At the weekend, Nicki Minaj teamed up with Jay Z’s streaming service TIDAL to create a playlist called “Queens Got Da Crown”.

The 40-song playlist includes the Barbie‘s favorite music from Queens, New York City artists over the past couple of decades, such as herself, Nas, 50 Cent, LL Cool J, N.O.R.E., Ja Rule, Run-D.M.C., Kool G Rap, A Tribe Called Quest, Stack Bundles, Salt-N-Pepa, Mobb Deep, Q-Tip, and plenty more.

You can listen to the full playlist after the jump below. Enjoy!

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Nicki Minaj graces the front cover Marie Claire magazine’s November issue, which will hit newsstands next week on October 18th.

For her cover story, the YM Barbie spoke on young women’s goals, competing with male rappers as a female in the industry, the amount of violence in the USA lately, working with Beyonce, and more.

Hit the jump to read some excerpts from Nicki‘s interview with Marie Claire mag!

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Drake has made his very first appearance on “The Forbes Five” list, which shows who are currently the wealthiest artists in hip-hop, by coming in at #5.

To compile the Forbes Five list, we follow the same procedures used to calculate our list of the world’s billionaires: looking at past earnings, valuing current holdings, leafing through real estate records and talking to analysts, attorneys, managers, venture capitalists and some of the moguls themselves to find the details.

According to Forbes, Drizzy has a net worth of $60 million, due to his music, touring, and deals with Apple, Nike, and Sprite.

The other 4 rappers that came above Drizzy Drake on Forbes’ annual list were: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and Birdman!

After listening to the audio of this interview a few days ago, we can now watch Drake‘s sit-down interview with Beats 1 Radio’s Zane Lowe in Noah “40” Shebib’s studio. The conversation was aired on episode 20 of OVO Sound Radio on April 28th.

During the 1-hour interview, which you can watch below, Drizzy talked about plenty of things including his new album VIEWS, how The Throne were originally featured on “Pop Style“, Rihanna, not speaking to Nicki Minaj anymore, Skepta, how proud he is of The Weeknd, acting, his family, Future, What A Time To Be Alive, and releasing more music this summer.

Drizzy Drake also shared his thoughts on the current situation between Young Money and Cash Money, Lil Wayne’s beef with Birdman, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late just being a tape he recorded in his hotel room, Kanye West’s pool, the forthcoming “Summer Sixteen” tour, and more!

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For episode 20 of OVO Sound Radio that aired on April 28th, Drake sat down with Beats 1 Radio’s Zane Lowe in Noah “40” Shebib’s studio for a 1-hour interview, which you can listen to after the jump below.

Drizzy spoke on his latest album VIEWS, working with Future, “Jumpman“, the upcoming “Summer Sixteen” tour, recording “Hotline Bling” in London, “Pop Style“, how Kanye West and Jay Z ended up recording a verse for it, working with Rihanna, his family, acting, Skepta, The Weeknd, and more.

Throughout the conversation, Drizzy Drake also revealed he has more songs that didn’t make VIEWS which he will release this summer, not speaking to Nicki Minaj that much anymore, the current beef between Lil Wayne and Birdman, praying that the Young Money vs. Cash Money situation gets worked out and resolved, as well as saying it’s been tough to see!

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The official tracklisting for Drake‘s upcoming VIEWS album that will be released in less than 48 hours has been released. The project will include a total of 20 tracks, which is like he told us at the weekend.

Drizzy has added his previously released singles “One Dance” featuring Kyla and Wizkid, “Pop Style” featuring Kanye West and Jay Z, and “Hotline Bling” on VIEWS. 2 songs that also appear on the album are “Controlla” featuring Popcaan and “Faithful” featuring Pimp C.

You can check out the full tracklist for VIEWS after the jump below!

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Drake has just released a brand new single called “Pop Style” featuring The Throne aka Jay Z and Kanye West.

This Sevn Thomas-produced song will most-likely appear on Drizzy‘s upcoming Views From The 6 album, due to drop this month.

You can purchase “Pop Style” off iTunes here!