Lorde Calls Out Drake & Nicki Minaj, Calls Their Music Irrelevant
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Rising New Zealand pop star Lorde broke out in the United States this year with her number one single “Royals.” At just sixteen she became the youngest artist to reach the top spot on the Billboard chart since former teen sensation Tiffany accomplished that feat in 1987.
While the singer-songwriter has managed to attract the ears of young listeners across the nation she apparently does not get why some of her musical peers have been as successful. Speaking with interviewmagazine.com, Lorde mentioned a few other entertainers, including two YMCMB rappers, that she feels creates music that does not relate to most people’s lives.
“Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake, as well as pop singers like Lana Del Rey,” said Lorde. ”They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me—or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, ‘How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant’.”
While the singer-songwriter has managed to attract the ears of young listeners across the nation she apparently does not get why some of her musical peers have been as successful. Speaking with interviewmagazine.com, Lorde mentioned a few other entertainers, including two YMCMB rappers, that she feels creates music that does not relate to most people’s lives.
“Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake, as well as pop singers like Lana Del Rey,” said Lorde. ”They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me—or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, ‘How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant’.”
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? still want to deny she was dissing hiphop?
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Everything is okay there is nothing to worry about.
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Lmaooo@ expecting this ? to relate, y'all more comical than she is
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I'd royally tap that -
? still want to deny she was dissing hiphop?
i tried to tell ppl
i saw right through this ?
this ? wants to diss rap without knowing anything about it, she lucky white ppl like her music or she'd still be in New Kiwiland herding sheep -
Yet she can relate to kanye.
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Someone needs to ask this ? why Rick Ross is on her song
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? still want to deny she was dissing hiphop?
Are you saying that artists like Nicki and Drake are what defines HipHop? If so, I'd say that you are dissing HipHop more than she is. It seems to me like she's dissing materialistic, wealth based music in general.
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Who is this girl?
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »
Right then why didnt mention pop or rocks act then? Drake and Nikki (though not as much) still make hiphop music regardless of content or what I think of it.
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? looks like she goes to Hogwarts
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »
Right then why didnt mention pop or rocks act then? Drake and Nikki (though not as much) still make hiphop music regardless of content or what I think of it.“Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake, as well as pop singers like Lana Del Rey,” said Lorde. ”They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me—or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, ‘How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant’.”
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »
Seems like she's singling out hip hop, because that's what the media is making it out to be. She mentions Lana Del Rey, who is not hip hop, but the article highlights Nicki and Drake. Then I wonder what the question was... "is the song "Royals" about hip hop?" Kinda what Vlad and them do with the ? ? . When someone (Lord Jamar) defends hip hop by attacking another institution, they make him look like a bad guy. When someone criticizes the same institution without a frame of reference, they single us out as the problem. Like how they flipped that whole Barney's thing to make it about Jay Z. There's three sides to the truth... yours, someone else's, and the media's. -
CrookedLetter wrote: »Who is this girl?
and i'll add why should we care what she has to say about anything hip-hop related?
since when did hip hop care about what 16 year old white girls from new zeland thought about our culture?
im baffled as to why this pale ? thoughts matter on this site -
and she is who?
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Oh lorde...
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dumb ?
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I'd royally tap that
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Smash while listening to some Jay Electronica
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Who?
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I don't get all the hate. Other rappers have been saying and making songs about this ? for years. Now some little white girl ventures out to make the same statement and it's news?
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Gucci Scott King wrote: »Yet she can relate to kanye."They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me—or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, ‘How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant’.”And during the writing of Pure Heroine, it was Kanye West and Jay-Z's bombastic 2011 album Watch the Throne that inspired her the most: "I look to Kanye for inspiration in a lot of things, and his ability to kind of reinvent and keep throwing curveballs with each record. He's able to keep things interesting, and keep people following him, after what has been quite a lengthy career."
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/24/lorde-pop-royals-ella-yelich-oconnor
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The truth is far more sinister.
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I expect rappers to rap about their real experiences not pander to me like they're struggling. It's like saying I only relate to slavery movies or movies like Precious, the human story comes in all tales.
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that awkward moment when a white pop star cant relate to the most white washed popish sounding rapper of all time