The rapper also described the origin of her Flawless remix, a team-up with Beyoncé which dropped on Sunday. The song is built around a sample of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hon" line from the rapper's 1992 ode to women with large posteriors, " Baby Got Back. Rob Halford dives into some of his Judas Priest lyrics, talking about his most personal songs and the message behind "You've Got Another Thing Comin'. Anaconda" was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in November 2014 and has sold 1.

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Thanks to the visuals to accompany this song, the phrase "anaconda butt" entered the lexicon in 2014. The song has been certified 2x Platinum in the US, Platinum in Australia, Gold in New Zealand and Sweden, and Silver in the UK. During her radio promotion of the single, Minaj stated that she did not expect the artwork to be as controversial and receive the reception it did. The song was also nominated for two categories at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Best Female Video and Best Hip-Hop Video, winning the latter. Critics from National Review referred to the song as "degrading," adding that it promoted prostitution, drug abuse and immorality to young girls.To further promote the song, Minaj performed it live at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards and also performed it at Fashion Rocks and the iHeartRadio Music Festival. She knew that she wanted it to be her single, so it was a super big advantage for us when we were in there working," Bellinger said. Nicki goes big—literally—with a song about butts, sex, and more butts, backed by a “Baby Got Back” sample, nonetheless. Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg, who Minaj previously had a feud with after he criticized her pop single "Starships" for being a sellout song and dissed her on the stage of Summer Jam in 2012, praised the song saying "she found her new smash rap record". With little things like this, Nicki takes charge of the story and makes spaces where women are agents and not just things.

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She said the surprise was one word that began and ended with the letter "A" and the second letter was the letter "N". The second single from Nicki Minaj's The Pink Print album, this drew lots of attention for its bootylicious cover art revealing a great deal of the Queen Barbz's rear. Additionally, the 39-2 ascent for "Anaconda" marks the second-biggest jump ever within the Hot 100's top 40.Its leap into the runner-up position was brought on primarily by the release of its music video, which garnered 32. Bellinger told MTV News that he was brought into the studio to help complete the song, which the other two producers had already started. Whereas Sir Mix-a-Lot focuses on a woman's body and the pleasure it gives him, Minaj raps from the perspective of the unnamed woman, and shows how she uses her body to profit and empower herself. Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Philadelphia" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1994, beating out Neil Young's "Philadelphia," which was also written for the movie Philadelphia. Notice how the woman is shown to be strong on purpose: she is the one who owns the car and does the fucking.