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- 50 Cent Sets Album-Release Date, Stays Active Underground
- Tony Yayo Says G-Unit Isn't Accepting Game's Apology
- Will Fall Out Boy's 'What A Catch, Donnie' Video Be Their Last?
- Nick Jonas Says 'It'll Be A While' Before He Heads To College
- Madonna's Stage Collapses In France, Killing One
- 'Hills' Star Kristin Cavallari Talks Film Career
- Mariah Carey's 'Obsessed' Video: A Dig At Eminem Or Not?
- Pepsi Questions Why Michael Jackson Accident Video Was Shared
- Linkin Park's Chester Bennington Gets 'Dark' With New Band, Dead By Sunrise
| 50 Cent Sets Album-Release Date, Stays Active Underground Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:51 AM PDT Plus: the hottest mixtapes and DJs of 2009 and our list of breakthrough producers, in Mixtape Daily.
Midseason Salute: 50 Cent Officially, 50 Cent just told us that Before I Self Destruct is now slated for a September 29 release, the last Tuesday of that month. But as we've become accustomed to, Fif can drop an album anytime he wants. A street album. 50 does what no other artist who has sold the amount of records or gained the mainstream fame he has will do: consistently give free product back to the core who launched his career. In just the last couple of weeks, he hit with two dope bodies of work, War Angel LP and Forever King, and is probably going to drop two more joints before the album comes out. Fif explained to us that he just can't contain himself.
"I don't have the ability to do that," Fif answered about why he put the tapes out at a fever pace. "You have to set up records now, position them at radio. I get frustrated with that sh--. Sometimes I just want people to hear what I just did. I be like, 'This sh-- is hot, I want it out now. So I'mma just start giving it away.' " But for Before I Self Destruct, you'll have to make a purchase. "My album — it's perfect, I feel," he described. "I'm ready. I'm ready to put this album out. I really don't need adjustments. I need a few songs to be finished, mixed. Dre, he drags his feet. He's slow, but it's because he's so creative. He's gonna make sure it's perfect. I'm never mad at it. I understand that process from him. But for me, I kinda go on my gut. Ain't nobody pick 50 Cent records. 'Wanksta' went on its own. They caught up to my records. The only record they launched was 'In da Club.' When we was all on deck and they launched it. Even going back to the last record — 'I Get Money' was going at a great pace, then 'Ayo Technology' fell on top of it. I had all of the records that sold the Curtis record laying there the whole time. I was just like, 'I can't put this out until after I've done this.' My core, if they can't expect aggressive content or that content that feels like what's going on for them at the moment from me, then who can they get it from?" The Hottest Artist Mixtapes Of 2009 Thus Far (In Alphabetical Order) |
| Tony Yayo Says G-Unit Isn't Accepting Game's Apology Posted: 16 Jul 2009 02:20 AM PDT 'One day he's this way, the next day he's the next,' Yayo says of Game's attempt to end the beef with 50 Cent.
According to Tony Yayo, one of the rules 50 Cent lives by is once you kick sand at him in the sandbox, it's a wrap. It doesn't look like 50 or anyone in G-Unit are interested in reconciling with Game. Recently, the Compton native — and onetime member of the Unit — apologized for being involved in friction with the collective. However, Yayo told us he's not buying it.
"Now he's thinking about his mistakes," Yayo told MTV News. "He said in that interview he might feel a different way the next day. Game is bipolar. One day he's this way, the next day he's the next. When you got a group like G-Unit ... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos. From Buck and Game, I think they just gotta learn how to control them egos. In their eyes, to me, they got jealous of 50. They'll say, 'Yayo is up under 50's a--.' Or 'He's 50's yes-man.' It's not that — I don't have any hate in my heart towards anybody. I don't have hate in my heart towards Game or Buck. But when we built a brand, G-Unit was selling millions of records like he said — yeah, we was the Beatles. "Let me tell you like this," Yayo added. "Let me keep it real. You're either gonna be down with 50 and be below him a little bit ... but you're still travelling the world. I just came back from Ireland, Switzerland and Turkey. So I don't care what nobody says. ... Or you could go against him and get more publicity. Buck and Game, when they went against 50, they got way more publicity. Way more people wanna interview them and know what the beef's with 50. So they gain more interest than me. "If I was to flip on 50 today, it would get me more media than me being down with him," he continued. "But I'm not a snake. So Game started the 'G-Unot' thing, tried to hurt the brand. C'mon, people respect the movement. They respect when they see guys from the 'hood who came from the 'hood — started out with nothing, now got something, not knock each other when we get to the point where we all got money, houses, cars, kids, bills." Related Artists |
| Will Fall Out Boy's 'What A Catch, Donnie' Video Be Their Last? Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:51 AM PDT Video depicts frontman Patrick Stump alone at sea, picking FOB memorabilia out of the water.
By his own admission, Pete Wentz is to blame for starting the rumors that Fall Out Boy were about to call it quits. After all, it was his response to a harmless question submitted by a fan via Twitter — "Can we expect a new FOB CD next year?" — that lead to all the chatter in the first place. Wentz answered that he wasn't sure, and that the band's Folie à Deux album "may be the swan song," which (understandably) got the rumor mill buzzing.
And while Wentz would later tell MTV News that Fall Out Boy weren't calling it quits, he did admit that the band have "no future album plans" at the moment, and they are all looking forward to taking a break after what has been a very hectic — and very successful — four-year run. All was well and good, until FOB announced they were shooting a video for the Folie track "What a Catch, Donnie," a somber tune that features members of the band's extended Decaydance family — Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship, Brendon Urie from Panic! at the Disco, Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes, to name just a few — singing memorable lines from past Fall Out Boy hits. Combine that vocal nostalgia with the rather wistful concept of the "Catch" video — FOB frontman Patrick Stump is alone at sea, piloting a craft into the sunset, stopping occasionally to fish bits of band memorabilia (those Fall Out Boy dolls from 2006, the striped jacket he wore in their 2005 "Dance Dance" video) out of the ocean — and you can't help but get the feeling that this might actually be their swan song. So, when MTV News visited the band on the set of the "Catch" video, we had to ask Wentz if FOB really were saying goodbye. "I think this video gives us the chance for this record to come full circle, and this song represents that as well," he said. "It's got a reprise in it, and it contains lyrics to a bunch of other songs that were important to Fall Out Boy. So I think this video is a project of passion rather than, 'Oh, we've got to get this thing out for this' timing or something. "We just always wanted to make a video for [the song]. I think Patrick, specifically, really wanted to make a video for this one," Wentz continued. "People might have expectations for what the video is going to be, but I hope it will be self-explanatory. It's metaphorical." Hmmmm. Sounds swan song-y to us. Regardless, before Fall Out Boy go anywhere, they've still got their upcoming run of dates on Blink-182's summer tour to attend to, but after that, their schedule is pretty wide open. But Wentz cautions fans from getting too teary-eyed over the "Catch" video: Even though it might seem like their swan song, they actually intended it to be something completely different. And something way more out there. "We're basically trying to shoot 'The Abyss, Part II,' " he laughed. "Only with no CGI." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Nick Jonas Says 'It'll Be A While' Before He Heads To College Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:51 AM PDT 'We're obviously very busy,' the Jonas Brother says.
Nick Jonas isn't planning on resting on his pop-star laurels. The 16-year-old is already looking at what he might do next, now that he has conquered music, TV and movies. So, one day in the distant future, college does seem like the likely next step for this Jonas brother. He was recently rumored to have been checking out Northwestern University and on Wednesday (June 15) he confirmed to MTV News that he had in fact stopped by the school's Chicago campus. However, he was quick to point out that he's not planning on ditching his band or his current job as heartthrob for academia anytime soon.
"I did go see the college just to go check it out. I've always been interested in going to school in Chicago. I love Chicago," he said. "It's one of my favorite cities. And it was great just to see it. And that's where it's at right now." He added that "it'll be a while before I end up going anyway, because we're obviously very busy — but that's about where we left it off." Nick, who graduated from high school in June, hadn't yet celebrated the big milestone when MTV News last spoke with him. So had the boys done anything for their little brother since then? "We had an all-around party," Nick said, speaking of the party celebrating his graduation, the brothers' mother's birthday and their album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times, topping the charts. "We had a party at the beginning of the tour." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Madonna's Stage Collapses In France, Killing One Posted: 16 Jul 2009 12:15 AM PDT Workers were building the stage for Sunday's show in Marseille.
One person was killed Thursday (July 16) when a stage being built for Sunday's Madonna concert in Marseille, France, collapsed. The Associated Press reported that in addition to one death, six workers were injured in the accident. According to reports, the stage for the singer's Sticky and Sweet show at the 60,000-capacity Stade Vélodrome fell apart while under construction around 5:15 p.m. local time (11:15 a.m. ET), with two of the workers suffering serious injuries and all six of those hurt taken to local hospitals. At press time, authorities did not know what caused the accident.
Madonna issued the following statement about the collapse, according to TMZ: "I am devastated to have just received this tragic news. My prayers go out to those who were injured and their families along with my deepest sympathy to all those affected by this heartbreaking news." BBC News reported that Marseille city councilor Maurice Di Nocera said the frame of the stage "started shaking and collapsing" before the accident. The concert has been canceled in the wake of the collapse. The stage that the singer has been taking around the world for the past year includes a giant revolving platform with an oversize silver and black throne, a DJ deck, a JumboTron screen on which Britney Spears makes her nightly virtual cameo and multi-level risers on which Madonna jumps rope and spars in a mini boxing ring. The back of the stage is two-tiered, and the front of the stage at the end of the catwalk is a square with a circle in it that rises up and spins around. The catwalk comes into play most prominently in the show when Madonna is wheeled out in an ornate white antique car for the virtual Kanye West duet "Beat Goes On," riding in the vehicle from the back of the stage out onto the turntable in the audience and then spinning around 180 degrees and riding back to the main stage. Hydraulics lift it up and move it around. A number of large, moving screens serve as the background during the show, as well as smaller ones on wheels that the singer dances with during a virtual duet with Justin Timberlake on "Four Minutes." [This story was originally published on 7.16.09 at 2:25 p.m. ET] Related Photos Related Artists |
| 'Hills' Star Kristin Cavallari Talks Film Career Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:51 AM PDT The star of 'Van Wilder: Freshman Year' adds that 'Laguna Beach' was not practice for her movie career.
Kristin Cavallari is busy promoting her new movie, "Van Wilder: Freshman Year," but before she knows it she'll find herself back in the MTV reality-TV world, making her big debut on "The Hills."
Despite rumors that she doesn't get along with Audrina Patridge, Cavallari told MTV News that she supports her "Hills" co-star's movie career too. "I think it's great. I mean, I think if we have this opportunity, why not try to run with it?" said the budding actress, who plays the campus hottie in the direct-to-DVD "Van Wilder" sequel. "I think it's great." Although you may see many of the girls from the "Hills" trying their hand at scripted drama, Cavallari insisted that the drama on the "Hills" is nothing but real. And if you think that Cavallari was acting all those years on "Laguna Beach," think again. "Everyone's going to have an opinion," she said. "And everyone's going to think what they want. You can't really change that, so ..." She also pointed out that her experiences on the big and small screens are very different from each other. "It's definitely different," she said. "I love being on set and being in a movie. I think it's so much fun. I really, really love it. And the 'Hills' or 'Laguna Beach' is more like hanging out with people you know, rather than acting and memorizing lines and stuff." Related Videos |
| Mariah Carey's 'Obsessed' Video: A Dig At Eminem Or Not? Posted: 15 Jul 2009 10:33 PM PDT Clip, which premiered Wednesday night, certainly seems directed at Slim Shady.
Mariah Carey tends to do things in a big way — and the video for "Obsessed," her new single, which debuted Wednesday night on "America's Got Talent" (the show hosted by her husband, Nick Cannon) is no exception. While Carey hasn't commented and Cannon has hedged, "Obsessed" seems to be a pretty clear dig at Eminem, who grabbed headlines earlier this year with his song "Bagpipes From Baghdad," on which he claimed to have had a relationship with Carey (which she has denied) and warned Cannon to "back the f--- up," because he wanted her back.
"Obsessed" contains verses that certainly seem directed at Eminem, addressing his admitted former drug problems ("It must be the weed/ It must be the E/ 'Cause you be poppin' "), and in the video, she dresses exactly like him, right down to the baggy sweats and aggro posturing — although she's also sporting a fake goatee, which to the best of our knowledge Em has never rocked. At clip's end, her pseudo Em is crushed by a speeding bus while attempting to snap a picture of Carey. And though Cannon has denied that Carey is aping Slim Shady in the video, ("I don't think she would take her time," he said. "My wife doesn't beef. She's Mariah Carey. She's not beefin', she's a vegetarian"), I think we can all agree that there's at least a touch of Em in her performance, even if she doesn't actually look like him (she actually kinda looks like some sort of weird combination of Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Cha'ka from "Land of the Lost"! Either way, the "Obsessed" video is still plenty big — shot at New York's Plaza Hotel, directed by "Rush Hour" dude Brett Ratner — and plenty glossy. In a lot of ways, it's like her other videos, only with an emphasis on comedy (check the adoring gazes her Em dopplegänger flashes while lavishing Carey with a hair dryer). Which means that it might actually signify the return of "Touch My Body" Mariah — remember the video with "30 Rock" star Jack McBrayer? So, subtlety or no, "Obsessed" seems to speak for itself ... Related Photos Related Artists |
| Pepsi Questions Why Michael Jackson Accident Video Was Shared Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:44 AM PDT Company says it doesn't know where footage of the 1984 incident came from.
A day after UsMagazine.com posted graphic footage of the 1984 accident in which Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire while shooting a commercial for Pepsi, the beverage maker issued a statement condemning the video's release. "We don't know how the footage became available. Twenty-five years later, we'd question why anyone would want to share such frightening images," Pepsi spokeswoman Nicole Bradley wrote in a statement obtained by EW.com. "It was a terrifying event that we'll never forget. We were grateful for Michael's recovery and for the chance to continue working with him on a number of successful projects. As for Michael as an artist, his music helped us define a generation and, like everyone else, we're deeply saddened by his passing." Without explaining how the footage was obtained, Us labeled the video: "How Michael Jackson's Pill Addiction Began: The harrowing, never-before-seen footage of the singer's 1984 Pepsi commercial accident." While the story of how Jackson's hair caught fire when a pyrotechnic stunt went awry during the filming of the commercial is well known, the Us video purported to contain never-before-seen film of the accident. The shoot took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on January 27, 1984, and featured Jackson performing with his siblings. While descending the stairs on the sixth take, a firework went off early and ignited Jackson's hair. The singer seemed unaware that his hair had caught fire at first, and even executed a few of his trademark spins, but when he turned around to walk to the back of the stage, crew members took notice and quickly extinguished the flames. Jackson was seriously injured in the accident, suffering second- and third-degree burns to his scalp and body. According to Us, the painful recovery and multiple surgeries following the incident are said by a number of unnamed sources to be the genesis of Jackson's alleged longtime addiction to prescription painkillers and obsession with plastic surgery. Jackson donated the $1.5 million settlement he obtained from Pepsi after the accident to the Brotman Memorial Hospital in Culver City, California, to establish the Michael Jackson Burn Center for Children. Bradley told EW that Pepsi is not currently trying to get the footage taken down because it may not own the rights to the clip. "We don't know where it came from," she said. "We don't know what that footage is. It's 25 years ago. We don't know who owns it, so we have no recourse as far as I know. I can only tell you what I know. We didn't put it up and we don't know where it came from." For complete coverage of the life, career and passing of the legendary entertainer, visit "Michael Jackson Remembered." Share your Michael Jackson memories by uploading video and comments to Your.MTV.com or joining the discussion below. Related Photos Related Artists |
| Linkin Park's Chester Bennington Gets 'Dark' With New Band, Dead By Sunrise Posted: 16 Jul 2009 03:56 AM PDT 'There are songs about being in love and there's songs about hating people,' singer says.
Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington has already described his Dead by Sunrise side project as being "really dark ... like post-apocalyptic 'Blade Runner' meets LSD," so he's not exactly afraid to talk about the rather dark period in his life that birthed his new band. "I came up with the band name because in the beginnings of making this album, I was partying ... we'll call it partying. It wasn't much fun, but we partied a lot. And there was a lot of times where I was kind of in a really self-destructive place, and sometimes it felt like you weren't sure if you were going to make it to the next day," he explained. "The name kind of evolved from that lifestyle, and the title of the record, Out of Ashes, is kind of coming out of that self-destructive path I was on, and rising from the ashes, so to speak."
And so, like most of the songs on Ashes, "Crawl Back In" — for which Bennington recently shot a video in California's Vasquez Rocks Natural Park — is plenty dark: full of churning, burning, grunge guitars. But it's not pitch-black: Lyrically, the song details Bennington's slow climb back into the light — a climb that started with some serious self-discovery. "It's a song about questioning your authenticity. I do that every once in a while; I wonder how many of my own thoughts are really my own, and how much influence do the people around me have on the person I am," he said. "There's a lot of that on the record. There's a very dark side [to it], and there's a very light side on it. There are songs about being in love and there's songs about hating people. It's a very strange juxtaposition. And that represents what had been going on in my life over the past couple of years — really great moments happening at the same time as these really terrible things were happening." And, admittedly, most of those "really great" moments had to do with his other band, Linkin Park. And while Bennington is eternally grateful for all that LP — and their fans — have given him, he's also not afraid to push either away with Dead by Sunrise. "I think that being in Linkin Park, our sound is so different from song to song and record to record that I really was forced to stop worrying about what I might think our fans want to hear, as opposed to just writing music that I like," he said. "I think that if you get into a place as an artist that is focusing on outside opinions of people you don't even know — like, 'What does the 15-year-old kid in Cleveland think of this song?' — I really don't know, and if I focus on that, I almost end up biting myself to ensure that I keep giving them what they want, and that's a dangerous place to be in. "I don't want to be a caricature of myself, just kind of rewriting the same song over and over again, to get people to buy it," he continued. "I'd rather take a chance at doing something new and different and lose a few and gain a few rather than keep the same ones around. You can't make everybody happy." And to that point, though Ashes will finally hit stores in September, Bennington isn't about to forget his Linkin Park duties anytime soon ... in fact, he's trying very hard to combine Dead by Sunrise with LP. Literally. "I'm actually taking these guys out with me. [Linkin Park] is leaving for Europe and Japan, and Dead by Sunrise is going to be joining us on tour, and we're actually going to be jumping in the middle of LP's set, playing a few songs, then jumping out and letting LP finish out the set," Bennington said. "And that was actually an idea that was brought up by the guys in Linkin Park. I think it's going to be amazing. Exhausting, but amazing." Related Artists |
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