"Ayo, they could never make me hate you/ Even though what you was doin’ wasn’t tasteful/ Even though you out here lookin’ so ungrateful/ I'ma keep it movin’ be classy and graceful"Ĭould this be addressing her former hairstylist, who is now suing her for $30 million, and making public statements ("out here") attacking her ("lookin' so ungrateful")? Or maybe it's about hip-hop, which has both embraced and criticized her throughout her career - with much of the criticism coming following her last album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. She may be addressing any number of people or relationships here, from her longtime boyfriend, Safaree "SB" Samuels, to possibly even her fans, who adore her but expect the world. "Pills n potions/ We're overdosing/ I'm angry but I still love you/ Pills n potions/ We’re overdosing/ Can't stand it but I still love you" Nicki opens the track by singing, with a hook that's repeated throughout: Like many of her fans, we were wondering: Who is she addressing on her lead The Pink Print single? Let's a take a look at some of her lyrics.
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The Queen of hip-hop addresses situations with a specificity to suggest that the people and circumstances are real - but never actually names names. The song's lyrics are at once pointed and ambiguous. It's personal to her and it's something to which others can relate.
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Poisoner in Chief reveals him as a clandestine conjurer on an epic scale.Nicki Minaj's new single, "Pills N Potions," is many things. Only since his death has it become possible to piece together his astonishing career at the intersection of extreme science and covert action. He lived in a remote cabin without running water, meditated, and rose before dawn to milk his goats.ĭuring his twenty-two years at the CIA, Gottlieb worked in the deepest secrecy. Gottlieb's reckless experiments on "expendable" human subjects destroyed many lives, yet he considered himself deeply spiritual. clandestine operations, draws on new documentary research and original interviews to bring to life one of the most powerful unknown Americans of the twentieth century. Stephen Kinzer, author of groundbreaking books about U.S. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture.
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He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace-including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer-the agency's "poisoner in chief." As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s.