May 20, 2010
Tweet Your favorite rapper without an album, Nicki Minaj has been nominated fiddyleven times for a BET Award recently. Minaj, who’s done everything for BET, including hosted a fashion show, ramped up ratings for “106 & Park” and more, is finally getting the love in return. In addition to three nominations with her rap supergroup ...
April 7, 2010
Tweet At LaGuardia High School in New York, Onika Maraj was as silly as silly puddy. You can tell from the daffy-duck faces she makes even now. But when did the femme fatale known as Nicki Minaj emerge on the hip-hop scene? In 2002, a group of eUuniverse employees created Myspace. In two short years, ...
April 5, 2010
Tweet Atlanta recording artist Keri Hilson aka Ms. Keri Babay, or as she’s recently become known, “Ms. Star-Splanglish Bumbled” got another turn to flub the lines to America’s national anthem Sunday. Turns out fate gave Hilson the honor of singing the national anthem at Fenway Park on Sunday. Just in case she ruined it, there ...
March 17, 2010
Tweet The hottest rapper not in jail is Kanye West. Sorry, Jay-Z. Apologies to T.I., Lupe, etc. Kanye musically has the Midas touch, and his peers know that more than anybody. Ask Common or John Legend, who’s albums breathe Kanye’s elastic soulfulness. Ask Maroon 5. Ask T-Pain. Ask Drake. Kanye’s time to take the throne ...
March 5, 2010
Tweet Miss Keri “Babay” knocks it down with this acoustic version of “Knock You Down,” from Billboard. Watch: Keri Hilson ‘Knock You Down’ acoustic version (VIDEO) In a photoshoot reminiscent of one Halle Berry, singer Keri Hilson wets her hair and dons a top very similar to the “Cat Woman” star. Hilson, a longtime backup singer, came on ...
February 25, 2010
Tweet Young Money artist Nicki Minaj has nary an album out but is the hottest female in the rap game already? How could this happen? How could a lyrical novice who started on Myspace with barely two mixtapes and a handful of features, and some major detractors, be a serious contender for hip-hop queen? Call ...
December 22, 2009
Tweet Lil Wayne’s first stab at moguldom has arrived in stores as of today. Young Money, the only supergroup in rap, has released its long-awaited album. While the members of Young Money read like a Parliament Funkadelic album, the essentials are that Wayne himself, Nicki Minaj and that mixtape king, Drake, are assembled here for ...
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December 21, 2009
Tweet There’s always one: One chick in the club that is willing to go all out. Never fails. Even Mannie Fresh can’t fade this chick. And he didn’t even have to “Back That Thang Up.”
December 17, 2009
Tweet This month music fans were treated with new music from the sultry sound of the husky-yet-suave vocals of British-Nigerian singer Sade. The “Smooth Operator” star is back after a decade hiatus that has seen the music industry almost tank. But unlike any other time before her, Sade is entering a music business pock-marked with ...
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December 15, 2009
Tweet When Nicki Minaj first hit the scene a couple of years ago, the hip-hop community was beside themselves at how this “model chick” who looked like she belonged on the cover of a magazine or a video vixen could have rap skills lethal as swords. While the male-dominated music industry sneered at her she ...