I have heard this term used many times before to usually describe a black artist when they start making more mainstream music, or music that isnt considered black enough. The new victim of the term is Nicki Manaj. This is what she had to say about it recently.......

full interview:

http://cocaineandhookers....0320254493

"[Queen Latifah] is someone who I tip my hat to because Queen Latifah looked at it and said, "Okay, wait, hmm, I mean I wanna be 40 years old rapping. I — the hip-hop fans may not want to hear me when I'm 40 years old rapping. So I'm going to shapen and move in a way so that every aspect of who I am can be seen." Queen Latifah does musicals, movies, voice overs for cartoons — is she a sellout or is she winning? So these other bitches that only did rap and now they're washed, and they're living in, you know, low-income housing — is that winning? Just so that a ***** in the street can give me a fucking dap? The same ***** that didn't buy my album any fucking way, that downloaded the shit? Get the fuck out of here."

"I keep saying this: I went to school for theatre. I took four years of my life and devoted it to theatre. I did that because my passion was acting. When I started rapping, I felt like I couldn't really be myself. When I started winning, I started feeling that I can be myself. I can do my accents, I can do my voices, I can do my faces, I can do costumes. I can now bring me to who, you know, people see as Nicki Minaj. I can now really bring me into it. And I think that's where the confusion lies is that people thought that when I first came out, that that was me in my entirety. But that wasn't. That was a small facet of who I was, you know. But, who you see now is a more multi-faceted mixture of all the different personalities that I have in me. I mean... and I think that if I was to not show that, then I wouldn't be doing justice to all the people who feel like I do. Cause for every person who doesn't understand it is a person who feels like me, who feels like... sometimes I just break out in an English accent, you know, like, what's wrong with that? "

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I understand where she is coming from but i think she needs to realize that:

1) you are a hip hop artist and the hip hop audience is pretty conservative in what they feel their audiences should be.

2) you are still a new artist. establish your identity first then change GRADUALLY.

3) there is nothing wrong with change, but dont change so quick that you lose your core audience before gaining the new audience you are trying to expand to. It can really backfire and you will have NO AUDIENCE.

4) there is nothing wrong with adding elements of theater or drama into your performance. the key is knowing how to do so and my friend you COMPLETELY FAIL in that aspect. I dont know what possesed you and Laurie Ann to come up with that atrocity passed off as a performance... but it was a complete fail and speaking as apart of the general public.. we ask that you never let that happen again. I mean damn even the audience was confused

Im sure performing at the Super Bowl with Madge help give her a boost as to what she as a rap artist can accomplish, so im happy she wants to take it to the next level.

The only sellouts are ones who sellout stadiums and albums.