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Nicki Minaj ft. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown – “Only” (Audio)

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Nicki Minaj pushed back the release date of her upcoming album ‘The Pink Print’ to December 15th. While we wait she gives us this freebie “Only”, featuring Drake, Lil Wayne, and Chris Brown.

Listen below…

Tyga Covers Vibe Magazine & Talks Drake (News)

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Tyga graced the cover of VIBE magazine’s digital cover, inside the mag he talks about his new album, breaking out on his own, and his indifference between himself, Drake, and Nicki Minaj.

Is Young Money a part of the creative process on this album?
Nah. I tend to distance myself from them.

Are you trying to break out on your own?
Yeah, I’m tryna’ go independent. I don’t really get along with Drake. I don’t really get along with Nicki.

Why?
I don’t like Drake as a person. He’s just fake to me. I like his music; you know what I’m saying? I think his music is good, but we’re all different people. We were forced together and it was kinda’ like we were forcing relationships together. It is what it is. But I been friends with Chris [Brown] for like six years. That’s my real genuine friend. We hang out all the time. He lives up the street from me, so we don’t just do music we hang. I think being signed to Young Money, everybody felt like they had to force a relationship ‘cause Wayne put us together. At the end of the day the reason why I signed to Young Money is because of Wayne. Not because of Drake, not because of Nicki. It was because of Wayne and my relationship with him. I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters. When you realize that, you realize that’s not a place where you want to continue to grow.

Nicki Minaj ft. RiFF RAFF – Anaconda (LA Leakers Rmx) (Audio)

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When we heard Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda,” we couldn’t think of anyone better for a remix than our homie, RiFF RAFF. Here’s the exclusive LA Leakers remix with a splash of JODY HiGHROLLER. Be on the lookout for Leaks of the Industry ’14 dropping September 8th via laleakers.com!

Nicki Minaj Covers FADER Magazine (News)

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Nicki Minaj graced the cover of FADER magazine’s fall fashion issue. Inside the mag Nicki opens up about the hardships of being in the public eye, being a role model to young black women, and The Pink Print. She also revealed that wants to get a collabo with Rhianna and Drizzy on her new album.

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On how she’s evolved: “I think early on in my career, I was… just a little bit crazy. I took everything personally. That’s just not good, and it’s not healthy. I think one of my best attributes now, as a businesswoman and an artist and a professional PERSON, is being able to think before I speak. I’ve learned that everything I think doesn’t necessarily need to be stated.”

On her BET Awards speech: “My point of saying what I said was that women need to have a perspective. If we’re out here saying that we’re so confident, and we’re so this and so that, but we don’t even trust ourselves to write down our own thoughts and spit it on a beat?”

On referencing her health scare in her BET speech: “I was making a point to say that the business kills so many people and we don’t even realize it. I can only imagine how many people in this business have died because they may not have wanted to… to be embarrassed publicly. We care so much about what the world thinks that we don’t live, really.”

On moving away from her family: “I don’t want to get emotional. I just miss them. Every time I talk about them, I get emotional.”

On Lil Wayne: “Now we can have conversations and enjoy each other, but I don’t think I’ll ever feel like he’s my peer because of how much he’s done for me. I’ll always think of him like the king.”

On those who question her credibility: “I felt like my pop music made me have to retell my story. My credibility as an MC—I never thought I would have to explain that. I thought it was so evident that I belonged here [in hip-hop].”

On being a role model for young black women: “But every time I do a business venture or something that isn’t the norm for a female rapper, I pat myself on the back. It’s important that corporate America can see a young black woman being able to sell things outside of music.”

Lil Waynes Covers XXL Magazine (News)

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Lil Wayne graced the cover of XXL August/September 2014 issue! Inside the mag Weezy talks about readying his 12th album Tha Carter V for release this year, admits that he’s nervous about how it will be received. He also shares why Prince is one of his biggest inspirations, and opens up about signing Drake and Nicki Minaj to his label.

On Tha Carter V: “I’m always feeling like I ain’t done shit. I’m still nervous about Tha Carter V… I’m confident about what I do, but I’m still nervous about what people think.”

On being authentic: “I know I’m authentic because I’m 35 million years in the game. I don’t know where the authenticity is in the game anymore. Today everyone sounds alike, they looking alike, they acting alike, they dressing alike. I came out when everybody was super different. You had an ODB. You had a Busta Rhymes and then you had a 2Pac. You had a Biggie. And everybody was different. Biggie was talking about Mob and Mafia shit. 2Pac was wylin’, talking about West Coast this and that. You had ni**as like Meth and Red talking about how high they got and making people laugh. And then now, you got them, them. You got the categories and then everyone falls under it.”

On Prince: “It was the way he pronounced words and the way he used his voice. It was like if he was playing with a baby. You know if he was playing with a kid. [Imitates a baby cooing] It was the way that he was exploring it. He wasn’t doing it because it was funny. He was doing it because he could make it sound good and exceptional. I realized that I could do that too. He wasn’t afraid of how he sounded because he knew what he was saying and how he was saying it would always sound good.”

On Drake: “Call me old-fashioned and country, but with Drake, that was the first time I’d seen someone that knew HOW TO SING and rap. That’s all it was. I didn’t know nobody who knew how to do that. You had those old school singing ni**as, where people would do a little eight-bar verse on their songs. But [Drake] was spitting and singing and killing that too. It took a while though. It wasn’t until I heard him spitting on one of my beats when I was like, ‘This fool’s retarded.’ When I hear something that I know I can’t do better? That’s when I’m like, ‘They need to be on the team.’”

On Nicki Minaj: “I wanted a female. Every team needs a female to rep your gang. She was annihilating ni**as. I mean males. I was like, ‘I have to beef my shit up on that muthafucka.’ She just knocked it out the park from day one. She’s just Nicki. I don’t know whose idea it was, but it was a good idea.”