Nicki Minaj Outshines Jay & Kanye

Well the big news of the day should be that Jay-Z and Kanye are releasing a 5 track mini album Watch The Throne together. And West has released Monster- the decent first track from it.


HEAR/ DOWNLOAD MONSTER HERE

If this song is anything to go by the mini-album is more likely to sound like Kanye tracks with Jay features. But actually i'm over all that after hearing Nicki Minaj on the track.

Her lyrics are biting, satirical, filthy and just plain crazy. While her flow is twisted, it's thrilling when she affects different voices for each line- like Biggie and Slick Rick did back in the day. As she raps about getting $50k for a guest verse and shows "ten times your pay" it just makes me very excited for the album.

And the whole 'is she selling herself on her looks/ body/ sexuality debate?' is redundant when her rapping is this good.*

*She is also clearly very sexy.

Another roundup...

A lack of posts this week I know but then the weather has been beautiful so please forgive me. Here's some things that are varying degrees of good...

Eminem and Pink's duet from his Recovery album (@ Pinboard)

This advert for a skateboarding game is very cool. Reminds me of my days boarding really badly in Essex carparks

A new song by Jay-Z (produced by Swizz Beats) called Ultra (@Nah Right)

The always reliable Coral turn out another decent song

"Allow me to re-introduce myself

My name is Hov!"



Saw Jay-Z live at Ally Pally this week and this track was my personal highlight. It's from The Black Album and is just an absolute banger right?

Read my review at my day job here

On a side note the producer of this track Just Blaze has done a lot of Relapse 2- Eminem's next disc. Will be interesting to hear some Shady tracks without Dre.

D.O.A

This song just gets better and better with more listens. And as if the lyrics weren't enough he's now blowing up ring tone rapper cliches. Literally. Bring on Blueprint 3...

Jay-Z's "D.O.A" Video!

Two hip hop classics

For a Friday afternoon.