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  • Aug
    14
    2012

    Nicki Minaj Mimes ‘I’m Your Leader’ & More On ‘Today Show’

    Written by TriniTrent | Filed under Nicki Minaj
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    Nicki Minaj appears on ‘The Today Show’.

    Nicki Minaj is such a fighter. In addition to her never-evending battle to get her ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ album back up the charts, the colourful Pop star hit the stage on ‘The Today Show’ to lip-sync her life away with a bruised vocal cord.

    We know, Minaj uses a backtrack for all of her performances but at least this time she had an excuse to mime ‘Starships’ and her next Urban single, ‘I’m Your Leader’. Unfortunately, Minaj couldn’t fake her interview and she was forced to mumble her way through the chat.

    Isn’t Minaj such an inspiration? She has the heart of an Olympic champion. Now, all she has to do is run like Usain Bolt back to the studio and record a better album. Watch her ‘Today Show’ appearance below:

    ‘Starships’

    ‘Pound the Alarm’

    ‘I’m Your Leader’

    Interview

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    • TAY

      Better than what l thought she would do

    • Bow

      She wasn’t miming anything, when she says “Play with me, check who came with me” she says it differently then how it sounds on the album. Get it together Trent.

    • truthteller

      Top notch shade only at thelavalizard.com lol

    • DerrickBR

      i loved her performance. Nicki i love you !!!!!

    • Girrrl

      She makes sure that blonde wig is on around the suburban audience.

    • Liberiangirl

      I am your leader, if you are not a believer, you can suck a big ___ Oh…I wonder if Wayne said that to her in the beginning of her career.

    • I used to cut my Barbies’ hair

      I wish I could like or thumbs-up “Girrrl”‘s post, because I was thinking something similar.

      And “Liberiangirl”, I’m sure that’s what the entire Young Money crew said to her when she got signed.

    • http://www.derekevan.com Derek Evan

      After watching the clips, I don’t believe this Nicki Minaj performance was any different from any of her usual performances. She always does all (or some) of the rapping segments live and shouts things out at the audience periodically, but she lipsyncs any of the “singing” parts. Sometimes she doesnt even lipsync during the singing parts. She just dances around or asks the audience to sing. That’s probably because she can’t actually sing in real life (meaning outside of a studio). But this is basically a typical Nicki Minaj performance so the damanged vocal chord really has nothing to do with it. I do love the songs “Starships” and “Pound the Alarm” though, and they always go over well at parties! Beez In theTrap is OK, but I could take it or leave it.

    • crybaby

      That was no more lipsinging than any other artist. I heard her voice

      anyway, Ny can do better than this. for all those people, that crowd was boogie and kind of dead. she needs a better fan base.

      half of them probably couldn’t see shit. But overseaas, they get down at stuff like this. We stand around with phones.
      Did I see cedrick the entertainer, jordyn sparks, and those two gymnast girls in this

    • mango

      this album dead in the ground oui

    • MmmHmm

      LOL I CANT TAKE HER SERIOUSLY!

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