LIL' KIM DECAPITATES NICKI MINAJ ON $9.99 'BLACK FRIDAY' MIXTAPE

Lil' Kim kept her word to meet the Valentine's Day deadline for her new mixtape 'Black Friday,' but anyone looking to feed their hard drive with new heat were greeted with a surprise. Dropping the tape early yesterday evening, the Queen Bee tweeted a link to a PayPal account to purchase the offering for $9.99, surprising fans who expected the street CD to be a freebie.

Despite slapping a price tag on the tape, the Brooklyn diva sweetened the incentive by promising that the first 100,000 copies sold will arrive in the mailbox with an autograph. Kim also shocked the Internet with the graphic cover image for the 'tape, boasting an old picture Photoshopped to have her brandishing a blood-soaked sword and a headless portrait of Nicki Minaj, insinuating her decapitation.

For those leery of forking over the dough to purchase the tape, Kimmy Blanco also released the full-length version of her track 'Pissin' on 'Em,' which sees her firing shots at Minaj over her instrumental from the track 'Did It on 'Em.' The song features gruff lyrics about holding the female rap crown, as well as Kim reconfiguring rhymes from the original tune.

'Black Friday' is Kim's second mixtape release to date, following 2008's 'Ms. G.O.A.T.' The tape featured previously released tracks from her oeuvre, as well as reconfigurations of classics from female rappers including Lauryn Hill's 'Lost Ones' and Lady of Rage's 'Afro Puffs.'

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Lil Wayne Announces ‘I Am Music II’ Tour With Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross & Travis Barker

Lil Wayne’s takeover for 2011 has officially begun. The 28 Year-Old Grammy Award-Winning rapper has announced he will be hitting the road for a 25 city US excursion with Travis Barker, Mixmaster Mike, Rick Ross, who is currently on the road as we speak and label mate Nicki Minaj.

The trek will begin March 18th in Buffalo, NY and will stop in such cities as New Orleans, Atlanta, Miami, Washington, D.C. and many others. The 25 city excursion will conclude in NJ at the 2011 Bamboozle Festival on May 1st. The tour will also lock in a few Canada dates as well. Last year’s “America’s Most Wanted” Festival brought along Drake, Young Jeezy, Soulja Boy and Pleasure P where Wayne and company hit a slew of outside venues. Tour dates, below.

3/19/11 3/20/11 Columbus, OH Baltimore, MD Nationwide Arena First Mariner Arena 3/23/11 Hampton, VA Hampton Coliseum 3/24/11 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena 3/26/11 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center 3/27/11 Long Island, NY Nassau Coliseum 3/30/11 University Park, PA Bryce Jordan Center 4/1/11 Chicago, IL United Center 4/2/11 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills 4/3/11 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center 4/6/11 Miami, FL Bank Atlantic Center 4/8/11 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum 4/9/11 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena 4/10/11 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center 4/14/11 4/15/11 New Orleans, LA Dallas, TX New Orleans Arena American Airlines Arena 4/16/11 Houston, TX Toyota Center 4/19/11 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Arena 4/23/11 Anaheim, CA Honda Center 4/24/11 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena 4/26/11 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena 4/28/11 Edmonton, Canada Rexall Place 4/29/11 Vancouver, Canada Rogers Arena *5/01/11 *East Rutherford, NJ *Bamboozle Festival @ Meadowlands Arena

Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday’ Certified Platinum

Congratulations are most certainly in order for Nicki Minaj. The Young Money star has see

n her debut LP ‘Pink Friday’ certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Awarded for US shipments of one million (+), the magnitude of the feat is heightened when considering Minaj, real name Onika Maraj, released the LP merely a month ago. Pink Friday is now officially certified platinum in just 6 weeks at retail.

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Drake Pulls Out Of Young Money Tour, Nicki Minaj Added To Line Up

Young Money rapper Drake has been forced to pull out of Lil Wayne's Young Money Presents: The America's Most Wanted Music Festival tour.

According to reports, Drake had hoped to have recovered enough from a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) to perform a 30-minute set, but the painful injury is still causing him problems - and, as a result, he has had to cancel his solo slot

altogether.

"I'm not doing my own set. That's one thing I have to apologize to my fans about. It's too much of a risk, if I hit that wrong turn (doing) 30 minutes every night. If I tear my ACL again, the doctors say I might not be able to walk again. I have to be cautious," Drake tells MTV News.

Drake says that he will still try to join Weezy and other Young Money members on featured songs.

The tour kicked off last night in Pennsylvania.

In an effort to keep the show rolling, Nicki Minaj has been added to the tour line up and will be performing cuts from her mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty.

by Jokesta of defsounds.com