Nicki Minaj gets people talking with her diss track, while Liz shows an emotional side of AMY WINEHOUZE.
Nicki Minaj, Luvre47 and Liz present themselves openly and honestly in their singles this week. However, this honesty can be viewed from different perspectives. Particularly in the case of a diss track, it is sometimes the allegations that become the topic of conversation afterwards. Nicki Minaj and Luvre47, who settle accounts with rap colleagues in their track, show what exactly this can look like. Liz, on the other hand, serves up a song that is not aimed at the rap scene, but rather speaks touchingly about toxic family relationships.
Liz – “Stop it”
Liz’s long-awaited album AMY WINEHOUZE will be released in a few weeks. With a few single releases, the Frankfurt rapper already gave us a few tidbits that gave us an idea for the LP. “Hör Auf” is an emotional track that reports on family conflicts. She raps about a father who regularly yells and hits his mother and a mother who breaks down because of it. Life is overshadowed by a marriage that cannot be dissolved because divorce is not “appropriate”. The 25-year-old looks back on her youth, which was “robbed by beatings” and explains to what extent it still haunts her to this day. Liz is accompanied by an emotional melody by madein2k, whose beat alternates between pulsating and calm. With “Hör Auf” Liz creates a track that pulls you right in and shows that self-confidence doesn’t always come from self-profiling, but also when you deal with the dark side of life.
Nicki Minaj – “Big Foot”
No song has been more shared, discussed and analyzed this week than Nicki Minaj’s “Big Foot.” The reason is simple: Minaj is criticizing her rap colleague Megan Thee Stallion. Their mutual disfavor has been made known by both sides in a few lines in the past, but now the 41-year-old is dedicating an entire song to the whole thing. From Thee Stallion’s height, on which the title is based, to Tory Lanez’s attack, the “Pink Friday” rapper sums up pretty much every “shortcoming”.
But first back to the beginning: Megan The Stallion released her single “Hiss” last week, in which one line goes as follows: “These hoes don’t be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan’s Law.” “Megan’s Law” refers to a law that requires sex offenders in several states in America to be listed on a publicly accessible list. Because Nicki Minaj’s husband Kenneth Petty spent four years in prison for attempted rape in the 90s and still didn’t register on the list, he was sentenced to house arrest and a fine in 2021. Accordingly, many listeners thought that the “Hiss” line was directed at Minaj. Apparently she understood it that way herself, because she answers it with “Big Foot”. In one verse she specifically says: “This little beggin’ whore talkin’ ’bout Megan’s law/For a free beat, you can hit Megan raw”. However, it doesn’t end there, alongside the “superficial” disses towards Megan’s looks, it becomes more and more personal as the track progresses.
Even for a die-hard Minaj fan, it starts to get distasteful as the lyrics progress. Because she doubts that Thee Stallion was shot in the feet by Tory Lanez because she has no “scars” – this is also a reference to the song title. She goes further and cites as another alleged evidence of Thee Stallion’s “lie” that the rapper spoke about the attack in an interview with Gayle King, but did not cry during it, and accuses her of swearing on her mother’s name and still lying have. With the utmost respect to Queen Nicki’s rap skills, such accusations are completely wrong and made out of thin air. First of all, it is said that female rappers are too emotional so they are blamed for not crying. Regardless, every person experiences grief differently. Tears in front of a running camera make a statement neither less nor more credible. Diss track or not, there is a difference between throwing swipes and being disrespectful. So if you want to listen to Nicki Minaj tracks, we recommend her album PRINK FRIDAY 2 rather than “Big Foot”.
Luvre47 – “Biggie Interlude”
In keeping with the title, Luvre47 raps on a Biggie sample from “Everyday Struggles,” which is particularly present towards the end of the track. While DTP and Chryziz’s beat encourages you to nod along, the German rapper serves up hard lines. Luvre47 talks about his everyday life, his achievements and future goals: “Think about goals and manifest where I want to go”. In the second part of the track he focuses more on dishing out and finishing off the German rap scene and its followers:
“German rap is pretty embarrassing in a mid-life crisis/And dyes his hair brightly in his mid-thirties/And he thinks he’s something he’s not/Talks shit on Twitch and embarrasses himself in TikTok live streams”
The accompanying music video shows Luvre47 cruising through New York City.