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Rumours of Sean “Diddy” Combs being Nicki Minaj’s manager spread before, during, and after Rick Ross and Diddy announced their “partnership” in which the two will join forces in several business ventures.

These rumours were fuelled by an earlier rumour that Nicki Minaj fired her management team after she was dropped from Rihanna’s international tour.

Rounds of rumours spread about Diddy and Nicki Minaj dating after several public appearances holding hands.

“I hold everybody’s hands! I hold my bodyguard’s hands!” she said.

Nicki Minaj might have been born in Trinidad and raised in Jamaica, Queens, but the 25-year-old rapper and one-woman style tornado makes music like she comes from another planet. Minaj’s Harajuku Barbie aesthetic and penchant for autographing the breasts of her devoted female fans notwithstanding, she is arguably one of the strongest female voices to emerge in hip-hop in the last decade.

“I don’t mind being called a weirdo,” says Minaj. “There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.” Minaj has worked hard to establish her own voice, writing all her own material and not leaning on sex appeal. “I made a conscious decision to try to tone down the sexiness,”

she says. “I want people—especially young girls—to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You’ve got to have something else to go with that.” It was Minaj’s oversize personality and kaleidoscopic raps that drew the attention of her new friend and mentor Lil Wayne, who signed her to his Young Money label in 2009. Since then, Minaj’s progress on her hotly anticipated debut album, Massive Attack (due out this fall), has been slowed only by her popularity as a collaborator.

She’s popped up on tracks for artists such as Usher, Robin Thicke, and Mariah Carey. “One of the biggest highlights of this year was being onstage with Jeezy, Wayne, and Drake in the middle of Jay-Z’s set at Madison Square Garden,” says Minaj. “And not only did we do a song together, but I was in a video with Mariah Carey! I still haven’t gotten over that!”

Didn’t expect this did you?

This is an unfinished unreleased track featuring the two current beefing femcees. What are your thoughts on this song? We like it!

Here are two promo photos recently released of our girl Nicki, doesn’t she look amazing? Leave a comment!

Thanks to Rap-Up.com for the images!

Watch out, Drake. Sean Kingston is gunning to make Nicki Minaj his wifey. The 20-year-old pop singer, who collaborated with Nicki on his new single “Letting Go (Dutty Love),” revealed to Rap-Up TV that he has a crush on the hip-hop honey and wants to make her Mrs. Kingston. “I just think that Nicki Minaj is beautiful,” he said. “Ya’ll don’t be shocked if you hear that Nicki Minaj and Sean Kingston is going out. That’s my biggest crush right now.”

In addition to professing his love for her, he also explains how their dancehall-flavored collaboration came about, shooting the Lil X-directed video in Jamaica this weekend, and weighs in on the Lil’ Kim vs. Nicki Minaj feud. Bomboclat!

Source: Rap-Up.com

Here’s a new track by Sean Kingston featuring none other than Nicki Minaj. This song is supposed to hit iTunes tomorrow!

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Continuing in the new VIBE tradition of split covers, Nicki Minaj is one of June/July’s cover subjects. In the feature titled “Character Study” written by Siobhan O’Connor, rap’s latest “it” girl shares some interesting insight to her new found fame, female MCs before her and her weird voices. Check out some experts from the cover story which hits stands June 15th.

“People don’t get when you’re off, or you’re having a bad day,” she says, obliquely referring to the photograph that bounced around the blogs of her hand- in-hand with Diddy, looking especially miserable. The speculation was inevitable: Had she been crying? Was she just tired? Are they doing it?

“When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly,” she says. “The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.”

“I’m not abandoning the funny voices. I just did a crazy tribute to ODB’s ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya,’” she says, perfectly impersonating the late Wu-Clansman. “But it’s coming up more with the album. I had a teacher in elementary who would stand on her table and whisper. We’d all turn around like, ‘What is this lunatic doing?’ But she would achieve what she wanted. She wanted us to stop talking and listen. I feel like I need to mellow it down so people can hear what I have to say.”

Off of Drake’s “Thank Me Later” album. Leave your comments below!