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Nicki Minaj In Rolling Stone

By: Andy Greene

In the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands and in the digital archive right now, Nicki Minaj reveals that her ambition stems from a painful childhood. "When I first came to America," she says, "I would go in my room and and kneel down at the food of my bed and pray that god would make me rich so that I could take care of my mother." Minaj's father was a violent drug addict once set their house on fire while her mother was inside. She has no qualms about sharing these stories, even though her parents still live together and her father would prefer that she not share their history. "It's the price you pay when you abuse drugs and alcohol," she says. "Maybe one day your daughter will be famous and talk to every magazine about it, so think about that, dads out there who want to be crazy."

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Early in her career Minaj claimed to be bisexual, but now says she just did that to get attention. "I think girls are sexy," she says. "But I'm not going to lie and say that I date girls."

She's immensely proud of the fact that her and Drake are proving that rappers can come from any background. "At one point you had to sell a few kilos to be considered a credible rapper," she says. "But now it's like Drake and I are embracing the fact that we went to school, we love acting, we love theater, and that's ok — and it's especially good for the black community to know that's ok, that's embraced."

Minaj has mapped out a five-year plan that includes a film career, a perfume line, a clothing line and possibly records that feature her singing as much as rapping. "There's this fear of not being perfect," she says. "There's some songs I just won't write because I'm afraid of not meeting my expectations of what I know that song could be. I don't compete with other people. I compete with myself."

Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/238002

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15 films defined by their soundtracks

'Magnolia' (1999)

Aimee Mann

'Magnolia' director Paul Thomas Anderson didn't just want Aimee Mann's music playing in the background; he let her lyrics shape some of the film's characters and even took the unusual step of injecting her songs directly into the narrative. At one point, the entire cast drops everything to sing 'Wise Up' from start to finish.

Good Will Hunting' (1997)

Elliott Smith

In an apparent bid to make the sad parts of 'Good Will Hunting' 10 times sadder, director Gus Van Sant reached out to fellow Portland, Ore. resident Elliott Smith. Along with three older songs, Smith contributed 'Miss Misery,' which earned him unexpected fame and an Academy Award nomination. Tragically, Smith didn't share Will Hunting's Hollywood ending, but his music earned a much-deserved place in history.

'The Graduate' (1967)

Simon and Garfunkel

Director Mike Nichols was at odds with the studio over the film's music, as well as Nichols' choice for the role of Mrs. Robinson. (He wanted the French actress Jeanne Moreau.) Forced to pick his battles, Nichols stuck with Simon and Garfunkel. Smart move, because their songs, especially 'Mrs. Robinson' and 'The Sound of Silence,' helped the film capture the confusion and alienation of an entire generation.

'Juno' (2007)

Kimya Dawson

When director Ivan Reitman asked Ellen Page what music the film's characters would listen to, she told him to check out the Moldy Peaches. So, Peaches singer Kimya Dawson, whose twee "anti-folk" songs evoke the joy of being young and too smart for your own good, ended up all over the movie, including the closing scene: Page and Michael Cera duetting on the Peaches' 'Anyone Else but You.'

'Harold & Maude' (1971)

Cat Stevens

These days Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) doesn't seem like the natural choice for a darkly comic cult classic about a 20-something guy falling in love with a 79-year-old woman. But in the early 1970s, cheery, up-with-people folk tunes like 'If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out' and 'On the Road to Find Out' were the perfect accompaniment to the film's "be who you are" message.

'Dan in Real Life' (2007)

Sondre Lerche

This thinking-man's romcom, in which Steve Carell's sad-sack widower raises two daughters and searches for love, walks the fine line between lighthearted and heartbreaking. Which is also a pretty good description of Sondre Lerche's music. The Norwegian singer-songwriter's combination of quirk and sensitivity on songs like 'To Be Surprised' keep 'Dan' from getting too goofy or sinking too low.

'Away We Go' (2009)

Alexi Murdoch

Sensitive singer-songwriters and indie movies about sensitive people-two great tastes that taste great together. British neo-folkie Alexi Murdoch gave heartstrings a good, hard tug with his music for Sam Mendes' 'Away We Go.' Even the film's trailer made a big splash, thanks to Murdoch's 'All My Days' (a song that had already inspired waterworks on episodes of 'The O.C.' and 'Grey's Anatomy').

'Super Fly' (1972)

Curtis Mayfield

To say that no one could imagine Gordon Parks Jr.'s 'Super Fly' without Curtis Mayfield's music would be something of an understatement. The fact is, many (if not most) of the soundtrack's fans have never even seen the movie; album sales far outstripped the film's take at the box office, and classics like 'Freddie's Dead' and the title track helped define not just the movie but the entire blaxploitation genre.

'The Virgin Suicides' (1999)

Air

Sofia Coppola's soft-focus vision of 1970s suburbia includes plenty of period music by Heart, Styx, ELO and others, but it's the dreamy swoon of the French duo Air -- especially 'Playground Love' and the main theme, 'Highschool Lover' -- that really gives the film its, er, air of melancholy nostalgia.

'About a Boy' (2002)

Badly Drawn Boy

The songs in 'About a Boy,' in which an emotionally stunted bachelor befriends an awkward teenager, were the work of Badly Drawn Boy, the stage name of singer-songwriter Damon Gough. Gough must have done something right, because Nick Hornby, who wrote the original novel 'About a Boy,' even included an essay in his book '31 Songs' about how much he was affected by Badly Drawn Boy's song 'A Minor Incident.' Got all that?

'Wonder Boys' (2000)

Bob Dylan

On top of Bob Dylan classics like 'Buckets of Rain,' 'Wonder Boys' included the singer's brand-new track 'Things Have Changed,' featuring a world-weary vibe and a central lyric, "I used to care but/Things have changed,' that perfectly capture Michael Douglas's character, Grady, a once-promising writer who's been stoned and stuck on his second book for years. Unlike Grady, Dylan still had the magic touch; The song won him a Golden Globe and an Oscar.

'Maximum Overdrive' (1986)

AC/DC

When gazillion-selling horror writer Stephen King sat down in the director's chair for the first (and, thankfully, last) time, he asked his favorite band, AC/DC, to bring the noise. A movie about homicidal trucks on the rampage calls for a fairly muscle-bound soundtrack, so the band lent some of its biggest hits and recorded an original song, 'Who Made Who,' that is unquestionably the film's high point.

'She's the One' (1996)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Edward Burns's winning romcom got a major assist from its Rick Rubin-produced soundtrack of original Tom Petty songs. The collaboration was a success all around: The film's signature tune, 'Walls (Circus)' (featuring Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham on backing vocals) garnered Petty his only charting single of 1996, and the film garnered Burns the last good reviews of his career.

'Into the Wild' (2007)

Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder's songs had already been used in two movies featuring Sean Penn ('Dead Man Walking' and 'I Am Sam'), so when Penn decided to direct 'Into the Wild,' he immediately brought in the Pearl Jam singer. Given Vedder's penchant for anti-corporate earnestness, he seems like an obvious choice for a film about someone giving up his possessions and disappearing into the Alaskan wilderness, and these rootsy, meandering songs don't disappoint.

'To Live and Die in L.A.' (1985)

Wang Chung

William Friedkin's sleek, sun-soaked action flick about a reckless Secret Service agent on the mean streets of Los Angeles is so totally '80s it makes 'Miami Vice' look timeless, and Wang Chung's music deserves a lot of the credit/blame. Recorded in a mere two weeks, the songs, especially the mini-hit title track, are just as slick and jaded as the movie ... so roll up the sleeves of your turquoise blazer and enjoy.

source: http://www.spinner.ca/2010/11/01/best-film-music/

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To be honest I don't really know how this song relates to me.

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When Kanye West sings about "jerk-offs that’ll never take work off," you’d best believe he means himself. Being crazy is this guy’s job, and judging from the sound of his music, business is booming. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus. Yeezy goes for the grandeur of stadium rock, the all-devouring sonics of hip-hop, the erotic gloss of disco, and he goes for all of it, all the time. Nobody halfway sane could have made this album.

Last time, Kanye went minimal for the electro melancholia of 808s & Heartbreak. But on Fantasy, he gets ridiculously maximal, blowing past all the rules of hip-hop and pop, even though, for the past half-decade, he’s been the one inventing the rules. There are hip-hop epics, R&B ballads, alien electronics, prog-rock samples, surprise guests from Bon Iver to Fergie to Chris Rock, even a freaking Elton John piano solo. It’s his best album, but it’s more than that — it’s also a rock-star manifesto for a downsizing world. At a time when we all get hectored about lowering our expectations, surrendering our attention spans, settling for less, West wants us to demand more.

Nobody else is making music this daring and weird, from the spooky space funk of "Gorgeous" to the King Crimson-biting "Power" to the paranoid staccato strings of "Monster." Nearly six minutes into "Runaway," long after the song has already sealed itself in your brain, the sound cuts out and you think it’s over. Then there’s a plinking piano, the feedback of an electric guitar plugging in, some "Strawberry Fields"-style cellos and Yeezy himself singing a poignant Robert Fripp-style solo through his vocoder. There’s no way it should work, but it keeps rolling for three more minutes without breaking the spell.

Coming off a string of much-publicized emotional meltdowns, Yeezy is taking a deeper look inside the dark corners of his twisted psyche. He has sex and romance on his mind, but he comes clean about his male angst like never before. In confessions like "Runaway" and "Blame Game," he honestly struggles to figure out why he has to be such a douchebag. Yet the songs are also his funniest ever, with Kanye showing off lethal wit on the mic: In "Dark Fantasy," he rhymes "mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago" with "diablo," "bravado" and "My chick in that new Phoebe Philo/So much head, I woke up in Sleepy Hollow."

There’s a famous story about Queen making "Bohemian Rhapsody": Whenever the band thought the song was finished, Freddie Mercury would say, "I’ve added a few more ‘Galileos’ here, dear." But nobody can out-Galileo Kanye. With Fantasy, he makes everybody else on the radio sound laughably meek, but he’s also throwing down a challenge to the audience. Kanye West thinks you’re a moron if you settle for artists who don’t push as hard as he does. And that means pretty much everybody.

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1. ”There may be a cash giveaway. And I repeat may.”

2. “Late in the first show, I’m choosing a second wife — someone who’s independently very wealthy, so if I go through this kind of bulls— again, I’m really well taken care of. I mean, I’m talking about someone with hundreds of millions of dollars, because then I’ll really walk the walk.”

3. “You’ll get to see whether I kept the beard or not. And I don’t think I’m self-centered, but I think it’s more important to America than this election.”

4. “Reuniting Led Zeppelin is a goal of mine. I didn’t say it was going to happen. We’re either going to reunite Led Zeppelin, or a Led Zeppelin tribute band that hasn’t worked together in six years.”

5. “You’re going to see me slowly resent Andy less over the course of the first year on the air. Because you know it was him that f—ed up. I was doing fine before he came back to reunite the magic. I think people will love to watch a guy slowly start to forgive somebody over the course of 150 shows.”

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