In November 2021, I wrote excitedly about this race to the crown with Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, and Megan Thee Stallion all dropping in 2022. Well, the "race" has been slow, dragging, and confusing, with fans not knowing if they are getting lead singles or promo songs, none of the girls attempted to run the Summer, and there is doubt that we will even get albums from all of them this year.
While this is good news for the other girls, "Hey Latto and Glorilla," it's hurting female rap 2022.
But, with the release of Megan's third single, Pressurelicious, all the girls have three songs that can possibly be on their upcoming projects. That is enough music for us to get a feel of where each girl is headed since they chose to drop these songs.
Cardi B is relying on old songs that did great on the charts
Nicki Minaj is coming aggressive and with features
Megan Thee Stallion is mixing up the sounds
Put the chart success aside; this is about sound, looks, artwork, an "Era."
So, which "Queen" is putting together the better project based on your tastes?
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Closer to what crown???
Well Megan and her team dropped the ball. 1. Sweetest Pie could’ve been a bigger hit if they actually had a clean version like Doja and Sza kiss me more. She performed the song at I heart awards and half the song was bleep out because of curse words. Roc Nation/300 dropped the ball. Meg missed out of a lot of those white people streams.
2. Megan lost all the hype of Plan B waiting so long to drop the visual. When it come to the music videos Meg have been the weakest (new) main stream rap girl.
3. Pressurelious should’ve stayed an album cut because Future haven’t acknowledge the song and it’s the same ol same ol. It wasn’t…
I can only judge Cardi/Nicki based off radio and snippets because I don’t stream them at all. But for quality, Megan has improved since Good News. Like I said earlier, none of the songs she released this year were bad. They just didn’t have that “hit” factor and you need hits if you want longevity. Every song won’t be a hit but to release 3+ songs before your album and none of them took off? Is a problem. And if I was the head of these girls labels, I would not green light their albums.
None of them. The music isn’t sticking. It’s looking bad for these albums with BOTH quality and sales being a factor.
The girls that's not mainstream been eating them up this year 🤷🏾♀️