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Onika Tanya Maraj, better known as Nicki Minaj, created a song called “The Crying Game” to tell a significant part of her life. She’s been in a relationship with safaree Daniels for 10+ years and they ended their relationship shorthanded because of her long time heart break. Once Minaj became famous she started to realize that the man she knew treated her differently and started to become distance. Minaj uses the singer, Jessie Ware, to create a smooth transition to the climax of the song to let the people know the song makes her miserable. Nicki Minaj is known for her use of rhymes, significant bars and hyperbole. Nicki Minaj and Jessie Ware uses “The Crying Game” to describe the after-math of a relationship that ended badly.
As the song starts you hear a piano play soft and slow letting you know that is song will be a gentle moving ballet. Once the beat drops you hear the first line, “Here we go again, and it’s the game we love.” As you can see she uses a form of consonance with the words, go, again, and game. The game she refers to would be the …show more content…

Nicki exclaims, “That they were just planning a wedding, Caucasian doves.” Saying that they wanted to take their relationship to the next level with a symbol of doves which means love and happiness. Minaj ends her 1st verse by murmuring, “You was just telling your mans that you hate the clubs; now we in the crying game heart laced with slugs.” She’s basically saying that they were at a point that they felt as if it was no need to go clubbing when they had each other until they broke up and entering the crying game with their hearts broken or lace with slugs. Minaj uses a form of rhyme again with clubs and slugs. Slugs would be another word for bullets and their heart broken means it has been

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