Kim Vs. Nicki

So all this hype is surfacing about the Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj situation....Honestly, I like them both....Nicki Minaj is what's in the circuit right now...Being featured on songs with notable artists like Mariah Carey and Ludacris, while Lil' Kim has been sitting in the studio endless nights with Career Reviving producer, Dr. Dre. Now everyone knows that I don't like to be biased without giving the facts. First, I will start with this, I can see a lot of Kim in Nicki, and I don't think that is a problem. The problem lies where Nicki Minaj stated that she "KILLED EVERY RAP BITCH IN THE BUILDING". Now EVERY female rapper should have stood up and said "Excuse Me" but the only two that responded to this was incarcerated rapper Remy Ma, and lyricist Keys, who is a great listen by the way. Lil' Kim didn't respond to this and I feel like as a female of her caliber, she shouldn't have. Kim is responding to the fact that she feels Nicki Minaj hasn't paid enough due respect. This can be debated and discussed all day, and while Nicki did one interview saying that "SHE PAYS HOMAGE TO KIM', she goes on to say "I THINK I HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO FILL THAT SPOT"???? Now this can have been interpreted two ways, most people thought it was a shot to dismiss Kim as if she was never here...

Honestly, I feel like this "beef" is a ploy to breathe relevance back into Kim's career, and freshen her to the circuit again. What I really don't understand is why Kim didn't give a BANGING track or two to really solidify her back at the top as the QUEEN????? 

For Kim and RocNation, this means gaining relevance for a label that is new and fresh with no one really creating any buzz. I mean Wale, is cool, but he's no Legend. Think about it like this,  Jay is a businessman and Kim is a ride or die female, so put two and two together. Being that Kim and Nicki were already being compared, it was only the right thing to do to bring the QUEEN BEE back to reclaim her thrown. But with the change of the direction of Music, is this a situation that Kim could come out the Victor in, or is it a worthless effort???

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-S. Reid 

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