Nicki Minaj scores her 2nd #1 Billboard Rap song

Rolling Stone Magazines Queen of Hip Hop Nicki Minaj scored her 2nd Billboard #1 Rap Song. Her already Platinum debut album Pink Friday debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart with sales over 375,000 in its first week.  It is the second highest debut in female rap. It was said to come in second in history behind Lauren Hill's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" with 423,000 copies sold in its first week of release 12 years prior in 1998. However, Minaj points out Hill's album was not categorized under Hip Hop/Rap. Fellow rapper Missy Elliott comes in behind Minaj with 259,000 copies of her 2002 released "Under Construction" album.

In 2010, Nicki became the first female hip-hop artist to top Billboard's Rap Songs chart with "Your Love" since 2003. Fellow rapper Lil' Kim hit #1 as a featured artist on 50 Cents "Magic Stick" in 2003 while Missy Elliot hit #1 as a solo female rap artist in 2002 with "Work It".

The newly crowned Queen of Hip Hop scored her second #1 this week with "Moment 4 Life" featuring fellow Young Money artist Drake. ((see link: http://www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-adult-pop-rap-songs-more-1005024482.story ))

Nicki is opening up doors for other female rappers, both old and new. The Grammy Awards gave their first award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance to Missy Elliott in 2003. Elliott beat fellow male rappers in the previous category for Best Rap Solo Performance (male and female mixed) in 2002 with "Get Ur Freak On" and won the first Grammy for Best Female Rap Solo Performance in 2003. The female rapper category only lasted for two years, both Elliott won. In 2005 the Grammys resumed mixing the category with both male and female. In other words, its been 6 years since the category for female rappers only has existed at the Grammys. The industry is already buzzing and expecting the category for Female Rapper's alone to reopen at 2012 Grammys due to Minaj bringing attention back to the category.

G. Moore Son Of Soul: My Take on Nicki

She is not trying to be what everyone wants her to be. She does not want to be a hardcore female rapper 24/7 all the time. She wants to do pop, singing, and many different things with her career and wants to use all her different entertaining personalities while doing it.Whatever she is doing, it is working. She seems to be a mixture of many different female MC's. Most obviously Lil' Kim and Missy Elliott with their wardrobe, wigs, and entertainging facial expressions.  She is all of our favorite rapper qualities mixed up into one.  She recently has mastered her performance of "Moment 4 Life" on Ellen which incorporates her singing and rapping. Without a doubt a force to be reckoned with.