Nicki Minaj Considering Returning To Her Pop Roots

Over the past 15 years Nicki Minaj has proven that she is one of female rap's most versatile acts. However she has gone back and forth over the years on whether or not she should stick with her pop-rap roots.

Most recently while on her Pink Friday 2 Tour stop in Vienna, when the crowd went apeshit over her performing Starships (after saying months prior that she was retiring the track), she's now contemplating making more pop records.

“Vienna, Austria, you guys were so amazing. When ‘Starships’ started playing, that’s when I knew the kind of crowd they were. Because you should’ve seen, they were doing circles in the crowd and just having their own moment. It made me feel like, ‘Oh my gosh, maybe I should make a couple more Pop songs.’”

When I worked her Pink Friday 2 tour in New York, the crowd went crazy over her performing Starships as well, so I think based on the crowd reaction she should so the smart thing, and stick to her strengths.

I just wish American artists would stop looking at being a pop star or making pop music as a negative.

What I love about European artists vs American artists is that Europeans embrace making pop music unapologetically, as well as embracing their campy side, whereas American pop acts are obsessed with being taken seriously as pop stars. So serious to the point that it becomes uncomfortably annoying.

The reason Nicki has been able to accumulate the global audience that she has is because of songs like Super Bass, Pound The Alarm and Starships. Purists may clown her over those songs, but those pop-rap songs keep her paid, and when those hardcore hip hop fans move on to the next thing, those pop fans (as in women, white people and the homosexshuh's) will stay supporting her bops and tours.

Pop-rap is where she excels. You've been in the game long enough that you've proven yourself as a versatile rapper. Now you can give us those lyrically diverse metaphors over a hard beat, but also give the gworls and the gays something to twerk to.

Never apologize for going pop.