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MTV: Young Money Stays Strong In Lil Wayne’s Absence

It’s been a trying time for the Young Money camp since Lil Wayne began his yearlong prison bid. The rapper’s sentencing and subsequent jail stint were delayed numerous times before he finally entered New York’s Rikers Island. Nicki Minaj called the experience “confusing.”

“His actual time to go in had been changing, up and down,” she said during mtvU Spring Break. “So it’s been an emotional roller coaster for all of us involved because we never knew when the last text message or that last hug was the actual last text message or hug. It was very, very strange. We wouldn’t wish it on any crew in the game.”

Lil Wayne took advantage of the additional time he was afforded to shoot more videos — he shot nearly 20 clips leading up to his imprisonment — and to make a guest appearance during Young Jeezy’s set on Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 Tour stop in New York. While Wayne is away, his team has pledged to keep the YM torch scorching hot.

Drake vowed to take the lead in Wayne’s absence. “I’m gonna do everything I told him I would do, what I said in the song [‘Over’]: keep us afloat till he gets back,” he told MTV News. “You won’t even notice he’s gone. Promise.”

Minaj described the unusual circumstances that led to her, Drake and the rest of the Young Money crew appearing at mtvU Spring Break without Lil Wayne. Last year, Wayne was a part of the festivities, which also included performances by Jim Jones, Asher Roth and Kid Cudi. He brought Drake and Nicki along as guests during his set.

Now, it’s their turn to apply the lessons Wayne taught them, Nicki said. “We remember last year being at MTV Spring Break, and Wayne was obviously the headliner,” she recalled. “He’s so much more than a headliner, he’s a person that I look at, and I can’t believe this guy is still going, after 20 to 30 minutes in the hot sun. To not have him here, it’s like a life lesson for all of us — always work as if we have no one else to depend on — and that’s what he teaches us. He did, like, 1,000 videos before he went in, knowing that he had to go to jail. A lot of us wouldn’t do that. A lot of us would be curled up on a ball like, ‘Oh my God, my life is about to be over.’ So shout-out to Lil Wayne. We’re honored that he chose each and every one of us, handpicked us. And we love him.”

Young Money will appear on the “Sucker Free Countdown” Sunday at noon on MTV2 when Funkmaster Flex will interview the camp.

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Magazines: Fader Magazine – “Nicki Minaj Assumes Control”

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Nicki Minaj is chilling on Bowery, her petite glamour neutralizing the dank of Manhattan’s original Skid Row. Buxom and physically expressive, wearing a plush black fur jacket and thigh-high patent leather stiletto pumps, she looks like a snow bunny lost in the frigid city, except instead of a designer pocketbook, she’s clutching an open box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Half a block from her luxury room at The Bowery Hotel, a small crowd is gathering and gawking at her silhouette, a couple dudes weakly trying to holler from across the street. One 40-something Boricua with a camera phone musters the courage to ask for a picture, excited to send it to her son, and Minaj sweetly obliges. The scene’s not quite paparazzi status, but in the middle of winter, on a block half flophouse and half condo, this buzzing group of various onlookers is a testament to Nicki Minaj’s universal appeal.

The 25-year-old rapper is hanging around town after her second appearance on BET’s 106 & Park in a week, the latest, to perform “Shakin’ it for Daddy,” her cheeky strip club anthem with Robin Thicke. Though Thicke is presently the bigger star, and it is his song, the crowd (mostly young girls by the sound of it) was clearly there for Minaj, shrieking wildly when she appeared and chanting along rapt during her Thicke-hyping call and response. Immediately after the show aired, the eye-popping, red lace bodycon minidress she wore was a trending topic on Twitter, but even more people are talking about her performance, which completely eclipsed the charismatic Thicke. She was a bespandexed ball of fire, her accents weaving as they do through feminine New York bark, lilting British brogue, valley girl gangsta and the occasional wild tones that came from who knows where but sound like the dialect of a planet not yet discovered. As Minaj emerged and rapped audacious lyrics like Money in the air it’s a festival/ Cause I ba ba ba ba ball (no testicles), her eyes grew wide and wild as if temporarily possessed. But right now she’s not sweating all of that. She’s just trying to get her photo taken as quickly as possible without freezing to death. She’s also trying to snack on some cereal. “You know when I like cereal? At 2AM, right before you go to sleep,” says Minaj. “It’s not the best tip, I don’t think, if you’re trying to lose weight, but I like it right before bed. And you know what I like when I wake up? Leftovers. Like, real food.”

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PHOTOS: Fader Magazine Issue #66 – “I’m Trying To Entertain”


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I don’t know where I fit in the spectrum of rap yet, I think now I’m kind of proving myself, but before, people thought of I was more of a sex symbol or wannabe sex symbol. Now they’re seeing. That’s why I make the goofiest faces, I don’t want people to think I’m up here trying to be cute. I’m trying to entertain, and entertaining is more than exuding sex appeal. I don’t think that’s fun. I don’t find it fun watching someone trying to be sexy. It’s wack.

Source: NecoleBitchie.com

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AUDIO: Remy Ma Interview w/ Jenny Boom, Speaks on Nicki Minaj + More

“I love Nicki, minus the gay stuff”. She also speaks on the “gay” allegations & if that’s Nicki in the video.

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INTERVIEW: Teen Music / Nicki Minaj’s Minaj a Trois

Sometimes one isn’t enough, after two you need just a little bit more but three always seems to be that magic number. For Young Money Entertainment’s rising new female rapper, Nicki Minaj things are always best in threes. Finally after finishing her successful stint on the Young Money Tour and in between working on her upcoming debut album, Nicki played a little game with TeenMusic.com called, Minaj A Trois. Nicki gave us her top 3 on a range of topics that revealed her love of chocolate men, getting dumped for crying, why people who blast air conditioners should be jailed and more crazy, fun randomness!

My Celebrity Crushes: I always thought Morris Chestnut was a big hunk of chocolate. I also say Blair Underwood and Boris Kodjoe. I like them big and tall.

My Ultimate Guilty Pleasures: I love butter pecan ice cream. I like to eat lemons with salt. I always have a hoarse voice and people told me to eat lemon with honey. I loved the way lemons taste and I started putting salt on it. I’m weird. When I was a little kid I put tomatoes in a bowl and put hot sauce and salt in it. I had to hide it from my mother ‘cause she thought I’d get sick. So tomatoes were my crazy guilty pleasure when I was little. A freezing cold pickle. I like it in the middle of the night. It is so freaking good!

My Most Embarrassing Moments: In elementary school we did a play and I was the only moron. I got really emotional at the end on stage and I started crying. They were all laughing at me. So I went back to class and my boyfriend that I was dating for like three days, dumped me. He was like “Cry baby, cry baby. I’m not your boyfriend anymore. You’re a cry baby.” It ruined my whole life. I don’t really get embarrassed anymore though.

My Must-Have Fashion Items: Well right now I’m all about leggings. I have to have Fendi shoes. I’m obsessed with them now because they always fit me right. I have small feet so to find shoes that fit me is a good thing. I can’t leave home or go to the airport without my Louis Vuitton luggage.
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