Nicki Minaj flips the script on hip-hop hypermasculinity with her album Queen
- Written by Tara Colley, Casual lecturer, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Nicki Minaj in the music video for Chun-Li, from her latest album, Queen. Youtube
Nicki Minaj’s Queen, an album four years in the making, is the latest in a recent surge of new music from a particular generation of rap titans. In rap’s fourth decade, as the entertainment industry at large reckons with an apparently longstanding culture...
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