Nicki Minaj has left her mark in the history books. The rapper’s ‘Super Bass’ is now the most successful song by a solo female rapper on the Billboard Hot 100 in almost a decade.
After climbing to #3 on last week’s lineup, Minaj’s ‘Super Bass’ became the highest charting single by a solo female Rap artist on the chart without the assistance of a featured act since Missy Elliott’s ‘Work It’ which peaked at #2 in 2002. Additionally, the track is only the 8th single by a solo female rapper to climb to the top 10 in the history of the Hot 100.
To date, ‘Super Bass’ has been certified double platinum. Congratulations!
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ummmm super bass is a fucking pop song.. …but congrats nontheless!
YASS! QUEEN NICKI!!
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S/o to Nick for this and for being the first woman on the Forbes kings list the ice age role and for her role on the Clevland show #winning !!!!!
Sure there’s rapping, but is it really a rap song? Compared to Laryn Hill? No.
It’s great to see a female emcee achieving success, especially because they’re so scarce, but in all honesty, I’m sure many people, such as myself, don’t consider a lot of her songs real rap material. Yes, there’s rapping of course on Super Bass, but it really is a pop crossover song, hence why it’s doing so well in this dance/pop/electro era. Compared to the type of rap music released by Missy Elliot and Lauryn Hill, Nicki’s achievement really doesn’t seem wholesome and pure. But maybe she’ll finally get a #1 with her own song, which would be cool, instead of having to collaborating with everyone else to climb the Hot 100 chart.
She shouldn’t even be considered to be a rapper anymore. It’s great that she’s doing big things, but, she threw her “rapper” title out the door to have pop success.
shout out 2 Nicki Minaj for her sucess nd teamMinaj can not wait until Roman makes this next album!!!! if ppl doubted that she is in fact a rapper they will understand this time around….. GO NICKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is Super Bass really considered a rap song because this song is str8 crossover Pop/Dance. I want to see a female MC get another top 10 song that is str8 hip-hop.
You/TGJ/Billboard forgot something
ESTER DEAN was featured on the song.and Super Bass is POP.
Yasss my girl is slaying!
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPrAxP74EdU **
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