Nicki Minaj will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and perform live at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards.

Nicki Minaj will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and perform live at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards.

This year's show will return to New Jersey's Prudential Center in Newark on August 28.

Minaj will be performing at the VMA awards show for the first time in four years.

She will be joining previously announced performers Anitta, J Balvin, Marshmello x Khalid, and Panic! at the Disco.

The Video Vanguard Award is presented to artists for their outstanding contributions and profound impact on music video and popular culture.

Minaj is nominated this year in the Best Hip Hop category for her major single "Do We Have a Problem?" featuring fellow rapper Lil Baby. This is her seventeenth nomination at the VMAs.

Minaj will be releasing her next single "Super Freaky Girl" ahead of the show on August 12.

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Childish Gambino, the alter ego of Donald Glover, has teamed up with Black Party for "I Love You More Than You Know," a track off Black Party's new album, Hummingbird.

Childish Gambino, the alter ego of Donald Glover, has teamed up with Black Party for "I Love You More Than You Know," a track off Black Party's new album, Hummingbird.

"Wishin' that I could pause/God let me borrow that universal remote/With no rehearsal they wrote a whole verse," Childish Gambino raps.

"That's the earth we get served with no regrets/With no shoes and no shirt and that's birth/I never meant to make the thing hurt, but what's worse/We never meet at all?" Black Party chips in during the chorus.

Hummingbird is Black Party's third studio album, following 2019's Endless Summer and his 2016 debut Mango.

Black Party is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who was raised in Arkansas and is now based in Los Angeles.

The new record was released August 5 via RCA and Childish Gambino's management company and creative agency Wolf + Rothstein.

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Beyoncé's Renaissance has debuted atop the all-format Billboard 200 albums chart.

Beyoncé's Renaissance has debuted atop the all-format Billboard 200 albums chart.

The album launches atop the chart with 332,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending August 4, according to Luminate. This marked the biggest week by a woman in 2022 and the second-largest week of the year overall.

Renaissance is part one of a three-part project that was recorded during the pandemic. The album, which is available via Beyoncé's own Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records, is a follow-up to Bey's 2016 globally acclaimed album Lemonade.

Renaissance is Beyoncé's seventh solo No. 1 album. This is also the first album released by a woman in 2022 to top the Billboard 200 after Adele's 30 ruled the chart for six weeks on charts dated December 4, 2021-January 8, 2022.

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