Nicki Minaj the actress? Had things gone according to her original plans, the Young Money femcee would be a movie star and not a rapper.

Nicki talked to Entertainment Weekly Sunday [June 5] at the MTV Movie Awards about her dreams of making it onto the big screen one day.

“I went to school to be an actress. I never expected to be a rapper. It just fell in my lap,” she said. “So I would like to get an acting gig. I hope that when I am done with the tour I can go back and do some acting. That is my long-term goal.”

The tour Nicki referenced is her upcoming trek with Britney Spears, that runs from June 16 to August 13.

When the tour is over, Minaj will have to squeeze in time to start working on her sophomore album. But if Hollywood comes calling, she already has plans for who she would like to work with. As one might expect, Nicki wants to start at the top.

“I want to work with Will Smith, because he’s a very successful rapper turned actor and therefore a role model,” Minaj said. “And Tim Burton because I love his crazy imagination. He comes up with these characters that are just so fascinating and the costumes and just creates these whole worlds.”

Minaj did have a role in an independent movie titled "Stuck On Broke" last year. Due to scheduling conflicts she wasn't able to finish the movie, but a scene featuring Nicki did hit the internet.

Nicki Minaj in "Stuck on Broke"

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The-Dream is back with his first offerings from his upcoming album 'The Love IV (Diary of a Mad Man), due out September 20.

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Big Snoop Dogg is back with episode 3 of his web series. The 'Double G News Network.'

For some former athletes it's not easy to know when enough is enough. It's especially tough when you feel you have unfinished business, and still have the ability to play at an elite level.

Former NBA great Allen Iverson wants one last shot at playing in the best basketball league in the world. He retired during the 2009-1010 season after 14 years in the game, but felt he wasn't leaving on his own terms.

"I would like to announce my plans to retire from the National Basketball Association. I always thought that when I left the game, it would be because I couldn't help my team the way that I was accustomed to. However, that is not the case." he said at the time.

He spent part of this past season playing in Turkey, before being derailed by an injury. He had to have surgery to remove a lesion that had grown on his right leg.

He's totally healed now and tells Slam he's still ready to play in the NBA again.

AI: I want to finish my career out in the NBA, if that’s possible. And that’s in any capacity. I did a lot of things, I made a lot of mistakes as far as my actions and things that I’ve said, and I think that was the reason for me not being in the NBA. My whole thing now in trying to get back is letting any organization know that I’m willing to play any part that they want me to play.

 

SLAM: You watching any Playoff ball and thinking, “Damn, I should be out there?”

AI: You know what, it’s hard. It’s hard to watch. Like, I try to watch it and then at times you’re watching and you get emotional and I get away from it, have a little moment by myself or to myself, and then I try to get back and watch it. I mean, it’s basketball—what I love. It’s what I was born to do. So it’s hard to watch, but it’s hard not to watch.

SLAM: What’s drawing you back out on the court? Just a love for the game?

AI: [Long pause; starts to choke up] I love to play basketball. I’ve always said, If I can’t do what I’m accustomed to doing out there on the basketball court, I’ll leave it alone. If I can’t be effective and help my team win basketball games out there, than I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to play the game that I feel like I’m the best in and go out there and not play like that, not feel like I’m that person. I don’t think it would be fair to my fans, my team, my organization, nothing. But when I look at basketball and when I know what I can do on the basketball court, it’s just hard knowing that I went through a whole NBA season and didn’t play when I know how much I can play. I’ll play for a team in any capacity just to get back out there doing what I love to do.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr., a former five-division champion and one of the top pound-for-pound stars of the era, will end a 16-month layoff when he challenges welterweight titlist Victor Ortiz on Sept. 17.

"My fans have been waiting long enough. Floyd Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz. Sept 17, 2011 for the WBC world championship," Mayweather tweeted Tuesday afternoon.

"It's true, but I can't discuss the details of the deal right now because of our contract," Rolando Arellano, Ortiz's manager, told ESPN.com. "There will be more details coming out and I will be with Victor later."

When asked where the fight would take place, Arellano said he was unsure but that "it will probably be at the MGM Grand (in Las Vegas)."

Mayweather, 34, has not fought since easily outpointing Shane Mosley on May 1, 2010. Since knocking out Ricky Hatton in December 2007, Mayweather has fought only twice, a decision win against Juan Manuel Marquez in September 2009 and the win against Mosley.

Most of the news Mayweather (41-0, 25 KOs) has made has been outside the ring. He has had numerous scrapes with Las Vegas police and has multiple cases pending against him, including four felonies and four misdemeanors stemming from an domestic incident with the mother of two of his children last September.

Mayweather also has declined to face pound-for-pound king and welterweight titlist Manny Pacquiao in what many believe would be the biggest money-generating fight in boxing history.

The lone issue that caused Pacquiao-Mayweather to fall apart during their first of two negotiations was Mayweather's insistence on random blood testing during the lead-up to the fight. Pacquiao was willing to have blood tests, but the camps could not agree on the specific protocol.

Mayweather has said numerous times that for any fight he has, he will insist on random drug testing. Mosley accepted it. Schaefer told ESPN.com that Ortiz agreed to drug testing under the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency protocol.

Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KOs), 24, was the 2008 ESPN.com prospect of the year. The native of Garden City, Kan., now based in Oxnard, Calif., moved up from junior welterweight and outpointed Andre Berto to win a welterweight title on April 16.

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It's a dirty south thing as Big K.R.I.T. hooks up with Ludacris and Bun B for his latest video.

50 Cent has had an amazing rise to fame and fortune. From a young street hustler to becoming one of the biggest rap stars and businessmen on the planet.

His life story is now being told in a new comic book titled 'Fame 50.'

Check out the full press release below.

Catapulted from the underground New York rap scene to a multi-platinum recording artist, 50 Cent reveals his many identities in an upcoming Bluewater Productions biography comic book based on his life and career.

Scheduled for an July 2011 release, “Fame: 50 Cent” follows the unknown Curtis James Jackson III as he crafted a hip hop persona and began his climb up the music charts with monster rap hits like “In Da Club” and “How We Do.” The issue also addresses his drug-dealing and violent past, his well-documented public feuds with other rap culture figures as well as his lesser known years as a young up and coming boxer, his current title of entrepreneur and the one identity that changed his life-that of doting father.

“50 Cent, no doubt, has enjoyed a colorful, extraordinary and sometimes sordid life.” said writer Dan Rafter. “Despite a broken home life and early run-ins with the law he found his niche. You don't sell 11 million records if you don't have some talent and market savvy; he's got plenty of both.”

“Fame: 50 Cent,” will also feature cover art by famed DC comic book artist Joe Phillips. The interior art was illustrated by J. Bruce Bogle. The issue will retail for $3.99 and be available through most online venues like Amazon.com as well as local comic book stores. To pre-order the comic book from Midtown Comics click here: http://bit.ly/lBE9Fq

The “Fame” series was launched earlier in 2010 as a companion piece to the successful “Female Force” and “Political Power” biography titles. The comic allows Bluewater to delve into the celebrity culture and understand how a person rises to fame, deals with the new-found celebrity and continue to produce in the public eye. That includes actors, sports figures, recording artists and royals.

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When Lil Wayne hits the stage for MTV Unplugged on June 12, it will be his first time appearing on the show.

In addition to his long list of hits, MTV is reporting that Weezy will perform a special tribute to fallen hip hop legend Tupac Shakur. Wayne talks about why he picked "Hail Mary" to perform.

"I knew because this is my 'Unplugged,' I said, 'I want to do some kind of tribute to one of those great artists,' " Wayne said." "It's just something about 'Pac and I. I picked that second verse, 'Penitentiaries is packed with promise makers,' and I was like, 'That whole verse is just perfect — they never realized the precious time that they wasting.'"

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Dan "The Man" Melamid directs Nipsey's latest installment from his mixtape 'The Marathon.'

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Pusha T back with a new video for "Alone In Vegas" off of his mixtape 'Fear Of God'

Just a couple of days after Liza Rios accusing Brooklyn rapper Joell Ortiz of disrespecting her late husband, Big Pun and his son, Baby Pun by recording a song titled "Big Pun's Back," Ortiz finally decided to respond.

"Shout to Nicole, Pun's Sister and MaMa Pun for the kind words. GOD will judge by my intentions. Im good with that," Joell wrote. "No matter how good your intentions may be there will always be some negativity if you take action. still gotta do what you feel is right. if they was no PUN, Breal, nore, cuban, seiss, armagadon there would be no ME! im clear on that. always have been,always will."

Hopefully that puts this issue to rest.

Next up for Joell, will most likely be a new group album with Slaughterhouse. Although no release date information has been given for the Shady Records project yet.

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Summer Jam 2011 was held yesterday (June 5) in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

More than 50,000 people turned out to see Lil Wayne, Drake, Birdman, Young Money, Chris Brown, Rick Ross, Fabolous, Lloyd Banks, Dipset, Wiz Khalifa, and Waka Flocka perform.

The New York Times showed up to review the event. They ended up being less than impressed with most of the acts, except for a few.

Ross got the harshest review. His set was merged at the end of Lil Wayne's. The Times said the rapper was: "mid-’90s-Versace-esque shirt unzippered; belly and breasts dangling; arms flailing as if he were in reverie."

None of the other acts seem to stand out either, but Banks was given you a glowing review. Both for his perfromance and steady rise to the top of the New York rap scene.

[Lloyd Banks] may have stealthily become the most important rapper in New York — last year his “Beamer, Benz or Bentley” was a local anthem; this year he’s got “Start It Up.” It’s worth noting that major labels have done little for these two: Mr. Banks’s success came after parting ways with Interscope.

The purest New York moment of the night came during Mr. Banks’s set, when Mobb Deep emerged with “Shook Ones Pt. II.” Ten years ago Jay-Z used the Summer Jam bully pulpit to attack Prodigy of Mobb Deep, showing a childhood picture of that rapper dressed for dance class in a leotard. Prodigy’s emergence here — after a recent stint in prison, and with Jay-Z nowhere in sight — was a small piece of turf reclaimed.

Peep some of the footage and pics below.

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Prodigy's book "My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy" has drawn more than it's share of controversy. Some of the stories revealed have reopened old wounds and gotten quite a few people upset.

The video you're about to watch is reported to be real (I'll let you be the judge of that). It was made by a former affiliate, who speaks about a shooting incident that took place where Infamous Mobb's Ty Nitty was shot by N.O.R.E. This person clams to have also been shot that night a N.O.R.E. goon and says P "is a dead man."

Anyway, check the videos out and tell us what you think.

F*ck Prodigy Pt.1 of 2

F*ck Prodigy Pt. 2 of 2

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I'm pretty sure Rihanna does something like this as a pasrt of her nightly show, but it's still cool to watch.

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As you have probably heard or saw already, Lloyd Banks gave perhaps the performance of the night at Summer Jam 2011.

Blue Hefner brought of a lot of special guests including Mobb Deep and Lloyd. Then Ryan Leslie, Swizz Beatz & Fabolous joined Banks for "Start It Up" off his album 'The Hunger For More 2.' album.

After the performance I'm sure we'll see Banks back at Summer Jam soon.

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Former Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was released from prison today (June 6) after serving 21 months for pleading guilty in August 2009 to one count of attempted criminal possession of a weapon, after accidentally shooting himself in the leg in a nightclub the previous November

The 33-year old former NFL star will now try to get his life and career back on track.

If Plaxico, who hasn't played in the NFL since 2008, can get back to the player he once was, there are bound to be plenty of teams vying for his services.

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Elzhi of Slum Village drops a new video in support of his latest project 'Elmatic.'

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CNN Money recently took a peek inside 50 Cent's opulent Connecticut mansion.

The beautiful 50,000-plus-sq.-ft. residence sits on 17 acres of land. It features about 19 bedrooms, 37 bathrooms, a gym, billiard rooms, racquetball courts and a disco.

Even if you have seen the crib before, it's worth another look.