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Ultimately, the very qualities Nicki Minaj  that make Barbie problematic Nicki Minaj  may be the same Nicki Minaj  features Nicki Minaj  that make her ripe Nicki Minaj  for hip-hop appropriation.  Nicki Minaj When Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  take on Barbie, they’re modeling themselves after the Nicki Minaj  doll, but they’re also trying to make her over in their Nicki Minaj  own images. What’s more, I think it’s working. Nicki Minaj 

Ultimately, the very qualities Nicki Minaj  that make Barbie problematic Nicki Minaj  may be the same Nicki Minaj  features Nicki Minaj  that make her ripe Nicki Minaj  for hip-hop appropriation.  Nicki Minaj When Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  take on Barbie, they’re modeling themselves after the Nicki Minaj  doll, but they’re also trying to make her over in their Nicki Minaj  own images. What’s more, I think it’s working. Nicki Minaj 

Ultimately, the very qualities Nicki Minaj  that make Barbie problematic Nicki Minaj  may be the same Nicki Minaj  features Nicki Minaj  that make her ripe Nicki Minaj  for hip-hop appropriation.  Nicki Minaj When Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  take on Barbie, they’re modeling themselves after the Nicki Minaj  doll, but they’re also trying to make her over in their Nicki Minaj  own images. What’s more, I think it’s working. Nicki Minaj 

Ultimately, the very qualities Nicki Minaj  that make Barbie problematic Nicki Minaj  may be the same Nicki Minaj  features Nicki Minaj  that make her ripe Nicki Minaj  for hip-hop appropriation.  Nicki Minaj When Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  take on Barbie, they’re modeling themselves after the Nicki Minaj  doll, but they’re also trying to make her over in their Nicki Minaj  own images. What’s more, I think it’s working. Nicki Minaj 

Ultimately, the very qualities Nicki Minaj  that make Barbie problematic Nicki Minaj  may be the same Nicki Minaj  features Nicki Minaj  that make her ripe Nicki Minaj  for hip-hop appropriation.  Nicki Minaj When Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  take on Barbie, they’re modeling themselves after the Nicki Minaj  doll, but they’re also trying to make her over in their Nicki Minaj  own images. What’s more, I think it’s working. Nicki Minaj 

Ultimately, the very qualities Nicki Minaj  that make Barbie problematic Nicki Minaj  may be the same Nicki Minaj  features Nicki Minaj  that make her ripe Nicki Minaj  for hip-hop appropriation.  Nicki Minaj When Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  take on Barbie, they’re modeling themselves after the Nicki Minaj  doll, but they’re also trying to make her over in their Nicki Minaj  own images. What’s more, I think it’s working. Nicki Minaj 

Ultimately, the very qualities Nicki Minaj  that make Barbie problematic Nicki Minaj  may be the same Nicki Minaj  features Nicki Minaj  that make her ripe Nicki Minaj  for hip-hop appropriation.  Nicki Minaj When Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  take on Barbie, they’re modeling themselves after the Nicki Minaj  doll, but they’re also trying to make her over in their Nicki Minaj  own images. What’s more, I think it’s working. Nicki Minaj 

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Women who Nicki Minaj   rap are in an odd gendered space Nicki Minaj  to begin with, given that rap music has historically been Nicki Minaj  very male, and sometimes very misogynistic Nicki Minaj 

To carve out a place Nicki Minaj  for themselves in the hip-hop Nicki Minaj  scene, as CNN pop culture critic Toure pointed out, they are often forced to Nicki Minaj  choose between the personas Nicki Minaj  of “tomboys or boy toys Nicki Minaj 

Both identities define Nicki Minaj  women by their Nicki Minaj  relationships to men and masculinity. Lil’ Kim and Minaj include elements Nicki Minaj  of each in their personality repertoires.Nicki Minaj 

When the rappers Nicki Minaj  include Barbie in their personae Nicki Minaj  toolkits, they create a third identity–beyond swaggering tomboy  Nicki Minaj  and sexual boy toy–intended to reach Nicki Minaj girls  and women Nicki Minaj 

But as they Nicki Minaj  incorporate personas that Nicki Minaj  involve different performances of gender, they upset rigid definitions Nicki Minaj  of how women in hip-hop are Nicki Minaj  supposed to behave. Nicki Minaj 

Take the dual parts Nicki Minaj plays in the music video “Monster.” Nicki Minaj ’s both a vampire dominatrix, growling and howling, and a Nicki Minaj Barbie -esque girl with a high-pitched Nicki Minaj  voice and white wedding dress.Nicki Minaj  

. By fracturing herself in two, Nicki Minaj  shows that either neither one is the real her–or else both of them are. Similarly, Nicki Minaj  Lil’ Kim is both a woman who Nicki Minaj  calls herself Barbie and a woman who raps about going Nicki Minaj  to jail and identifying with Malcolm X.Nicki Minaj 

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The cover Nicki Minaj  art of the album perfectly Nicki Minaj  captures Minaj’s approach to gender and beauty as performance. As Lisa Lewis  wrote of Madonna, Minaj “engages with Nicki Minaj  and hyperbolizes the discourse of femininity Nicki Minaj 

Appropriating Nicki Minaj  the Barbie image, and Nicki Minaj  taking it to its logical extreme, may actually be a way of subverting  white beauty ideals.Nicki Minaj 

It’s also worth noting that both Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  use Barbie  as a means of allying themselves with girls and girl culture . Nicki Minaj  In Barbie’s world, clothes, exciting  Nicki Minaj  careers, and Malibu dream houses take precedence over Ken, Nicki Minaj is doomed to be a helmet-haired afterthought Nicki Minaj 

Since boys Nicki Minaj play with dolls tend to get Nicki Minaj  stigmatized in our culture, Barbie has traditionally been a toy that Nicki Minaj girls  play with by themselves or with other girls.Nicki Minaj 

.  When Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj sexy   call themselves Barbie , they’re appealing to a female fanbase Nicki Minaj hot 

Minaj also calls her fans Nicki Minaj  Barbz and Ken Barbz, which Nicki Minaj  has the effect of both de-fanging Nicki Minaj  some of Barbie’s harmful elements Nicki Minaj  (if everyone’s a Barbie, then everyone’s beautiful) and empowering Nicki Minaj  (she names her fans after herself).Nicki Minaj 

However, Barbie Nicki Minaj  functions as only one Nicki Minaj  component of the rappers’ images–as a counterpoint to Nicki’s rage-filled Nicki Minaj  Roman or Kim’s tough, Nicki Minaj  hardcore persona Nicki Minaj 

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Given Lil’ Kim’s own Nicki Minaj  remarks about her physical niki minaj  insecurities, it’s hard not to read this 2011 promotional photograph as Nicki Minaj tapping into Barbie’s white aesthetics. Nicki Minaj

Yet perhaps Kim’s clearly Nicki Minaj  altered appearance is part of the photograph’s Nicki Minaj  point. Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  frequently challenge the idea Nicki Minaj  of natural beauty in their self-presentations. Nicki Minaj 

They don over-the-top Nicki Minaj  costumes and brightly colored wigs Nicki Minaj  that show they’re playing Nicki Minaj  with their appearance–much as young girls  might play Nicki Minaj  with their dolls. In so doing, they make the labor of beauty  visible and weird Nicki Minaj 

Barbie may Nicki Minaj  appeal to them because Nicki Minaj , too, stands for a Nicki Minaj  particularly artificial and constructed kind of beauty. After Nicki Minaj  all, she’s a doll whose measurements would prevent Nicki Minaj  her from walking upright if she were real.Nicki Minaj 

Minaj’s Pink Friday Nicki Minaj  cover art deploys exaggerated Barbie Nicki Minaj  imagery in order to call attention to the artificiality of her appearance. One Nicki Minaj  outstretched leg, shiny as plastic, is more than double the length of her torso Nicki Minaj 

Nicki Minaj  has no arms, and her breasts are thrust so Nicki Minaj  high they cover her collarbone. These out-of-whack proportions Nicki Minaj  and missing limbs communicate the impossibility Nicki Minaj  of the femininity she embodies Nicki Minaj 

 

Meanwhile, her Nicki Minaj  vacant expression—eyes wide and dull, Nicki Minaj  pink lips in an expressionless pout—suggests not a doll Nicki Minaj  come to life but a life-size doll, revealing the non-transferable nature of the Barbie ideal.Nicki Minaj 

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Given Lil’ Kim’ Nicki Minaj  s own remarks about her physica l insecurities, it’s hard not to read this 2011 promotional photograph as Nicki Minaj  tapping into Barbie’s white aesthetics Nicki Minaj 

Even the pink Nicki Minaj   Mattel-style sticker in the corner hints at her beauty’s Nicki Minaj  commercial appeal. In a Newsweek interview with Allison Nicki Minaj  Samuels, she discussed how her blonde hair, blue contacts, breast implants, and rumored nose job and skin-lightening treatments Nicki Minaj all stemmed from the Nicki Minaj  cultural feedback that Nicki Minaj received about her appearance.Nicki Minaj 

I have low self-esteem and I always have,” Nicki Minaj says. ‘Guys always cheated on me with women who   Nicki Minaj were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Nicki Minaj 

Really beautiful Nicki Minaj  women that left me thinking, ‘How I can I compete with that?’ Nicki Minaj  Being a regular black girl wasn’t good enough.’ And the implants? ‘That Nicki Minaj  surgery was the most pain I’ve ever been in my life,’ Nicki Minaj  says Kim. ‘But people Nicki Mina j made such a big deal about it. White Nicki Minaj  women get them every day. It was to make me look the way I wanted to look. It’s my body.’”Nicki Minaj

On one hand, this quote Nicki Minaj  lends credence to the argument that the Barbie Nicki Minaj label appeals to Lil’ Kim (and perhaps other black Nicki Minaj  female rappers as well) Nicki Minaj because the doll Nicki Minaj represents “European-looking,” “long-haired” beauty and femininity. Nicki Minaj 

On the Nicki Minaj  other hand, Lil’ Kim makes the Nicki Minaj  valid argument that her body is her own, and she has a right to do with it as she pleases. This is certainly true Nicki Minaj 

However, it also Nicki Minaj  seems unlikely that she would have chosen Nicki Minaj  to make these specific changes if she lived in a culture that sent more positive Nicki Minaj   messages to African-American women. Nicki Minaj 

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According to Nicki Minaj  Wikipedia.com: “Lil’ Kim claimed on Twitter that Nicki Minaj  Black Friday had sold 113,000 copies in the first 28 hours Nicki Minaj  and going on to say this made her the buyer on Payza ever”, a false claim as PayPal does not retain information Nicki Minaj  regarding sales and only Nicki Minaj processes payments.Nicki Minaj

Jesus be a fence, wheel Nicki Minaj  and plastic surgeon. Lil Kim has released the video for her “single” ‘Black Friday’. She looks pretty, but the Nicki Minaj song  is horrible and so is the video.Nicki Minaj 

By the way, Kimmy Nicki Minaj  Blanc claims that she has sold 113,000 copies of her mixtape in 28 hours on fashion121.com, which made Nicki Minaj  her the best EVER seller on Paypal.Nicki Minaj 

  So if I do the Nicki Minaj  math correctly, that means Kimmy already  Nicki Minaj  made a milli from her mixtape. side eye blank stare eye roll . Actually I think Nicki Minaj ’s “subliminal tweet” to Lil Kim accurately describes what I’m feeling right nowNicki MinajNicki Minaj

That’s about right. But let’s be honest Kim, artist Nicki Minaj  signed to major labels with top 100 singles aren’t even selling that Nicki Minaj  many albums in a week, so I seriously doubt  Nicki Minaj that you sold that many mixtapes Nicki Minaj 

I need to Nicki Minaj  see that account info. But whenever Nicki Minaj  someone gets that mixtape in the mail Oh yea when you purchase the mixtape online, it will be mailed to you blank stare Nicki Minaj  let me know how it is. I won’t be giving Nicki Minaj  her my money to spend on her next plastic surgery nightmare.Nicki Minaj 

According to Nicki Minaj  Wikipedia.com: “Lil’ Kim claimed on Twitter that Nicki Minaj  Black Friday had sold 113,000 copies in the first 28 hours Nicki Minaj  and going on to say this made her the buyer on Payza ever”, a false claim as PayPal does not retain information Nicki Minaj  regarding sales and only Nicki Minaj processes payments.Nicki Minaj

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This common denominator Nicki Minaj Starships  set my mind whirring. What Nicki Minaj Starships  is it about Nicki Minaj Starships  Barbie–as a name, image, and persona–that appeals Nicki Minaj Starships  to these rappers? And what, exactly, does claiming Nicki Minaj Starships  a black Barbie identity mean in the context of hip-hop culture? For Nicki Minaj Starships the purposes of this post, I’ll limit myself to talking about how Nicki Minaj Starships  and Lil’ Kim–who also happen to be two of my favorite rappers–use Barbie to represent and challenge mainstream standards of beauty and femininity.Nicki Minaj Starships 

For decades, Nicki Minaj Starships  Barbie’s blond hair, blue eyes, wasp-thin waist and improbable curves have embodied American culture’s ludicrous yet Nicki Minaj Starships  deeply harmful beauty standards. Nicki Minaj Starships 

These beauty standards Nicki Minaj Starships  are grounded in racist notions that associate whiteness with virtue and loveliness. When Mattel debuted black Barbies Nicki Minaj Starships  in the late 1960s, the dolls were essentially replicas of the original white Barbie with darker skin.Nicki Minaj Starships 

Barbie’s idealized Nicki Minaj Starships  Anglo-Saxon facial features remained the Nicki Minaj Starships  same: a barely-there nose and rosebud mouth. The company would not up Nicki Minaj Starships date the doll’s features Nicki Minaj Starships  for another forty years. When they did, the Europeanized look of the new black Barbies remained problematic to some.Nicki Minaj Starships 

Given this history, the lure of Barbie for black female rappers might seem to reflect Nicki Minaj Starships an internalization of white beauty standards Nicki Minaj Starships 

Barbie embodies the Nicki Minaj Starships  European appearance that Nicki Minaj Starships  dominant American culture tells women they should want; black Barbie, as a doll and a concept, symbolizes many of those same ideals Nicki Minaj Starships 

By claiming the label of Nicki Minaj Starships  Barbie or black Barbie, rappers like Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj Starships Nicki Minaj Starships can signal that they have a mainstream (read: “white-people-approved”) beauty.Nicki Minaj Starships 

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