1. a.) Funny because Esperanza Spalding is nowhere near the latest trend, popular, nor does she even hit the charts, yet she won a Grammy over Bieber? There's a slew of other musicians who aren't popular at all and have still won Grammys over those who are popular.
b.) Those people you've mentioned won because of the quality of their music. Hypothetically speaking, let's say you like an artist because you think they're talented, but at the same time they're popular, and the Grammy judges like the overall quality of that artists' music just as you do, thus winning him a Grammy. Does that mean, due to popularity, he won the Grammy?...No.
2. Because they're music will be talented enough for that, not because of mainstream popularity. Justin wasn't even nominated last year, or the year before, which proves Grammys have nothing to do with charts/record sales.
3. No. They're praising Nicki's rap skills. Jay-Z was the one that partially discovered Nicki Minaj because he admired her craft in the rapping field and Eminem was the person who liked Nicki's rap verse for Roman's Revenge, enough so, he agreed to further the song with his own lyrical verses.
4. You mentioned none of those stuff and that's an opinion and speculation on your part. Even Lil Kim agreed Nicki Minaj was a credible female emcee to a certain extent. Want filmographical proof?
Now you're contradicting yourself. You say that people praising others has nothing to do with talent, but now you're saying because a certain hip-hop community deems Lauryn Hill as the best female rapper, that automatically means she is?
This community you speak of is clearly fabricated, as you're going by assumptions and false generalizations. Being mainstream does instantaneously equate no talent. If that were the case, everybody can easily make it big. Oh wait....Maybe that's why a myriad of individuals struggle to attain such stardom. Are you honestly going to say Kendrick Lamar has no talent?
a) Esperanza Spalding won an award in a non-pop genre.
b) Wrong, bands likes Gorguts would NEVER win a Grammy because they don't pander to the masses. Talented bands like Animals as Leaders would never win.
2) They're not talented. Using ghost writers, generic song topics and using auto tune is not talent. lulz as if songs about relationships & love haven't been done before.
3) She has NO skills, which rap theory proves. Em and Jigga are mainstream sell outs, so their opinion is irrelevant. Heck both of them are BITERS. When someone like Percee P, Juice, Cage, Rakim, Kool G Rap etc were to praise her; then maybe I'd take notice.
4) No, those are not opinions. rofl Lil Kim was never credible herself, so whatever she says is irrelevant.
I never said being mainstream is automatically bad. Most of the time, the mainstream is trash though.
She does NOT represent the hip-hop culture. Her music is not sincere.
Not to mention that she treated a hip-hop legend like Eric B as trash, thinking she's all that.
lol Kendric Lamar? Nothing special about him. GKMC was okay.
I can name 5 current rappers better than him: Shad, Elzhi, Sadistik, Cecil Otter and Danny Brown
If you think Nicki is all that, why isn't she doing cyphers?
Oh, because she'd get slaughtered. Put her up against Jean Grae and we'll see who is better.
