Nicki Minaj has announced a new fragrance that she is calling “The Pinkprint“, which is of course named after her latest studio album – The Pinkprint.

This will be the Young Money Barbie‘s seventh perfume and it will be available for purchase in a couple of months (September).

On Instagram, Nicki also revealed that this fragrance “smells so good” and “it’s by far my best”!

Check out the official music video for Nicki Minaj‘s “The Boys” single featuring Cassie above.

The visual was shot in Los Angeles, California last month and was directed by Colin Tilley. This is also the first single off Nicki‘s upcoming Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up album, due out on November 19th.

Click here to view some behind the scenes footage from “The Boys” video shoot!

Here is the front cover of DOPE Magazine‘s upcoming Ambition issue that features Lil Twist, which will be available next month. You can read a few excerpts from Twizzy‘s interview with the magazine here and watch some footage from his cover shoot here.

Tyga has only recently finished his “Careless World” tour and today he has already announced a new tour called “Closer To My Dreams” that will take place throughout September. The tour will kick off in Los Angeles on September 4th and finish in Boston on September 23rd. This will then give Ty a one month break before heading overseas to the UK in October to tour with his Young Money label-mate Nicki Minaj on her arena tour!

T-Raw will also be bringing along Iggy Azalea, Cash Out, Kirko Bangz and Sterling Simms as the opening acts for each show. You can view a list of the “Closer To My Dreams” tour dates, locations and venues after the jump below and you will be able to purchase tickets from Ticketmaster.com on July 27th.

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Cash Money Records and Lil Wayne’s offshoot imprint, Young Money Entertainment, are staging a virtual coup on the industry this fall.

In a recent interview with AllHipHop.com, Cash Money’s co-founder Bryan “Baby” Williams revealed the label’s combined roster will release up to six albums between September and October of this year.

Leading off the assault will be Hip-Hop’s newest star, Drake, who officially joined the Young Money roster in late June.

“We’re putting out five albums, we gonna do a blow out,” Bryan “Baby” Williams told AllHipHop.com. “Drake album, my album, Young Money, Wayne album. We gon’ put ‘em all out in one month, September going into October. G. Malone and 2 Pistol probably come out in between all of that.”

In order to fit his fourth solo effort, Always Strapped, into the line up, Baby had to forgo his original August 11th release date.

“I thought it would be something I wanted to do, just to get us all at the same time,” he explained. “And it’s just coincidence that all our songs popped off at the same time since some of them been out longer than others.”

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