Artist: Nicki Minaj

What all the four remaining ladies wanted was a spot in the coveted top three, and after Thursday's results, that upper tier of women vying for the title of American Idol was finally set. Let me warn you, there were lots of Ford Focus and The Great Gatsby promotions shoved down your throat, so hopefully you were prepared to gag while watching? However, while the last contestants standing are getting along like gangbusters, judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj were famously going at each other during their feedback sessions. Yesterday [...]

Billboard announced new performers for its Music Awards set to air on ABC, May 19 in Las Vegas. The new performers are: Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Brown, Ed Sheeran, Akon, Ne-Yo, David Guetta and "I Love It"... [[ This is a content summary only. Click on the titles for full stories... ]]

There are several givens on American Idol , that rickety-but-beloved singing competition fave. For instance, Randy Jackson 's questionable evening wear worn on the show. Drawn-out, two-hour weekly performance episodes that, really, could be condensed down to about 14 minutes. The phrase "in it to win it." And, in Season 12, Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey 's continuous quest to figuratively — and, maybe literally, too? — de-wig one-another on camera . To be honest, the bitchy quip-throwing between Idol 's resident drama queens didn't seem out of the ordinary during [...]

At the moment there's no word on a title, collaborators, tracklists, or anything else of the sort, but after rumours surfaced of Kanye West releasing a new album in June after he made a tweet saying "June Eighteen", it's all but been made official. Now according to Rap Radar's Elliott Wilson,  Def Jam Records  (via Chris Atlas) have confirmed that it is in fact a new album that's coming out, and it will in fact be released on June 18th. That's only six weeks away, folks. Six weeks until we [...]

And now for the third (fourth?) batch of additions to the roster at the Billboard Music Awards on May 19. Billboard just announced that  Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj will hit the stage together, while Jennifer Lopez , Ed Sheeran , Chris Brown and Icona Pop have also been added to the festivities. And David Guetta has been tasked with entertaining the masses during commercial breaks, with Ne-Yo and Akon joining in to help the DJ. As reported [...]

Last week, American Idol surprised everyone when they decided not to send a single contestant home. Actually, those of us wondering how they are going to fill the remaining weeks of the show with content were probably less surprised than others. Suffice to say, there are still four contestants left, and it's their job to somehow make these next two hours interesting. Sing, little my pretties, sing! As the weeks continue, the stress continues to wear on the remaining girls and it's starting to show in their performances. Usual crowd-pleaser Kree Harrison [...]

Scientific fact:  Carly Rae Jepsen 's "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" is one of the best pop singles of the year, and it's been commercially and critically under appreciated, proving that there is no justice in the world. Now, perhaps, all that's about to change, since Jepsen's manager  Scooter Braun  (who also handles  Justin Bieber , so he might have his hands full right now ) has tapped  Nicki Minaj  to add a guest verse to the track. All hail the rent-a-rapper radio remix! "Nicki killed the verse and it's great," Braun told MTV [...]

As soon as Nicki Minaj seems to grow comfortable in a role, she veers in the opposite direction. When she became rap's next superstar, she went completely off her pop rocker . Now, as an American Idol judge, Minaj has landed her first live-action role in a film called  The Other Woman . The Fox revenge comedy stars Cameron Diaz as the titular character, who finds out she's in an affair and teams with the adulterer's wife, played by Leslie [...]

The results show was basically one big reminder of how the top four ladies sang the night before, peppered by performances from past American Idol winner Lee Dewyze and onetime Top 10 contestant Stefano Langone . Wednesday night really was Angie Miller 's night, but don't get too comfortable, guys, because Idol had a surprise in store on Thursday...which I totally spoiled in the title. Too late for a spoiler alert? The show starts with a montage to get us nostalgic about the morning [...]

French Montana extends the shelf life of " Freaks " by dialing up his friends from MMG and We The Best for a remix to the infectious record. Excuse My French is available for purchasing May 21st. French Montana Ft. DJ Khaled, Mavado, Rick Ross, Wale & Nicki Minaj - "Freaks" (Remix) Cred: X .

French Montana (!) enlists Rick Ross, Mavado & Wale to guest on the remix to "Freaks," his single with Nicki Minaj. If you're still mad at Ross you gotta get the fuck over it, because he's not going anywhere. K-Swiss endorsement soon come. French Montana - Freaks (Remix) Excuse My French May 21st. MP3: French Montana - Freaks (Remix) ft. Mavado, Rick Ross, Wale & Nicki Minaj |

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Guys, can you believe there are only four contestants left? Last week saw the departure of Janelle Arthur . The themes for this week are contestant choice, duet and then one hit wonder. We get to see lots of singing from the contestants, since there are so few left. These girls have to be exhausted. I know I am. At this point, the girls keep getting reminded that their amazing voices are no longer enough to keep them in the game. It's basically a given that their vocals will be stellar. As it turns [...]

Le classifiche di Billboard registrate tra il febbraio 2012 e il febbraio 2013 premiano su tutti tre artisti: sono infatti re delle nomination, con 11 categorie a testa, la cantante country e fidanzatina d'America Taylor Swift , i veterani Maroon 5 e i nuovissimi Fun , vera rivelazione dell'estate scorsa. Per il resto, anche i Billboard Music Awards non presentano chissà quali novità: i tre leader delle nomination sono tallonati da Rihanna (a quota 10), Carly Rae Jepsen (a quota 9) e gli One Direction (fermi a 8). [...]

The ladies have returned from last night's birthday and diva performances to face the results of voting. With so few contestants remaining, the smallest slip-up during a performance could spell doom for any one of these contestants. We get treated to a clip of Randy Jackson proclaiming this to be the best top five ever and I suspect he's said that every season at this point. I predict that next season, Randy will be replaced by a Teddy Ruxpin-like robot that just spits out recorded phrases of his from the past decade or so. [...]

Did You Hear? ::  One Direction have truly made it, and here's how we know: their wax counterparts were unveiled at Madame Tussauds   famous wax museum in London. Fear not, non-UK Directioners, because the wax figures will tour the world, scheduled to stop in New York and Sydney with more locations forthcoming. [ Celebuzz ] :: Rumor has it that  Nicki Minaj  has been bitten by the acting bug. The LaGuardia School of Music and Performing Arts alum is said to have a role in the upcoming film  The Counselor , in which [...]

They'll do anything to try and make American Idol happen including borrowing the MADGE's technique and have the NICKI MINAJ throw shade the CAREY's way via a British accent.

It's the exact opposite of a sausage fest on American Idol (now that Lazaro Arbos was booted off the show last week), with the five remaining ladies duking it out for the winning title. The two themes for tonight's songs are birthday month and diva. Because of this, we are treated to not one, but two Mariah Carey tunes. And while Mimi and fellow judge Nicki Minaj go at each other's throats early in the evening, their story ultimately has a happy ending when Nicki gives [...]

Nicki Minaj stars in a new Beats by Dre commercial, featuring a portable speaker inspired by Minaj herself. Its premise: She leaves her date (comedian DeRay Davis ) alone with Beats by Dre's new, bubblegum-pink version of the Pill. The Bluetooth speaker keeps relatively quiet as it plays Minaj's current single "High School, " only to come alive and berate the man for texting another woman: "Keep it down? I'm a speaker, dummy!" Fittingly, Minaj's Beats by Dre commercial premiered during the April 10 episode of [...]

In case you missed Wednesday night's performances , the long and the short of it is that the ladies have been straight up dominating this season. After Lazaro Arbos failed to impress in either of the night's two rounds of singing, my guess going into Thursday's results show was that it's going to be a ladies-only affair for the top five. Two performances from American Idol winners of past seasons were on tap to pass the time on Thursday: country singer and winner of season 10, Scotty McCreery , as well as [...]

The NICKI MINAJ got a new advert out for Pink Pill's, that thing looks like Birdo from Super Mario 2, and I ain't talking about her weave.