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- Chris Brown Wins Big, Lil Wayne, Beyonce Rock 2011 BET Awards
- Justin Bieber Won't 'Limit' Himself On Next Album
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Says 'Transformers' Will Be First 3-D Movie She's Seen
- Beyonce Runs The BET Awards Stage From Abroad
- Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Ace Hood 'Hustle Hard' At BET Awards
- Chris Brown, Busta Rhymes Rip Avant-Garde BET Awards Performance
- Wiz Khalifa, Ice Cube, Lupe Fiasco Mix It Up At L.A.'s Powerhouse
| Chris Brown Wins Big, Lil Wayne, Beyonce Rock 2011 BET Awards Posted: 27 Jun 2011 09:37 AM PDT Night's highlights included performances by Brown, Wayne, Bey and Alicia Keys.
Music and Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars all came out to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for the 2011 BET Awards Sunday (June 26) night. Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Trey Songz, host Kevin Hart, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith were all in attendance as BET celebrated the year in music.
The ceremony kicked off in royal fashion as the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige, took the stage wearing an all-white jumpsuit performing "Mary Jane (All Night Long)" and "You Bring Me Joy" from her 1994 My Life album. MJB didn't stop there, bringing out Anita Baker so the two could sing Baker's 1986 classic "Caught Up in the Rapture." Chris Brown came up big, winning the first award of the night, for Best Male R&B Artist, beating out the likes of Bruno Mars, Usher, Trey Songz and Cee Lo Green. The ever-controversial CB also took home an award for Best Collaboration for his Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes-assisted track "Look at Me Now." It didn't end there for Brown. After a snafu that had Rihanna and Drake being announced as the winners of BET's Viewers' Choice Award, it was later learned that Breezy was the intended recipient, making that his third win of the night. Brown also lit up the stage performing a string of his own hits and then again alongside Big Sean, who rapped his #1 rap single "My Last." Nicki Minaj was a shoo-in for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist, and as expected she beat out Diamond, Lola Monroe and Master P's daughter Cymphonique. Still, Minaj, who took the stage with her Young Money family, started her speech with, "Wow, I can't believe I won." The crowd laughed before she clarified her point and thanked Lil Wayne. Alicia Keys shined as well, treating fans to a piano-laced set as she sang new single "Typewriter," "A Woman's Worth" with Bruno Mars and "Fallin'." Throughout the night, a number of BET-related trending topics popped up on Twitter. #betawards, Wiz & Amber and Mary Mary made the rounds on the social networking site during the night as well as #kelly after Kelly Rowland performed her single "Motivation" with Trey Songz. The ex-Destiny's Child member received one of the loudest ovations of the night. Duo Mary Mary won for Best Gospel Album, and Patti LaBelle received the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented by Gladys Knight. A potty-mouthed Cee Lo Green, Marsha Ambrosius and gospel's Shirley Caesar all honored the soul singer by performing a medley of her hits before LaBelle took the stage herself. Cali Swag District came out with Doug E. Fresh and memorialized slain CSD member M-Bone, while fallen artists like Clarence Clemons, Nate Dogg, Gil Scott-Heron and Teena Marie were honored with tribute performances by Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Queen Latifah and others. As the show drew near a close, DJ Khaled, Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne took the stage to perform Khaled's "I'm on One." Rozay and Weezy had appeared earlier in the show alongside Ace Hood to rock Hood's "Hustle Hard (Remix)" and returned, this time with Drizzy in tow. Beyoncé closed things out with a performance from the Glastonbury festival in the U.K. Wearing a gold glittered top, with her legs on full display, B started things off with "Best Thing I Never Had" and then turned it up for a lively version of "End of Time," both from her upcoming album, 4. In the end, the 2011 BET Awards celebrated this year's best in hip-hop, R&B and gospel as well as honoring living legends. It was definitely a night to remember. Related Photos Related Artists |
| Justin Bieber Won't 'Limit' Himself On Next Album Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:03 AM PDT 'I just want to make music,' he tells MTV News.
It's been a minute since Justin Bieber released new music, and it sounds like the waiting game continues for Beliebers. The singer is currently in the planning and recording stages for his next record and has not set any deadlines for himself. At the moment, Bieber said, he's still creating.
"I want to work a lot with myself," he told MTV News about any plans to expand his collaboration résumé, after working with artists like Chris Brown, Kanye West, Ludacris and Rascal Flatts. "And [I want to] write a lot myself. I will be working with a lot of other producers and stuff like that, but I'm just writing a lot, writing on tour." So what is Bieber focusing on in this new batch of songs? "[I'm] writing about how I feel and producing. I've been producing on my laptop and on my computer," he said. "I've been really into it and, hopefully, this next album will be huge." It may be a while until new stuff comes out, but it's not like fans don't already have plenty of Bieber music to listen to in the meantime. Only a couple of years into his career, Bieber has already managed to release the chart-topping albums My World, My World 2.0, Never Say Never — The Remixes and My Worlds Acoustic. He's also dabbled in a number of genres, like pop, hip-hop, R&B and, yes, even country. With so many interests in so many different sounds and so much to draw from, Bieber said he's not boxing himself in on his next release. "I've done a lot on my acoustic guitar, so it's gonna have that vibe," he explained. "I'm not gonna really limit myself. I think music is music, and genre — I mean, I know there's country music, there's rock music, but my music is different. My voice is not meant for any style. I just want to make music." Are you excited for Bieber's next album? Tell us in the comments! |
| Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Says 'Transformers' Will Be First 3-D Movie She's Seen Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:03 AM PDT 'I have never seen a movie in 3-D,' 'Dark of the Moon' actress reveals to MTV News.
In case you need more reason to go see "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" this week, in addition to crazy amped-up action and a new lovely leading lady, the third robot-tastic installment is in 3-D. And it wasn't converted in postproduction, like a few of the recent 3-D films out there. Director Michael Bay insisted that his first foray into the three-dimensional medium be as authentic and technologically advanced as possible.
Lately there has definitely been a bit of 3-D fatigue in the air. When MTV News caught up with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley at the film's worldwide premiere in Moscow recently, we asked for her thoughts on the 3-D element of "Dark of the Moon." "I will be the judge of that after I see this film, because I have never seen a movie in 3-D," she revealed. "When Michael told me it was going to be in 3-D, I said, 'Right, I'm going to wait,' and now we're here, we're at the premiere stage and I'm going to wait until [I'm in] London and see it with my family." So when Whiteley finally watches the 3-D version of the film with her family and friends, will she be watching herself on the big screen or watching her family's reactions? "I'm going to be watching them watching me," she said with a laugh. Bay has made a big deal of the fact that he initially had a lot of reservations about 3-D, explaining that his buddy director James Cameron finally convinced him to go for it with this film. "[James Cameron], at the last minute, goes, 'Mike, come on,' " Bay recalled, imitating the "Avatar" director's enthusiasm with a slightly deep and gravelly inflection in his voice. "This is like my idol. He goes, 'Mike, come on, we've done everything.' I'm thinking, 'I haven't done everything.' " Cameron pushed him to try out this "new toy," and despite all the headaches that were added to the filmmaking process with shooting in 3-D, he's glad he did it. "3-D, it's pretty great when you see these robots interact in the space," Bay said. Check out everything we've got on "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Beyonce Runs The BET Awards Stage From Abroad Posted: 26 Jun 2011 08:57 AM PDT Superstar songstress belts 'Best Thing I Never Had' and 'The End of Time' from Glastonbury gig.
Beyoncé didn't even have to be in the building to run things. The "Run the World (Girls)" songstress wasn't able to attend the BET Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday (June 26) but that didn't stop the diva from rocking the crowd remotely by performing via satellite from her headlining gig at the Glastonbury festival in England.
Following an introduction from Ne-Yo, Bey started off with her 4 track "Best Thing I Never Had." Sporting a dark leotard under a sequined belted jacket and ankle booties, the superstar belted the power ballad in front of a packed audience waving international flags. Bey then segued into another spankin' new 4 cut, the Afrobeat-powered jam "The End of Time." The hitmaker worked some Motherland-inspired grooves to the dancefloor-ready track, pumping her elbows and flinging her curls about, flanked by a quartet of similarly fierce dancers with big hair and snug leotards. After some muscled-up male dancers joined the party, the songstress kicked up the energy, leading the crew through a hip-twisting dance breakdown. Bey closed the uptempo set with a screen of pyro that rained onto the stage. Earlier this month, when tracks from the star's highly anticipated album 4 hit the Web prematurely, Bey explained the inspiration behind her booty-jiggling anthems. "When I record music I always think about my fans singing every note and dancing to every beat. I make music to make people happy and I appreciate that everyone has been so anxious to hear my new songs." What did you think of Beyoncé's performance at the BET Awards? Let us know in the comments! Related Photos Related Artists |
| Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Ace Hood 'Hustle Hard' At BET Awards Posted: 26 Jun 2011 06:47 AM PDT Drake joins Ross and Wayne later in broadcast to perform Khaled's 'I'm on One.'
Things started off slow when Rick Ross took the stage to perform at the 2011 BET Awards on Sunday (June 26) evening. Wearing a half-buttoned red silk shirt, Rozay emerged as his 2010 hit single "Aston Martin Music" blared from the speakers. Neither Drake nor R&B singer Chrisette Michele, who both sing on the song's hook, were present onstage, and their absence was noticeable as Ross carried on without them, spitting his LL Cool J-inspired bars, "When I'm alone in my room, sometimes I stare at the wall," with his usual gruff.
The set began to pick up, however, when DJ Khaled stormed from backstage with his protégé Ace Hood. Khaled shouted his usual "we the best" mantra, and a shirtless Ace, along with Ross and Khaled, performed Hood's "Hustle Hard (Remix)." The hustler's anthem definitely raised the energy in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, but it wasn't until Lil Wayne came out for the song's third and final verse that the crowd reached a fevered pitch. Weezy, who wore a white sleeveless tee, black fitted hat and black sunglasses, bounced around the circular stage, rapping, "OK, now black card in my pocket, ridin' around in that 'Gatti/ Pistol off in my boxers, I ain't got time to be boxin'." As Wayne got deeper into his verse, Ross, Khaled and Ace gathered around Tunechi in what resembled an old-school rap cypher, which typically took place in the urban neighborhoods of New York, where rap originated. Still, despite their street-corner appeal, the pyrotechnic-laced performance proved that Ross, Wayne and company came to put on a show. It may have started off sluggish, but by the end, it was clear that Ross, Wayne and Khaled have themselves another hit. In actuality, they have quite a few. Later in the broadcast, Drake joined the hyped-up DJ to spit his bars on Khaled's new single, "I'm on One." The track's video premiered during BET's pre-show, and towards the end of the show, Drizzy, Rozay and Wayne treated fans to a profanity-laced, network-censored rendition of the single. Related Photos Related Artists |
| Chris Brown, Busta Rhymes Rip Avant-Garde BET Awards Performance Posted: 26 Jun 2011 06:51 AM PDT Breezy and Buss hit the stage with 'Look At Me Now,' 'She Ain't You' and 'Paper, Scissors, Rock.'
Chris Brown's emotional performance at last year's BET Awards turned out to be a turning point in the singer's once-ailing career, and with his 2011 performance Breezy is reveling in his hard-won fame.
Following a heartfelt, off-prompter intro by host Kevin Hart, Breezy kicked things off with his Michael Jackson-sampling jam "She Ain't You." The singer took the stage on a raised platform in the middle of the stage surrounded by a cluster of monitors splashed with psychedelic designs. Breezy worked the midtempo hit in an avant-garde gray suit with voluminous pant legs and a cape fashioned out of a jacket. But the F.A.M.E. singer ditched the fashion-forward ensemble in favor of a black jumpsuit to helm his woozy, Diplo-produced banger, "Look At Me Now," as a crew of dancers in similarly street black hoodies joined him onstage. Then Busta Rhymes emerged from a brightly lit cube flanked by dancers in eerie, transparent masks illuminated by blinking lights. The Back on My B.S. lyricist wowed the Shrine with his legendary, breathless, rapid-fire flow — much of which was obscured by super-cautious censors — sporting a unique, black jacket with enormous, ridged sleeves. After ripping his verse, the MC dropped the mic and walked off. Breezy took back the stage for his F.A.M.E. cut "Paper, Scissors, Rock," busting out some agile choreography and finishing up the performance with an athletic flip off the stage. When speaking to MTV News earlier this year about how the all-star collabo came together, beatsmith Afrojack gave snaps to Busta's hypnotic flow. "Busta's verse on it is really sick," he said. "It's like I can't even hear what he said, but I love the part where he goes [mimics Busta's rapid flow], and then pauses and goes rapping really quickly. And I don't know how to do it, I don't even try. But it was really, really cool." The bigwigs at BET are also clearly feeling Breezy's chart-topper. "Look at Me Now" took the Best Collaboration award directly after the set. What did you think of Chris Brown's performance at the 2011 BET Awards? Let us know in the comments! Related Photos Related Artists |
| Wiz Khalifa, Ice Cube, Lupe Fiasco Mix It Up At L.A.'s Powerhouse Posted: 26 Jun 2011 07:53 AM PDT 50 Cent, Trey Songz, Snoop Dogg surprise fans at Power 106 show, which also featured Big Sean, Jeremih, LMFAO, the Rej3ctz and T-Pain.
LOS ANGELES — Radio station Power 106 held their annual sold-out Powerhouse concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Saturday night, bringing together multiple generations of hip-hop stars, from West Coast OG Ice Cube to L.A.'s latest dance-craze instigators the Rej3ctz to a chart-topping visitor from out east, Wiz Khalifa. The Rej3ctz opened the show with a high-energy performance and later danced onstage with the very colorful LMFAO as they performed "Shots." Sporting a white T-shirt and bright yellow cargo shorts, T-Pain took it up a couple notches with a string of his hits and left fans fully charged with DJ Khaled's "All I Do Is Win."
The evening had a couple of surprises on deck: 50 Cent joined Jeremih on their collabo "Down on Me," which Jeremih said was the first time they've ever performed the song together in concert. Compton's own DJ Quik gave loyal fans what they came for, and when Lupe Fiasco pulled young crooner Trey Songz onstage during his set, screaming concertgoers raised the decibels to new heights. The Don Mega himself, Ice Cube, brought out his old N.W.A bandmate MC Ren on the song "Hello." "It makes you feel good, being in the game as long as I have," Ice Cube told MTV News before the show. "I done went from new school to old school and still here. You can't do nothing but be humbled by the fact that so many rappers is gone. ... I'm still here after all this time." Cube was also the most-anticipated act of the evening by fellow performers including the headliner, Wiz Khalifa. "This is my first time performing at Powerhouse, my first time performing at an event this big, so I feel elated," Wiz told MTV News before his set. "I'm really excited about seeing Cube." But Khalifa had another trick up his sleeve when it came to honoring L.A.'s hip-hop roots: He brought out his "High School" co-star Snoop Dogg for one last Powerhouse surprise, no doubt leaving 18,000 fans feeling like they got their money's worth. Related Artists |
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