Nicki Minaj - "Massive Attack"

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Produced by Sean Garrett.

According to producer Sean Garrett the first single from Nicki Minaj's debut album is due out in a week.

“I just did Nicki’s first single. It’s coming in a week or so. Explosive record, I can’t wait for y’all to hear it, man. It’s just given me a lot of time to create some real special music that’s a lot different from what people expected,” Garrett said.

“I’m really, really excited about Nicki because I think that what Nicki has understood is that she can do whatever she wants to do. She’s a dreamer just like myself. I feel like when you’re creative … it’s basically like her whole image thing. She’s taken her image to a whole other level with the whole Barbie thing. And I think she’s very imaginative and her music’s great and she’s not scared of nothing. She’s fearless. As long as you’re fearless in life you can do
anything.”

[Q]

This could go either way. Sean garrets songs are either really good or really bad.

[dperkins]

Didn't he produce Bottle Pop and said it was going to "change the world" or some sh*t?

[Grenade]

The is called "Massive Attack."

I can't stand Sean Garrett, but Nicki is creative enough. I'm looking forward to it.

[dperkins]

Sounds interesting.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Yeah, I like the title. But at the same time it makes me think she's going to be rapping about her skills rather than making a commercial sounding radio song.

[backintime]

I would die if this sampled "Unfinished Sympathy" or "Teardrop" or something.

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Now that Drake has announced his first single, Young Money’s First Lady is next to bat. Nicki Minaj has revealed details about her debut single, which is sure to make a big bang.

In an interview with Rap-Up.com, Lil Wayne’s protégée answered the question we’ve all been asking: What will be the lead single from her hotly-anticipated debut album? “The first single is called ‘Massive Attack.’ Sean Garrett produced that,” she said.

Garrett, who enlisted the hip-hop Barbie for his own single “Get It All,” dropped a few additional details about the song, which was produced by him and Alex Da Kid. “I just did Nicki’s first single featuring me. It’s gonna be a f**king bomb,” he shared. “It’s very, very explosive! It’s a club banger. It’s a lot broader than what people would expect her to come with. The record puts her in the game in a way that says she should’ve been here a long time ago.”

The songwriter behind Beyoncé’s “Diva” and Fergie’s “London Bridge” discussed how the collaboration came together. “I didn’t know but Nicki said that she had been a humongous fan of mine and that I’m the one producer she always wanted to work with. What was so crazy to me is that I was a big fan of hers,” he explained.

“When it comes to female artists, everyone knows my favorite artist in the world to work with is Beyoncé. My favorite new artist to work with was, of course, Nicki Minaj, just because she was so different and she wasn’t really trying to do the same sh*t that everybody else was doing. I had the same love and respect for her that she had for me, but neither one of us knew it.”

As for when the femme fatale will launch her “Attack”? “It’ll be out very soon. I don’t have an exact date, but it will drop right on time,” said Minaj, while Garrett added, “She has a real way of how she wants to do this. It’s just gonna be a surprise when it comes. She just wants to make it as huge as possible.”

Plans are already underway to shoot the accompanying visuals. “We’re actually shooting the video within a week,” she disclosed. “I can’t wait for you guys to see it.”

–D.L. with reporting by Georgette Cline

[dperkins]

LOL @ him saying its "gonna be a bomb". I know what he means, but still..

[I'M ON ONE]

Nicki will be performing this at MTV Spring Break the week of March 22-26.

The video will be shot this week in Miami, Atlanta, and Mexico (she's there filming the Spring Break for MTV)

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[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Tranny invasion of the Mojave

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Nicki Minaj rounded up her troop of Harajuku Barbies, clad in hot pink wigs and helmets, and stormed the desert of Lancaster, Calif., to shoot the Hype Williams-directed video for “Massive Attack,” the first single from her debut album.

The hip-hop heroine stars in the action-packed clip, which includes a helicopter chase and a militaristic jungle scene. Amber Rose and Sean Garrett make cameos, and even Drake stopped by to pay his Young Money cohort a visit.

“It’s gonna be a f**king bomb,” Garrett told Rap-Up.com of the track, which he produced and is featured on. “It’s very, very explosive! The record puts her in the game in a way that says she should’ve been here a long time ago.”

[dperkins]

Mar 16, 2010 22:58:57 GMT -5 I'M ON ONE said:

GaGa? Or is that Christina?

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“I’m in my 2010 Rambo, so hard I had to let Nic pink out the Lambo/ Ya’ll already know we got the ammo, massive attack,” sings Sean “The Pen” Garrett on Nicki Minaj’s first single, “Massive Attack,” which he co-produced with Alex Da Kid. The brawny Garrett gets his Rambo on in the militaristic clip, shot against a jungle backdrop and in the desert of Lancaster, Calif.

Next Friday, the singer-songwriter will head to Miami to film a video for his Barbie-assisted single “Get It All” with director Gil Green. Click here for more photos from the “Massive Attack” set with Nicki and Amber Rose.

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I really don't like the idea of Sean Garrett on her first single.

[I'M ON ONE]

I don't either... I don't like him as an artist. The only big smash he was a part of (as a featured artist) was Mario's "Break Up" (and even then, he is the worst part of that song)

As a songwriter, he's fine (Yeah!, Goodies, Lose My Breath, etc.) but as a producer/guest artist...not so sure

[dperkins]

Your Love is kinda hot! I hope this is better though. YL seems like something that would get annoying real quick.

[Grenade]

Mar 19, 2010 21:52:42 GMT -5 @drexbeutel said:

I really don't like the idea of Sean Garrett on her first single.

I agree. He's terrible.

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[Q]

LEAKED. Nicki is unstoppable.

[RedDragon]

I'm slightly disappointed. The beat is really hot though.

[Grenade]

I don't like it.

[Grenade]

Ok, I like it now. It took a few listens.