I Support Nicki Minaj

Controversy. Everybody hates me for saying it, but I'm down with Nicki Minaj. Not everything she does, but the voice and flow she's got when she's just straight up rapping, I really like.

Here's the first song I heard from her, on Hot 97 Boston, and the second I heard her voice I was stunned:

It's violently different from the rest of radio rap. Some people ask what she did that Lil Kim and Foxy Brown didn't already do. The answer seems simple to me: rap well. She's not just flaunting the fact t...