Did it on ‘em, or shitted on ‘em as I like to call it as that’s what the dirty version pretty much is, is song three in the Pink Friday album. If you’ve read my past reviews for songs, you can tell I take lyrics pretty seriously. I feel they are just as important as everything else, if not more. But obviously lyrics aren’t everything, as then music would just be poetry, and I don’t like poetry, so there. With the last two songs in this album, they scored below average, and average, but the thing not making them terrible was how it sounded. Did it on ‘em however I don’t even like how it sounds. It’s one of those songs you never actually make it all the way through, or at least for me it is. So in order to make this review I had to force myself to listen all the way through. With the last few songs, even if I didn’t like them, I didn’t mind sitting through them. This however is a fucking headache every time. First, I hate when the beats to rap songs are techno like, it hardly ever works. Second, with Minaj’s usual use of background noises, random words being sprinkled everywhere during times like the chorus, it sounds like something is raping my ears. Now, this song may sound good when it’s on blast, but my argument for that is every song sounds good when it’s on blast. Now let’s get to the lyrics. It’s pretty much the theme of the last song, with a fuck with me I fuck with you attitude, this time it’s using the phrase shitting on people to do this. If this was a comedic themed song I would be fine with that, but this isn’t. I would even be a little nicer if she was in an alter ego like she was in the last one. And Nicki changes voices all the time during songs, and I’m not sure which times she’s Roman or her other one million alter egos, but this time she remains the same voice, so she is Nicki Minaj, and her hook to her song is indeed about shitting on people. Like the last chorus, I would excuse this for a lyric, but don’t make it the fucking chorus. When I listen to a music, I don’t want to jam out "yeah, take a big ol’ shit right on everybody!” The rest of the lyrics are the usual Nicki Minaj styled verses I generally dislike. They’re stale, hardly clever, and her rhymes are typically this:
"This stone is flawless, F1. I keep shooters up top in the F1. A lot of bitches beggin’ me to eff one. But I’ma eat them rap bitches when the chef come.”
And…
"I’m the terminator bitch, talk slick I’ma have to terminate her. These nappy headed hoes need a perminator. You my seed, I spray you with the germinator.”
I’m usually very easy going with the skill of rap music. I don’t care if you annunciate or pronounce words differently to force them to rhyme, (which Nicki tends to do a lot) use the rhymes at different parts of the sentences, or whatever. But sometimes I swear Nicki is not even rhyming, and when I check sometimes she isn’t, or it’s so terrible I just cringe. Perminator, germinator, terminator. Those are not that clever, and usually I would accept these twelve year old rhymes if it was helping the theme or message, but this song has none other than to shit on people, which we just covered in the last song. These are suppose to be the songs where you at least get some decent clever rhymes, but no, this isn’t that good. And probably the most skilled rhyme is insulting homeless people. Yeah, it’s "couple wet wipes case a bum try to touch me. (EW!)” Just saying that bum who probably doesn’t even have a fraction of the money Nicki has, being an average person, has a good chance at being more talented than Nicki, and probably a much better person. Now I will give the song credit, one it does know what it wants to be unlike the first song. It is a song to say fuck you to people you hate, which could be a great song, but is just executed horribly. Second, none of these Nicki Minaj songs are made for me. If some people only listen to music just for sound, and like these songs, I’d be fine with that. The only problem is these people generally put Nicki Minaj upon some throne like she’s actually good, and have little reasons to back it up. And those several reasons are usually terrible reasons. Other problems, that dude in the background who I don’t know the name of (he isn’t featured, he’s just some random guy cursing in the background) just adds to the raping of the ear in this song. Also, the music video. It’s something a lot of artists do, and I hate it every time. They just add footage of tour scenes, song performances, and other footage and play it with the song. It feels lazy every time, and I never like it. I was arguing whether I would even count it as a music video, but since she probably made a truck load of money for somebody putting that footage of her into a music video (if you want to count it as a music video) I will. Also, what is the point of even trying to censor this song? It curses at least every other ten seconds, the fucking chorus is "shitted on ‘em,” played over and over again. Oh yeah, so they can put it on the radio and make her more money, and get her on billboard. Anyway, this to me is the worst song yet, as you can’t give the excuse it sounds good anymore, and it is my first and probably not the last on this album I will be giving the badge of shit. So following Nicki Minaj’s example, I just shitted on ‘em.
Did It On 'em gets a 1/5
Did It On 'em Review