In support of the Get MotivatED Challenge to help student attendance, Nicki Minaj played principal for the day by surprising students at Collins Academy High School in Chicago. After teaching a freshman English class, she was joined by MTV’s Sway and presented three students with $10k college scholarships. School is cool.

[vodpod id=Video.9221648&w=540&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Contain yourself. Directed by Colin Tilley, Nelly joins Keri in the desert and turns up the heat in her new music video. Guess the freaks really do come out at night. No Boys Allowed in stores now.

This is what happens after one too many coconut Cirocs. If you’re looking for Diddy on Twitter, good luck finding him. He’s taken the liberty of renaming himself, “Swag”. Good grief. Follow him here—or to Hades.

After hitting 400,000 followers on Twitter, Mac keeps his promise and gives us a new track, produced by Black Diamond.

Here’s the first release off Take Care. We’ll let Drizzy tell it: A song that I felt the need to share. Not my single. Just a piece of my story. Hear me out though… OVO Sidebar: “Wildfire (Remix)”

We showed you some flicks, but now comes an inside look at what MMG is cookin’ up for its latest visual. Self Made is 3 days away! Jamie Foxx is ready.

[vodpod id=Video.9190402&w=540&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] This past Tuesday night, Foot Locker held a launch party for their new sneaker encyclopedia website, Sneakerpedia with Bun as the musical guest. Up top is some footage from his set and under the cut Rap Radar gets a shout at around the 9:40 mark. What’s YN doin’ on stage? Ha!

[vodpod id=Video.9198407&w=540&h=350&fv=%26amp%3Bbackcolor%3D0x000000%26amp%3Bbandwidth%3D31460%26amp%3Bcontrolbar%3Dover%26amp%3Bfile%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fv7.tinypic.com%252F2h49u03.flv%26amp%3Bfrontcolor%3D0xeeeeee%26amp%3Bimage%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flulzimg.com%252Fi22%252F6f06de.png%26amp%3Blightcolor%3D0xeeeeee%26amp%3Bplugins%3Dviral-2%26amp%3Bscreencolor%3D0x000000%26amp%3Bskin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.longtailvideo.com%252Ffiles%252Fskins%252Fglow%252F5%252Fglow.zip] Tonight, the special guest performers on American Idol were Nicole Scherzinger & 50 Cent. They both took the stage to perform their brand new collabo, “Right There”. Nicole’s new LP, Killer Love will be in stores August 16th. yardie

[vodpod id=Video.9190667&w=425&h=350&fv=] Karmaloop’s CEO Greg Selkoe and KarmaloopTV’s new creative director Pharrell both appeared on Power Lunch today to discuss what they plan to bring to the table on Verge Culture. Don’t watch P, watch TV. nr

Next door to Mr. Green Thumb. Ty Kidd Previously: Leaving On A Jet Plane