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T.I. To Re-Release <i>Paper Trail</i> With Five New Songs

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 06:02 AM PDT

MC talked with Sway during 'T.I.'s Road to Redemption: The Reckoning.'
By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Sway J. Calloway


T.I.
Photo: Nancy Ostertag/ Getty Images

T.I. said he wants to spend the time before his upcoming prison stint with his family, but the Grand Hustle rapper surprised many when he popped up onstage with Young Jeezy and Ludacris last weekend in Atlanta. 

His plans may include a family vacation and seeing one more birthday, as Tip told MTV News' Sway during their interview that airs Tuesday evening during "T.I.'s Road to Redemption: The Reckoning." But T.I. also intends to re-release his album Paper Trail with new tracks before the year's end, so an appearance here and there to tease some new records might be in order.

T.I. said the project will include five additional songs. He acknowledged he has a number of tracks he's already recorded to choose from: an early, leaked version of Paper Trail featured collaborations with The-Dream ("Like I Do") and Ciara ("My Dear") that didn't make the initial commercial release of the album. The rapper also has his hands on a Kanye West verse that was scrapped from the album to make way for the Roc-A-Fella star's guest turn on "Swagga Like Us."

"I'm still in the process of picking the songs," T.I. said. "But I'm also still recording. I'm able to record any time — through the best of times and through the worst of times, I'm still able to record. It may change the sort of song you do, but you never can tell. You never know until that moment gets there."

Paper Trail was by far T.I.'s biggest album to date. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard albums chart and sold more than half a million copies during its first week of release.

A representative for Atlantic records confirmed Paper Trail's re-release to MTV News, but a date for the project has not been set yet as of press time.

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Adam Lambert Gets A Standing O From Simon On 'American Idol'

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 05:00 AM PDT

Check out 'Idol' expert Jim Cantiello's minute-by-minute recap of the show.


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Rick Ross Enlists Lil Wayne For 50 Cent Dis Track 'Valley Of Death'

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:41 AM PDT

There's no word yet what Weezy raps about on his guest verse.
By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Tim Kash


Lil Wayne and Rick Ross
Photo: Ozone

Apparently Lil Wayne will appear on Rick Ross' Deeper Than Rap twice.

We already knew that Wayne joins Kanye West and T-Pain on Ross' "Maybach Music 2," but the Bawse revealed to us that Weezy will also be featured on "Valley of Death." A snippet of the song was released online recently, and Ross disses 50 Cent on his part. There's no word yet on what Wayne raps about, but Ross said the New Orleans superstar's verse was easy to get because of their friendship.

"Me and Wayne, I got a lot of respect and a lot of love, not only for Lil Wayne, but for Cash Money Records," Ross said. "Those were some of the few dudes that embraced me outside of the music long before the fame and fortune. I always felt it was genuine. Birdman and Slim been coming to Miami for years now. We developed a relationship being in and out of the studios. Anytime I called Wayne for anything — whether it's an album cut or remix — he was just there for me.

" 'Valley of Death,' that concept was just, that's really what it is — every day I get up and live the life that I live. Do the things I do. Move how I move," Ross added. "Walking in the valley of death, I feel my life is on the line every day. It's a 50/50 chance."

For his part, Lil Wayne has stayed away from any type of quarreling with 50 thus far. In fact, he has chosen to not address 50's attacks against him.

Another person Rick has been working with is 50 nemesis Ja Rule. Rule is on the remix of "Mafia Music," the record that sparked the G-Unit/ Rick Ross beef. "Ja Rule is on the record," he said. "Y'all gotta lay around for it."

Again, he didn't say what Rule's verse was about, but you can bet all the gadgets in Batman's cave that Rule's words won't be complimentary toward Fif, Lloyd Banks or Tony Yayo. Ross also said he hopes his and Ja's collaboration can lead to work on a new Rule album.

"I'm still a fan of Ja Rule," he said. "Ja Rule, put out your next album. Drop a next single real big. Put me on that. Keep selling records. What's the problem?"

Deeper Than Rap drops April 21.

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Kanye West Thanks Fans -- On A Speedboat! -- For Air Yeezy's Success

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 12:21 AM PDT

West posts video blog, filmed on a boat in Hawaii, thanking fans.
By Steven Roberts


Kanye West in his video blog on Monday
Photo: kanyeuniversecity.com

It's safe to say that Saturday's release of Kanye West's Nike Air Yeezys was a success: Fans of the shoe lined up outside of sneakers stores nationwide, including New York, Los Angeles, West's hometown of Chicago and and cleaned the shelves.

West had been posting release updates on his blog — from kids lining up outside the Beverley Center in LA to Young Jeezy giving away a free pair — all weekend, and on Saturday, one post thanked fans and promised a video blog.

"Thank y'all so much for the shoe. I'mma do a video blog to express my gratitude later," he wrote.

West delivered on that promise Monday night, posting a video titled thanking everyone for their support — which was filmed through a fish-eye lens from the back of a speedboat in Hawaii.

"Yeah, you know what I'm saying," he says, his words often obscured by the roar of the boat's engine. "That's what you say when you don't know what you're about say."

West said that he was on his way to shoot another scene for a video with Hype Williams — which would explain the fisheye lens — whom West points out behind him.

As West shows off a pair Air Yeezys, he said he wanted to do a video blog quickly and show of the clouds and the mountains in Hawaii, and the camera spins to focus on the scenery.

"I want to thank everyone that went out and supported and cop the Yeezys. A lot of people had to pay overprice. Next time, I'm going to do the Yeezy II's. Hopefully we prepare to do some more, but that was real good to get the buzz out there, and I appreciate everybody who went out and supported it."

"And that's live... why do people always say live on some pre-recorded sh--? Live from Hawaiii, Kanye to the ..."

Adding to the surreal nature of the video, it cuts off abruptly.

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Ludacris Welcomes Lil Scrappy To His Disturbing Tha Peace Family

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 06:02 AM PDT

'He never got the shot he needed to get,' says Jeff Dixon, co-CEO of DTP.
By Shaheem Reid


T.I., Lil Scrappy and Ludacris
Photo: MTV News

On Sunday night at Atlanta's Philips Arena, Ludacris announced that Lil Scrappy has joined his Disturbing Tha Peace label. And Scrappy won't be alone; he'll be bringing his own artists.

Jeff Dixon, co-CEO of DTP, said he and his family hope to make Scrappy into the next Luda — meaning he'll be successful artistically and business-wise.

"We're just excited to sign him because he's been in the game for a long time and he never got the shot he needed to get," Dixon said. "He has exciting music. ... He brings another dynamic to our label. We're adding another dimension."

Dixon told us Scrappy's next album, on which Ludacris will serve as a co-executive producer, should be out sometime in September. This summer, Scrappy could be featured on a probable DTP tour. Until then, Scrap will be dropping mixtapes, appearing on albums from Luda and DTP labelmate Willy Northpole and shooting a film.

On Sunday night, Ludacris and T.I. were special guests at Young Jeezy's show. Shortly after being introduced to the crowd, 'Cris brought out Scrappy and revealed to the crowd that his newest signee's deal had been inked a week before. Scrappy performed his own mini-set as well.

The last time Scrappy dropped a album was in late 2007, when he released his Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live under Lil Jon's imprint. That project was originally announced as a joint venture between Jon and 50 Cent's G-Unit but was delayed a few times and never really took off despite a club hit, "Money in the Bank." Scrappy was introduced to the world in 2004 with the King of Crunk & the BME Recordings Present Lil' Scrappy. That project was shared with Jon's other group at the time, Trillville.

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Nirvana's Kurt Cobain: Still Missed, By Kurt Loder

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:51 AM PDT

Singer was found dead 15 years ago today.


Kurt Cobain in 1993
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Editor's note: This is a revised version of an article published by MTV News in 2004.

Fifteen years ago today, Kurt Cobain's body was found at his house outside of Seattle. He had been threatening to commit suicide — had tried it, even — and now he'd succeeded. The leader of one of the best and biggest bands of the '90s went out on a shotgun blast, in a fog of heroin. A terrible waste, but that was the way he wanted it.

His death wasn't a complete surprise, really. The lyrics that Cobain wrote for Nirvana — the cloud of feeling in which he cloaked his simple song structures — came from a place you were sometimes glad you were only visiting. In a business in which most of what passes for emotion is just another pop calculation, the feeling in Kurt's songs was real. He was apparently amazed, or appalled, by the wealth and fame they brought him. (Although he wasn't so oblivious to these things that he didn't renegotiate the three-way split with his bandmates to reflect the fact the he was the songwriter, and deserved a larger cut.)

They were a great band in any case. But they dealt with their stardom — their sudden, huge renown — mainly by ignoring it. They had no entourage, no hangers-on, no parade of retainers. Showing up for an interview, they would just walk into the room, unaccompanied, bringing along their own beer, likely as not. They were funny; they were nice guys. They had no attitude. Cobain hated the traditional rock-star pose — which was why he had such contempt for Guns N' Roses. He had no interest in giving anybody a hard time.

This is how cool they were. In December of 1993, MTV was getting ready to pre-tape a big New Year's Eve concert in Seattle. Nirvana was one of the bands on the bill, but the headliner was Pearl Jam. Come the day of the show, though, Pearl Jam flaked out and withdrew. In desperation, MTV approached Nirvana and asked the band to step in and save the show, to headline it. This was a huge imposition — essentially, the channel was asking the band to play all night. Nirvana said they'd think about it, and they did. They thought about it for maybe 10 minutes, and then they said, sure.

Or consider this, a story from one of their tours. MTV News had been lobbying to come out on the road with the band, shoot a concert, do an interview. The group was cordial about it, but the answer was no. They'd done a ton of press at the beginning of the tour, and apparently couldn't bear to be asked one more question along the lines of what-is-this-grunge-thing? Who could blame them?

Sitting in New York, though, we thought, wait a minute ... there were two opening acts on the tour, and one of them was Shonen Knife. Shonen Knife was the all-time unlikeliest of rock acts: three burbly Japanese girls with drums and guitars who sang songs about ice cream and jelly beans and sounded like the Ramones might have sounded if the Ramones had sung songs about ice cream and jelly beans. Perfect. We would fly out to wherever and interview the jelly-bean girls and, who knew, maybe pick up a couple shots of the Nirvana guys, too, on the fly. (Kurt Cobain really loved Shonen Knife. He would always come out from backstage to watch them play. "I cried every night," he said.)

Unfortunately, the money people at MTV were dubious about shelling out for an interview with an obscure Japanese punk-pop band. So we had to crawl back to Nirvana and beg them to rethink their no-more-press decision, just this once, and agree to do an interview with us. That way we could get production money — no question there — and fly out and do the Knife, too, and everybody'd be happy. Nirvana thought about this for about 10 minutes too. Then they said, sure.

Cobain loved Shonen Knife and he loved the Vaselines, too, bands like that. But he wasn't an alt-rock snob. He loved everyone from David Bowie to Leadbelly. He said he'd come across Leadbelly's name in reading an interview with William Burroughs. (Burroughs, the Beat author and heroin laureate, was one of Kurt's idols, perhaps unfortunately.) He first recorded the Leadbelly song "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" with his friend Mark Lanegan, of Screaming Trees, singing lead. (The track is included on Lanegan's 1990 solo album, The Winding Sheet.) And of course it was the last song he sang in the MTV "Unplugged" show Nirvana taped in New York in November of 1993. With its bleak lyric about a godforsaken place "where the cold wind blows" and "the sun don't ever shine," "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" must have resonated deeply in Cobain's troubled mind.

I had said or written somewhere that "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" was more commonly known as "In the Pines," and had been performed and recorded under that title by scores of people, chief among them, in my view, bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe. Cobain found this interesting, apparently — or maybe irritating, I'm not sure. I remember standing in a corridor outside his hotel room one night, after the interview we finally did in December of 1993, discussing this subject at some length: "But the Leadbelly version is called 'Where Did You Sleep Last Night.' " "I know, I know, but the Bill Monroe version is called 'In the Pines,' and that's the title I've always heard and — hey, did you ever hear the Dave Van Ronk version? Great guitar player." "Yeah ...?"

A truce was called. I apologized for having impugned his folk-blues expertise. He said, hey, it was okay. He spoke very softly, I remember. Then he said goodnight and disappeared behind his door and that was the last time I saw him.

After his death I wondered whether he and the rest of Nirvana ever realized the powerful emotional effect their music (and their titanic live shows) had on people. Possibly not. "It really took a while," Dave Grohl later said, "like a year and a half or more after everything happened, that I realized, like, 'Wow, we really did kinda make a difference.' " It's too bad Kurt Cobain never had that realization — or, if he did, that it wasn't enough to keep him interested, to keep him alive. He's still missed.

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Rick Ross Is 'Competing For The Throne' With <i>Deeper Than Rap</i>

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:50 AM PDT

'The fans and the people can see my hunger,' rapper tells MTV News.
By Shaheem Reid, with reporting by Tim Kash


Rick Ross
Photo: MTV News

Rick Ross knows a lot of the masters of the game. He's worked with plenty of them. The Miami native said that when he thinks of people on the throne in rap music, names such as Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Kanye West and the Birdman are the first that come to mind.

"I look at the game and the business and all different aspects," Ross said a few days ago sitting in New York's Philippe Chow restaurant. "It's a lot of great lyricists on the corner that will never properly understand the business and know how to market themselves and get in a position where they can gain capital. I look at all the strategies people use and what made them successful. What made Birdman just as relevant today after selling 50 million records? That intrigues me. To see the class of Jay-Z, his accomplishments and see how he sits backs and accurately makes his moves."

When his third LP, Deeper Than Rap, drops on April 21, Ross thinks he'll gain a throne all his own. The record, he said, is his best work.

"I feel like it's much more soulful, it's much more sophisticated," Ross said. "To be considered one of the best, you gotta compete. That's what I feel like I'm doing. I feel like I'm competing for the throne. I feel like the fans and the people can see my hunger. They could see my growth. They could know I'm not satisfied with just two #1 albums and selling 2 million records, or whatever I sold. I want more."

He said he wants to be etched in history and fans' memories. "I'm confident I'm gonna be remembered as one of the innovators and somebody not scared to make big music and take on all different challengers," Ross said. "That's what makes music exciting."

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Kurt Cobain: The Death Of The Scruffy Noble

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:50 AM PDT

Nirvana frontman represented the honor that came with never compromising — whether he liked it or not, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery


Kurt Cobain in 1993
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Fifteen years ago today, an electrician named Gary Smith was sent out to a gray clapboard home near Lake Washington in Seattle to install a security system. What he discovered, in the greenhouse above the garage, would change the face of rock and roll forever. It was the body of Kurt Cobain.

The Nirvana frontman had been missing for several days, after fleeing a rehab facility in Los Angeles. His mother, Wendy O'Connor, had filed a missing-persons report with Seattle police, advising them to look in Capitol Hill, where Cobain may have been attempting to score drugs. In actuality, he was already holed up in his Lake Washington home, in the greenhouse above the garage, where on the morning of April 5, he removed his hunting cap — which he wore when he didn't want people to recognize him — tossed his wallet on the ground, wrote a one-page suicide note to an imaginary childhood friend named "Boddah" and ended his life with a 20-gauge shotgun blast to the temple.

Three days later, sometime around 9 a.m. PT, Smith discovered Cobain's body. He called police (and a local radio station), and then there were the breaking-news bulletins and the vigils and the questions and the tears. And then it was all over.

Not the remembrances or the hand-wringing or even the speculation about Cobain's death, mind you ... that all continues to this day, in voluminous tomes and box sets and documentaries and the like. Rather, April 8 marked the end of an ideal, of a movement. That sounds hokey, but if I've learned anything in the 15 years since his exit, it's this: When Cobain left, he took a lot more with him than just Nirvana.

This isn't another piece meant to codify Cobain (or his band) or measure the length of their musical shadows. Suffice to say, Nirvana released three studio albums, and all of them rip. And Cobain possessed a growl that could crumble walls and a wail that could cut glass (to say nothing of his songwriting or his underappreciated sense of melody). Everyone knows this. Nirvana were probably our Beatles. Cobain was probably our John Lennon. Let's move on.

What I want to talk about was everything that Cobain symbolized, whether he liked it (or most likely didn't). He was hope, he was heft. He was the everyman, the end of the rock star, the punk dream realized. He had made it, and he was going to lift people up with him. He was cynicism and venom. He represented idealism and truth and the honor that came with never compromising. When he lived, rock music had importance, it had vitality. It was very possible that his songs could change the world. There was a scruffy nobility to him.

Of course, it is entirely possible that he was just the right man at the right time. Nobody represented the idealistic (and, at the same time, nihilistic) '90s like Cobain did. But if you noticed, when he died, all that idealism, all that hope, all that import seemed to die with him. The very idea that a band (or a man) can change the world with music now feels beyond laughable. We have become scarred and jaded. A lot of us are no longer willing to believe in the power of a guitar or a lyric, because Cobain took that with him 15 years ago.

And that's sad, because no matter what Cobain was, no matter what he symbolized or who he inspired, he was ultimately just a man. He had demons that proved too strong and too numerous, and they ganged up on him and dragged him away. And that taught us a lesson: Don't deify, because you'll just end up betrayed. We've spent 15 years doing the complete opposite — we no longer build up, we tear down. We don't believe in things. We no longer strive for truth or subscribe to any particular ethos. Probably because we're afraid to.

Two years ago, on the eve of his 40th birthday, I interviewed a host of people who knew Cobain well and asked them what he'd be doing if he were still alive. They said he would've retreated from public view (perhaps to a desert, as Butch Vig surmised); made deeply personal, decidedly anti-commercial music; and despised the way our society had turned out. I tend to agree with all that. It's difficult (if not impossible) to imagine Cobain alive today ... at least not the way we all remember him. He just wouldn't fit. He couldn't.

I was in 10th grade when the news broke. I remember watching Kurt Loder read the emerging details of Cobain's death on TV, and I remember watching the vigils in the Seattle Center park, and I remember being very sad. At the time, I think it was because of the loss of our great and noble leader and the shuddering of an entire generation. Now, I realize it was because a little piece of me died that day too.

I lost the idealism of youth. And the idealism that comes with plugging in a guitar and playing it very loudly (and very badly). That's never going to come back, either. Probably for any of us.

Questions? Comments? Hit me up at BTTS@MTVStaff.com.

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Nas And Damian Marley Team Up For Rock The Bells Tour, Joint Album

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 06:35 AM PDT

Duo will release Distant Relatives in June.
By Shaheem Reid


Nas
Photo: Mark Sullivan/WireImage

Nas and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley will be spending plenty of time together this summer. The duo are releasing a joint album called Distant Relatives in June as well as headlining the latest Rock the Bells tour.

It was announced Tuesday night (April 7) during a press conference that Nas and Marley will be joined on the road by KRS-One, Common, Big Boi, Wu-Tang members RZA and Raekwon, the rap supergroup Slaughterhouse, Brooklyn vets M.O.P., Pete Rock, newcomer Mickey Factz and the Roots. (That was a quick hiatus from trekking for the Philadelphia rap band.)

The North American leg of Rock the Bells starts June 27 and runs through August 9. Rock the Bells has traditionally been a place where legends meet promising newcomers. One of the highlights last year for Nas — a Rock the Bells vet — was when he brought out Jay-Z during the Long Island, New York, stop. This year, he'll have a partner for all his shows.

In a statement released to the press Tuesday, Nas said his new album — which mixes reggae and hip-hop — will offer social commentary on the U.S. and the Motherland.

"As an American, we have so much even in a so-called recession that a neighborhood like Queensbridge or Red Hook is Beverly Hills compared to the way people are living in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Ghana," he said. "So obviously if we making records with that theme, there's gonna be things I want to build on. I think Africa has a lot to teach us."

"Africa is the backbone of the world and the foundation of everything, and Africans are in a situation where they need help more than anywhere else," said Marley, who helmed a bulk of the beats on the album. "We know there are dire situations here in America, but when you look at America — with public libraries and free education — these are not opportunities most Africans have. It's a completely different scale of trying to help people. As human beings, we're part of a human family."

Distant Relatives, according to the rep, addresses Nas and Jr. Gong's tight relationship as well as their African lineage.

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Eminem's 'We Made You' Video: Which Celebs Get Slammed?

Posted: 06 Apr 2009 11:49 PM PDT

From Jessica Alba to Amy Winehouse, here's an alphabetical rundown of Em's latest victims.
By James Montgomery


Eminem as Bret Michaels in his "We Made You" video
Photo: Interscope

If Eminem has proven anything throughout his career, it's that he's not afraid to put celebrities on blast. From "My Name Is" to "Just Lose It," he's gone after some of the biggest names in Hollywood, never pulling a punch and never (ever) apologizing.

And his new video, for "We Made You," is no different. In fact, you might even say he's taken the art of celeb skewering to new heights with the clip. The targets come fast and furious, lyrically and visually, so to help you keep track of them all, we've compiled a list.

Alphabetized for your convenience, here's Eminem's "We Made You" celebrity-slam list:

Alba, Jessica: Actress. Appears in a shower scene, à la "Psycho." Causes Em to "make a mess in [his] trousers." Repeatedly punches him in the face.

Aniston, Jennifer: Former "Friend," eternal bridesmaid. Makes a brief cameo as the latte-clutching girlfriend of singer John Mayer. Is apparently "in love" with Eminem.

Babbit, Raymond: Lead character in 1988's "Rain Man." For reasons clear to only him, Em spends a large portion of the "We Made You" video dressed as Babbit, an autistic savant with eidetic memory. Lands a 21 at a Vegas blackjack table, repeatedly hits, loses all of his (and 50 Cent's) money. Falls over.

DeGeneres, Ellen: Comedian and talk-show host. Em beams onto the set of her show, punches her wife, Portia de Rossi, in the leg. Propositions de Rossi, asking, "What's Ellen DeGeneres have that I don't? Are you telling me tenderness? Well, I can be as gentle and smooth as a gentleman."

Fielder-Civil, Blake: Skeevy on-again/off-again husband of Amy Winehouse. Appears in a jailhouse scene. Makes out with Winehouse in excruciating detail.

Kardashian, Kim: Celebutant of questionable talent who "is a man," according to Eminem. Goes on a dinner date with the rapper (who, for reasons never fully explained, is dressed like Disco Inferno), attacks him with her ample posterior. Is put in a wood-chipper at clip's end, à la "Fargo."

Lohan, Lindsay: "Actress"/ paparazzi fodder. Is picked up by the long-haul-trucker version of Eminem (along with former love interest Samantha Ronson), who advises her to end her relationship and "come back to seeing men/ Samantha's a 2, you're practically a 10." Perhaps she listened.

Mathers, Marshall: The real Slim Shady. No, really. Proving that he's not above poking fun at himself in his videos, Eminem includes a shot that harkens back to his mulleted past, when he wore pink "ALF" T-shirts and apparently loved birthday cake.

Mayer, John: Guitar-slinging troubadour/ celebrity-cruise enthusiast. Only makes a brief cameo in "We Made You," as a sensitive, porkpie-hat-wearing singer/songwriter. Impressive, if only because we don't think we've actually ever seen Mayer wear a porkpie hat.

Michaels, Bret: Em opens the clip dressed as the "Rock of Love" star, mocks his impressively arched eyebrows and bandanna-and-cowboy-hat predilection. Is later seen in bed with Sarah Palin, where he clears the room with his flatulence. Is finally revealed to be bald.

Palin, Sarah: Former Republican vice-presidential candidate. Is portrayed in the "We Made You" video by porn star Lisa Ann, who also starred as Palin in Hustler Video's astute political melodrama "Who's Nailin' Paylin?"

Presley, Elvis: Deceased rock legend. Em dons the same prison stripes Presley wore in the 1957 flick "Jailhouse Rock" and imitates his dance routine too. There's also a pretty apt Elvis-as-cultural-appropriator metaphor that applies here, but let's just move on.

Romo, Tony: Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Em puts on Romo's pads, thrusts his pelvis, rubs up on an actress portraying Jessica Simpson, tosses a hamburger for a touchdown. Unlike real-life Romo, he does not also choke during playoffs.

Ronson, Samantha: Celebrity DJ/ paparazzi fodder. Appears alongside Lohan in Eminem's truck, latter battles him on "Planet Womyn," while hundreds of lesbians cheer her on. Believe it or not, this is only about the third most insulting scene in the "We Made You" video.

Simpson, Jessica: Fallen pop star masquerading as country artist. A favorite Eminem target, this time around, she's portrayed as the cheeseburger-devouring, Daisy Duke-wearing, General Lee-washing girlfriend of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. This is actually fairly accurate.

Spears, Britney: Embattled pop star/ cultural icon. Another Em fave, in the "We Made You" video, Brit is seen pole-dancing and knocking out former flame Adnan Ghalib. Also, we're fairly certain she's played by a drag queen.

Spock: Half-Vulcan, half-human science officer of the USS Enterprise. Eminem adopts the Spock persona several times in the "We Made You" video, dispensing Vulcan nerve pinches and spying on Jessica Alba. If they gave out awards for "eyebrow acting," Em's turn here would definitely land him a nomination.

Winehouse, Amy: British singer/ train wreck. The beehived one receives a lot of attention in the "We Made You" clip, making out with Em and generally looking like a vampiric bit of roadkill. She may very well be the easiest target in the world, but, hey, even Eminem isn't above a layup or two.

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