Popcaan featured in Nicki Minaj, Drake & Lil Wayne's "No Frauds" video

Popcaan featured in Nicki Minaj, Drake & Lil Wayne's new "No Frauds" music video.

Nicki Minaj doesn’t need frauds or snakes. She doesn’t need Meek Mill, and she certainly doesn’t need narrative continuity. In her new, much-hyped music video for “No Frauds,” Minaj sets her sights on one particularly egregious hater. Hint: her name rhymes with Shmemy Shma.

As a chart-topping crossover queen recently freed from her bum boyfriend/financial co-dependent, Minaj ought to be savoring her success. Unfortunately, Love & Hip Hop’s resident rap icon Remy Ma took Minaj’s queen bee status as an opportunity to air out a decade’s worth of old receipts. Remy’s subsequent diss track, “shETHER,” took aim at Nicki’s sexual history, her brother’s legal troubles, and her Achilles’ ass implants. It’s going to take a little more than some Meek Mill gossip and a Barbie butchering to dethrone Nicki Minaj. Of course, if Minaj has one weakness, it’s the fact that she simply can’t rap like Remy Ma can. She’ll always be a hip-hop star, but Minaj is more or less a pop performer at this point. While being mainstream has its advantages—money, fame, and a lot more money—it also opens a rapper up to criticism from old-school artists and hip-hop traditionalists.

Nicky Minaj , Drake , lil wayne , Popcaan , No Fraud , Remy MA