The Hot Press news desk is loving the news that HP cover star Grimes – she featured on the cover ahead of the Forbidden Fruit festival in 2012 – is the latest rising star to sign to Roc Nation.

Roc Nation is the label and artist management company owned by Jay Z and is home to a huge number of successful artists including Rihanna, Haim, Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, Mia and Shakira as well as Jay Z himself. Grimes has signed a management dea with the company. The news was revealed by Grimes on Tumblr and has since been conformed by Roc Nation, which is headed up by former Mercury Records boss Jason Illey. Grimes commented that she had joined “the x-men."

The Canadian electronic whiz is currently working on her follow-up to 2012’s acclaimed Visions album. One of the highlights of the latter album was ‘Genesis’, the highly impressive, Grimes-directed, video for which you can see here…

To read the Hot Press interview with Grimes from 2012, click here