Ah good, another song featuring the unique vocal stylings of Nicki Minaj. The Nicki Minaj who clearly lives in a recording studio, speaks in rhyme all the time (just like that), and can’t listen to any music – from Mozart to Motorhead – without quickly adding an extra verse...

Oh come on, throw me a bone here, people! I LIKE you! I like BOTH of you! I was listening to ‘Boom Boom Pow’ only this morning, after a relatively long absence from the thing, and marvelling yet again at just how perfect a production it is. That wailing whooshy noise that runs...

If I was involved in the organisation of the next Olympic Games, I’d be finding this song a bit worrying. I mean all this banging on about 2012 being the end of the world. Do they know something we don’t? And if they do, and the world IS going to stop in just 26 short months (or...

It must be murder being a songwriter these days. You’ve got ten squintillion other would-be tunesmiths all chasing the same tiny drip of inspiration, you’ve got an audience who have proven time and again that they can be distracted by almost anything, and you’ve got one...

‘Nicki is up there. Her story has just begun,’ the mogul says of managing the Young Money MC.By Jayson Rodriguez Diddy Photo: MTV News Diddy is expanding his empire. The mogul recently announced the opening of a management firm that he’ll oversee in addition to his...