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- The Clipse Call Remix Videos With Rick Ross 'A Good Look'
- Rihanna Premieres Video For 'Wait Your Turn'
- Lady Gaga Says Breaking <i>Billboard</i> Record Was An 'Amazing Moment'
- Taylor Swift On 'Saturday Night Live' Hosting Gig: 'Don't Count Anything Out'
- Carrie Underwood Plays Up The 'Sass' With Kara DioGuardi On 'Undo It'
- Shyne Holds Press Conference In Belize
- Chris Brown's <i>Graffiti</i> Cover Gets Mixed Reaction From Fans
- Rihanna Says <i>Rated R</i> Is 'Super Fearless -- Exactly How I Feel Right Now'
- Trey Songz Calls Chris Brown Duet A 'Fun Record'
- Adam Lambert Song Clips Hit The Web
| The Clipse Call Remix Videos With Rick Ross 'A Good Look' Posted: 04 Nov 2009 03:50 AM PST Brothers tell Mixtape Daily that their rivalry with 'Maybach Music 2' co-star Birdman is 'water under the bridge.'
The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive Shout-out to Eskay and Dre at NahRight.com. The Web site put it out there that the Clipse and Jadakiss were talking about putting a joint mixtape together. Through our talks with the Clipse's camp, we have a little more clarity. Pusha T has a solo mixtape coming sometime in 2010, and while talking to 'Kiss to try to get a guest appearance, he came up with the idea of him and Push doing an entire tape together. That joint mixtape is a ways away. In the meantime, look for the Clipse to put out their own mixtape this month in advance of their December 8 LP, Till the Casket Drops. Earlier this week, the brothers finally released a video for their "I'm Good" remix. "I think Rick Ross was a fan of the song," Malice said of their "I'm Good" co-star. "He reached out. He was feeling the song, laid his verse to it, killed it. We had to go in and rewrite our verses and put it together."
"His Internet game's been really good, as far as shooting the videos and so forth," Pusha added. "He's like, 'We gotta shoot this.' He sorta showed us a bit of that side, how they was hustling a bit. [The video] came out dope. Very crazy. Very much so performance-based, Miami nightlife. Miami's a movie in itself. When you got a hot record and that type of scenery around you and you in that type of company, just the whole performance side is the biggest thing. It's a really good look." Pusha and Malice also shot a video for Rick Ross' "Maybach Music 2" remix the same night. The track features Birdman, whom the Clipse have thrown some lyrical shots at in the past. The duo say they are done with any rivalry they had with Stunna and Lil Wayne, so they had no problem being on the same song as the Cash Money CEO. "That's water under the bridge. That whole Cash Money/ Clipse thingy, it's nothing," Pusha insisted. "It's nothing, man," Malice concurred. For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines. Related Videos |
| Rihanna Premieres Video For 'Wait Your Turn' Posted: 02 Nov 2009 11:38 PM PST Singer films grainy black-and-white clip for the second single from Rated R.
No matter what kind of videos Rihanna makes for the singles from her upcoming Rated R album, fans and critics are certain to draw their own interpretations of her first clips since she was assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown in February. And the video released Tuesday (November 3) on the singer's Web site for the single "Wait Your Turn" is likely to stoke those fires. The stark, grainy, black-and-white clip for the tune finds Rihanna utterly alone in the frame, strutting and marching through a series of scenarios in which she appears to be the only person left on Earth.
The clip opens with shots of Rihanna wearing an eye patch, a high-necked jacket and garters as she repeats the song's "the wait is ova" refrain while standing under what appears to be a highway underpass filled with bright lights. Next, we see her draped in rosaries, a black hoodie, sunglasses, black pants and a black leather bustier staring into the camera in a church, and then a dissolve to her hugging a statue of a winged angel enshrouded in smoke while wearing a black bustier, tight black jeans and a striped fur jacket. The camera jump-cuts between the scenarios, with the singer looking down the barrel of the lens as she sashays down a dark park walkway, her hair swept up in her now-signature brush-back hairdo. While there doesn't appear to be a story line to the clip, per se, the various settings allow the singer to show off her edgy, street-savvy style while keeping the focus on the song's incessant, grinding beat. She eventually ends up on a rooftop with the city behind her, wearing a b-girl outfit consisting of a white sports bra, black shades, ripped jeans and fur hoodie leather jacket. All along, bright lights blaze from behind her head and she glares at the camera with a look that alternates between swaggering and sultry, ending with her pointing to the camera and walking away from the frame toward the city lights. The clip — featuring images that began to leak several weeks ago — is the first Rihanna has released to support the Rated R album and it is reportedly to be followed by the debut of the video for the first single, "Russian Roulette," on ABC's "20/20" on Friday. Both videos were shot by director Anthony Mandler (John Mayer, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z), who has collaborated on 10 videos with the singer. What do you think of Rihanna's new video? Let us know below! Related Photos Related Artists |
| Lady Gaga Says Breaking <i>Billboard</i> Record Was An 'Amazing Moment' Posted: 03 Nov 2009 04:57 AM PST 'I cried like a baby when they told me,' singer says of being the first artist to score four #1 singles off debut album.
Lady Gaga made music history when she became the first artist in the 17-year existence of the Billboard Pop Songs chart to nab four #1 singles off a debut album. The Fame has spawned chart-toppers with "Just Dance," "Poker Face," "LoveGame" and, most recently, "Paparazzi," a song she performed to acclaim at this year's MTV Video Music Awards. The superstar found out about the Billboard news in the aftermath of her father's open-heart surgery, she revealed to MTV News. The record-setting performance left her in tears.
"Obviously, I cried like a baby when they told me that that happened," Gaga said. "It was even more exciting because my dad had just recovered from his surgery, so it was kind of like this amazing moment that I got to share." Gaga gave credit to her fans for supporting her music and understanding the connection of it to her essential self. "I just love my fans and they come before anything," she said. "Extraneous relationships, they come and go, but your fans — they love that part of you that not everyone can understand. The misconception that the music and the work is separate from me as a human being is so misinformed and wrong. I am my work. I am every breathing moment of my life." A crucial part of that life — one she admitted she only truly learned to value during time spent traveling and performing around the world over the past year — is her family. For that reason, she was especially happy to be able to share the Billboard development with her father. "You can make as many records as you will and write as many albums as you will and do as many tours as you will — but you only get one set of parents," she said. Related Artists |
| Taylor Swift On 'Saturday Night Live' Hosting Gig: 'Don't Count Anything Out' Posted: 03 Nov 2009 03:07 AM PST 'I want to go completely, 1,000 percent in,' she tells MTV News of her double-duty as host and musical guest.
Less than a year after Taylor Swift performed on "Saturday Night Live," the 19-year-old superstar is returning to pull double duty as host and musical guest of this week's show. She's no stranger to comedy (remember her rap song with T-Pain at the CMT Awards?), and she promises to give it her all.
"I want to look nothing like myself," she told MTV News. "I told all the writers, 'Don't count anything out.' I want to go completely, 100 percent in. I don't want to be halfway involved. Just because I have a lot of things to do as far as being musical guest and host doesn't mean I don't want to live up to my full hosting demands." Swift said it's still too early in the week to know exactly what's going down Saturday night. "Well, right now, it's actually quiet. I was here before [in January], and I was the musical guest, and it was colder in here and there were a million people running around doing a million things," she explained. "But today is the beginning of the week, so it's quiet. Everyone is writing and imagining." Swift said one castmate in particular is inspiring her comedy stylings for the week. "I think my favorite things on 'SNL' are the things that Kristen [Wiig] does, where she's these incredible characters that you've seen in real life," she said. "Everybody's been at the party with the Penelope character to some extent." Related Artists |
| Carrie Underwood Plays Up The 'Sass' With Kara DioGuardi On 'Undo It' Posted: 04 Nov 2009 03:50 AM PST 'It's so fun to play a character and play something that you would never really be in real life,' she says of her feisty songs.
Carrie Underwood and Kara DioGuardi might not have crossed paths on "American Idol," but the ladies did manage to hook up for a couple of tracks on the country singer's just-released album, Play On. Underwood said working with the outspoken "Idol" judge has helped her embrace her sassy side.
"I love sass," she told CMT. "And this is what I think is great about the whole album. People have so many layers and so many different emotions and feelings, and throughout the album, we tapped into a lot of that." Underwood hasn't been shy about showing off her feisty side in singles like "Before He Cheats" and "Cowboy Casanova." "We have attitude, and just like everybody else, I'd rather sing attitude than give attitude," she said. "But it's so fun to play a character and play something that you would never really be in real life." One of the songs she wrote with DioGuardi, "Undo It," shows off Underwood's playful alter ego. "There are definitely certain things in my life that I'm like, 'Did I learn anything from that? No. I'd really just kind of like to erase that one,' " she said about the song. "I think there's definitely things in my life that I'd like to undo, make them go away." Underwood hadn't met DioGuardi before heading into the studio to work on songs for Play On, but she loved working with her, thanks to the songwriter's strong personality. "It was the first time I had met her. I had seen her on the show and everything and, of course, you know her cred," she said. "It was a lot of fun to have this anthem, girly, very strong, just great writer in the room with you." Related Photos |
| Shyne Holds Press Conference In Belize Posted: 03 Nov 2009 12:48 AM PST MC talks about education, music at Wesley College.
On Monday in Belize, Shyne made his first public appearance since being deported to his native country last week. The former Bad Boy rapper had been detained by immigration officials for nearly four weeks after serving close to nine years in prison for his involvement in 1999's Club New York shooting, for which Diddy also stood trial but was acquitted. The press conference was held at the high school Shyne attended briefly in 1993, Wesley College in Belize City, where he spoke to students as well as reporters, according to 7NewsBelize.com and footage of the appearance that has hit the Internet. Shyne, who changed his name from Jamal Barrow to Moses Michael Leviy while in prison, said that he did not convert to Judaism, as has been reported, but was inspired by Biblical figures. "In life, you are what you are and this is what I am," he said. "I don't want to be like Michael Jordan. I want to be like Moses or King David or King Solomon. Those are the guys I aspire to be like. I didn't want to be like the kingpin on my block; I wanted to be like the guy who parted the sea, that's why I chose that name." Shyne also said he's returning to music and he will not allow his messages to be watered down. "I make music about life," he said. "One of the greatest musicians was Bob Marley. There was nothing misogynistic about him. But his music, he talked about some harsh realities some time. He was tough. I would like to make that type of contribution, that kind of Marvin Gaye contribution, you dig? But at the same time we curse, at the same time life is violent, life is troublesome sometimes — so don't expect my music to be sanitized. I am just going to talk about what's going on in the world." But Shyne also talked about the importance of education for young people, noting that it was advice he'd spurned from his father, Dean Barrow, the Prime Minister of Belize. "I came up on the streets with guys that gangbanged and were into criminal activity, and those tools never worked," he said. "Those tools, you either end up spending the rest of your life in prison or sleeping in a grave. But with the tools that you are getting here as far as education is concerned, that is the ultimate tool and with that tool you can transcend any situation because I am just like you, you dig. I grew up on Curassow Street. When I was coming up we didn't even have toilets. But one of the things my Uncle Finnegan and my father, Prime Minister Barrow, implored upon me was education, education, education, education. "What I do have to say is not, 'Listen man, I am on a gangster roll,' " he continued. "No, listen: Look what gangster roll got me. Look where it led me. And I am not telling you what to do because I am not a preacher and I am not everybody's father, but I am exhibit A of what's going to happen if you don't stay in Wesley College, you dig? If you don't go to that sixth form, if you don't try to go to the university you're going to spend the rest of your life in the cooker or you're going to be in the grave. That is what this is about. Shyne says at first he didn't take the advice to heart, but has since learned to appreciate the value of education. "I didn't really get that, I was like, 'Yo, well, education, whatever,' " he continued. "But as I came up, my music, being Shyne and being able to go from Curassow Street [to the] United States and sell millions of records, the only way I was able to do that. I used to be at my Uncle Denys' house and I used to be in the corner reading a dictionary. I was very into my English. I would fail my other classes but when it came to English, I would pay attention. And if it wasn't for that, I would have never sold any records. I wouldn't have been able to call Jay-Z on my iPhone and I wouldn't be able to live the life that I live." Related Photos Related Artists |
| Chris Brown's <i>Graffiti</i> Cover Gets Mixed Reaction From Fans Posted: 03 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST 'I wasn't really sure about the cartoon figures but it's pretty unique looking,' one fan says.
NEW YORK — Ever since the cover artwork for Chris Brown's forthcoming album, Graffiti, was tweeted on Monday, the Internet has been flooded with a wide variety of comments regarding everything from his wardrobe to the animated cartoon characters that appear at the bottom and its overall look. MTV News hit Times Square on Tuesday (November 3) to find out what fans think of the singer's new album cover.
Demetrius Taylor, a "big fan," said he liked the singer's outfit but added that the cartoon characters made it look "a little cheap." However, he said he's less concerned about what's on the outside of the album. "I think it's all about the music, though," he said. "As long as the music's good it doesn't matter what the cover looks like." Emilio Aquino noted that the cover is reminiscent of the late Michael Jackson. "I guess in a commercial sense it's quite exciting and quite sexy, but I wouldn't wear something like this." he said. Another fan, Jasmine Davis, enjoyed the futuristic feel that the singer was going for but wasn't sure about the animated figures. "It looks like something off of [the 1996 film] 'Space Jam,' actually, so it contrasts a lot with the album cover," she said. "I wasn't really sure about the cartoon figures at the bottom but it's a pretty unique looking album cover." "I like the spacey look from behind," Alex Hatfield added. Brown has had his own response — via all-caps tweets — to some of the comments he read about the cover. "Who cares if my pants r fitted," he wrote. "It's called fashion. I'm so tired of closed minded people. I'm 100% comfortable wit my sexuality. I'm a grown man." The post was subsequently removed from Brown's Twitter page. What do you think of Chris Brown's album cover? Let us know below! Related Artists |
| Rihanna Says <i>Rated R</i> Is 'Super Fearless -- Exactly How I Feel Right Now' Posted: 03 Nov 2009 02:03 AM PST Singer opens up about her new album, her career and Chris Brown in a candid interview.
You'd never know it from the swagger she has in the just-released clip for "Wait Your Turn," but as a girl from a modest home in Barbados, Rihanna never dreamed she'd rise to the top of the pop world by her early 20s. In a wide-ranging interview for Glamour magazine's current "Women of the Year" issue, in addition to discussing her assault at the hands of former boyfriend Chris Brown in February for the first time in detail, Rihanna, 21, touched on her style, her early successes and how she poured the past eight months of pent-up emotions into her upcoming album, Rated R. "I was involved in a lot of the writing," Rihanna said. "I put everything I've wanted to say for the past eight months into my music. The songs are really personal. It's rock and roll, but it's really hip-hop: If Lil Wayne and Kings of Leon like my album, then I'll feel good. I would not change anything about it. Even if people don't love it, I made exactly the piece of art that I wanted to make. It's super fearless — which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place." She also talked about how she got to that place, beginning with childhood dreams of stardom she never thought would come true. "I would have never dreamed that my career would be this successful," she said. "I grew up in an average home in Barbados, and we didn't live in the best neighborhood. But I was never aware that we were poor; my mom never made us feel that way. She loved me unconditionally. She made us feel anything was possible and instilled in me such confidence." Like many budding divas, Rihanna said she was always singing as a kid, "in the shower, to pillows and stuffed animals, my cousins." But, despite her lifelong dream of becoming a star, her mother forbade her to quit high school until she got signed to a recording contract, and even then, mom still made her go to classes. After a nerve-racking audition for label boss Jay-Z, Rihanna had a hit single in 2005 with "Pon de Replay," which blew up on radio within weeks of her signing, coupled with a warning from Jigga that "this never happens, so don't get used to it." But it did, and Rihanna has since become one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, helped along the way by some other advice Jay gave her that she appears to have taken to heart: "You must be a good person, because good things are happening for you, but you have to stay humble." In the interview, Rihanna said her family and friends helped her cope with the assault by Brown and the suffocating media crush that followed it, pointing to the leaking of a police photo of her battered face as a particularly low moment. She credits her mother with instilling an inner strength in her that helped her survive the incident and its aftermath. "My mom gave us the tools to survive," she offered. "My parents separated when I was 8 or 9. I helped her raise my [youngest] brother, because my mom was working all the time." Rihanna says the songs on Rated R definitely sound more mature than her previous efforts, because she feels she's done a lot of growing up since her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad. "It [represents] exactly where I am at right now," she explained. Thinking back to another piece of sage advice Jay once gave about the artistic challenge of getting people relate to her as a human being, Rihanna said she thinks the events of the past eight months might have put that task into sharper focus. "Before, there was an innocence to me," she said of the time prior to the Brown altercation. "It was a perfect image. So the minute I did something imperfect, it was a big deal. I think that's what he was referring to: People forget that after we get to our hotel rooms at night, we take a shower, we watch TV, eat room service and do normal things. Behind it all, we are still human beings." With so many peaks and goals achieved over the past five years, Rihanna said she has no idea what the next five will bring, but she hopes they will include growth. "I am never satisfied," she explained. "I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step." And, despite the very public split with Brown, who she told ABC's "Good Morning America" was her first love, Rihanna appears optimistic about finding a soul mate. "I hope to find love in the next 10 years — that will be pretty annoying if I am 31 and still have never been in love!" she said. "But yeah, I'd like to be in a great place in both my personal life and my career." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Trey Songz Calls Chris Brown Duet A 'Fun Record' Posted: 03 Nov 2009 03:03 AM PST 'We started playing around with a crazy concept — just having fun for real,' Songz says of their time in the studio.
Trey Songz chuckled when we asked about all of his recent collaborations: Mary J. Blige, Amerie, new labelmate Toni Braxton and one of his fellas, Chris Brown. Songz told us he and his fellow Virginia native linked up on the West Coast.
"The record me and Chris got is a fun record, produced by Polow Da Don," Songz said of the track, whose title hasn't been released. "[Chris] told me to stop by the studio one night. We was in L.A., I was about to lay it down. He told me to come through. I hadn't seen him in a while. He put this beat on, we started playing around with a crazy concept — just having fun for real. I wasn't sure if he was gonna keep the record, because it was done just out of fun. When I tell you I came by last minute and we cut it real quick — very quick. He's keeping it. It's gonna be a great look." On his own, Songz is having a banner year. His latest album, Ready, is on track to be his highest-selling and is regarded by many as his best body of work. He's doubling up with new singles "Say Aah" and the bold "I Invented Sex." "It's a groove record. It's got that knock at the same time," he said about the latter single. "It's sexy at the same time. Conceptually, it's mind-blowing to tell a woman, 'You gonna think we invented sex when we're done.' That's where I am. Even with records like 'Say Aah,' conceptually I wanna think outside the box. You think about a record like 'LOL :-),' it's something real simple, but when you look at the title or listen to the record, you're like, 'Wow.' That's something great from a songwriter's perspective. I'm just trying to make hits and classic records that people can vibe to and live their life." Related Artists |
| Adam Lambert Song Clips Hit The Web Posted: 03 Nov 2009 08:42 AM PST For Your Entertainment songs previewed with 30-second samples on Amazon's UK site.
After months of hype, Glamberts finally got a chance on Tuesday (November 3) to check out Adam Lambert's debut album, For Your Entertainment. And while the "American Idol" runner-up's coming-out disc is still a few weeks away from its official November 23 release date, Amazon's U.K. site posted 30-second clips of all the songs on the CD, which promises to be every bit as over-the-top as the singer has promised. And, in case there was any doubt, the clips confirm his promise that "glam is back."
The songs include the throbbing title-track first single, as well as the collaboration with "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi, "Strut," a chugging slab of glam rock with some '80s-hair-metal-worthy guitar and a mix of Lambert's falsetto and lower register. There's also the new-wave-y ballad "Whataya Want From Me," which bounces along on a bed of churning guitars and was written by Pink and radio-pop maestro Max Martin. Like "Whataya Want," the disco ball-spinning raver "If I Had You" sounds a bit like a dancefloor remix of a Kelly Clarkson outtake, slathered with Lambert's signature winking sensuality. And, of course, there are ballads, such as the sweeping, Linda Perry-co-written "A Loaded Smile," which has Lambert pining over mechanical-sounding drums and weepy synthesizers, and "Broken Open," an icy tearjerker that plays out over chilly keyboards and a spare, haunting beat. Lambert has plenty of space to get loose, as on the "We Will Rock You"-style thumper "Sure Fire Winners" and the hair-metal stomper "Music Again," a mystically powerful rock song that bears the heavy influence of co-writer and spandex-loving British wailer Justin Hawkins, formerly of the equally falsetto-tastic band the Darkness. It's not hard to pick out the influence of OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on "Sleepwalker," which falls into the singer-songwriter's growing canon of majestic/ominous-sounding ballads, such as Beyoncé's "Halo." There's also no mistaking the song that Lambert was so excited to work on, the Lady Gaga collabo "Fever," a preening bit of carnival pop that allows Lambert to indulge in some vocal bump-n'-grind as he sings like a naughty, gritty-voiced carnival barker over a throbbing beat and bouncy keyboards. The album will also feature the bonus track "Time for Miracles," the bombastic ballad from the disaster movie "2012." Other tracks include the big-screen piano ballad "Soaked," which could rightly be mistaken for a B-side from collaborators Muse, the mid-tempo rocker "Aftermath" and a yearning pop-rock song co-written with Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, "Pick U Up." Related Photos Related Artists |
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