Lil Kim is doing the media rounds for new album ‘9’ – her first full length studio offering in 14 years.

And, in a bid to make a Billboard debut with the project (which missed the Top 200 in its opening week), one of her stops was Billboard’s offices where she sat down for a fish bowl interview of “random” questions.

One of them quizzed her on her favorite female rappers of today’s new crop of names.

Who did the Queen Bee list? Find out below…
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The Secret Service interviewed Eminem after concerns it had about his remarks on Donald J. Trump.

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Fantasia is hot on the promo trail for new album ‘Sketchbook,’ with her latest stop being ELLE‘s highly viral Song Association segment.

The star’s ability to sing and everything is well documented, so her appearance was always going to be a treat.

And she didn’t disappoint.

Casually, yet powerfully, she takes vocal flight belting out bops from the likes of Mary J. Blige, Aerosmith, and the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. 

What are you waiting for? Watch Fantasia in action after the jump…

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The year is 2008.

As the teen-pop princesses of the 90s step into womanhood with loud, proud and career-defining releases, a new artist named Lady Gaga emerges into Myspace Kid/Limewire world dominated by the likes of MIA, VV Brown, Luciana, Robyn, Diplo,Santogold and Space Cowboy.

In that year, as another fresh-faced starlet named Katy Perry dominated the charts with tales of girl on girl action, the indie-feeling Gaga used YouTube (still in its infancy) to cultivate fan base with help from original content shot to support her debut album ‘The Fame.’

Meet us below to revisit the movie the entertainer released to accompany the album.

Coco, Dada, Dina, Constellation and Gaga are waiting below…

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Ciara marked her 34th birthday with a fun-filled appearance on the ‘Ellen’ show.

With the anchor on break, guest host Justin Hartley stepped in and chopped it up with CiCi about her her year, family life, and upcoming Nickelodeon series ‘America’s Most Musical Family.’

After, she participated in a dance-off with resident DJ tWitch – which saw the pair square off to a number of jams, including Janet Jackson‘s ‘Rhythm Nation.’

All the action after the jump….

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Camila Cabello lit up the stage on ‘The Graham Norton Show’ in the UK today.

The Pop starlet was joined by an army of dancers and together they delivered a dynamic showing ‘Romance’ jam ‘Liar.’

Released last month, the flavorsome song is one of several rolled out in support of the album, which believed to be due this year.

Easily the best performing number of the tracks released, will this performance give it another bump up the charts? Watch below and let us know…

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If real-time sales and streaming charts are anything to judge by, Selena Gomez fans apparently couldn’t wait to get their hands on new music.

The elusive chanteuse – who spent most of the year putting the final touches on her yet-titled third studio effort – roared back onto the scene this week in grand fashion with not one, but two singles – ‘Lose You To Love Me’ and ‘Look at Her Now.’  Two feminist anthems that have had tongues wagging as their content all but points to the deterioration of her high profile relationship with Pop star Justin Bieber, the chatter has translated into success as a recent peruse of real-time tallies sees Gomez dominating the competition with the new tunes.

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Summer Walker has had a busy week.

Riding high on the wave that is her record-breaking debut album ‘Over It’, the R&B starlet made her way to the United Kingdom to deliver a number of sold-out shows with help from her longtime boyfriend London On Da Track and Brandon Minol.

Now watch her soar on NPR‘s Tiny Music Desk‘.

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The introduction of streams to the album sales calculation mix in 2014 made Nicki Minaj one of the last contemporary musicians to see the majority of her records and achievements generated by pure sales.

This, shielding her hard-earned chart records from threats launched at her  by those of her stream-dependant rivals.

Now find out how these numbers have helped Minaj extend her lead as the highest-selling female rapper of all time, and one of the fastest-selling artists to debut within the last decade.

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Despite multiple teasers and weeks of delay, musical mastermind Kanye West has finally lifted the lid on his highly anticipated ninth studio album, ‘Jesus Is King.’

The follow-up to last summer’s ‘Ye,’ the 11-track effort has no shortage of star power as it calls on the like of Ty Dolla $ign, Fred Hammond, Clipse, Kenny G, and more.

Curious to see if it was worth the wait?  Hear it inside:

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Readers of That Grape Juice know what avid music lovers we are – especially of hits past.

So, as our retrospective features ‘From the Vault’ and ‘TGJ Replay’  allow us the chance to re-spin the gems and jams of yesterday of one artist, our newest feature Chart Rewind – a variation of our current Retro Rewind assay – accedes salutes to an entire era of music history.

This week we’ll ode Britney Spears’ comeback single and second Hot 100 #1 hit, ‘Womanizer.’

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K. Michelle is wasting no time kicking off the push for new single ‘The Rain.’

Because, a mere matter of hours after debuting the track, the R&B songbird has hatched the cut’s accompanying video.

The release (which samples New Edition‘s ‘Can You Stand The Rain’) is lifted from the star’s forthcoming album ‘All Monsters Are Human,’ which also spawned the City Girls assisted ‘Supahood.’ All are being supported by K’s US ‘Over Some D*ck Tour.’

Check out the visual for the Jazze Pha production below…

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