Young Money’s Nicki Minaj and Drake have both been nominated at the 2013 Teen Choice awards, which will air August 11th on FOX.

Nicki and Drizzy both received one nomination each and it is in the same category – “Choice Hip-Hop/Rap Artist”. This means they will be competing against each other, as well as against Pitbull, Kanye West, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

You can vote for your favorite artist to win the award here. Good luck to both!

Ciara will be releasing her fifth studio album, Ciara, via Epic Records on July 9th. Here is track #1 from the project, which is called “I’m Out” and features Nicki Minaj.

You can stream the explicit version of “I’m Out” after the jump below!

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Nicki Minaj releases a new vlog titled “The Road To Billboard”, which shows her attending a studio session in Los Angeles, attending rehearsals in Hollywood and Las Vegas, arriving to the blue carpet of the 2013 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, and more.

In the clip above, you can also see the Young Money Barbie greeting Justin Bieber, as well as meeting Madonna backstage with Lil Wayne.

Click here to check out what awards Nicki won at the awards show and here to watch her live performance with Weezy!

Out of seven nominations, Nicki Minaj won three awards last night at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Young Money Barbie picked up an award for “Top Rap Artist”, “Top Streaming Artist”, and “Top Rap Album” for Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.

Congratulations Nicki! Click here to watch her perform “High School” live with Lil Wayne at the awards show and also give him a lap dance.

Here is Mario‘s brand new single titled “Somebody Else” featuring Nicki Minaj. The Polow Da Don-produced track will appear on Mario‘s upcoming fifth studio album, due to drop later this year.

You can stream the CDQ version of “Somebody Else” after the jump below. Be looking out for the song to hit iTunes tomorrow!

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Nicki has been working! The Young Money Barbie already has upcoming collaborations with Cam’ron, Future, Ciara, Chris Brown and Big Sean dropping this summer, but now we can add Mario and Wale to that list too.

Mario announces that his new single featuring Nicki Minaj is called “Somebody Else” and it will drop online on Monday (May 20th). The Polow Da Don-produced song will be released on iTunes the following day (May 21st).

In related news, Wale also recently played a snippet of an unheard Minaj verse on his Vine account. So this looks he will have a track on his forthcoming The Gifted album featuring the Barbie.

Listen to the snippet below!

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After the American Idol season 12 finale last night, Nicki Minaj took part in an interview backstage with the press. The Young Money Barbie spoke on why she did not perform on the show, if she thinks Candice Glover deserved to win, and when she will start work on her upcoming studio album.

Nicki also mentioned that American Idol were supposed to premiere her “High School” music video on the show, but they thought it was too “risky”, and that she will be featured on tons of new songs dropping in the summer!