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Thankfully, she's much more than a pair of boutique high heels and a dirty mouth- in fact, with her five WAYM verses, Minaj is the most consistent (and consistently amusing) MC on the entire album. A vixen with outlandish curves and a flow that pings between valley girl sex goddess and cartoon thug, Minaj could probably carpet-bomb hip-hop mag covers no matter her skills on the mic. The other current YM bold face is 25-year-old Queens native Nicki Minaj. His encroaching stardom probably hurts We Are Young Money as an album- he seems to be saving his signature Auto-Hooks for the solo LP- but his four verses act as apt teasers, highlighted by a melodic and horny masterclass on "Every Girl" and an anchor lap on "Pass the Dutch", where he boasts: "I told you catch up, did you make a mil yet?/ I can't predict how many of 'em I can still get." Could be quite a few. And for good reason- more than competitors like Kid Cudi and Wale, Drake has the sensitivity, wit, and commercial wherewithal to create the breakout album hip-hop fans longed for, and didn't get, in 2009. After smashing with lover-not-fighter anthem "Best I Ever Had" and sussing out the logical continuation of Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak sound with his So Far Gone mixtape last year, the singer/rapper's forthcoming major label debut LP is the uncontested Most Anticipated Hip-Hop Bow of 2010. And while We Are Young Money undoubtedly marks a career high for most of Wayne's crew, there are two contributors who have an excellent chance of jumping out from behind their teacher's shadow.ĭrake is already there. Last decade, Cam'ron was one of the more successful kingpins, with the 2003 album Diplomatic Immunity spawning semi-careers for Juelz Santana and Jim Jones before Dipset forgot why they were great and imploded. Even Jay-Z's most overt clique record, 2000's The Dynasty: Roc La Familia couldn't bolster main contributors Beanie Sigel and Memphis Bleek to much past staunch regional kudos. Consider the sorry track record of Eminem's D-12, 50 Cent's G-Unit, Ludacris's Disturbing Tha Peace, or Young Jeezy's U.S.D.A. Though Puff Daddy and the Family's pioneering 1997 boomtime opus No Way Out still boasts the greatest number of contributing stars- Biggie, Mase, Lil' Kim, the L.O.X.- when it comes to the single-ego-fueled-rap-crew-album genre, most of the time, side players have little chance of becoming anything but.
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These dire circumstances loom over We Are Young Money, the first album from Wayne's cobbled-together hip-hop clique- can his pupils come close to filling the creative vacuum left by their frighteningly prodigious mentor? Crazily enough, a couple of them just might be able to pull it off. And that missing feeling tugged harder when he pled guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in October, a blunder that could put him in a New York jail for a year starting next month, when he's due to be sentenced. But without new tracks and features hitting the web every week, it did seem like Wayne was M.I.A.