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As part of their Best New Artist series, The Grammys teams up with Pepsi and Pandora to give viewers an inside look at this year's nominees. This episode features Roc Nation's J. Cole, who will battle it out with Nicki Minaj, The Band Perry, Bon Iver and Skrillex for the coveted trophy.

Cole talks about his early influences like Nas and Tupac, getting his demo tape rejected by Jay-Z initially and what it was like to move from Fayetteville, North Carolina to New York City to attend St. John's University and get his rap career started.

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Yesterday we previewed J. Cole's "Road to the Grammys" as part of Pandora, PepsiCo Inc., and The Recording Academy's Best New Artist series. Today we take a look at Nicki Minaj, who along with Cole is up for the award against Bon Iver, Skrillex and The Band Perry.

"I'm not gonna be nervous about winning because I really don't think I'm gonna win anything," Nicki says. "The way I look at it is, I know eventually in my career I'm gonna have Grammys. This year is just about being nominated and feeling grateful. Feeling like my fans and I have come a very long way. And we're just gonna celebrate this moment."

Nicki is nominated in four total categories. She will also perform at the event.

The 54th annual Grammy Awards airs February 12 at 8PM ET on CBS.

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This is probably the most anticipated video off of Kanye West’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ album and for good reason.

Any track featuring Nicki Minaj, Yeezy and Jay-Z is bound to be a hot one.  Nicki more that holds her own against two of hip hop's titans

The video is clearly not the finished version, but it will do until that drops in the next week or so.