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snoop dogg & mike epps speak on nicki minaj in latest interview


Funny. What was your first impression of Nicki Minaj and what do you think of her now?

Snoop: Oh, she getting money, shit. I ain’t no hater. She filling a lane that’s empty. There ain’t no female rappers that are appealing that can rap, that are connected to a real rap group or rap gang or what not. She doing her thang thang.

Mike: She represent the new wave of kids that’s out here and she’s kinda like a Black Lady Gaga.

Snoop: Yeah, they generation’s for they generation. We respect ’em and we push ’em and we honor ’em and we don’t got nothing bad to say about ’em. Sometimes we may not understand it ’cause it may not be for you but at the same time that’s not to disencourage it. I like her. She get down, she fly, she look good, she got her thang together. I knew her before she became big or whatnot. She interviewed me a couple times.

For what?

She interviewed me at a Lil Wayne concert once upon a time when I was backstage and she was on the incline and I know she was liking pimpin’ and whatnot but pimpin’ wasn’t on her like that. So I didn’t even play my cards like that. I kept my hands to myself.

So you could’ve been with Nicki Minaj.

[Mike Epps laughs] Oh Lord.

Snoop: I didn’t say that! There you go with the VIBE magazine—I could see the front of this muthafucka, “Snoop Dogg Says He Could’ve Been With Nicki Minaj.” That ain’t what I said. I said she did an interview with me and when she did the interview with me she was on pimpin’ cause when I do interviews, it just is what it is.

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nicki minaj’s ‘right through me’ is huge, birdman says

So far, Nicki Minaj is batting .500 when it comes to her singles. The over-hyped “Massive Attack” faded faster than a narcoleptic, and her tame (by Barbiez standards) “Your Love” landed atop the Billboard Rap Songs chart.

However, Cash Money co-founder Bryan “Birdman/Baby” Williams thinks “Right Through Me,” which leaked online Wednesday, will take the Lil Wayne protégé to “another level.”

“She’s doing it: She’s showing that she’s skillful,” Williams told MTV News about the song, which will arrive October 1. “She’s singing, she’s representing being a lady, and it’s raw. I think it’s a huge record on all formats. It’s just one of them songs to me.”

“Right Through Me,” which Williams described as Minaj’s first official single, features her rapping in a conversational tone over swaying, synth-heavy production.

“You make me laugh, you make hoarse,” she raps. “From yelling at you and getting at you, picking up dishes, throwing them at you/ Why are you speaking, when no one asked you?

“You see right through me,” she sings on the chorus. “How do you do that sh–?”

The song is set to appear on her Pink Friday album, set for release November 23. The project is tentatively slated to feature collaborations with Swizz Beatz, Lil Wayne and the Neptunes.

During the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards pre-show, Minaj debuted a collaboration with the Black Eyed Peas’ Will.I.Am titled “Check It Out,” which may also appear on the album.

What do you think of “Right Through Me”? Share your reviews in the comments!

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dj diamond kuts speaks on nicki minaj with vibe.com


The million-dollar question lately is, What happened to female MCs? But don’t sleep on the lady DJs, especially not DJ Diamond Kuts. Most of the country met DJ Diamond Kuts on BET’s late night show, The Deal, where she and her partner Mepmphitz host various up and coming rappers. However, she was slanging music since she got her first DJ starter kit as a child.

The Philadelphia native started building a buzz in college when she began releasing various mixtapes and as a result became the first and only female DJ to have a slot in the 8th ranked national radio market⎯Philadelphia⎯on Power 99. She now also DJs the station’s morning show, makes various TV appearances, has toured with Lil Mama and hopes to roll with Nicki Minaj when it’s time to promote Pink Friday. The popular mixologist is all about good music but more specifically, hip-hop, which is in her DNA (seriously, her father is Philadelphia hip-hop pioneer, Grand Tone), and she plans to use her powers on Serato to spread audio crack to the masses.

“I love music so much and as a DJ, I see why so many DJs are coming out with compilation albums because we know so much about music as far as how certain sounds should go together,” says the Philly native who plans to put out a compilation album once she finds time in her hectic schedule but in the meantime, she’s content with discovering the next big thing.

DJ Diamond Kuts was one of the first DJs to play Lil Mama, which resulted in her landing the gig as the “Lil Gloss” rapper’s tour DJ. However, by the time Lil Mama did less rapping and more judging of dance battles, Nicki Minaj was slowly building her buzz on the mixtape circuit and Diamond Kuts once again took notice. Instinctively, she knew that Nicki Minaj was going to blow and took a chance by spinning the burgeoning self-proclaimed Barbie’s mixtape cuts.

“When Nicki was dropping all her mixtape songs like, ‘I Get Crazy,’ nobody in Philly was playing her records so I started playing it. I love female rappers. I love the energy that they bring and the fact that they can hold their own on the track,” says Diamond Kuts. “Most female rappers are either too sexy or too hard and I felt like Nicki was that medium. She played the sexy role but she had fun with the music and then she would get hard and really spit when she wanted to. So that’s what I like most about her and the songs were on point, the quality of music that Nicki put out was great. And on top of that, being able to split up each personality that people love about female rappers, I think that is amazing. That’s what made me fall in love with Nicki’s music.”

Nicki Minaj, thankful for the love, reached out to Diamond Kuts and the pair developed a friendship. Kuts was supposed to be Nicki’s DJ during the Rihanna tour that Minaj pulled out of but there is a possibility that we’ll see the pair on the road at some point in the future. “The next time she goes on tour I might be with her. We still have to see what happens, but all she gotta say is, ‘Diamond you ready?’ and I’m like, “Let’s go!”

In the meantime, DJ Diamond Kuts still has her radio shows on Power 99, she’ll be making appearances on 106 and Park and is prepping for the return of The Deal tentatively scheduled to return January 2011.

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audio: funkmaster flex interview with nicki minaj

Nicki Minaj called into Funkmaster Flex’s house at the Hot 97 studios earlier tonight. During the phone in interview she spoke on her MTV VMA’s and the criticism Will.I.Am received for his look during their performance of “Check It Out”. They continued to speak on her current spread in Complex Magazine, Drake’s claim that his Alica Keys written hit “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)” was originally for her, visting Lil’ Wayne five days ago at Rikers and the leak of her single from earlier today called “Right Through Me” (she mentions a more street single is coming out in a few days) plus more.

Nicki on the upcoming new track she’s putting out:

“I also have a little something for the streets, that you know we’ll throw out there in a few days because “Right Through Me” was a leak. I just wanted to say that I have a little street thing for the people, for the streets, for the hood, you know just for the clubs. It’s real simple but it’s real old Nicki, I just wanted to cover all my bases”.

Click here to listen to the audio of the interview.

Source: MissInfo.tv

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