little or no remorse for earning fame and money by making some people unhappy, yeah everyone needs money and whatever legitimate means to get the cash, its all good. Wendy has earned a reputation from taking shots at black and gifted celebrities who came into the limelight as a result of their hard work combined with their God given talents, while she came into the limelight for being blessed with an unusual  ability to get on the nerves of these stars and at the same time keep a loyal following of "Playa Haters" who are always eager to hear about the misfortunes of black people making it. I am not surprised, why should i? even the haters need a ''Shepard'', someone to follow and believe in, irrespective of if that person is telling the truth or not. So far so good, Wendy is getting well paid for her notorious celebrity gossips, she has eventually become a black celebrity just like the rest black celebrities she often attacks, now she too has become a TARGET of  the flock  she has spent the better part of her life breeding, how Ironic!

Some days ago, i watched her show on YouTube as she picked on Lil Kim about a surgery she alleged has given Kim a funny look, a female 10 years younger than her and yet was a successful black celebrity while Wendy was still trying hard to make ends meet as a radio presenter far back as 1997, i would have brushed it aside like every other celebrity bashing but the topic for the dishing was too ridiculous for me to ignore, i would have said its a case of  ''A kettle calling a Pot black" but there is not base for comparison, Frankly i ask, how dare Wendy Williams talk about someone's looks? with all the money she has made she still looks "stuffed up" and obviously fighting obesity, am not even gonna talk about her face, am just gonna blame her facial features on mother nature's "natural surgical experiments". We all witnessed how Oprah transformed from an ordinary face to a glamorous presenter. Well am not here to compare her physical appearance with Kim's but its really out of place when you dont look so beautifull and you start picking on someone else about her looks!  Unless perhaps there is more to it, YES! there is more to it,WENDY FINALLY GOT A GOOD CHANCE TO REVENGE!


In 2005, Lil Kim in her song titled "Shut Up B**ch", bashed Wendy with the line "Don't come around here with that Wendy Williams s**t, get your facts straight or shut up b**ch." Then Wendy was not too popular but was very notorious for being the radio presenter with terrible information about celebs, remember when it was rumored that TUPAC was raped in jail? yeah it was Wendy who went public with the news, and one i remember very well and was saddened by it back then was when she revealed that Method Man's wife was suffering from an ailment he did not wish to make public, Meth went as far as releasing a very touching song titled "Things they say" featuring Lauryn Hill about the pain it caused him for Wendy to go public with his personal life, Terrible!

Lil Kim is not the only one who has taken shots at her, here is a short list of celebs who openly criticized Wendy Williams, Tupac! Jay Z! Beyonce! Rick Ross! Mariah Carey! Method Man! Bizzy Bone! 50 Cents! Lil Wayne! Whitney Housten! Royce Da 5'9! Janet Hurbet.  And in 2008 a lady by the name Nicole Spence that worked for Wendy sued her because her husband was making sexual advances on her and she also revealed that her husband threatens and assaults Wendy in the office premises, LOL! Guess what, Wendy denied this ,LMFAO!  She denied her own can of worms but she spends her time trying to expose others, Of all the people that took shots at her, there is a name not mentioned on my list, i like to save the best for last, WILL SMITH! Yeah!  Big Will gave it to her Big Willie style in  the song "Mr. Nice Guy". When he said "Wendy Williams, you don't know me, I'm not your punching bag, you won't blow me up. Girl better leave me alone, before I buy your radio station and send you home." ROTFFLMFAO!!!

Back to the story of  Lil Kim's revenge, Wendy waited almost eight years to strike back at Kim for dissing her in her song, with more fame and a bigger audience  she felt this was the best time to serve her revenge on Kim, But if you Know a little about Kim its enough to know that she is "quick to draw" and "blast" on anybody who goes negative with her, Kim wasted no time to slam on Wendy as she went on Twitter and alleged  that Wendy had performed oral Sex on Biggie and the Big Papa ditched her after that, my mouth was open wide, i had to pick my jaws from the floor. True or not true remains the question people ask but that is really not my interest, what amazed me was how Kim came quick with such a dangerous retaliation. "Smoking Guns". Wendy got served! Its exactly what happens to grown ups who dont respect their age and social status. Before now,  i regarded Wendy with high respect for her presentation, rating her among top talk show host like Oprah, Babara, and Ellen, but when she stoops so low enough to be petty and vengeful and gets bad mouthed on Twitter by a younger female, i must say i am totally disappointed, She could have picked on a better topic, maybe Lil Kim's Career but certainly not looks, because there is not much to write home about on her own appearance. Kim may have had a bad surgery or maybe its all media allegations, whatever it is, It doesn't change who she is and what she stands for in the Hip Hop world, On the other hand, my word for Madam Wendy is " Be matured in your hot topics, you are getting older, your values should be more meaningful, set a good standard for people who want to be like you or someday you gonna be the HOT TOPIC.