How much does pop princesa Charli XCX know and love her fanbase? Definitely enough to try her hand at singing "Boom Clap," one of last year's biggest hits, in Japanese, for special release of Sucker on Warner Music Japan. Unsure how she fared as my Japanese is a little rusty, but at least two people in the always…
On Sunday night, MTV aired its Nicki Minaj documentary My Time Again, the follow-up to 2010's My Time Now, which we all remember as the origin of her infamous pickle-juice snub and bitch-versus-boss analogy. Back then, in that special, she came across tough and guarded, and (to us) the extent of her relationship with…
Nicki Minaj and Safaree Samuels, her boyfriend of 1,000 secret years, have broken up and are fighting publicly on social media. In response to many calling him "corny" and Nicki agreeing… on Twitter, Samuels aka "Scaff Beezy" aka "SB Stunts" aka "Nicki's hype man" told his side of their story, while wearing a fur…
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Nicki Minaj's new Roberto Cavalli campaign is out and ready for all of the fan-created wind gusts your laptop can handle. Get into all of these flowing fabrics, pouting lips and far-away looks.
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Nicki Minaj has been speaking much more freely about her love life while promoting her super personal new album The Pinkprint. Her latest revelation comes in a Rolling Stone cover story where she talks about having an abortion as a teenager.
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Nicki Minaj is known for her rapping, but it's no secret her first love was theater. And if she hadn't made it in the world of pop, she could (possibly) be on Broadway right now, throwing phones at people and fake-crying her way through monologues.
Another holiday, another reminder via Instagram that celebrities are kinda sorta not really just like us, but in some ways they are. Unlike Thanksgiving's embarrassment of riches, however, Christmas brought out some impulses of humility, with a lot of celebs showing off their families, their festivities, and their…
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Where'd they go?
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Following the release of The Pinkprint earlier this week, Nicki Minaj has dropped a short film set/extra long music video medley featuring some tracks off the album and plenty of mournful gazing to go around.
At the end of every year, it seems like our society is allowing more and more room for hot garbage to fill our pop charts. We say this not as haters of pop music—we are not one of those finger-waggy assholes who thinks that Katy Perry, for example, does not make "real" music because she doesn't write and produce all…
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"This is the TNT cypher," says Kenny Smith, introducing this incredibly delightful five minutes of the Inside the NBA men struggling to keep up with Nicki Minaj.
Nicki Minaj has been named the new face of the Roberto Cavalli's Spring/Summer 2015 campaign. Coming three days after the release of her third album, The Pinkprint, Nicki posted a first look at the gorgeous campaign images to her Instagram page.
With the debut of Nicki Minaj's third album The Pinkprint this week, I wondered where feminism and the star's overt sexuality meet. Can a woman objectify herself? Is that feminist? What is the meaning of life with a vagina, anyway?
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Continuing to promote her latest album The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj stopped by Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live! on Wednesday night. During the interview, Minaj kept it playful, even when hit with Cohen's famously prying questions.
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One of the stand-out qualities of The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj's third studio album, is how plainly it illustrates a woman in her early 30s going through the ringer that women in their early 30s do: a time of transition, she details not just her recent breakup with her boyfriend of a decade, but also the kind of career…
For the past four years, Nicki Minaj has used a personalized pink microphone studded in light rose Swarovski crystals. Created by a former art student from Cleveland, it's become an iconic part of Minaj's overall live presence, even as her personal style has transformed from Harajuku Bride of Frankenstein to sleek and…
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To the Publishers of Nicki Minaj's 2015 Calendar,
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For her "Anaconda" video, Nicki Minaj purposefully showed a world in which women completely controlled the narrative. This new video for her single "Only," from The Pinkprint, takes a similar approach, bringing us into a dominatrix den where men are paralyzed and defenseless.
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Previously, Nicki Minaj and a rapper named Beyoncé teamed up for the remix to "Flawless," where Beyoncé famously shrugged off that pesky elevator fight between her sister and husband in just one line. The two rappers have reunited for "Feeling Myself," a boastful track over a thumping beat that appears on Minaj's…
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James Franco hosted an enjoyable episode of SNL last night with Nicki Minaj as a musical guest. There were a fair amount (like four) of fun sketches (with some help from Franco's other half Seth Rogen). Case in point: the "Jingle Ballerz Special" in which we learn that baby Jesus woke up like this.
