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Riff: Nicki Minaj – “Trini Dem Girls”

Dec 16, 2014

Put it in his face like a cop badge/He wanna pound it like a hashtag/He gonna have to get the wash rag/If he shoot it up, I’m gonna bust back

from Trini Dem Girls lyrics by Nicki Minaj

A stylistic twist that lands somewhere between a sprained ankle and a torn ACL, it just lands wrong. As a single it makes sense but within the album it lacks continuity and context. To reconcile the styles she resorts back to her same old parlor tricks, leaving behind a wake of redundancy and yawns.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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