RAPPERS' DELIGHT: Nicki Minaj's Album Sales Make History + Maino Arrested!

The Nicki Minaj hype-machine is still celebrating the rapper's history making first week sales.  Find out where Nicki stands in the history books, plus get the deets on Maino's arrest last night inside...

Releasing your debut album the same week as a Kanye West album has to be nerve-wrecking, but Nicki Minaj's highly anticipated debut album did score the No. 2 spot.  Pink Friday moved 375,000 copies, taking the second spot to Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy which sold 496,000 copies.
Tthe strong debut of Pink Friday places Nicki as the second-highest first week sales of any femcee.  She falls behind Lauryn Hill who sold 423,000 copies of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill the first week.  For those keeping score in the Lil' Kim versus Nicki Minaj battle, Lil Kim’s highest first week sales was in the year 2000 with The Notorious Kim pushing 230,000 units.
Nicki already made history three times this year.  With "Your Love, " Nicki became the first female hip-hop No. 1 to hit Billboard's rap singles chart since Missy's "Work It" in 2002. And she's also the female rapper with the most chart entries in one year on Billboard's 100 — she's had eight so far despite most entries being features.

In other rap news:

You know we can't go a week without some rapper getting arrested.  Add Maino to this week's file.  The Brooklyn-born rapper was arrested in New York City last night for driving his black Bentley with a suspended license.  According to the New York Post, Maino, whose real name is Jermaine Coleman, was pulled over at 4:30 p.m. after he allegedly refused cops' directions to keep driving on Sixth Avenue, and made a turn onto 53rd Street. He was given a desk appearance ticket and released.
Sigh.  Between T.I. and Maino, I keep asking myself why don't these hood rich rappers hire drivers?