(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.

(Credit: Brian Appio/MTV) A couple of days ago, we brought you a video of Never Shout Never performing live at the mtvU VMA Tour and we marveled at Christofer Drew ’s ability to take a pretty mellow song and turn it into a stadium anthem. Well, today we have The Ready Set kicking out the jams at that very same show with their single, “Love Like Woe,” and we don’t have to marvel; this is track was made for stadium singing. Jordan Witzigreuter and his band soak up all the attention and screaming passion of the fans in attendance and pay it back with a great run through their most well-known song.

(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: KCSPresse/Splash News) As she proved during her stint hosting the Teen Choice Awards , Katy Perry knows a thing or two about costume changes. Thing is, the “Teenage Dream” singer doesn’t need an award show hosting gig to make wild costume changes; she does so in real life