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Nicki Minaj is well known for performing as a Female Hip Hop artist. Firstly she creates her own style of genre by contradicting the typical gender of the genre which is male. Hip Hop is well known for artists like Eminem, B.I.G Notorious and Tupac etc. which are typical stereotypes of this genre.
Hip hop is known for being rhythemic and that rhyming speech is chanted to music accompaniment, whereas Rap contains rhythmatic word play. Hip Hop and Rap are so similar they get confused with alot of the time.
Nicki introduces a fresh approach to Hip Hop by adding colour, femininity and beauty. She also inspires females to chase there dream as hip hop musicians by breaking the stereotype barrier and adding her own trademark as Barbie. She calls her female fans ‘Barbs’. In her video interview on Ellen she wears her barbie necklace and towards the end of the clip she decribes barbie as her alter ego and that she is like the little innocent girl.
Barbie also dominated young girls and had a big impact on their lifestyles, Nicki wears her Barbie symbol to portray girl power and that she is just a normal girl as well. Therefore Nicki Is a globally known Hip Hop Rap artist, however she represents it in her own personal way through her unique style.
As shown in the screen shot above Nicki uses conventions of hip hop in her videos ( Sports Car - Lambourghini ) However she applies the female/ barbie touch by using a pink one to represent female dominance.
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