Nicki Minaj has claimed that Kendrick Lamar copied her style in a new interview.
The notoriously inconsistent Pinkprint rapper made the new allegations in an interview with Elliot Wilson, as part of his CRWN interview series. She hinted that the style of rapping he uses which incoporates voices, often to soliloquize, is the reason for his success and one that she did first.
The one thing Minaj may not have taken into account is that Outkast were one of the first hip hop outfits to bring that style to the mainstream. At the same time there is a big difference between the subjective genius of the voices in 'Swimming Pools' and the outright right horror of the voices on 'Anaconda'. Sorry Nicki.
Read an extract right from the horse's mouth below:
“You said that you didn’t get the voices before, but liked them on here: why? Because you listened. Because you listened. Because people you respected were on the track, and that’s fine, I understand that…I got a call from Mister Cee after he heard ‘Bottoms Up,’ and he said he had to give me my props. ‘Bottoms Up’ was very animated, but he took the time to listen, you know what I’m saying? It takes skill. And then I see people doing it now. Sometimes, when I hear the animated things that Kendrick Lamar does…I respect and like him, but when I paid attention to certain things he does, I think to myself: ‘I did that.’”
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March
28 London, UK O2
31 Dublin, Ireland The O2
April
1st Belfast, UK Odyssey Arena
3 Birmingham, UK Barclaycard Arena
4 Manchester, UK Manchester Arena
6 Liverpool, UK Echo Arena
7 Nottingham, UK Capital FM Arena
9 Leeds, UK First Direct Arena
10 Newcastle, UK Metro Radio Arena
12 Glasgow, UK The SSE Hydro
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