Nicki Minaj Pulls Stunning Upset Over Jay Z and Kanye at AMAs

Cartoon rapper Nicki Minaj walked away with two trophies during last night’s 2011 American Music Awards held at the Nokia Theater in LA. Nicki pulled a stunning upset over Jay Z and Kanye West by winning Best Rap/Hip-Hop Album for Pink Friday, easily defeating the much-hyped album, Watch The Throne.

The 29-year-old rapper, wearing a shiny speaker suit, performed her hits “Turn Me On” and “Super Bass” backed up by DJ David Guetta.

The night’s other big winners included Taylor Swift (Artist of the Year); Beyoncé (Soul/R&B Female Artist), Bruno Mars (Pop/Rock Male Artist), Rihanna (Soul/R&B Album) and Jennifer Lopez (Latin Music Artist). Unfortunately, Rihanna’s abusive ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown, didn’t win a thing as he had hoped.

Brown, who has over 5 million followers on the social networking site Twitter.com, deleted his entire timeline after a follower questioned him about Rihanna last Thursday.

The troubled singer tweeted “Don’t say s*** to anybody and everyone feels its cool to attack me. GROWN ADULTS!!!! That s*** happened three years ago.” He followed that up with other angry tweets, including a reference to last night’s American Music Awards, where the delusional singer had hoped to finally earn some respect.

“I wake up thinking of living my life….. YOU wake up thinking of me! NOW I REALLY CAN’T WAIT FOR THE AMA’s! U dont have to respect me now… but u will.”

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SexxxyDimeDiva

It would have been classic if Nicki shouted out Lil Kim!
EB

Didn’t Pink Friday come out in 2009?
kahmmillion

Exactly why hip-hop, rap and R&B are dead. You have to have limited brain cells in order to listen to and actually like this cartoon.
MsOnederful

“I wake up thinking of living my life….. YOU wake up thinking of me! NOW I REALLY CAN’T WAIT FOR THE AMA’s! U dont have to respect me now… but u will.”

WELP maybe next time CHRIS
kahmmillion

I just can’t wait to see what she looks like when she is 40. I bet she will look more horrible than Kim.
momo

Nicki looks like a damn clown. I just dont get it…she looks to be someone trying too hard to be relevant.
luVn_liFe…

Stunning Is right Sandra!
I couldnt BELIEVE When they announced that!i said “wow just amazing how Th talentless pool continues to be so Successful and make millions off of nothing
Posche

@ Eb
pointhimout

not really an upset tho. jay and kanye opted to not pay high prices for this award or recognition. AMA’s are so over, even Dick Clark doesn’t tune in, and it’s his show.
EB

Sandra, did you watch the short film “The Strange Thing About The Johnson’s”?
jazi65

They consider this cartoon character’s album good music? FOH
lovezoe

I hope and pray CB grows up. He has an immature mind.
pointhimout

i love short films/indies. i know ur asking SR, but what was it about EB?
momo

As for Chris…he is very talented, but he lets the negativity get to him everytime. I truly believe if he sat down and reevaluated everything, he would then try and receive some type of help…

Sandra, you really do go hard on him. I mean you have the right to your own opinion, but sometimes your words are harsh. We never know what someone could be going through inside. Yes he has rants and raves and doesnt seem to get the big picture, but there may be something inside that is a struggle for him.
http://twitter.com/_Tainted_Love Tainted_Love

-_-
pointhimout

@12 New money behaves that way. and when ur the kid paying all the bills, exactly what is mom going to say to you? seriously. yall know I was team breezy. he really needs to get it together quick. tantrums, outbursts. like come on dude.
EB

@ point it’s about an African American family who has a deep dark secret. It’s very good but hard to watch
lovezoe

Point, you have To watch it. No words to explain it. Still got me on edge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFwik0Lon-g&ob=av2e FeFe

@EB

Do you have to order it online? Or is it a movie you can rent? I love short indie films…
!*LaKErCHiC@*!

DID WE REALLY NEED ANOTHER NIKKI POST? SLOW DAY!
lovezoe

Point I agree with you. This boy been paying other folks bills since he was about 15. No one is going to tell him To chill or calm down.
lovezoe

Fefe I’m not @eb but if you google it you should be able to find it. Miss Jia has it on her site.
https://sandrarose.com Sandra Rose

pointhimout says:

not really an upset tho. jay and kanye opted to not pay high prices for this award or recognition.
_______________

I knew these awards were bought and paid for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsunEfZFG1Y&feature=related LUSCIOUS LOLITA AKA SUGA WALLS

FEFE I just watched it and I feel nauseated
flawless001

Nicki will regre these pics wen she gets older
EB

@ fefe you can just google it to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFwik0Lon-g&ob=av2e FeFe

@lovezoe and Luscious

Cool, I’ll look it up…thanks…
flawless001

Nicki will regret these pic’s when she gets older **all them typos lol
lovezoe

If Cash Momey buying albums, not surprising they buying awards. These kids are the ones buying the albums
pointhimout

johnson’s, ok. I’ll check it out over the holiday weekend. love short films and compelling stories.
prynsexxx

I like Nikki’s hair…..just wish it was in BLK!
http://www.philly.com/ Jay Bee

504 #whoDat… Wayne thats a good look!
iscream

I thought it was a slap in Jay Z face that they didn’t even mention his name. They said Kanye West like it wasn’t a collaboration.

Congrats to Nicki thou. Not a big fan of hers but she sure worked her way into the hearts of white ppl.
http://twitter.com/_Tainted_Love Tainted_Love

@lovezoe Yes! I’m sure Big Daddy Baby paid them a large sum for Nicki to beat Jay and Kanye…they couldn’t have Jay and Ye’ beating two Young Money artist
https://sandrarose.com Sandra Rose

EB says:

Sandra, did you watch the short film “The Strange Thing About The Johnson’s”?
_______________

No. I didn’t. Do you have a link?
https://sandrarose.com Sandra Rose

@ momo: I don’t think I’m any more harsh than he is. I guess I’m supposed to ignore a grown man throwing public tantrums? He asked to be a celebrity. He has to accept that not everyone is going to like him.
http://twitter.com/_Tainted_Love Tainted_Love

@EB I saw that film…my mouth literally dropped!!! Especially at the way the mom handled the situation
http://twitter.com/eastpointvet eastpointvet

Not surprising the ama’s are singles and sales based and nicki had a huge year. They have a platinum album but Otis the only single from the album even though paris gets a lot of radio play now but that’s after the cut off they had for the awards.
EB

Sandra, I’m on my cell phone so the only link I could find was miss jia’s post about it :

http://missjia.com/2011/11/18/short-film-the-strange-thing-about-the-johnsons-open-discussion/
Cinderella

The AMA’s are voted by the fans. I don’t know anybody over the age of 18 that cares enough to vote for these things. That’s why Nicki and Taylor were the big winners.
noneofdis

Strange thing about the Johnsons. WOW is all i can say.
less than 30 minutes long ang great acting but horrific plot
cougar lover

yeah chris breezy one of them spoiled “kids” that always got thier way cuz they had good hair, and when they get scrutinezed as adults they act accordingly. oh and the AMA aint important, I thought musicians only cared for grammy’s.
boistop

This film is definitely strange!!!
pointhimout

anyone have a link to ‘johnson’s?’ i went to slamdance, but it wouldn’t paly for me.
boistop

Its playing in its entirety on world star hip hop!
http://youtu.be/W_CQEcLXe-E YSoSerious

I thought clowns were supposed to be funny.

Morning and sht. Counting down the days till Thanksgiving.
lovezoe

Miss Jia has it on her site. It’s definitely a crazy movie that leaves many questions. Though it was disturbing to watch, but I wouldn’t mind seeing a follow up or a feature film to answer the many many questions. That Stepford wife of a mama STILL gets the side-eye.
pointhimout

at the guy sprawled across a chair with the white rose in his mouth. I CAN’T #missjia

I’ll check out johnson when I get home. At work and it’s blocking many of the vids on WSHH and jia. for some reason, the job likes SR and lets a lot of her vids play.
https://sandrarose.com Sandra Rose

@ EB, I’m watching it now. The acting is horrendous.
Mr.BluPhi

You were suppose to go online and vote for most of these categories….

I still made no sense that Pink Friday won over Watch The Throne, but she has a lot of fans that voted.

I was more upset that Taylor Swift won artist of the year over Adelle. WTH?
http://youtu.be/W_CQEcLXe-E YSoSerious

BLU!!

I really can’t stand Taylor Swift. I really can’t.
pointhimout

@50 Adele and that th’oat sitcheation pissed off her fans apparently. They wish she would show up to accept an award. #bowsandarrows
AllNYC

AMA as given out by a survey of music consumers – not just industry people. So it’s a better measure of public opinion not necessarily critical acclaim. You can predict who will win each category if you have a idea of album sales. There are hardly ever any upsets at the AMAs.
ckkbc

I agree with Chris, that was 3 years ago let it go. It’s far past time to move on. Chris isn’t the troubled one those that won’t let the boy move on are troubled. Stop