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| Guns N' Roses Vs. Kanye West: Axl's Got A Secret Weapon In The Race For #1 Posted: 20 Nov 2008 05:00 AM PST Chinese Democracy's label is making a sly move to beat 808s & Heartbreak in first-week sales.
It was shaping up to be an epic battle between two of music's biggest heavyweights, with Kanye West — the Louis Vuitton Don, and the man we crowned the Hottest MC in the Game — standing in one corner, wearing the gold trunks and white Shutter Shades, ready to drop 808s & Heartbreak. And in the other: Axl Rose — sporting the black trunks, a Los Angeles Raiders jersey, red cornrows and a little album called Chinese Democracy. Who will walk away with the championship belt? Chances are, it won't be 'Ye. Fans are excited, critics and industry watchers look on with great anticipation, and even oddsmakers have jumped into the fray, casting Guns N' Roses as the favorite. But, at the 11th hour, GN'R are making things a bit interesting in this race toward Billboard's peak position. That's because Axl's got a secret weapon: the Eighth Day. After years of false starts and broken promises, Geffen Records will finally issue Guns N' Roses' eagerly awaited album this coming Sunday, a day before West's latest hits stores. And a spokesperson for Geffen told MTV News that first-day sales figures for Chinese Democracy will not be reported to Nielsen SoundScan until November 30, the same day West's label will report his week-one sales. Typically, albums are released in the U.S. on Tuesdays, and SoundScan tracks weekly sales data from Monday through Sunday, meaning that most albums' debut spots on the Billboard chart are based on six solid sales days. At first, most assumed day-one sales of Chinese Democracy — which took Rose more than 16 years to complete — would be reported next week and released the morning of November 26. But GN'R's label is holding off on releasing those sales figures until the following week, setting the stage for an extra boost in the chart standings announced on December 3. West's only chance at a third consecutive #1 debut is the fact that Chinese Democracy will be available exclusively at Best Buy's Web site and stores, whereas 808s will be everywhere. This is a different game from last fall, when Kanye and 50 Cent released solo albums on the very same day. After weeks of hype leading up to their showdown, West's Graduation pushed 957,000 copies, easily besting Curtis, which sold 691,000 copies in week one. Before Geffen's plan was known, MTV News reached out to U.K. betting company Ladbrokes and online-gaming purveyors Bodog Entertainment to see which album they favor for a #1 opening. Despite West's immense popularity, the numerous leaks of Chinese Democracy over the years and GN'R's Best Buy deal, oddsmakers from both companies said Guns' LP has the best chance of scoring a chart-topping debut. Bodoglife.com Sportsbook manager Richard Gardner put the odds at -130 in favor of Guns — which is basically the same thing as saying there's a 56 percent chance that Axl will outsell West. Meanwhile, he put the odds at -110 for a Kanye West win, or a 52 percent chance that his album will enter the chart at the peak position. "We would quote 1/3 on Guns N' Roses, and 5/2 on Kanye West," said Nick Weinberg, head of Ladbrokes' novelty betting division. "So we make Guns N' Roses the favorite to top the charts in the week immediately after the release, due to the massive sense of anticipation surrounding the album. A lot of people have been waiting a long time for it." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Is A Blink-182 Reunion In The Cards? Mark Hoppus Blogs About Hanging With Travis Barker, Tom DeLonge Posted: 19 Nov 2008 09:10 AM PST Bassist keeps expectations low, but says plane crash put things in perspective: 'Life is too short.'
Last week, at the mtvU Woodie Awards, former Blink-182er (and current member of +44) Mark Hoppus spoke about his best friend and bandmate Travis Barker, who is recovering from second-and-third degree burns suffered in a September 19 plane crash that killed four people and seriously injured DJ AM. And this week, Hoppus kept on talking — er, blogging — only this time it wasn't just about about Barker, but former Blink bandmate Tom DeLonge, too. Seems that, for the first time since Blink went on "indefinite hiatus" in February 2005, all three members have been spending time together ... which, of course, could mean that we're in the early stages of a full-on Blink reunion. Maybe. "In the midst of everything else that has happened lately, Tom, Travis and I have all spoken together," Hoppus wrote on his official site, HiMyNameIsMark.com. First, through a number of phone calls, and then a couple of weeks ago we all hung out for a few hours. They've all been great, very positive conversations. We're just reconnecting as friends after four years of not talking. It's a good thing. Obviously the first question for a lot of people will be, 'Does this mean a Blink-182 reunion?' The answer is none of us know. We haven't talked about it at all. Right now it's just good for the three of us to see one another, reconnect and let the past be the past. The events of the past two months supersede everything that happened before. Life is too short." Despite the public silence from Barker's former Blink-mates in the immediate wake of the crash — which lasted just a couple of weeks — this sounds very much like the hatchet being buried. And as if that news wasn't enough to send Blink fans into a tizzy, consider what Hoppus told MTV News last week, when he was asked when fans can expect a new album from his and Barker's post-Blink band, +44: "Hopefully, in the next couple months we'll see [Barker] behind the kit, I pray. No matter what I work on, Travis will be part of, for sure." Hoppus' post wasn't entirely devoted to stoking the Blink flames. He also wrote at great length about "Little" Chris Baker and Charles "Che" Still, two of Barker's friends and associates who were killed in the crash. "These past two months have been the hardest times that I can remember, and I hope that we never see anything like this ever again," he wrote. "Even two months later, I still can't believe what happened, and it's too much to talk about. But let me say that I think about Little Chris every single day, and the world is not the same without him. He is one of the best people I've ever known. We traveled the world together, spending countless hours on buses and planes, in hotel lobbies and dressing rooms. ... I'm so sad that he is not here right now. There are just no words." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Britney Spears On Kevin Federline: 'I Think I Married For All The Wrong Reasons' Posted: 19 Nov 2008 01:40 AM PST Clips from forthcoming 'For the Record' documentary continue to surface online.
In a new clip from Britney Spears' forthcoming documentary, "For the Record," that has made its way online, the singer opens up about her two-year marriage to Kevin Federline, and how in retrospect it probably wasn't the best decision she could have made at the time. "I think I married for all the wrong reasons," she says in the 90-minute documentary, set to air on MTV on November 30, just two days before the release of her new LP, Circus. "Instead of following my heart and, like, doing something that made me really happy. I just did it because ... for just, like, the idea of everything." In the clip she also talks about what the album means for her, after several tumultuous years in the spotlight. "It's weird because your music is a reflection of what you're going through," she says. "It's such a part of me, the record, 'cause of what I've gone through." In another clip, Spears talks about how she uses her work as a dancer and singer to deal with the stress of her life and how it helps her deal with her emotions. She said that for her, dancing is like therapy. "If I have a lot of nervous energy, when I start dancing it all goes away and I just feel emotion. It's like a rollercoaster," she says. "People think that when you go through something in life you have to go to therapy. For me, art is therapy, because it's like you're expressing yourself in such a spiritual way. "Sometimes you don't need to use words to go through what you need to go through," she continues. "Sometimes it's an emotion you need to feel when you dance, that you need to touch. And the only thing that can touch it is when you move a certain way." In previously released clips, Spears addresses her reasons for making the special now. "There's a lot people don't know about me that I want them to know. ... I've been through a lot in the last two or three years. I've grown up, bigtime," she says. She also talks about being a public figure and having every moment of her life documented by the media. "I don't think anyone can prepare themselves for what stardom brings," she says, adding, "Do I know my life is weird? It's all I've ever known." Getting pumped about the Britney Spears documentary? Share your thoughts by uploading a video to YouRHere.MTV.com, or sound off in the comments section below. "For the Record" airs Sunday, November 30, at 10 p.m. ET on MTV. Related Videos Related Artists |
| Proposition 8 Challenges To Be Heard In California Supreme Court As Early As March Posted: 20 Nov 2008 07:12 AM PST Court to decide on constitutionality of gay-marriage ban.
A week after thousands took to the streets across the country to protest the passage of California's controversial Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, the California Supreme Court voted 6 to 1 on Wednesday to review legal challenges to voter initiative as early as March. The Los Angeles Times reported that while the court did not rule to allow gay marriages to resume as it mulls a final decision, given the complexity of the issue, it did move to act much more quickly on hearing the legal challenges to Prop 8 than legal scholars had expected. Opponents of the measure are seeking to have the court rule to overturn it and reinstate gay marriages in California. The swiftness of the court's action suggests that it wants to resolve all the legal issues surrounding the proposition, including the fate of existing gay marriages, in one ruling, the Times reported. Some analysts suggested that scheduling a hearing so quickly was a good sign for the challengers, though others said it did not give any indication of which way the court might be leaning. "If the justices were really leaning towards upholding Prop 8, and that was clear, they would have wanted to do it as quickly as possible and put the issue to rest," UCLA law professor Brad Sears told the paper, adding that the delay could indicate that the justices were divided and needed time to resolve the issues. While some gay-rights advocates praised the court for acting so quickly to review the measure, others were disappointed that the court did not vote to allow same-sex marriages to resume while awaiting the final ruling. The challengers are seeking to overturn Prop 8 based on a number of arguments, including claims that the provision violated the separation of powers doctrine in the California Constitution and that the measure took away the ability of California courts to ensure equal protection for minorities who have historically suffered discrimination. On November 4, the state ballot provision amending the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman passed by a 52 to 47 percent margin. Since that day, opponents have filed six lawsuits aiming to overturn the measure. The passage of Prop 8 came after the Supreme Court of California had overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage in May, paving the way for thousands of gay couples to legally marry in only the second U.S. state to make marriage licenses available to same-sex partners. Despite the challenge and possibility of an overturning vote, supporters of Prop 8 applauded the court's action, according to the Times. "We see today as a grand slam," said Andy Pugno, general counsel of ProtectMarriage.com. "Everything we asked for was granted," he added, citing the dissenting judge's vote as an indication that "she thought the lawsuits had ... little merit." California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he expects the court to overturn the proposition (an outcome he appears to favor), and his office issued a statement saying, "The governor believes the Supreme Court ought to bring clarity to this issue." Related Videos |
| Big Daddy Kane Dreams of Battling Rakim And KRS-One, Celebrates 20th Anniversary Posted: 20 Nov 2008 05:00 AM PST 'It's a celebration that means a lot to me,' MC says of star-studded show.
"Rap soloist, you don't want none of this." What if Rakim did listen to a lot of cats in the streets back in the day, and took Big Daddy Kane's lyrics from "Set It Off" as a stone-cold dis? We might have seen the greatest battle of all time. Or, what if Kane decided to test the blast master KRS-One? What a showdown that would have been. Last Friday night in New York, BDK was sitting back in chill mode, fantasizing about two dream battles with his peers. "It would have to be Rakim and KRS-One," Kane answered, when asked whom he would have wanted to battle back in the day in a dream face-off. When asked how the battles would go, Kane displayed the humor that enhanced his obvious lyrical and style acumen in the late '80s and early '90s. "How would it go?" he asked, before impersonating a boxing commentator. "Out comes Hardy. Griffin retreats back to his corner." (Kane's real name is Antonio Hardy, and Rakim was born William Griffin.) A big burst of laughter immediately filled the room ("Mad Money" Murph, whom you've heard shouted out in plenty of Kane's records, was there as well). Then, getting a little more serious, Kane explained the rationale behind his dream battle. "It's the type of thing where, if you gonna battle somebody to prove your greatness, you wanna go to somebody that shares that same seat with you," he said. "Those are probably two of the ones who I felt like [could present a challenge]. Also, [Kool] G. Rap, but I've always felt like G. Rap was like a brother. With us, it was friendly competition." Kane was in New York on Friday celebrating his 20th anniversary in the rap game. Not only was he partying at B.B. King's Bar and Grill, Daddy Kane was also rapping, sounding as great as he did two decades ago. "Well, who's gonna come, we will see," he said backstage before his performance. "That's based on surprises, but I know on my part, I'm here to have fun and do the damn thing. I wanna entertain and make sure people have a good time. It's a celebration that means a lot to me." A little before showtime, friends and famous fans of the Prince of Darkness such as Ice-T, Sugar Hill Gang's Wonder Mike, Greg Nice, XXL Editor in Chief Datwon Thomas, Tony Rock, AZ, Roxanne Shanté, Positive K (who performed his classic "I Got a Man"), DJ Polo, DJ Enuff, Miss Info and Busta Rhymes crammed into the jam-packed building — everybody wanted to hear those hits. "My best album is probably my second one, It's a Big Daddy Thing," the MC said. "I like a lot of the songs on there. It was put together ... just the structure of the album was tight." He said that Long Live the Kane was his favorite to make, though, because it was his first. One of Kane's closest friends and collaborators in rap, Biz Markie, was the first to touch the stage on Friday night. The diabolical one set it off with hits such as "Something for the Radio," "Going Off" and "Pickin' Boogers." Roxanne Shanté then got onstage with Biz and the MC-turned-doctor blessed the mic with some throwback flavor on "Def Fresh Crew": "I'm Shante, he's Biz Markie/ Side by side, you know it's we/ No, I don't speak French, when I say 'we'/ I mean us two, not 'Yes, sirree'/ Everyone knows that I am much better/ Come on Biz Markie, get it together/ Talk to the girls, you know they are wack/ Tell those crabs they sound like cats." Biz killed it, wowing the crowd while finishing off with "Nobody Beats the Biz," "Vapors" and "Just a Friend." When it was time for Kane to come on, a live band, dressed in black suits and red shirts, played the beat to "Another Victory." Kane arrived onstage, wearing a black vest, red dress shirt and jeans. His first four records were unmerciful: "Set It Off," "Warm It Up, Kane," "I Get The Job Done" and "Smooth Operator." The second verse of the latter was rapped over Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On." Later, when Kane asked the crowd what year they wanted him to take it back to, a man in the crowd yelled, "Take it back to them bad Reagan years." As the show progressed, BDK told the audience, "No excuses now that Barack is in the White House," before going into "Ain't No Half Steppin'." Kane's finale included cameos from Masta Ace, Craig G and Marley Marl, but unfortunately no Kool G. Rap. The Brooklyn King's send-off was "Raw," which made everyone in the crowd look forward to the 25th anniversary. Related Photos Related Artists |
| Kanye West Focuses On Melodies On 'Minimal But Functional' <i>808s & Heartbreak</i> Posted: 19 Nov 2008 03:27 AM PST 'There's limitations to just rapping,' West says of Gary Numan-influenced new album.
When it comes to straight-up vocal prowess, Kanye West will never be compared to some of the all-time greats, such as Luther Vandross or Stevie Wonder — and he's fine with that. With Kanye, it's more about feeling — he wants you to feel his music, not concentrate on the range of his voice. So, when Kanye was onstage singing "Love Lockdown" at the MTV Europe Music Awards in front of a worldwide audience of millions, and his voice obviously cracked into a shriek that was about as far from harmonious as Liverpool is from Chicago, Kanye didn't miss a beat. The audience members didn't cringe — they kept singing along and cheering. For the multi-Grammy winner, the singing on his new album 808s & Heartbreak is all about being raw and emotional — and it's still hip-hop, despite what 50 Cent or any other critics say. "Yeah, like T.J. Swan [who sang on records such as Biz Markie's 'Nobody Beats the Biz'] or like Nas when he first started singing hooks and stuff," Kanye explained a couple of days after the award show. "It's, like, you know, hip-hop — there's limitations to just rapping. I can get a rise out of you by spitting a really good punch line and stuff, but what if I tried to ... what if I tried to teach you your ABCs like this: 'A... B... C... D...' — as soon as you think ABCs, you think of the melody. You were taught with it. I'm trying to deliver a message and melody throughout the entire [album]. I still come from a hip-hop vibe though, yeah." 808s is the culmination of a series of events from Kanye's life, such as the tragic death of his mother, his breakup with fiancée Alexis Phifer and Kanye's struggle with his growing celebrity. At one point in his life, 'Ye wanted to be the most famous star in the world — but if you listen to him now, it sounds like he would love it if he could go to the grocery store unnoticed. 'Ye's balance, or lack thereof — as well as his readiness to start a family — is expressed toward the beginning of the album on "Welcome to Heartbreak." "My godsister's getting married by the lake," he laments on the last verse. "But I couldn't figure out who I'd wanna take/ Bad enough that I showed up late/ I had to leave before they even cut the cake/ Welcome to heartbreak." The Louis Vuitton Don does have what appears to be a serious relationship on "Paranoid." Unfortunately, Kanye's lady love "worries about the wrong things" and is pushing him away with her mistrustful thinking. The suspicions carry on in "Robocop," where Kanye meets a girl that looks good enough to be a beauty queen or movie star, but is crazy enough to be a character right out of a Stephen King novel. "You know how you hear some songs and they just sound big?" asked Young Jeezy, who appears on 808s. "That's one of them. Right away, it just sounds like a big hit." When discussing who his musical competition is right now, 'Ye doesn't list 50 Cent, Lil Wayne or anyone else you'd expect to be considered his contemporary. "Pink Floyd, U2, Radiohead, Portishead," he answered. "I mean, I listened to Phil Collins, Boy George, the Police, Gary Numan ... I ended up getting more polished as a designer. I designed the tracks. I'm kind of a minimalist. The more and more skilled I get at interior design and architecture stuff, the things that appeal to me are very minimal but functional spaces. So I wanted my tracks to be minimal but functional. So the function is the 808 — the snare — it gives you the groove but it doesn't confuse your ear. "The first track ['Say You Will'] is one of my favorite songs I ever did," he added. "I don't even know if people appreciate how good that is yet, but just to have those ominous monk choirs and the snare's little bleep noise — any producer that hears that should be like, 'That's incredible. Listen to that snare, what is that?' " "Heartless," the album's second single, hearkens back to the days of the RZA with its jittery bounce. "Listen to it," West said, when asked why he chose the record as the follow-up to "Love Lockdown." "That hook is, like, [really] good. I also thought it was good because, first of all, 'Love Lockdown' — if I had rapped on it [it] would've just been a rap song and it wouldn't have sounded quite as different to people as it sounds for some reason. But 'Heartless' is definitely like ... Any rapper would've loved to rap on 'Heartless,' from a Wu-Tang [member] to a West Coast rapper to a down-South rapper. 'Heartless' is a perfect rap beat, and the hook is like straight Broadway melody. The message is just incredible: 'In the night I hear them talk/ The coldest story ever told/ And far along this road he lost his soul.' It could be an opera." "Coldest Winter" closes the album out, with a dedication to his mother. West borrows melodies and some lyrics from Tears for Fears' 1983 song "Memories Fade." "Memories fade but the scars still linger/ Goodbye my friend/ Will I ever love again?" goes the original. In Kanye's version, he says, "Memories fade in the coldest winter/ Goodbye my friend/ Will I ever love again?" It is undoubtedly the most emotional moment on 808s & Heartbreak, as well as the most relatable. Everyone has lost somebody they love; however, not everybody can talk about their losses in public. "It was just what was in my heart," Kanye explained. "The type of ideas that I was coming up with, the melodies that were in me — what was in me I couldn't stop. I think it's a path; it's a road that's been paved and given by God. There's so many signs and I just have to follow the signs and the arrows of where he wants me to go and just be fearless about it. It's so crazy — hip-hop used to be about being fearless, and now it's, like, all about being afraid. It used to be about standing out, and now it's all about fitting in. Like, you know, I wear my tight jeans and stuff and stand out and people want to talk about me. Now hip-hop is like a big high school or something — so that's why I respect people who just do whatever they want to do." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Paris Hilton And Benji Madden Call It Quits: Report Posted: 19 Nov 2008 04:23 AM PST A source tells Us Weekly that the Good Charlotte guitarist was 'overprotective and controlling' of Paris.
Paris Hilton and Benji Madden have ended their relationship, according to Us Weekly. The split puts the famed hotel heiress, 27, and Good Charlotte guitarist, 29, back on the market after nine months of dating. "Even though they are still in love, they felt it would be better to just be friends," an unnamed source close to the "Repo! The Genetic Opera" star told the magazine. "Benji was overprotective and controlling. He doesn't get along with any of her friends," the source continued, sharing their thoughts on why the couple called it quits. "Friends thought Paris had changed since being with Benji, and she wants to be herself again." Things moved fast for the couple, who made their relationship public in February. In August, Hilton confirmed in an interview with MTV News that the two had co-written a song for her upcoming album, saying their talents and sensibilities "really mixed well." "Well, he's such a talented writer. We're in love, so we can really write well together," she said at Comic-Con in San Diego. "We're kind of on the same wavelength, the way we think." According to Us, Hilton was spotted over the weekend canoodling with ex-boyfriend Stavros Niarchos in Miami. Their interactions reportedly remained platonic. "Nothing went on between Paris and Stav in Miami," the magazine quoted their source as saying. "She was there for a girls weekend with her [best friends]." Madden's twin brother, Joel, recently had a baby with his girlfriend and Hilton's friend, Nicole Richie. Related Artists |
| Is Camilla Belle Stepping Out On Joe Jonas -- With 'Twilight' Star Robert Pattinson?! Posted: 18 Nov 2008 11:13 PM PST Belle and Pattinson were photographed together at an afterparty last month and were seen hanging out at the 'Twilight' premiere.
Is Camilla Belle stepping out on Joe Jonas already? And with "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson, no less? Only a week after word spread that Jonas — who may or may not have cheated on the artist with the nation's best-selling album, Taylor Swift — and Belle were dating, and days after pictures surfaced of the two vacationing in Mexico, rumors are flying that his "Lovebug" co-star has been seeing other guys, like the aforementioned Pattinson. Belle was spotted on the carpet, all by her lonesome, for the "Twilight" premiere in Los Angeles earlier this week. Love interest Jonas was nowhere in sight, and Belle was seen hanging with Pattinson throughout the night and at the movie's afterparty. This isn't the first time that Belle and Pattinson were seen together. Back in October, the duo posed for pictures together at a Hollywood Film Festival Awards afterparty, looking quite happy to be seen together. (The Los Angeles Times also reported that Belle is rumored to be dating Pattinson's pal, actor Tom Sturridge, but we're having a hard enough time keeping track as it is.) Unlike Pattinson and Belle (well, apart from the Mexican vacation photo), Jonas and Belle have not made any public appearances as a couple. "They are not public about it but they've just been hanging out with their friends and Joe's brothers," a source told People last week. "They are very private about it." Despite the rumblings of a romance with Belle, in a new interview set to air on "Ellen" Friday, Pattinson insists that he's single, according to UsMagazine.com. Pattinson told Ellen DeGeneres, "I am, but no one else seems to get into a relationship with me. It's really strange." He jokingly added, "People [such as fans] like screaming at me. Actually, they like screaming at me in relationships as well. No one wants to commit." Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| T-Pain Says It's Time 'For Everybody Else' To Stop Using Auto-Tune Posted: 18 Nov 2008 11:27 PM PST 'Diddy actually gave me royalties,' says Pain, who wants similar compensation from other artists using the effect.
At the end of the "Can't Believe It" remix, T-Pain says that Auto-Tune is almost up. What? Why would Pain, whose Thr33 Ringz debuts at #4 on next week's Billboard albums sales chart, extinguish his signature sound now? "Not for me," Pain clarified, "for everybody else." The singer — who told DJ Skee in a separate interview that artists such as Ron Browz have used the Auto-Tune effect poorly — told MTV News that his biters need to pay up. Hey, if Diddy can collaborate with Pain and pay him for using the Auto-Tune, so can you other guys.
"I gave T-Pain one point on my [upcoming] album for using the Auto-Tune," Diddy revealed on Sunday night during "Total Finale Live." "Sign the papers," advised Pain, who also worked on his friend Kanye West's 808's & Heartbreak. "Diddy actually gave me royalties on this album just for using Auto-Tune. He signed the contract and everything. If I can do that with Diddy, somebody else better be signing something. It's Diddy. He didn't have to involve me at all. ... I'm writing and producing on his album, and he gave me extra royalties on top of that for using something I just brought back." Pain said that Diddy's new material is in the lane of his singing-heavy hit "Last Night." "I gave him eight tracks," Pain said. "Eight songs. I don't how many he's gonna use, but I'll tell you how many I gave him. He's doing a little more singing. He's more like the Euro style. He's keeping it hip-hop but bringing some Euro in it. Very electronica." Probably the biggest collabo Pain has coming up is more time with Justin Timberlake. JT surprised Pain by sending over vocals for the "Can't Believe It" remix a couple of weeks back. "He sent it to me, I added what I did to it, and we got a remix now," Pain explained, adding with a gold-toothed grin, "I think that's what he did it for. I think he figured, 'If I do a remix, I can get him on my album.' That's how I got everybody on my album." "Freeze," with Chris Brown, is the next single from Thr33 Ringz, and while Pain claimed to have beaten C. Breezy a couple of times during in-studio dance battles, he said Ciara — who appears on "Blowing Up" — didn't step into the ring with him. "She don't dance too much in the studio," the Florida native said, adding that his sessions with CiCi were quick. "We did that song at the same time we did [Ciara's] 'Go Girl,' " Pain said. "She works fast. I work fast. We were working in two separate rooms and met right in the middle. I said, 'I'm done. Here you go.' She said, 'I'm done. Here you go.' " In December, Pain kicks off the I Am Music Tour with Keyshia Cole, Gym Class Heroes and his pal Lil Wayne. "It's weird because both of us got that [I Am Music] tattoo without knowing we was gonna get it," Pain said. "He's got it on his forehead; I just got it on my arm. I call it the T-Wayne Tour 'cause it's gonna be a highlight. People been waiting to see that." Related Videos Related Artists |
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