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Nicki Minaj is speaking out on the video for her single “Your Love”, the first single by a female emcee to top the Billboard Rap Songs category in over seven years.

The video premiered earlier this month and features Minaj as a martial arts student who is eventually over taken by her opponent in an unfair sword fight.

According to Nicki, the decision to have her character perish in the battle was to show a deeper message; that the only way to beat her is to cheat.

Speaking to MTV in an on-again, off-again British accent, Minaj explained the concept saying,

“I just felt like that was the most emotional and truthful storyline. I felt like mostly everyone would normally make themselves win in the end. I wanted to show that the only way I could be beat is if you cheat. If you cheat! If you play fair and square, I’m gonna win. It’s my little way of looking at it.”

Nicki also says she wanted the ending to be “heart wrenching” and viewers to cry over the death of her likable character.

“Also, I felt it was almost heart-wrenching to see it. I made myself this nice girl in the video and you bond with the character, you know what I mean? You know what I mean. You see her die. I wanted people to talk about it in the end. ‘Why did she make that decision?’ I wanted them to cry.”

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Kid Cudi’s sophomore album Man On The Moon 2: The Legend Of Mr. Rager is the latest in Hip-Hop to face pushbacks.

As previously reported the album was set to drop on “G.O.O.D. Music Day”, September 14 alongside Kanye West, Big Sean and Consequence but was halted until September 28.

Now the album has been pushed back for a second time and won’t hit stores until October 26^th.

The rest of the G.O.O.D. Music artists are still set to drop their albums as scheduled.

Cudi is currently participating in Converse’s “3 Artists, 1 Song” campaign alongside artists Rostam Batmanglij and Bethany Cosentino.

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Eminem’s Recovery album is continuing to hold onto its #1 spot on the Hip-Hop/ R&B charts while the Rick Ross’s Teflon Don came in at #2.

According to Neilsen SoundScan, in the past week Recovery sold 187,000 copies while Rick Ross’s Teflon Don moved 176,00.

To date Recovery is the top selling album of 2010 with 1,670,000 copies sold worldwide.

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Here’s the latest off of Bun B’s third album, “Trill OG,” dropping next week. Apparently Bun promised this leak as soon as the 20,000 people follow @BunBTrillOG. Now that’s good marketing. It’s as if “When it comes to making money, I’m a print press.“

The full album features guest spots from Young Jeezy, T-Pain, Gucci Man, Yo Gotti, Twista, Slim Thug and Trey Songz.

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Rude gal Rihanna recently sat down in an interview to discuss how the collaboration for the song, “Love The Way You Lie”, withEminem took place.

In an interview with Access Hollywood, Rihanna reveals that Eminem actually approached her to collaborate on the project due to her experience with Chris Brown.

“He actually approached me to do the song,” Rihanna said in the interview. “The song was so deep and so meaningful to me that couldn’t turn down the chance to work with him.”

Although Eminem has been known to poke fun at pop singers unfortunate circumstances, Rihanna states that he never made fun of her for the ordeal with Chris Brown. RiRi also states that it was their unique stance on different sides of the issue that helped make the project so powerful.

“I think that because we both have been involved with domestic violence, just on different sides that made the song have that power to grab your attention,” Rihanna continued. “I am so glad that we created the project and I am glad to be able to work with someone as creative as Eminem.”

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R&B crooner Lloyd is set to drop a new album and has revealed the album’s title via Twitter.

As previously reported, the last time Lloyd was in headlines it was for less than positive reasons after making a comment that he “told Chris Brown to cry” at the BET awards in June.

Now moving past the onslaught of negativity he received for themisconstrued statement, Lloyd is set to release a new musical project.

Lloyd made the official announcement on his Twitter page telling his 74,000 plus followers,

“This is going to be the name of my next album/masterpiece…King Of Hearts ♥♥♥♥♥ …release date unknown.”

Young Goldie’s fourth studio album is said to feature production from Polow Da Don, Jim Jonsin, The Runners, Rico, Love, Dr. Dre and Timbaland with a single tentatively to be released in August.

The project will be his Zone 4/Interscope debut after he made the decision not to sign to Young Money.

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Young Jeezy’s highly anticipated Thug Motivation 103 album has been pushed back for a third time.

As previously reported Jeezy was scheduled to release TM103 on June 22, a few short weeks after his Trap Or Die II mixtape was released.

Following that the album was scheduled to drop August 31 but will now will not hit stores until September 28.

According to Jeezy the ongoing delay is because he didn’t want to rush the project and instead took his time working on his fourth major studio LP.

Now on a promo trail for the project, Jeezy has released his first single from the album titled “Jizzle.”

The track features Lil Jon and producer Shawty Redd who is facing a murder charge for the shooting death of a man at his Atlanta home.

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Waka Flocka Flame has released the official video for his hit single “Hard In The Paint.”

The visual shows Waka in “The Jungles” of L.A.’s Baldwin Village neighborhood before the LAPD’s Gang Injunction unit interrupts and shuts down the set.

The video ends with Flame meeting “Certified Community Gangologist” Triple OG T. Rodgers.

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Young Money emcee and Toronto native Drake was recently at the Canadian Juno awards and took time out to discuss his future plans and what motivates him as an artist.

In an interview with the Vancouver Observer, Drake reveals that one day he plans to return to his acting roots full time.

“Between me and Lil’ Wayne we make timeless music,” Drake said. “When the time is right, I will definitely go back to acting because it’s a passion of mine.”

In addition to discussing his future plans, Drake also reveals what motivates him to work so hard.

“I am motivated by success,” Drake continued. “I am still growing and still learning and my vulnerability in my music is key to keep me humble and grounded and proud to be here.”

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Eminem‘s Recovery is continuing to reign in success and praise for the Detroit rapper.

As previously reported Recovery debuted at number 1 with 741,000 copies sold in the first week and gave him the second-biggest digital week for an album in history with 255,000 digital downloads.

Now the album is set to spend its fourth straight week at number 1 and according to Hits Daily Double, holds the longest number 1 position for albums in 2010 thus far.

The last album to spend four consecutive weeks at number 1 was “Britain’s Got Talent” singer Susan Boyle, whose debut spent six weeks at the number 1 spot in 2009.

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