You know when a new colloquialism comes to market and you're like, YES, that's it, that's just the modification I've been looking for and now I'm going to use the shit out of it until it's painfully threadbare? That's kind of what's going on right now with 'Fleek.'
Ariana Grande performed at the NBA All-Star Game halftime show this weekend—and she pretty much killed it. A few places on the 'net have chided Grande's dry, almost stiff dancing style, but when you take into consideration that (it looks like) she's not lip synching, and stayed in almost perfect tune the whole time,…
Nicki Minaj might be a feminist and she might not but one thing is sure, the Queens-by-way-of-Trinidad woman is rejecting all those who try to squeeze her into a singular definition of herself and career.
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After being introduced by a high-as-fuck Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj, Madonna's #REBELHEART half-heartedly beat during the Grammys. Sure, she met all her marks and managed to not be impaled by the 100 horned men surrounding her while performing her song "Living For Love." But call me when she does more than one song.…
In a sad situation that only continues to get sadder, Susan Schneider Williams—wife of the late Robin Williams—is challenging the comedian's children and the division of his estate by filing a petition that would allow her to keep certain personal effects that were seemingly left to Williams' kids.
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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…
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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…
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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…
