Estelle must still be buzzing from her surprise Mercury nomination - she's told the Mirror that she is "the female version of Jay-Z".

Reacting to Jigga's recent habit of dropping American Boy into his live sets, she said:

"I thought, 'When Jay-Z knows who I am, when he wants to work with me, then I'll have made it.' Everyone else could go to hell."

And now he does, and has, as has she. She might not be modest about it, but neither were we when Jay-Z started bigging us up on stage, in interviews, on records etc. Stop it now, though, Jay - it's getting embarrassing.

Mirror: Estelle thrilled to be sampled by Jay-Z