Check out 2012 BRIT Awards highlights from last night, including performances from Adele and Rihanna:

Rihanna – “We Found Love”

Adele – “Rolling In The Deep”

I’m really feeling this recently leaked shot of Nicki Minaj from VOGUE Magazine‘s latest issue… so much that it serves as todays #PickOfTheDay!

Donning in a pink wig and colored blue, the Rapper’s feature in the publication comes in support of her new album, ‘PF: Roman Reloaded’, out April 3rd, and her upcoming movie Ice Age: Continental Drift, which is due for a summer release. Check out the image below, as well as a excerpt out of the magazine:

In an astonishingly short period of time, Minaj has been nominated for three Grammy Awards (Best New Artist, Best Rap Album, and Best Rap Performance), named the 2011 Rising Star by Billboard magazine, and garnered Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist and Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album honors at the American Music Awards for her 2010 debut, Pink Friday. (Her second album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, is scheduled to be released imminently.)

Her appeal extends far beyond her legions of young female fans—whom she calls not her “little monsters” but her little sisters—to adults captivated by the unexpected cadences of her raps and the raw honesty of her words. Given her strong sartorial, and rhetorical, proclivities, Minaj would seem to prefer a riotous, club kid–ish catwalk show. But here she is at Carolina Herrera (“so regal and special”) and at de la Renta (he has been known to watch her videos on YouTube).

Then again, why wouldn’t this wildly individualistic performer, whose five-year plan includes an autobiography, a stack of Grammys, and movie stardom, defy assumptions? It isn’t the first time. Minaj discovered the power of costume when she dressed as Freddy Krueger for the “My Chick Bad” video with Luda­cris two years ago. “It made me feel so free. It was me inside.”

Now Minaj is expected to be a glamour girl every day. Her ensembles—“They’re costumes, not outfits”—are often custom-made or imported from Japan, where little-known designers like Shojono Tomo supply items like the nutty plastic apron Minaj wore during New York Fashion Week last September.

(If she has yet to market her distinctive naughty–baby doll look, Minaj has already entered the world of cosmetics, launching a nail-polish collaboration with OPI and becoming a 2012 M.A.C. Viva Glam spokesperson.) In her downtime, she is far from label-obsessed. “If I can combine designer things with other things, I’m a happy camper.”

Not so with accessories. At one time she was spending $50,000 a month on “Giuseppe, Versace, YSL, and Fendi shoes. And I bought tons of Vuitton bags. When you’re a young girl from Queens, you’re going to stock up on those bags.”

Still, Minaj is adamant that her legacy will not be one of a free-spending, know-nothing celebrity. She’s planning “an enormous foundation to nurture girls.

The Nicki Minaj girl is a fun, artsy girl who can become a fierce force to be reckoned with on Wall Street! They hang on my every word, so I tell them, go to school, be ambitious. The worst position is to be financially dependent on the man.” And what of that alternate Nicki, serving her lord and master a martini by the pool? The fuchsia waves shake furiously. “I could never be that girl!”

Wonder who took home all the awards at last nights BRIT Awards? Check out the full Winners List below:

BRIT AWARDS 2012 – Winners List

Critics Choice Award: Emeli Sande
Outstanding Achievement Award: Blur
Best British Female: Adele
Best British Male: Ed Sheeran
Best International Male: Bruno Mars
Best International Female: Rihanna
Best British Single: One Direction
Best British Group: Coldplay
Best International Group: Foo Fighters
British Breakthrough Act: Ed Sheeran
International Breakthrough Act: Lana Del Rey
Best British Album: Adele

In a recent interview with Young Jack Thriller, Teairra Mari vented about exactly why she doesn’t like Chicago’s Yung Berg… Find out what she had to say below:

“You know what? I’ll get his ass jumped again,” Mari said. “I don’t like Yung Berg. I’m sorry. [Why?] Because I did an interview with [New York radio station Power 105.1's] ‘The Breakfast Club‘ and they told me, like, all this stuff Yung Berg was saying about me, like, putting my business out, saying — who I dated and who I was in a serious relationship with and I just feel like he violated my privacy… And if he ever goes back to Detroit, they will jump him again.”

Slaughterhouse drops a freestyle over Lil Wayne and Drakes Carter IV single “She Will.” Listen below: