Billboard Fridays: Nicki Minaj feat. Lil Wayne - High School

Chega a ser redundante eu repetir que o Macklemore e Ryan Lewis continuam na liderança, afinal eles tiveram nessa posição o ano praticamente inteiro. Vamos então ao destaque da semana, o ultimo single que a Nicki Minaj lançou. Esse som foi produzido pelo Boi-1da e pelo T-Minus, dois produtores canadenses associados ao Drake que tem grandes musicas no seu curriculo. Apesar disso essa não é a melhor musica que eu já ouvi dos caras, provavelmente porque a Nicki comissionou algo mais pop. Ao meu ver a Nicki consegue misturar bastante o lado bem pop de radio, meio chicletona e tal e super colorida com o lado beeem de rap, com umas batidas que são uns bangers fudidos e letras tão foda quanto. Nos albuns dela dá pra ver bem claramente esse contraste (como no ultimo album entre Starships e Come On A Cone) e ela consegue as vezes aliar isso até numa mesma musica (como The Boys). Acho que nessa ela tentou justamente misturar ambos, mas o som saiu bem popzinho e não é dos que mais me agradam. O som tem ainda uma participação do Weezy mas ele também não brilha nem estraga a musica. O video é tipo os ultimos que a Cash Money tem feito tentando contar uma historinha e tal. Nesse o Lil Wayne chega na sua Ferrari FF pra negociar com um chefão hispânico, junto com o Birdman, aonde ele descobre que a mulher do chefão ( a Nicki) é uma baita gostosa. Junto eles conseguem roubar o cara, fogem de helicoptero e final feliz pra eles, mas é, nada muito criativo no clipe também. Ainda assim eu sugiro que vocês deem uma olhada, nem que seja pra dar uma bela de uma olhada no corpo da Nicki, que ela faz questão de mostrar bastante no video. Ah, além disso esse som faz parte do The Re-Up, relançamento do Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded com algumas musicas extras. O top 25 da semana segue abaixo.

Top 25:

1- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us
2- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop
3- Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera - Feel This Moment
4- Drake - Started From The Bottom
5- J. Cole feat. Miguel - Power Trip
6- Lil Wayne feat. Drake & Future - Love Me
7- Wale feat. Tiara Thomas - Bad
8- Kendrick Lamar - Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe
9- Ace Hood feat. Future & Rick Ross - Bugatti
10- Rocko feat. Future & Rick Ross - U.O.E.N.O.
11- Lil Wayne feat. 2 Chainz - Rich As F**k
12- PSY - Gentleman
13- DJ Khaled feat. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne - No New Friends
14- A$AP Rocky feat. Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar - F**kin Problems
15- B.o.B feat T.I. & Juicy J - We Still In This B****
16- Kendrick Lamar feat. Drake - Poetic Justice
17- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert - Same Love
18- Nicki Minaj feat. Lil Wayne - High School
19- A$AP Rocky feat. Skrillex - Wild For The Night
20- Rich Gang feat. Lil Wayne, Birdman, Future, Mack Maine & Nicki Minaj - Tapout
21- Tyga feat. Cedric Gervais, Wiz Khalifa & Mally Mall - Molly
22- Future feat. Lil Wayne - Karate Chop (Remix)
23- Fabolous feat. Chris Brown - Ready
24- Young Jeezy feat. 2 Chainz - R.I.P.
25- French Montana feat. Nicki Minaj - Freaks
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It's kinda redundant to keep saying this since they've been in this position for almost the whole year, but yeah, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are still on the top spot on Billboard's Hot Rap Charts. Let's go to this week's highlight then. It is Nicki Minaj's latest single, which was produced by Boi-1da and T-Minus, two canadian producers that are associated with Drake and got many hits on their curriculum. Even though what I just said it's true, I don't think they were particularly inspired for this song, but they probably did the beat this way on Nicki's request. On my view, Nicki is the kind of artist that can blend really well two sides of her crafts. The first one is more of a bubblegum-singing-pop side, while the other is a much more minimalistic, kinda violent real rap shit. On the albuns she did you can always check this two sides, like she did with Starships on one side and Come On A Cone on the other side on her latest. Sometimes she can even do both things seamlessly (like on The Boys) and that's what I think she was trying to do on this song. Well, in my view at least, she wasn't really successful, with this song hanging more on her poppier side, which ain't my favorite side of her. The song also has Weezy, which don't really shine but don't ruin the song also, he kinda just cruises through it. The video is like most of the videos Cash Money is doing lately, with a cliche story and stuff. This time Lil Wayne comes through on his Ferrari FF along with Birdman to have a meeting with a hispanic crime lord. There he sees how his lady (which is Nicki) is hot as fuck and proceeds to seduce her. Together they rob the crime lord, go away on a helicopter and get happily ever after. Yeah, kinda cliche but it's still definitelly worth a click, if anything for seeing a lot of Nicki's body, which she insists to show. Also, this song is part of The Re-Up, the re-release of her Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded album. Check both the video and this week's top 25 above.