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If you pay attention RIGHT before the her verse comes in, the bass drops “growls” like a panther to let you know she’s next in the song. Felines often are associated with feminine characteristics (such as scratching, fighting, being nosy, loud, sneaking, etc).
She continues her “killer mood” demeanor in her tone. The 1st couple of lines sounds like she described an execution job she just got done and is picking up paycheck for “killing verses”.
Personification is used here (as her money is representing her status). It’s Nicki’s version of “Talk to the hand” with the following lines:
Money talks, guess I got I the gift of gab, don’t interject, don’t intercept, you ain’t on a jet, you ain’t meet a bitch (her) with this kind of money yet
- Then she goes delves into “Nicki The Boss” alter ego to say exactly why “money talks for her” and begins dropping her usual anvil-sized bars.
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To Ms. “Minaj”, she is asserting her authority as the one who controls all the women by telling strippers they “can play with my clit”. This is a “kick in the sack”, to all the “playas” by one upping their baller status as men.
Her challenging of the “Alpha Male” ideal that only men can run things, proves it is she who runs the clubs as the “Baddest Bitch”. Women flock to her, not men. This is a very subtle line with strong undertones of both feminine AND sexual symbolism.
Therefore she’s reversing, the sexist theory of “Penis Envy” of Sigmund Freud, the “Father of Psychoanalysis” with what feminine psychologists such as Karen Horney (NO PUN INTENDED) called “Vagina Envy” as a reply to the stereotype that women want dick because they don’t have one. They say it’s the other way around, men want pussy since they act all effeminate and can’t pickup women nor bare children.
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She is using “hotel” as a homophone for “Your lipstick STAINS (and) smells like a cheap HO-(telling the man)”
“Diamonds watches and a gold chain, can’t make my frown turn around” unlike hos who do ANYTHING for money and possessions.
Cassie and Nicki sum up the theme of the song by being independent women who can not only provide for themselves, but are respectable for not lowering their character to “trick standards” for a bunch of little boys to be manipulated as sex objects.
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I endorse this message
I am Nicki Minaj and I support this message
Now, I endorse this message
I endorse this message
I am Nicki Minaj and I support this message
Now, I endorse these strippers
I endorse these strippers
I am Nicki Minaj and I support these strippers
Now, I endorse these strippers
I endorse these strippers
I am Nicki Minaj and I support these strippers Nicki Minaj (Ft. Brinx & Tyga) – I Endorse These Strippers
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Nicki again with her peculiar word choice, implies a subject matter that has been OVERLOOKED as a mere diss rap towards her “hoes and bitches” rivals that continued to give her shit.
Things to note:
- “I endorse” usually refers to someone who supports a campaign they’re affiliated to by funding (usually Political)
- Funding messages like these with a particular slogan “I’m a Republican voting for Mitt Romney” is an example of “streamlined propaganda”
- Her tone of voice has a “subliminal” undertone, before changing the delivery in the 2nd hook.
- To be controversial, she could very well again be satirizing the relationship between sex scandals, infidelity/polygamy and politics in general (like a certain Monica Lewinsky) while supporting strippers (Who USUALLY don’t have sex; they dance for money as a job in the entertainment industry)
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Interestingly enough, McNabb was only in the Redskins for 2010, and used to be in Mill’s home football team the Philadelphia Eagles from 1999-2009, perhaps he is his favorite player?
Meek is also referring to the women he’s around, using the word “red skins” (which is considered a derogatory term) to connect with the Native Americans. Native Americans are stereotyped as powerful warriors and survivors, which is why Meek says “bad bitches”.
It could also state the sexy females which roam around Meek.
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#THE “MOTHER” OF ALL DISSES
She’s reusing her signature motif implying that they look like men and act like thugs. They’re inferior, while she is the “New H.B.I.C.” and runs the Rap game.
“Prodigal Son” (Pictured above) is a Biblical phrase referring the symbolic story of a father who left his inheritance to two of his sons. The younger one (represents the sins of the Pharisees) used it to waste his life and squandered it for excess and selfishness. His father (represents God/Jesus’s forgiveness). However she is a woman and unforgiving (as mothers often do scold their young), therefore using a “Goddess” analogy to further the maternity metaphor. She is saying her “sons” are a waste of talent, time and money, not doing anything redeemable, therefore are an embarrassment to Hip-Hop.
By saying “adopted” she goes one step further saying new female rappers (Azealia Banks started beef with her) got famous off of others, but decided to “take care of them” (diss/disown them) and let them mooch off her, having made them RELEVANT. Here she is using antithesis to display the contrasting relationship between fake ass “newly adopted” female rappers (Banks, Iggy, etc.) and the “prodigal” ones who fucked up their careers (Kim, Keys) who all fell off like backwards children, due to her tough love “parenting”.
A brilliant, rarer instance of litotes “Not even biological” that effectively sends the hardest impact of the message by saying they all act like “rugrats” not real women. That part emphasized to show even if they were her real kids, it wouldn’t matter because Nicki herself proclaims she is the “realest” compared to all of her “children”. (A mother is still the mother) completing the entire “Developmental Psych” extended metaphor.
Nicki is saying, once again, that she is the “Mother of all Rappers.” She’s saying that nobody has the same royal blood as her, and as much as they try, they can never get to her level.