Above, you can watch some footage of Young Money and Cash Money attending the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards at the Staples Center and the Beats By Dre after-party for Lil Wayne‘s cherry red Beats Pro headphones at Playhouse Nightclub in Los Angeles, California on September 6th. The YMCMB artists that appear in this clip are: Birdman, Caskey, Weezy, Drake, Shanell and Lil Twist. Enjoy!

On September 5th, Crooks & Castles hosted a Pre-VMA party at Lure Nightclub in Los Angeles, California for their friend Drake. You can watch a recap of what went down at the club in the video above.

After the jump, you can watch some more footage of Drizzy at the party while Future The Prince played hits all evening. Drizzy Drake also explained how the West Coast has had an influence on his music during “The Motto“.

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After linking up with Lil Wayne, Drake and Rick Ross for his first single, “Pop That“, French Montana has announced that his second single will feature Nicki Minaj. Just like “Pop That“, this next single will be one “for the clubs”, but French doesn’t give away too many details about the song such as the title or when he plans to release it. We will get the single some time this year though, because Montana‘s Excuse My French album drops in December.

In other Nicki news, her new single called “The Boys” featuring a female off her upcoming Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up album has been rumored to be released tomorrow!

Here are the videos of Young Money accepting their awards at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles at the Staples Center on September 6th.

In the video above, Nicki picks up her award for “Best Female Video” with “Starships” and says her speech with Mack Maine and Scaff Beezy by her side.

After the jump, Drake and Lil Wayne pick up their award for “Best Hip-Hop Video” with “HYFR (Hell Ya Fuckin’ Right)“, and Drizzy dedicates the trophy to any kid who has took a long walk home in their life.

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Above, Nicki Minaj chats to E! News on the red carpet at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards about the outfit she was wearing that Donatella Versace created for her, if she will be a judge on American Idol, and her upcoming projects.

The Barbie announces that she will re-release her album in November called Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up, which will include new songs and the first single from the project will be dropping next week!

Alica Keys and Nicki Minaj performed their new collaboration, “Girl On Fire“, live last night at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, California at the Staples Center. You can watch their performance in the video above, which also includes an appearance from U.S. Olympic gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas.

Young Money’s Nicki Minaj and Drake both picked up an award at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Nicki won in the category “Best Female Video” for her single “Starships” and Drizzy Drake won the in the category “Best Hip-Hop Video” for his single with Lil Wayne, “HYFR (Hell Ya Fuckin’ Right)“.

Congratulations to Weezy, Drizzy and the Barbie ❗