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  Musical Chairs: Nicki Minaj Leaves 'Idol,' Christina Aguilera Rejoins 'The Voice'

  May 16, 2013 – American Idol's 12th season wraps tonight, and Nicki Minaj won't be coming back. After rival TV singing competition The Voice ends its season on June 18, Christina Aguilera will be returning to fill her old seat, occupied most recently by Shakira. …
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  Bigger Than Jesus: 25 Rock Deities, Rap Messiahs, and Would-Be Golden Gods

  May 9, 2013 – Rock'n'roll may have originated in a deal with the devil, but some stars choose to set their sights higher — much higher. From Billy Crudup's supposedly Robert Plant-inspired and acid-enlightened exclamation, "I am a golden god!" in Almost Famous to Kanye's new single, "I Am a God," there's a long, (vain)glorious tradition of musicians donning a metaphorical beard and robe and assuming the mantle of divinity. …
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  Nicki Minaj Is the Worst Fake Piano Player in 'Up in Flames' Video

  April 9, 2013 – Nicki Minaj has shared a new video from Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded — The Re-Up, her November album that was actually a reissue of her April album. Ivory-tickling that only really succeeds in tickling the funny bone. …
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  Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne Get Passionate in Steamy 'High School' Heist Video

  April 2, 2013 – Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne have been flirting on record for years. On Weezy's 2007 mixtape masterpiece Da Drought 3, which on my copy credits "Nikki Menaj," the "Super Bass" MC spits, "You be Harry Potter / and I'll be Hermione," before comparing the flavor of her nether regions to mango. For quite some time, she referred to herself as "Nicki Lewinsky" (Weezy being the good ol' president in that scenario). …
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  Nicki Minaj 'Freaks' in Pasties for French Montana's Video

  March 8, 2013 – We've been looking forward to French Montana's Bad Boy Records debut Excuse My French ever since SPIN dubbed him a Breaking Out star back in April. But the Moroccan-born journeyman MC is used to rolling with the punches — the album is now due out May 21. …
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  MTV T.R.U. Life: The REAL 10 Hottest MCs in the Game

  March 5, 2013 – MTV has been steady picking rap's 10 hottest MCs since 2007 and, when it comes to the completely arbitrary metric of hottest-ness, they're usually more right than wrong. But their criteria are slanted towards the academic and traditional, giving too much weight to too-big-to-fail popularity (ruh!) and propping up the platinum establishment. …
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  Nicki Minaj on 'American Idol,' Week Six: Minaj vs. Iovine

  February 22, 2013 – Let's just get this out of the way because at this point, the show is in full-on competition mode and these contestants actually kind of matter. Wednesday night's show narrowed the women contestants down to Tina, Kree, Angela, Amber, and Adriana. Thursday night's show gave us these dudes, in the end: Devin, Charlie , Elijah, Curtis, and Paul. …
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  Nicki Minaj on 'American Idol,' Week Five: Just Listen to 'Freaks' Instead

  February 15, 2013 – So, Randy Jackson was absent for much of Wednesday's show because he was “busy in the studio.” Is Aldo Nova recording a comeback record? What could the only remaining O.G. American Idol judge have to do that's more important than the show? Kind of feel like he just caught feelings because Keith Urban gets to wander off whenever he wants to, and Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey's lateness was a plot point a few weeks back. …
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  Nicki Minaj on 'American Idol,' Week Four: The Only Judge That Matters

  February 8, 2013 – This week, American Idol came to Hollywood, which means the competition officially begins, which means there's a lot less drama between the judges and hardly any all-too-real moments enabled by Nicki Minaj's mix of boredom and frustration with this entire stinking show she signed up for and maybe now regrets. …
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  Nicki Minaj on 'American Idol,' Week Three: She Was Late, NBD

  February 1, 2013 – The big deal, if you are concerned about the narrative of American Idol and not, say, how boss Nicki Minaj is behaving, or how awesome her outfits are, or the way in which she seems to, with little provocation, expose all kinds of backwards-ass assumptions about the soul-killing music industry, is that Thursday night's show provided viewers with the last batch of contestants who would be going to Hollywood. …
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