“Good Morning America” announced its sizzling 2011 Summer Concert Series lineup with the hottest chart-topping acts in the country and the biggest names in music.

From mega-watt stars including Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson, to pop sensations Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj, all Top 11 American Idol contestants, Taio Cruz, Florence and the Machine, and The Goo Goo Dolls, to country superstars Brad Paisley and Miranda Lambert, there’s something for everyone this summer. Plus, don’t miss the best nostalgia acts with The GO-GO’s in a 30th anniversary performance, and Debbie Gibson and Tiffany on stage together for the first time.

“GMA’s Summer Concert Series” kicks off on May 27 in an exclusive television event with the revolutionary Lady Gaga performing songs from her new album “Born This Way.” This first concert will be a ticketed event, details to follow.

The baddest rapper in the business checks in with Out to chat about her colossal new collaboration with DJ David Guetta, the possibility of writing the theme song for Ricki Lake’s new talk show, and how she felt about Eminem using a homophobic slur on her track “Roman’s Revenge.”

Last October, Out was one of the first magazines to try and contain the ferociousness of Nicki Minaj within its pages. Since then, she’s released her hugely successful debut album, Pink Friday, which broke a mess of records including the most consecutive weeks in the Top 10 by a female rapper. Nicki has also had the most appearances at one time by a female rapper on the Billboard Hot 100. In the last six months she’s also gone on tour with Lil’ Wayne, debuted a slew of videos, including her most recent for “Super Bass,” and guest starred on tracks by Britney Spears and, most recently, megawatt DJ David Guetta.

We caught up with Nicki to find out more about her collaboration with Guetta on the soon-to-be biggest jam of the summer, “Where Them Girls At,” which also features Flo Rida, her interest in writing a theme song for Ricki Lake’s new talk show, and how she felt about the homophobic slur Enimem unleashed on her track “Roman’s Revenge.”

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Clearly fans of a well-crafted 16, The Lonely Island showcase their rhyming skills—or laughably lack thereof—on Turtleneck & Chain, the follow-up to 2009’s Incredibad. The first effort saw the comedians tapping Justin Timberlake (“Dick in a Box”) and T-Pain (“I’m on a Boat”) while Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, and Nicki Minaj are just some of the A-list talents that lend an assist to several head-nodding tracks (combined with a few of the awkward and sexually-explicit kind) on the new album. Rap-Up.com had the chance to exclusively interview the trio.

What about when you recorded “The Creep” with Nicki Minaj?
Andy: She was cool. It was fun to watch her record. She has a lot of characters she goes in and out of.
Akiva: She was just really polite.
Jorma: She’s adorable. She’s even cuter in person.

Were you fans of her music before collaborating on that song?
Akiva: We had been fans of her mixtape stuff. We made the album last summer, when we were recording it. So it was before her album came out or anything, and we got in touch with her and she was game to do it. We were just psyched. We saw kindred spirits in the fact that she was playing characters.