Problem with this argument is that this is hardly something that is exclusive to Nicki. I mean out of all the current popstars from the past 10 years the only one who is "Safe" is fucking Taylor Swift.
You people are basically arguing who's less "bad" for young girls completely ignoring the hilarious fact that if you read most of these damn lyrics you'd all unanimously vote for "they're all horrible role models for little girls". Aside from like Taylor Swift; honestly I'm tired of Americans wanting the government and everyone else to raise their kids. If music artists have that much influence in your kid's life to the point you've lost them. You should seriously put your kid up for adoption because you're an absolute shit of a parent.
This entire thread is stupid, doubly so for posters trying to be sociologists on the plagues of black America. I'd rather those people stop embarrassing themselves for the sake of my not getting an aneurism.
You and other posters seem to blame parents for letting their child be changed by media.
Everyone is influenced by media, otherwise marketing wouldn't be a thing. As a parent there is little you can do about that. Even if you keep your child free from the grasps of media, it still has influence on other kids who have in turn influence on your kid. If twerking is popularized by pop music, and kids catch on to it and do it too, your kid may feel extra pressure to do it too. Some behaviors can be damaging.
As a parent you never can completely control what your kid gets influenced by. You can mitigate the effects by good parenting, make it clear that behavior such as this is a bad thing, but there is still a pressure for people to participate if they see other people doing it too.
And children are especially easily influenced by behavior of idols. We have all kinds of pop stars whom children idolize, and a huge amount of them set a terrible example for children. Of course I am not saying that kids suddenly will go have sex with drug dealers, but pop stars may well have played a part in a possible increase of young people sexualizing themselves.
Think of the effect marketing and media has had on society. On smoking, on shaving, on deodorant. There are so many examples of things that we now frown upon in society because it has been marketed to us that way by media. Have so many parents failed? Is it unlikely that pop stars also may possibly have this kind of effect with enough exposure?