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- Eminem Talks About Brüno Incident At MTV Movie Awards
- Drake Hopes To Have Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z On Debut LP
- Wale Says Lady Gaga Brings 'Bad Girl' Vibe To 'Chillin' '
- Irv Gotti Says Jay-Z Is A Better MC Than Eminem
- Kanye West Posts 'Paranoid' Video, Starring Rihanna, On His Blog
- Pretty Ricky's Spectacular Takes On His Male Haters In New Video
- Wisin Y Yandel Start A <i>Revolucion</i>
- Heidi And Spencer Are Still On 'Celebrity'
- Eminem's <i>Relapse</i> Hangs Onto <i>Billboard</i> #1
| Eminem Talks About Brüno Incident At MTV Movie Awards Posted: 03 Jun 2009 04:18 AM PDT 'I'm thrilled that we pulled this off better than we rehearsed it,' Eminem says.
At the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, Brüno shocked the celebrity-filled audience, viewers at home and — apparently — Eminem himself when he dropped from the rafters of the Gibson Amphitheatre via wires and landed on the rapper, with his bare butt just inches from Eminem's face. Eminem spoke with RapRadar.com about the incident in an article posted on Wednesday (June 3).
"Sacha [Baron Cohen, a.k.a. Brüno] called me when we were in Europe and he had an idea to do something outrageous at the Movie Awards. I'm a big fan of his work so I agreed to get involved with the gag," Em said. "I'm thrilled that we pulled this off better than we rehearsed it. It had so many people going 'nuts,' so to speak. Everyone was blowing me up about it." Asked where he went after he stormed out of the theater, Eminem said, "After the ceremony I went back to my hotel and laughed uncontrollably for about three hours. Especially after I saw it on-air." The MC also addressed reports that surfaced Wednesday that his hotel room was robbed on Sunday night while he was at the awards, and lost a $60,000 necklace and his laptop. "The only thing was that I lost a Nike watch that we were looking for," he said. "The rest it is made up, like half the other stuff out there." Eminem also talked about his surprise performance with Jay-Z in Los Angeles on Monday night, which saw both MCs performing solo sets and teaming up for their collaboration "Renegade." "I love performing with Jay," he said. "It's the third time we've done the song together live and it's always fun. It was an honor to share the stage with him again and to work with his band." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Drake Hopes To Have Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z On Debut LP Posted: 04 Jun 2009 03:51 AM PDT 'I just wanna make music people enjoy,' MC says of Thank Me Later.
All this hype and he only just started working on his own album. Drake has taken full advantage of the buzz he's gotten off of his So Far Gone mixtape, touring and writing songs for stars like Rihanna.
But as excited as he is about being in the studio with Rih Rih, Drake is very focused on his own solo LP, Thank Me Later. He still hopes Kanye West will be a part of it, along with Lil Wayne and, hopefully, Jay-Z. "Everybody is looking for this one joint with me and Jay, so that needs to happen," Drake said. "My goal at this point is to keep making that organic music. I don't wanna feel pressure now that I have a single and music that's hot," he added. "I don't wanna be pressured ... that, 'Oh I have to have radio hits.' I just wanna make music people enjoy." As Drake continues to impress fans and peers, he says that one guy he looks to for advice is none other than the head of his Young Money clique, Lil Wayne. "Wayne is another one that — rap-wise, verse-wise — was my favorite," he said. "And to be under his wing, to be able to interact with him on a daily basis and talk to him and get information from him — I'm in a blessed position. I have the greatest mentors, the greatest teachers in the world. They all have gradually started to embrace me more and more, so it's a great feeling." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Wale Says Lady Gaga Brings 'Bad Girl' Vibe To 'Chillin' ' Posted: 03 Jun 2009 03:21 AM PDT 'I like to think of myself as the first person of the new class to kind of step out of the box,' rapper says.
When Wale announced the release of his single "Chillin' " in April, it was met with a few raised eyebrows. The D.C. MC had enlisted Lady Gaga for the track, and many wondered how the performance-art, dance-pop princess would fit in Wale's world of go-go and clever flows. They also wondered if it were just an attempt to garner some notoriety for the up-and-coming rapper standing alongside the hugely popular Gaga.
Once the song was released, others wondered why he hadn't just grabbed M.I.A for the hook; Gaga's "Chillin' " chorus sounds eerily similar to M.I.A.'s world-traveled flow. When MTV News caught up with Wale on the video set for "Chillin'," he said his goal was to go against the status quo of what a hip-hop track should sound like. "Diddy, Kanye and Jay are always the first ones to do something, and I like to think of myself as the first person of the new class to kind of step out of the box," Wale said. "It's 2009 now. Jay-Z is doing sold-out arenas with Kelly Clarkson. It's world music now. I want 'Chillin' ' to be a celebration of that." Wale had been campaigning since November to get Lady Gaga on a track, because he felt she embodied the song's party-record feel. "If music was a high school, I feel like I'll be the dude on the football team, and it would be like, 'OK, Gaga's having a party!' And you know all the bad girls are going to be out there." Gaga told MTV News on the video set that Mark Ronson, Wale's mentor, originally sent her the record. "I really wanted to sit down with Wale before I wrote the hook," she recalled. "Because to me, it's really lame when people send you tracks, and they're like, 'All right, Gaga, throw your vocals on it.' This is Wale's record. It's not my record." Gaga said Wale sounds like he's been rapping for years. His hip-hop braggadocio seems to have rubbed off on her as well. Her portion of the song — which includes the lines "Lookin' at, lookin' at, lookin' at me/ Eyes on me like honey on bees" — is completely narcissistic, she admitted, but in a really positive way. "It's one of those songs, one of those tracks and one of those videos that you can't stop listening to," she said. Despite the catchiness of the song and their apparent chemistry on set, Wale recognized that some people still won't get it. Breaking down barriers in music isn't an easy thing, he said, but that won't stop him from trying: "If Jay-Z can work with Coldplay, then Wale should be able to work with Gaga." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Irv Gotti Says Jay-Z Is A Better MC Than Eminem Posted: 04 Jun 2009 03:51 AM PDT Plus: Jeremih wants Keri Hilson to remix 'Birthday Sex,' in Mixtape Daily.
Fire Starter: Jeremih If you don't know the lyrics by now, you'll be very familiar with them by the end of the summer: "It's your birthday, so I know you wanna ri-i-i-ide out." Singer Jeremih got right down to business with his hit "Birthday Sex." "I still [read] comments like, 'I thought it was The-Dream.' Or 'I thought it was R. Kelly.' Or 'I thought it was J. Holiday' — guys that have similar sounds and tones to my voice as well as the instrumentation to the song," Jeremih said about the reaction to his song and how he gets compared to his older peers. "But those are big names. I feel real good. I feel blessed to have a hit, and even to be compared to those hitmakers is great." Although fans are familiar with his voice, everyone isn't aware of what the 21-year-old Chicago native looks like. That might change now that a video for the song just came out. Jeremih wrote the song (he writes and produces) last September, and on October 30, it debuted on the airwaves in his hometown. The station gave the upstart — who has only been singing seriously for two years — a shot. A few months later, a host of record execs saw that the song had legs, and everybody reached out to him. He decided to roll with Def Jam. "I wouldn't say it's my favorite song on the album," J admitted of "Birthday Sex." "It just was chosen first." Right now, he's partial to a ballad and a club banger from his self-titled, self-produced LP. "It's called 'Jumpin',' " he said of one cut he loves. "But my favorite is called 'Starting All Over,' which is a slow, soul love song. I wrote it because ... in relationships, that's the hardest thing to do. You breaking up, you making up. I'm saying in this song: 'This girl is worth starting all over.' " 'Jumpin',' hands down, club banger of '09," he added. "The crowd is jumping. The hook is soulful. The lyrics are witty, dumb, off-the-wall type of words." Def Jam would be overjoyed if either song is even half as successful as "Birthday Sex." Not only do the fans love the record, but Jeremih's peers — from R. Kelly to Red Cafe — have added verses to their own unofficial remixes of the song.
"Just the fact that people are taking time out to add verses shows how powerful the record is," he said. "That it has impacted a lot of people's lives. Honestly, I've heard a lot of them from the guys on the block to the mainstream. I really feel that it's some records that's out that's just timeless, that if somebody tries to add on to be better, it wouldn't have the same effect as the original. And I don't even know if it's because it's me or whatever, but I've heard a lot of remixes, and I felt that nobody has made the song any better than what it already is. But I'm all ears." Jeremih said it will take a lady to knock him off his feet with a remix. "I feel the perfect remix has to be a female singing it me for my birthday. That would be the perfect. I'm still waiting on one, man," Jeremih said, suggesting Keri Hilson for the job. "She's hot, she's fresh. I know she's done a lot of damage on the writing side too. I feel like her swagger, it seems like it would be the female version of me on the song. I still haven't met her, but I feel she'll do her thing on the remix. Can you sing to me, Miss Keri baby?" Jeremih's birthday is coming up soon — July 17 — 10 days after his debut hits stores. The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground Who is the best? Who would win in a battle? It's a hypothetical conversation that hip-hop fans have every day about their favorite spitters. We here at MTV News have a great time debating the "Hottest MCs in the Game" (check for that '09 list coming sooner than you think — controversial!), and in October, Vibe magazine put out their list of the Greatest Rappers Alive. More than 920,000 fans voted on tournament brackets, in which different MCs would face each other in dream rap matches. Irv Gotti came by the MTV offices and spoke to us about the list recently. Although he wasn't as adamant as Joe Budden was about the list being wrong, IG took exception to Eminem ranking in the top spot.
"I got a thing with Eminem," Gotti said. "This has nothing to do with the beef. I don't really feel like I have beef with Eminem. This has no hatred or nothing. This is just my opinion on it. Vibe did a thing, and they had him as the #1 rapper. Sh-- like that kinda pisses me off. You know why? Because let's take Eminem's records. Watch my analogy. Eminem is a great artist, no doubt. He puts words together, he's witty, a smart lyricist, a great lyricist. But how can we say the guy is the best rapper alive? Look at Hov. He makes real records. Every one of Eminem's first singles is some clown sh--. He's clowning. Is that the #1? That's not my #1 rapper, man." Gotti said he also factored in the battle element in deciding that Jay-Z is better than Em. He said that back in the day, Slim Shady wouldn't have a chance against a young Jay — or DMX and Ja Rule, for that matter. "No disrespect, you're a great lyricist, but I come from a school — I know they 'battled' in '8 Mile' — but I come from where they battled on the streets with guns out," the head of Murder Inc. said. "They would have put you under pressure. All that 'off the top,' they would have put you under pressure. I been to battles with X, Jay and Ja, that was some real sh--. Homie, you wouldn't been able to survive. These n---as was going with written sh--. In your grill. X [would say,] 'I don't walk, I stalk, living foul.' Saying some sh-- you wouldn't been able to withstand." Gotti said Em would survive in a cipher with the big dogs. "You would have been like, 'My name is Em and I eat M&Ms. I eat you.' What?" IG laughed. He said the Detroit legend would have been greeted with three harsh words: " 'Shut the f--- up!' It would have been a 'shut the f--- up' moment off the top. Dame [Dash] would have been like, 'Look at him. He's crunchy! He's wack!' Then I look at the singles he put out. They're all good, but they only work for him. I say take Eminem, and let him say 'Hard Knock Life.' Still hot. Now let's have Jay-Z say the 'We Made You' song. They would laugh him out the f---ing building. ... It would be over." Irv finished by saying the best rapper alive has to be Jay-Z or Lil Wayne. For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Kanye West Posts 'Paranoid' Video, Starring Rihanna, On His Blog Posted: 03 Jun 2009 03:26 AM PDT Rapper releases clip after yet another unfinished version leaks online.
It's turning out to be video-premiere day on Kanye West's Web site. The Chicago rapper posted a second clip on his blog Wednesday (June 3), this time for his next single "Paranoid," which co-stars Rihanna. An early version of the "Paranoid" video leaked online recently. Video director Nabil Elderkin described the leaked clip to MTV News last week as a "rough cut." Then, earlier Wednesday, a subpar version of the finalized video hit the Web. So West took to his own site to post the completed final version, which he revealed was set to debut Thursday. "Here is the 'Paranoid' vid, which wasn't supposed to drop till [Thursday], but here it goes," West wrote. 'Ye also premiered a previously unreleased video for "Spaceship," from his debut album, on Wednesday morning. In "Paranoid," an ominous West is featured only sparingly in the clip and takes a backseat to a sexy Rihanna. The "Umbrella" star is introduced in a bedroom scene, as the camera pans over her before a number of shadow-like hands pull the covers away from her. Rihanna later appears in a noir-style car chase. 'Ye is in a darker role in the clip, never appearing onscreen for longer than a few seconds. The rapper's characteristics are enhanced at times and appear wolf-like. His eyes flash to reveal narrow, beady pupils, and fangs flash onscreen several times. By the end of the clip, Rihanna returns to bed, tossing and turning, but doesn't wake up. The three-minute video appears to be a bad dream. The director said the clip matches the song's premise. "It's fantasy meets paranoid, when you get into that frame of mind and get trapped into your thoughts," Elderkin explained. "It starts out subtle, but then it just builds. So I wanted to get that into the video, to build that into her dream sequence and get her into that paranoid state of mind." Related Artists |
| Pretty Ricky's Spectacular Takes On His Male Haters In New Video Posted: 03 Jun 2009 02:13 AM PDT He also gets up-close-and-personal with a folding chair in the scandalous clip.
Spectacular has a problem. It seems a large portion of the population — you know, the portion that's male — watched his utterly amazing, pirouette-and-banana-hammock-fueled YouTube clip, the one he dubbed "a grinding challenge" to R&B pelvis-thrusters like Chris Brown and Day26. The Pretty Ricky member took issue with this, because the video was strictly for the ladies. The libidinous, lip-licking lothario already made this point during an interview last week with Chicago radio personality Kendra G, saying, "Everybody knows I'm not gay. ... The underwear was for the ladies." But he apparently felt the need to explain it once again with another YouTube clip. And lots of furniture humping. "I got a situation to address. For everybody that watched that video — and it wasn't really for you to watch — I clearly said, 'Strictly for the ladies,' " Spectacular tells the camera. "Now, I'mma say it again to get it clear: 'Strictly for the ladies.' If you don't watch it, you won't have no comment." He then gets down to business, popping his pecs, rippling his abs and positively pummeling a helpless folding chair with his pelvis. Over and over again. From many different angles. Seriously, it never stops. And then he does a back-flip. Oh, and he's wearing black boxers this time. We applaud Spec for giving a knowing nod to the ottoman-ravaging craze of 2007 (which was, in its own right, a knowing nod to Pretty Ricky themselves), but we're not exactly sure how this is supposed to clear up the whole "strictly for the ladies" controversy. And we're not even going to begin to attempt to comprehend the flawed logic of the entire thing. (If Spec's first video was, in fact, a grinding challenge to the male R&B stars of the world, how were they supposed to respond to it if they weren't allowed to in the first place?) But really ... does any of that matter? It's a dude humping a folding chair. We cannot wait for his next retort. Related Artists |
| Wisin Y Yandel Start A <i>Revolucion</i> Posted: 03 Jun 2009 04:18 AM PDT Grammy-winning duo have highest Latin chart debut in two years with new album.
Wisin y Yandel set the lofty goal of revolutionizing Latin music with their groundbreaking new album — and they did just that when their aptly titled La Revolución sold over 35,000 copies in its first week, garnering the #1 spot on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart and #7 on the Top 200, the highest debut of a Latin album in two years. Sales for the much-hyped CD were no doubt buoyed by the duo's music video for the single "Mujeres en el Club," featuring 50 Cent.
The reggaetón giants also supported the release with in-store record signings held in Los Angeles, New York and Puerto Rico. Thousands of screaming fans waited in line for hours for a chance to meet their idols and get a signed copy of their new CD. For many female fans, professing their undying love and proposing marriage seemed the top priority. "We're super happy to see the fan reaction," Yandel told MTV News at the L.A. signing. "Thousands have come out just to buy our CD and to meet us. It's really incredible what's happening here." "We're dedicated," one female fan said. "We'll be here rain, shine, whatever — ditch work, school. Anywhere in the U.S., we'll be there." "I'm a big Wisin y Yandel fan because they represent Latinos all over the world," a male fan added. "And they've been putting it down for a long time, putting out nothing but hot CDs." "I'm a Wisin y Yandel fan 'cause I love their music," another fan said. "They came out with one club banger and just kept it going. If you're not, a fan go out and get the CD. Trust me, they will keep you entertained." Wisin y Yandel credit the fans for their massive success — especially their large Latino fanbase for their unwavering support throughout their 10-year career. "The most important thing to us is our fans," Wisin said. "All the Latino fans who have followed us and supported us throughout our career. Definitely in places like L.A., Mexico and also people in the Bronx, Puerto Rico and Dominicans. There are so many Latinos who support our music. We want to say thanks for all the love and support you've shown us over the years." And the Grammy-winning duo will be thanking all their fans personally when they hit the road in September for a 15-city U.S. tour. While they've previously sold out New York's Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles' Staples Center, this marks the first time they'll embark on a coast-to-coast North American tour. "This is just the beginning of La Revolución," said Wisin. "We'll be visiting cities everywhere to meet all our fans. You'll be hearing a lot more from us this year. So to all the fans out there and to our MTV family, thanks. We love you guys." Tickets for the La Revolución tour go on sale June 5. Related Videos Related Artists |
| Heidi And Spencer Are Still On 'Celebrity' Posted: 02 Jun 2009 10:11 PM PDT Rep for the 'Hills' couple confirms that they haven't quit the show.
After very dramatically exiting the Costa Rican jungle on Tuesday night's episode of "I'm a Celebrity" and promising that they'd quit for real, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are still on the show, according to their rep. "Heidi and Spencer are still in the jungle and part of the show," their rep told MTV News on Wednesday (June 3). Although rumors had been out there that the couple would be arriving in Los Angeles late Tuesday night, MTV News has confirmed, there were decoys under blankets on the plane, sent to throw people off the fact that Heidi and Spencer were still in the jungle and plotting their big return. Those decoys were Spencer's sister, Stephanie Pratt, and a friend named Spenser. When the duo known as Speidi made their big exit on Tuesday, their fellow contestants were taking bets on whether they were really leaving. The pair had threatened to leave the show several times before — since Spencer told the group "he's too rich and too famous" to stay in the jungle — without actually following through. At the time of their departure, they added that they're "the most famous people in the world" and would rather head back to "The Hills" than stay in the woods. But Spencer quickly hit up his Twitter account and wrote that he hoped the show's producers would take Speidi back on the show. "The devil fooled Speidi into making an awful decision and we are praying to Jesus to get NBC to give us another shot to redeem. We're praying to Jesus that NBC forgives us for being quitters!" he wrote. "Quitters never win and a winner never quits!" Related Photos |
| Eminem's <i>Relapse</i> Hangs Onto <i>Billboard</i> #1 Posted: 03 Jun 2009 09:22 AM PDT Green Day land at #2, while indie faves Grizzly Bear surprise with #8 debut.
Eminem asked the crowd at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night if they missed him, and clearly they did, because his comeback album, Relapse, will top the Billboard album charts for a second week in a row next week, thanks to 211,000 more units moved. After debuting at #1, Slim Shady held onto the top spot despite a 65 percent drop in sales and is on pace to cross 1 million copies within the next two weeks, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan. Way in the distance at #2 are Green Day, whose 21st Century Breakdown held onto that spot with 76,000 in sales after a 54 percent drop-off in business, putting the veteran Bay Area punk trio on pace for sales of 500,000 by next week.
While more than half of the top 10 positions on last week's chart were filled by fresh faces, the only debuts on this chart's top spots came from pasty-faced growler Marilyn Manson with The High End of Low (#4, 49,000), reggaeton stars Wisin y Yandel with La Revolución (#7, 36,000) and a surprisingly hearty #8 bow from indie faves Grizzly Bear, whose Veckatimest (33,000) is one of the most rapturously reviewed albums of the year so far. The rest of the top 10: the "Hannah Montana" soundtrack (#3, 52,000), Lady Gaga's Fame (#5, 45,000), Kenny Chesney's Greatest Hits II (#6, 43,000), Taylor Swift's Fearless (#9, 33,000) and Rascal Flatts' Unstoppable (#10, 27,000). A number of last week's big debuts saw serious double-digit drop-offs, including Isolated Incident from comedian Dane Cook (down 58 percent to #12), Method Man and Redman's Blackout 2 (down 64 percent to #18) and Busta Rhymes' Back on My B.S. (down 72 percent to #22). Other big droppers include Internet sensation Kate Voegele, whose A Fine Mess (11,000) shed 70 percent of its business to drop from #10 to #42, and Tori Amos, whose Abnormally Attracted to Sin (11,000) dropped by 73 percent to #44 after debuting at #9. Mandy Moore manages a #25 debut with her sixth album, the more pop-country-leaning disc which bears her birth name, Amanda Leigh (15,000), while French electro-popsters Phoenix leap more than 130 spots up to #37 on sales of 12,000 for Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, a 300 percent increase from the week before. "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert is learning a lesson in pop humble pie, as his iTunes compilation, Season 8 Favorite Performances, plunges 20 spots in its second week to #52 on sales of under 10,000. Winner Kris Allen's similar compilation takes an even bigger nosedive from #50 to #125 on sales of just 4,000. If it makes them feel any better, season-two winner Ruben Studdard's Love Is also tanked in its second week, dropping nearly 70 spots to #101 on sales of less than 5,000, for a two-week total of just over 20,000 for the former platinum-selling crooner. Look for things to get shaken up again next week, with the latest from the Dave Matthews Band, 311 and Taking Back Sunday. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
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