(Credit: Dan Monick/ PAPER Magazine ) While we all anxiously wait for Nicki Minaj ’s debut album, Pink Friday , to come out (seriously, hurry up, calendar), we’ll have to make due with the little things, like Nicki’s fashionable and fabulous appearance in PAPER Magazine’s September issue . PAPER catches up with Nicki in Los Angeles, where Nicki talks about her time growing up in New York, attending acting school and having the courage to make her rhymes sound as smart as she actually is.

B.o.B. ’s hit single “Magic,” featuring Rivers Cuomo , is an impossible-to-resist, get-on-your-feet, feel-good party of a track. And that’s exactly what his “Magic” video is, too, starting with a seemingly mundane morning that’s about to get a whole lot better and a whole lot weirder.

(Credit: Simone Joyner/Getty Images) For his new video, “The Bike Song,” Mark Ronson has continued to explore the strange, retro-futuristic, truly global world that he introduced with his charming clip for “Bang Bang Bang.” Working again with director Warren Fu, Mark Ronson visually mixes cultural references and world cultures (Japanese, French, British) with the same flair he uses when mixing musical genres: with abandon and tons of style.

(Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage) Jennifer Lopez has been keeping a low profile for a while now. Some of that time has been voluntary — motherhood and running a family are no joke — and sme of it hasn’t; her 2007 album Brave was her least successful album, commercially. But with a couple of proven hit-makers behind the boards, Jennifer Lopez is looking to make a comeback with “Good Hit.” Produced by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart , “Good Hit,” which will likely be featured on Lopez’s long-awaited Love album, features a rather different sound