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Singer worked on the project with the Roots, whom he has been ‘following since I was a kid at UPenn.’ By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Tim Kash Photo: MTV News John Legend is a pretty lucky guy. He sang the national anthem at the World Series and joined Steve Wonder onstage at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert last fall — on the same day. The piano-playing crooner will follow those achievements with the release of his next album, Wake Up Sessions, with the Roots. According to Legend, he’s been a fan of the Philadelphia band since his college days, when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania. “We’re, like, 99 percent done. We’ve done all the recording, and now we’re mixing half the album, and it’s coming out in September,” the singer told MTV News. “I’m very excited about it. It’s gonna be a very interesting, very cool album. And like I said, I’m a big fan of the Roots. I’m excited to be able to put out an album with the Roots. This is a group I been following since I was a kid at UPenn. I would go to open mics and watch them host the open mics, wishing I could be onstage with them, and now I’m in the studio with them making this album, and it’s pretty exciting.” Legend and the Roots joined forces last month to perform at a 40th-anniversary Earth Day event . Wake Up Sessions is the follow-up to Legend’s 2008 album, Evolver, which featured the Andre 3000-assisted “Green Light.” Do you think John Legend working with the Roots is a good match? Tell us in the comments! Related Artists The Roots John Legend

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Greys Anatomy Season 6 Episode 21 is scheduled to be aired this day May 6, 2010. This new fresh episode of Greys Anatomy Season 6 Episode 21 is entitled “How Insensitive Stream”. The episode can be watched on your TV within this day depending on the schedule of your TV channel. To know the airing time, you can ask your cable operator or go to the TV channels website. The online video streaming of this episode is also available anytime in Full Episodes or Trailer Online. To Watch Greys Anatomy Season 6 Episode 21 Online Stream , the link below will help you. Greys Anatomy Season 6 Episode 21 – How Insensitive Watch Greys Anatomy Season 6 Episode 21 Online Stream Watch Greys Anatomy Season 6 Episode 21 – How Insensitive Stream Online is a post from: Daily World Buzz

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It’s not necessarily the publicity you want the day before you open your international baby movie opposite Iron Man 2 . But really, I respect the director of Babies all that much more for raising a midde finger to the established order of California child-labor law and making a movie with a newborn infant despite everything. He’s in good company today, too, fighting against The Man with a documentarian peer who may wind up at the U.S. Supreme Court before his case is resolved.

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Today in Legal Snafus: Babies Targeted, Crude Subpoenaed

‘I need this record for B.o.B,’ Jim Jonsin recalls telling label execs of the #1 hit. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Shaheem Reid Photo: MTV News B.o.B is certainly on a roll right now, with the #1 album in the country this week and its lead single “Nothin’ on You” also a #1 hit. But the upstart hip-hop star, powered by his syrupy smash, almost didn’t get his hands on the Bruno Mars-assisted “Nothin’ on You.” The record, produced by the Smeezingtons (Bruno Mars and songwriting partner Phillip Lawrence), was originally slated for Lupe Fiasco, B.o.B’s Atlantic Records labelmate. According to producer Jim Jonsin, who signed B.o.B to his Rebel Rock imprint, he was responsible for redirecting the record to his artist. “I was actually working on a session in Chung King [Studios], and [Atlantic Records chairman] Craig Kallman called me during that session with that particular track, to work on it for Lupe Fiasco,” Jonsin told MTV News. “I told Craig, ‘I like the song a lot. It’s a smash and could be somebody’s single. But it’s not Lupe’s record. I need this record for B.o.B. Please give this record to B.o.B.’ I guess they went through whoever they went through, convinced whoever they needed to, and it got to B.o.B.” As the song was climbing to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, B.o.B said he was as surprised as anyone by the song’s success. “We really didn’t expect it to have the dramatic impact it had, nor how fast it happened,” B.o.B told MTV News last month. “Me and my managers, B. Rich and TJ, we still look at each other speechless. We always aim to be successful. But when the byproduct exceeds your expectations — when usually you barely make the basket with what you want — the gratitude is through the roof. It’s literally a dream come true.” The rewards have been a long time coming for the Atlanta rapper. He’s been signed as an artist for a few years but realized only minimal success with a few scattered mixtape tracks. His potential, however, was always recognized, landing him on the 2009 cover of hip-hop magazine XXL ‘s Freshmen 10 issue (putting him in the company of Wale and Asher Roth, among other rising MCs). “I will tell you this about the journey as an artist to get to the point where you actually have a release date,” he explained earlier this year. “The biggest lesson I learned is patience. Once you get here, it’s like, ‘OK, now you have to keep going. You never get to an end.’ So you have to be patient and pace yourself. Take time. It’s like building a house. You gotta take time, build a foundation, get the walls right, get the electricity right, get the plumbing right and make sure when you turn the light on that the door don’t open up.” How do you think Lupe’s “Nothin’ on You” would have sounded? Share your thoughts in the comments! Related Artists B.o.B

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In the gulf of disbelief following thirty-year-old suburbanite Faisal Shahzad ‘s attempt to blow up Times Square , a series of superficial personal artifacts emerge: Handwriting analysis , photos of refrigerated leftovers, his resume. Can we divine a real person from this stuff? More

Celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson is my constant, in that whenever she is in the news, it is for humiliating one of her clients under the guise of self-improvement. Anderson is already well-known for turning Madonna into a befuddled, sinewy scarecrow, and for giving Gwyneth Paltrow a body-dysmorphic diet-and-exercise obsession that clearly necessitates an intervention . Still, what she’s done to Jennifer Aniston may be her worst crime yet.

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Will Someone Stop Celebrity Trainer Tracy Anderson Before She Strikes Again?

Filed under: TMZ Live , Rachel Uchitel , Lawrence Taylor , Chaz Bono , Lindsay Lohan We took your questions on everything today — including NFL legend Lawrence Taylor allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl, Chaz Bono ‘s legal manhood, and Rachel Uchitel ‘s extortion statement. Plus: Lindsay Lohan ‘s walk of shame this morning. Read more

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Showtimes: May 7th, 2010 (wide) (From left) Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, director/actor Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle pose during Paramount Pictures Marvel Entertainment#39;s #39;Iron Man 2#39; photo call held at the Four Seasons Hotel on April 23, in Los Angeles, California. The world is aware that billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the armored Super Hero Iron Man. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology wi

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Tito Ortiz was spotted outside the home he shares with Jenna Jameson today — the first time he’s been seen at the pad since he was arrested for felony domestic violence on April 26. We’re not sure if Jenna was at the Huntington Beach, CA home while… Read more

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‘I’m not trying to be Courtney Love,’ ‘Gossip Girl’ actress says. By James Montgomery Taylor Momsen Photo: Yanina Molina/ MTV News Last year, Courtney Love went after Taylor Momsen on Twitter, accusing the actress/ burgeoning rocker of swiping her look, “deeply disturb[ing]” her, and trying to pass off Love’s name for credibility’s sake. “I don’t watch TV or read teen mags and gossip rags, so I wouldn’t know,” Love snarled (in 140 characters or less). “Do not still ‘like my music’ please.” Love was referencing an interview Momsen had given to MTV News earlier in 2009, in which she claimed that Hole was a major influence on the music she was making with her band, the Pretty Reckless . The feud between the two didn’t last for long and all seemed to be forgotten, until Momsen spoke to Entertainment Weekly last month, and, when asked about the frequent comparisons to Love, she proclaimed, “I don’t wanna be Courtney Love — I wanna be Kurt Cobain. … I look at Nirvana. I don’t look at Hole.” And suddenly everything started up again. Momsen’s quote spread like wildfire around the Internet , with most interpreting it as a pretty huge slap in Love’s face, not to mention pretty close to actual hubris. So, when MTV News spoke to Momsen and her Reckless bandmates on Saturday (May 1) at the Bamboozle festival, we asked her if she cared to explain what she meant by the comment — or at least try to pull herself out of rather sizeable hole (no pun intended) she’d dug. “Everything is taken out of context,” Momsen said. “Everyone compares me to Courtney Love. Courtney Love is great, sure, but in all honesty, I’m not trying to be Courtney Love. I would rather be Kurt Cobain, [because] I wrote the record. I’m not either [of them]. I’m saying I would like to be John Lennon, I would like to be Liam Gallagher, I would like to be Robert Plant … should I keep going? You look up to your idols.” And Momsen didn’t stop there, either. Seems she’s not trying to back down from her comments to EW, not by a long shot. And she’s not apologetic about any of it. “I grew up listening to the Nirvana records, not the Hole records,” she said. “And I’m sorry we both have blonde hair and play rock music. That’s it.” What do you think of Taylor’s comments? Let us know in the comments below!

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Taylor Momsen Clarifies Kurt Cobain Quote: ‘You Look Up To Your Idols’