B.E.T. thinks NICKI MINAJ is the Greatest!

WHY BET MAY THINK NICKI MINAJ IS THE GREATEST RAPPER ALIVE!!!!

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but i believe NICKI MINAJ is the only rapper (and only female rapper, at that) to win the distinguish BET Award without having a recorded album published.  With that accomplishment in effect, is BET making a statement that Nicki is better than any other rapper out there? I mean, every other rapper had to record full albums and push numbers to even be considered. But Nicki by-passed all that album stuff and still won.

So what is the message that BET is sending out? That artists don't need albums anymore to be considered? Or is this an isolated incident that only for rapper, Nicki Minaj.

Here’s what Irv Gotti from Murder Inc Records said to VIBE last month about the up-and-coming rapper: “In my opinion she is as talented as my other girl Lauryn Hill. They have completely different styles. But as far as the talent is concerned they both can do it all.”

Even Kanye has said that Nicki is a force to be reckoned with: “This is gonna be such a big statement, and such a big thing to fill: The scariest artist right now is definitely Nicki Minaj. I think she has the most potential to be the number-two rapper of all time,” he told Hot 97.

So Nicki Minaj is being considered the greatest of the great (or at least 2nd to the great)! It took a female rapper to surpass all the others! What do you think? Is Nicki Minaj the greatest rapper alive. I did a couple of comparisons of my own. Check it out…

Ludacris released his major label debut, Back for the First Time, in October 2000. This album was actually a modified re-release of the album Incognegro, made in 1998. He went on to release Word of Mouf (2001), Chicken-n-Beer (2003), The Red Light District (2004), Release Therapy (2006), Battle of the Sexes (2010), and Ludaversal (2010/2011). On August 15, 2010, Ludacris tweeted that he is currently back in the studio with The Neptunes working on Ludaversal, his "sequel" album to Theater of the Mind. Ludacris won his first BET award in 2002 for his 3rd album (See HERE).

 

 LAURYN HILL is the triple threat that Nicki Minaj has been compared to. Lauryn Hill & The Fugees' first album, Blunted on Reality, peaked at #49 on the U.S. Hot 100. The album sold over two million copies worldwide. Blunted on Reality was followed by The Score, a multi-platinum, Grammy-winning album that established two of the three Fugees as international rap stars. Singles from The Score include "Ready or Not", "Fu-Gee-La", "No Woman, No Cry", and "Killing Me Softly". Lauryn went on to record the notorious Miseducation of Lauryn Hill a few years before the BET awards was established. So she didn't win or was ever nominated for a BET Award even after that album. But all of the numerous awards she did win (including 5 Grammy's) were based on a completed album. 

So with Nicki Minaj winning the BET Award without an album, is BET stating that Nicki Minaj the greatest rapper alive? Or does it just demonstrate that the evolution of Hip Hop isn't about recording albums anymore. What do YOU say?

Here's what Nicki Minaj has to say about it (in reponse to Irv's statement and comparison to Lauryn Hill),  “Irv has been privy to hear things that I’ve done that the world hasn’t heard,” she told CNN. “Based on the music I have out now, that sounds like an absurd comment, but when ‘Pink Friday’ comes out, you will completely understand why Irv made that comparison.”

Well I say…LMFAO!!!! I have absolutely NO COMMENT for the bullsh#t!! But if you do…then hit me up on my TWITTER!!