The hippest event in all of television went off without a hitch last night as the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards was able to wrap up its two-hour show just in time for President Barak Obama’s scheduled speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

Kanye West and Lady Gaga were not in attendance, host Kevin Hart kept things relatively uncontroversial, and Taylor Swift was able to retain her microphone. The result was a rather tame (by VMA standards) but very entertaining two hours that saw One Direction take home three Moon Men including Best New Artist, Chris Brown winning Best Male Video for “Turn Up the Music,” Nicki Minaj winning Best Female Video for “Starships” and Rihanna taking the top prize of Video of the Year for “We Found Love.”

Keep reading for a recap of the night’s festivities including a complete list of winners and performances!

Nicki Minaj continues her skyrocket rise to pop culture domination by following up reports that she will be one of the judges on Season 12 of American Idol with the first photo of the bottle for her new Pink Friday fragrance! Minaj fans (aka Barbz) will be extremely pleased to know they can soon not only smell like their rappin’, snappin’, take-no-crappin’ heroine, but they also get a little Nicki figurine for their dresser or makeup counter!

Nicki Minaj is the latest celebrity to reportedly be joining the judges’ panel on the upcoming 12th season of American Idol after both Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler announced they’d be leaving the show following last season. A couple of sources have confirmed the news, and while it may come as a surprise to most, she’d been eyeing the job for months!

Today’s lesson in irony comes from rapper Nicki Minaj, who was in the middle of a speech thanking her fans for their love and support during a concert in Miami Tuesday night when one of those fans decided to show his love and support up close by jumping up on stage and touching Minaj. Nicki stopped abruptly as security guards (I assume) rushed the man and carried him backstage, kicking and punching him all along the way.

The world of Barbzdom is up in arms after their icon Nicki Minaj deleted her Twitter account Sunday following a dispute with fans and accusing website NickiDaily.com of posting leaked tracks. The “leaked tracks” were reportedly just snippets from Minaj’s new album Romans Reloaded that were available on iTunes, but that was enough for Minaj to block their Twitter account. In the aftermath of blocking the site there was a huge reaction on Twitter as Nicki’s fans began choosing sides. Eventually the drama was too much for Minaj, who tweeted some rather nasty things before writing, “Like seriously, its but so much a person can take. Good f***ing bye” and then suspending her account completely.

Nicki Minaj tweeted some fun photos of herself wearing a carnival popcorn dress with real popcorn and candy coming out of the top Toyko, Japan right where she’s promoting her second album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (drops April 3, click here to pre-order.)

Nicki Minaj unveiled the album cover to her sophomore effort Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded on Twitter earlier today, along with the tweet, “Pink Friday: ROMAN RELOADED | April 3rd | #AlbumCover #ItBangBang.” The artwork features a blonde Minaj with Ke$ha-esque ’80s glam fluorescent face paint set against a colorful splatter paint background. I don’t about you, but it has me humming “How Will I Know” by Whitney Houston for some reason.

Here’s a blast from the not-so-distant past in the form of an official Nicki Minaj music video from well before Pink Friday. The song features a slightly less Barbie-ized Nicki spittin’ rhymes on the street – first with a bit of stylized video editing, and then just straight-forward Nicki doing what it is that has made her an international superstar.

Last night’s Grammy Awards featured hundreds of elegantly clad superstars in designer clothing as music industry royalty graced the red carpet in designer gowns and over-the-top costumery. But, the belles of the ball were unquestionably viral video mavens Sophia grace and Rosie, who brought their indomitable good spirits to the event packaged in froo froo pink skirts and shimmering gold tops with “ellen” proudly spelled out across the front. Keep reading for photos and to watch Sophia’s amazing Youtube video performing Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass” that went viral last October and landed these two British girls on ellen and eventually the Grammy Awards!

The Grammy Awards is famous for some of the most outrageous fashion statements of the year as music’s best use the red carpet to show off their eccentric tastes. (Remember Lady Gaga arriving in an egg?) This year the jaw-droppingest eyebrow raiser of the evening was rapper Nicki Minaj who arrived in a lucious Little Red Riding Hood look hand in hand with the Pope!