Barbz! This year is continuing to be an amazingly successful and promising year for the Queen of Rap Nicki Minaj! Billboard has released its Official nominees for the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, coming to a TV near you LIVE on May 19! Be sure to see the Queen accept (hopefully) all of the awards that she is nominated for this year. The full list of awards Nicki is nominated for are listed below. Check out the rest of the nominees here.

1. Top Female Artist
2. Top Radio Songs Artist
3. Top Streaming Artist
4. Top Rap Artist
5. Top Rap Album (Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded)
6. Top R&B Song (Girl On Fire)
7. Top Dance Song (Starships)

I’ve just updated the photo gallery with several (not all) of Nicki’s Official Twitter photos. They are the most recent ones that I could get, all the way back to the ‘BTS High School Video Shoot.’ I’m steady searching for the rest of the photos and will continue to update the album as time goes on. If you have any that are missing from the gallery and would like to donate them and help us out, tweet them to me on Twitter @javiminaj

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The “socially awkward” semifinalist of American Idol season 12 Charlie Askew recently sat down for an interview in which he spoke about being on the show, and the criticism on his final night from our favorite judge Nicki Minaj! Read his comments below.

“I was hurt by what Nicki said, but the reason wasn’t because she was critiquing me in any negative way. I’m used to that. I do this for negative and positive criticism,” he said. “But all the comments she kept throwing out there were about my image and my outfit and my arms… and not the singing! And I thought of all people she would understand where I was coming from with this performance. It was almost hypocritical of her … She changes her image every day, you know?”