In a press release from Cash Money Records, it was revealed that  rapper Nicki Minaj’s long awaited debut album will be released this fall. According to Minaj, she doesn’t want to be compared to any other females, but instead bring an originality to Hip-Hop.

 “Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown recording artist Nicki Minaj will release her highly anticipated solo debut album in Fall 2010. ‘I don’t want to do anything that sounds like what any other female rapper has done,’ said Nicki Minaj. ‘I want to start a new lane that one day, 10 years from now, girls will say, ‘I’m more of a Nicki Minaj type.’”

The exact date of Minaj’s untitled solo debut is still unknown.

Tiny Says T.I. is an Extremist

BET reality TV star and former Xscape member Tiny recently spoke out about her relationship with rapper T.I. and how she’s blessed to have a man who wants her around all the time. According to Tiny, T.I.’s over protective nature is also a very loving a nurturing one.

 “He is very over protective but — he’s also very loving and very into me,” she revealed in an interview. “He’s an extremist with everything he does, everything is to the extreme so he doesn’t really have a middle ground, but I love it though. That’s just our relationship, we’re just really into each other and I just can’t complain that I have a man that really wants me around all the time because normally it’s the opposite, they don’t care if you ain’t around for weeks, but mine does and I’m just blessed.”

So is Tiny deep in love or delusional?

Alicia Finally Rocking That Engagement Ring

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Now that Swizz Beatz’s marriage is officially over, it looks like he and Alicia Keys have wasted no time finally announcing to the world that they are indeed engaged. While neither have officially announced the news, FastLifeFastMoney.com and 400Life.com have posted pics of Ms. Keys rocking what appears to be the engagement ring that everyone has been waiting to see.

The couple appears to be madly in love; but do you think Keys will suffer a fate similar to Swizzy’s ex-wife Mashonda?