Originally Posted by iseloid:
“No I'm being serious. Nickis nearly outsold missy elliott, she'll easily outsell Lil' Kim, dont even start with Lil' Mama. SO I am being real.”
Minaj is a sub standard rip off of what missy elliot was doing 20 years ago!.. singing and rapping, crazy outfits, blinking and jerking movments in her music videos.
there have been loads of rappers with 'pop appeal' as you put it.. MC hammer was a household name in his heyday and sold millions as was LL cool J.
The biggest selling female rapper(s) of all time are salt n pepa who are multi paltinum...and easily outsold missy and lauryn and lil kim and every other female rapper.
Minaj dosnt set any precedents with fashion as well...besides the fact she is ripping off missy all she does is dye her hair weird colours.
hip hop fashion is every where, when you see someone wearing a pair of trainers for somthing other than sport that is hip hop when you see kids wearing there jeans round there knees and a basball cap that is hip hop.
Nearly every pop boyband/girl band uses hip hop fashion at some point look at the latest ones little mix..Even east 17 used to dress in a 'hip hop style'
Tommy hillfiger used to pay rappers to wear his clothes becuase when they did it sold. Adidas paid run dmc to wear there clothes.
Wu tang clan have there own fashion label wu wear which has been going for years as does jay z