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“It feels like they’re pushing boundaries and buttons,” Eminem tells MTV News. By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway Eminem Eminem has been known to cause a stir or two. From rapping about killing his daughter’s mother on ” ’97 Bonnie & Clyde” to being deemed homophobic by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Slim Shady has courted his share of controversy over the years. Lately, L.A. collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All and their profanity-flinging frontman, Tyler, the Creator, have been drawing comparisons to Marshall, but what does Slim think of OFWGKTA? “I think that from the stuff that I’ve heard — I haven’t heard a lot from them, I still have to go check out everything that they’re doing — but I’ve heard enough to know that it feels like they’re pushing boundaries and buttons, and that’s definitely one of the things that I’m familiar with, especially when I first came out,” Eminem told Sway on the set of Bad Meets Evil’s “Fast Lane” video in Detroit. “I love it, I love the fact that they’re doing that. And the dudes can rhyme.” Eminem’s Bad Meets Evil partner Royce Da 5’9″ is a fan as well, particularly of OF’s R&B portion. “I’m a big Frank Ocean fan,” he said. “I’m feelin’ the whole group. I’m with Em, though — I haven’t heard enough of them. I heard more Frank Ocean, for some reason. It seems like he’s standing out, for some reason.” When in his creative zone, as he has been lately, Em finds it hard to keep up with rap’s newcomers. “If somebody has got a buzz and somebody is making noise, I’ll go check ’em out. Sometimes I’m late getting to the party, sometimes I’m right on top of it as it’s happening. It’s hard, I think, when you’re creating music and you’re in the lab like me and him are a lot.” Related Videos The Wonderful Adventures Of Odd Future At SXSW 2011 ‘RapFix Live’ With Eminem And Royce Da 5’9″ Related Artists Eminem Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All
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Prodigy and Havoc tell Mixtape Daily they ‘had tunnel vision.’ By Rob Markman Mobb Deep Photo: MTV News Celebrity Favorites: Mobb Deep Hip-hop is super competitive, and sometimes rappers spend so much time trying to outdo each other that they miss out on good music. For instance, in his book, the Queens rapper talks about turning down the chance to collaborate with the Notorious B.I.G. on his 1997 Havoc-produced track “Last Day.” Back then, Pee just wasn’t a fan, but hindsight is 20/20. “A lot of the people were coming on the block back in the days when Biggie had ‘Party and Bullsh–,’ his first record, and they would play it. I wasn’t into it,” Prodigy told Mixtape Daily . “I was focused on Mobb Deep. I had tunnel vision: I really didn’t give a f— what anybody was doin’ in rap music, except for Mobb Deep and Nas and our little circle. Everything else was irrelevant to me.” So irrelevant that when Havoc was enlisted to produce on Big’s 1997 sophomore LP, Life After Death , his partner-in-rhyme wanted no part of it. “I told Hav I just really didn’t want to do that. That was my opinion at that time,” Prodigy recalled. However, the H.N.I.C. eventually decided to give the Brooklyn legend one more chance. “I started liking Biggie. After he started heating up, I started re-listening to it. I was like, ‘This kid is alright. I like, son,’ ” Prodigy explained. “Sometimes that happens in life though.” Havoc attested to a similar situation: “I definitely wasn’t checking for other people. I missed a lot of stuff in the ’90s that I like now. I just had tunnel vision,” he said. “There was a lot of dope acts that was out back in the ’90s, like the Lost Boyz. I never paid attention to their stuff.” The Lost Boyz — a rap group from South Jamaica, Queens, New York — broke out in 1995 with their hit record “Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz,” and though they were known for high-powered party anthems, Hav wasn’t a fan in their heyday. He is today, though. “Now, when I look back on it and I listen to their stuff now, it’s like, ‘Yo, they had that sh–.’ They always kept the party poppin’. I really appreciate their music, and I’m glad that they made it,” he said. “That’s ill that they are even a part of the era that we came from.” For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out . Related Videos Mixtape Daily: Mobb Deep, Tity Boi Related Artists Mobb Deep Prodigy of Mobb Deep
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‘M-Bone will be with us forever,’ Yung tells MTV News. By Rob Markman, with reporting by Vanessa Whitewolf Cali Swag District Photo: MTV News Though Mante “M-Bone” Talbert has been laid to rest, the remaining members of Cali Swag District said they will carry on his legacy with their work. “We’re just focused on staying positive and doing what we were doing prior to this incident,” CSD’s C-Smoove told MTV News. “Basically, make M-Bone’s legacy and his name live on through us forever, as long as we do it. We don’t feel like this is a time for us to stop; we feel like this is a time for us to go harder.” On May 15, M-Bone was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Inglewood, California. While Cali Swag has been mourning, the group managed to drop its M-Bone dedication song, “How to Do That,” before burying its fallen comrade Friday . Now, the group, who made its mark with the 2010 platinum single “Teach Me How to Dougie,” is readying a new mixtape, Deeper Than the Dougie, and said it will continue to rep for Talbert. “It’s gonna be a lot of tattoos and chains and all that,” Smoove said. “We’re gonna really make his name live on.” The group also revealed that it won’t be adding any new members to replace the CSD dancer. “You see three people right here, but it’s still four people in the group,” Yung said. “M-Bone will be with us forever.” Smoove added: “We won’t be replacing M-Bone. Nobody will ever be able to say, ‘I’m the new fourth,’ and ‘I filled in because of this.’ ” Police are still investigating M-Bone’s murder and have made no arrests. They are asking anyone with information to call its homicide division at 310-412-5246 or its 24-hour anonymous hotline at 888-41-CRIME (888-412-7463). Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Cali Swag District Related Photos Cali Swag District’s M-Bone: A Life In Photos Fans Honor Cali Swag District’s M-Bone At Memorial Related Artists Cali Swag District
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: ‘Justin Bieber is the epitome of [a] big star, so it was cool for me,’ McCreery says of his new nickname. By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery Photo: MTV News Throughout his championship run on the just-completed 10th season of “American Idol,” Scotty McCreery never really wavered from his country roots … even when he was singing Stevie Wonder. And while you’ve certainly got to give him credit for playing to his strengths, McCreery’s down-home crooning — not to mention his rather boyish good looks — also earned him a rather bizarre nickname: “Country Bieber.” And while he can laugh at the comparisons, if he’s being honest, McCreery can’t really understand why anyone would equate him to the teen-pop prince. But his fellow “Idol” finalist, Lauren Alaina, certainly can. “Country Bieber … I mean, Justin Bieber is the epitome of [a] big star, so it was cool for me,” McCreery smiled. “I mean, Justin’s a whole lot further ahead than I am … so, I guess it’s mainly because of our age. …” “Girls love Scotty McCreery like they love Justin Bieber,” Alaina interjected. “It’s true.” “Thank you, Lauren,” McCreery laughed. “I just figure it’s because of our age. Me and Justin are pretty much two young guns.” And with the “Idol” title in the bag, McCreery can now focus on expanding on that whole “young guns” thing … his first official single, the ballad “I Love You This Big,” is already the biggest-selling coronation song since season 7 champ David Cook’s “The Time of My Life,” and he’s beginning to contemplate how his debut album will sound. And, not surprisingly, it’s going to be a country affair. “It’s gonna be a good ol’ country album,” McCreery said. “I like to have that old flavor in my music, but with a contemporary feel, so we’ll see where that leads me. I think it’ll be a good little mix.” And if you just can’t get enough of “Love,” well, you’re in luck … McCreery said that you’ll have plenty of chances to see him perform it in the coming months on the American Idols Live! Tour . ” ‘I Love You This Big’ is a great song, it’s done me really well so far,” he said. “And I’ll be singing it a couple hundred more times, so I’m sure you’ll be hearing it,” he joked. Related Videos Interviews From The ‘American Idol’ Red Carpet ‘Idol Party Live’ Season 10 Finale Show Related Photos ‘American Idol’ Finale Performances ‘American Idol’ Finale 2011 Red Carpet Related Artists Justin Bieber
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‘That’s the first time anybody has ever heard all three of us on a record,’ Drizzy tells MTV News of teaming with Rick Ross, Lil Wayne. By Rob Markman, with reporting by Ricky Louis Drake Photo: MTV News Drake is such a nice guy. When DJ Khaled approached Drizzy to appear on a track off of his upcoming Cash Money album, We the Best Forever, the Thank Me Later MC wanted to lend something memorable to his friend’s project. The result, “I’m On One,” Khaled’s latest single featuring Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and, of course, Drake. “Khaled waited, like, forever and a day. I was taking my sweet time trying to craft this piece of music because I knew he needed a special moment,” Drizzy told MTV News at the song’s video shoot in Miami. “When I did it, I was like, ‘OK, it’s gotta be me, Ross and Wayne.’ That’s the first time anybody has ever heard all three of us on a record.” After leaking the song onto the Internet on May 12, Khaled and company were out shooting the video for “I’m On One” this past weekend — just 15 days later — and that fact isn’t lost on Drake. “To be out here shooting a video, it’s amazing how things work nowadays,” he said. “I used to make music and never think anyone was gonna hear it, now I make music and two weeks later, we’re shooting crazy videos in Miami, living the life.” Aside from working with Wayne, who Drake is signed to and frequently shows appreciation for, the Toronto-born rapper spoke on his admiration for his “brother” Rozay. “That’s one of my favorite people to rap with in the world,” Drizzy said. “That’s family the same way YM is family, the same way that OVO is family,” he said, name-checking his Young Money and October’s Very Own teams. “Ross know what it is, MMG all day, I hold that close to my heart.” What do you think of “I’m On One”? Tell us in the comments! Related Artists Drake DJ Khaled
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In part two of our ‘Seattle Sonics’ series, the band takes us to their Sip & Ship ‘nerve center’ and American Music shop. By James Montgomery Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla and Jason McGerr Photo: MTV News SEATTLE — Chris Walla is a bit of a multitasker: That much is clear just by his rather prodigious output as a producer, solo musician and full-time member of Death Cab for Cutie . So it should probably come as no surprise that, for MTV News’ second edition of “Seattle Sonics,” Walla decided to take us to one of his favorite spots in Seatown: Sip & Ship, the kind of place that defines multitasking. See, S&S is the sort of place that seemingly only exists in Seattle: A communal, cozy combination shipping depot/coffee bar that also happens to be a gift shop. Oh, and they make a mean grilled cheese, too. Located in the city’s Ballard neighborhood — right down the block from a nefarious FedEx Office outpost — Walla first visited the shop six years ago (after a rather terrible experience at said FedEx), and in the time since, Sip & Ship has become the de facto home office for all things Death Cab. Merch, master tapes of albums, musical instruments and the occasional eBay purchase all pass through S&S. Walla has become close friends with the shop’s owners (one of them, Diana Naramore, even made a cameo in his “Sing Again” video ) and the coffee’s really great, too. “This place has become a communications and shipping and caffeine and calorie hub without which I don’t think Death Cab for Cutie would actually be able to do any business at all. This is one of the Seattle nerve centers of the band,” Walla explained. “We did a whole series of test-pressings for the new record, and we got four or five shipments of them here. We’d pick ’em up and then go home and listen to records.” Drummer Jason McGerr also chimed in: “It’s a far safer bet than my doorstep — which I don’t even step on all that often,” he said, laughing. And while Sip & Ship has been an important cog in the Death Cab machine for six years, there’s another spot nearby that’s been part of their lives for much longer: American Music, a Seattle institution since it first opened its doors in 1973 and the place where local bands (you know, like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains) went to get their gear. It’s not surprising that both Walla — who grew up nearby — and McGerr — who worked there in 1994, when he was 19 years old — chose it as the next place they took our cameras. “I traded all my paychecks for equipment, and I got to know a whole lot of local drummers,” McGerr said from his old post behind the American counter. “And there were times, 10 minutes before close, Dave Grohl would come in and sit down and just start blowing on drums and the front door would shut and we’d sit there and watch him. … There was always a scene happening within the store. If you played music and you got your supplies in Seattle, it was from American Music.” And American was also where you’d find Walla hanging out as a slightly awkward teenager, doing “double drummer stuff” with friend (and former Death Cab drummer) Nathan Good. And he did it mostly out of necessity, because back then, there weren’t many places 15-year-old music obsessives could hang out, due mostly to Seattle’s oppressive Teen Dance Ordinance , which made all-ages shows all but impossible to organize. And, really, to Walla, that’s what makes the place much more than a music store. It’s sort of his home away from home. “I got a lot of stuff here that was cast-off junk, but I still use it,” Walla said. “There are tons of music stores that are just enormous boxes, that are full of guitars and drums and cymbals and whatever, and they might have more stock than a place like American does, but American has the heart and soul of a music store that I want when I walk into a music store.” Death Cab for Cutie: Seattle Sonics continues all week on MTVNews.com. On Thursday, we’ll head to a vaunted (and now defunct) all-ages venue where DCFC learned how to be a band — and still made it home in time for curfew. Related Videos Death Cab For Cutie’s Guide To Seattle Related Artists Death Cab For Cutie
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Singer reportedly suffered a broken jaw, fractured wrist, water in lungs in jet-ski crash. By Gil Kaufman Sean Kingston Photo: Getty After entering a hospital on Sunday with critical injuries from a personal watercraft crash, singer, Sean Kingston is now expected to make a full recovery from his injuries. CNN , citing two unnamed sources close to Kingston, reported that the injuries sustained in the crash should take around six weeks to heal. The sources told the news network that the “Beautiful Girls” singer suffered a broken jaw, a fractured wrist and water in his lungs. The last update from Kingston’s label, Epic Records, reported that he was in “critical but stable condition” in a Miami hospital on Tuesday. His rep also told MTV News that Kingston , 21, is “aware of what is going on around him” and that he was “sedated but fully conscious.” On Sunday, Kingston and a female passenger crashed his Sea Doo jet ski into the Palm Island Bridge at approximately 6 p.m. ET. After being rescued by an off-duty Coast Guard employee, the pop star was taken to the trauma center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, but has since been moved to the intensive care unit. TMZ spoke to Kingston’s rescuer, who said that Sean was “puking up blood out of his mouth.” Another witness told the site he noticed a gash under Kingston’s chin after the crash. Cassandra Sanchez, 23, Sean’s friend and passenger on the jet ski at the time of the accident, has since been discharged from the hospital, Kingston’s rep confirmed. Sanchez told TMZ that Kingston tried to turn away from the bridge but was going “really fast” and couldn’t avoid the crash. Sanchez also said that as Kingston was maneuvering toward the bridge, she urged him to stop and screamed out, “We can’t fit under there! Are we going to try and go under there? Sean, stop!” Sanchez told TMZ on Tuesday that she had no plans to press charges against Kingston over the crash. “I know this whole thing was just an accident,” she said. “I won’t be pressing any type of charges or hiring a lawyer. Sean is a good guy.” CNN reported that Kingston had bought the jet ski just days before the accident, as he prepared to move into a new house in Miami. An eyewitness said Sean’s life vest fell off during the crash, which caused him to sink below the water. “They were calling us over, telling us, ‘He’s drowning, he’s drowning,’ ” witness Carmen Rivera told CNN. “We jumped in the water to help him keep his head above water,” friend Jimmy Vega added. “I pushed him up, and he was vomiting what seemed like water, and then there was some blood coming out,” Jonathan Rivera said. Rapper Trav, whose new song “Up and Down” features Kingston, told CNN he visited his friend in the hospital on Monday and said Sean was “very responsive.” Send your well wishes to Kingston by leaving a comment below. Related Photos Sean Kingston, Get Well Soon! Related Artists Sean Kingston
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Bigger Than the Sound sizes Gaga’s remarkable chart debut up against the year’s other event album, Adele’s 21. By James Montgomery Lady Gaga Photo: Michael Buckner/ Getty Images As of Wednesday (June 1), Lady Gaga officially has the #1 album in the country, after selling 1,108,000 copies of Born This Way, according to Billboard.com . That’s the biggest sales week since 50 Cent’s The Massacre was released in 2005. None of this should really surprise you, though. After all, no album in recent memory has been promoted to the degree that Born This Way has. You could hear it on FarmVille , in a Google Chrome commercial or through a special version of Tap Tap Revenge. You could buy it for 99 cents on Amazon.com, pick it up with a non-fat double latte at Starbucks (which also hosted an online Gaga-themed scavenger hunt) or get it at Best Buy with the purchase of a mobile phone and a two-year service contract. That’s to say nothing of the more than 20,000 “non-traditional” retailers that also stocked it … noted musical hotspots like CVS Pharmacies, Whole Foods and Walgreens. And in the weeks leading up to its release, you seemingly could not escape the woman behind Born This Way, either: Lady Gaga showed up on “Saturday Night Live,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Late Show With David Letterman, ” “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “American Idol” ( twice ). She guest-edited V magazine and the Metro newspaper. She appeared in a documentary that aired on MTV and greeted fans at a New York City Best Buy . No word on whether she also went door-to-door handing out samples of the album, but I wouldn’t put it past her. In short, there was no way you did not know of Born This Way ‘s existence. As Newbury Comics’ director of purchasing, Carl Mello, joked to me during the release-week hype, “If people aren’t aware that Lady Gaga has an album coming out, then that’s a problem for Interscope.” So while BTW ‘s big first week is certainly remarkable, it was by no means unforeseen. This was an album that, from the time Gaga first announced its title in September at the VMAs, was destined to debut at #1. It was inevitable. The real test begins in the weeks afterward, when we’ll all see whether Gaga’s got legs. During my conversation with Mello, he noted that while Born This Way was the top seller at Newbury’s 29 locations (by a long shot), holding strong at #2 was Adele’s 21, an album that, in just 14 weeks, has sold nearly 2 million copies in the U.S. alone and snagged the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 nine times. You did not get 21 with the purchase of a Samsung Epic 4G or by rhythmically tapping on your iPhone, and it was not previewed on FarmVille. In fact, about the extent of its promotion has been one official single (“Rolling in the Deep”), a handful of TV appearances and a sold-out tour. And yet, the record has sold and continues to do so. It is, without a doubt, an album that has legs. In fact, the success of 21 is all the more remarkable when you compare it to the all-out blitz that has surrounded (and, some argue, enveloped) Born This Way. Comparing the two seems almost implausible, if not impossible. But both are genuine phenomena, albeit in completely different ways: 21 is a slow-burning hit; its success is just about as unexpected as it is old-school. BTW is an event ; a big blockbuster for which failure was not an option. Adele made the industry pay attention; Gaga had their ear since last year. And while first-week numbers are all well and good, real success is measured eight to 10 weeks down the road; it’s how we know whether an album resonates, whether the singles have stuck, whether the artist is in it for the long haul. Right now, I wouldn’t bet on anyone catching either Adele or Gaga in the race for 2011’s best-selling album, but the real question is: Can Born This Way overtake 21 for the title? Only time — and some hit singles — will tell. With the promo that led to BTW ‘s release, Gaga has proven that she’s willing to work, but now that the album has been foisted onto the world, the real work’s just beginning: she’s going to have to prove she’s got legs too. How do you think Born This Way will fare on the charts? Share your thoughts in the comments section! Related Videos Lady Gaga: Inside The Outside Related Photos Lady Gaga’s ‘Judas’ Video: Decoded Lady Gaga Joins Her Little Monsters At Best Buy Signing Related Artists Lady Gaga
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‘There was a lot of emotion,’ she tells MTV News of wrapping five-movie saga. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Elizabeth Reaser Photo: MTV News WEST HOLLYWOOD, California — When she sat down for MTV’s Sneak Peek Week to chat about the high school indie “The Art of Getting By,” Elizabeth Reaser also opened up about saying goodbye to “Twilight,” which wrapped up its epic, multi-year production earlier this year. “Oh, yeah, there was a lot of emotion,” she said at the Pacific Design Center screening, where the indie flick had just screened. “I mean, [for] months we had been through so much different weather craziness [in all different locations that] we were in denial of it the whole time.” She recalled saying goodbye to the epic five-movie saga while shooting the highly-anticipated Edward/Bella wedding scene, even though her work on the film wasn’t quite over. She’d had to stick around a bit longer to finish up some shooting on the film. “Suddenly, we were on the dance floor at the wedding and it was suddenly over,” she said. “It’s also 7 in the morning, and we had been shooting all night, so it was this weird, surreal experience. We were all in shock.” Will wizards, vampires or dream thieves steal the 2011 MTV Movie Awards ? Find out June 5, when the 20th annual show airs live at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Tune in at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT that night for the “America’s Best Dance Crew” finale and Movie Awards pre-show, loaded with live action from the red carpet, exclusive movie clips and a special edition of “After Hours.” To get into the magical movie mood, it’s Sneak Peek Week — five days of exclusives and interviews with the casts of “Fright Night,” “Horrible Bosses” and more. Check out everything there is to know about Sneak Peek Week, the Movie Awards and the pre-show at MovieAwards.MTV.com ! Related Videos MTV Sneak Peek Week: ‘The Art Of Getting By’ Related Photos Twilight: Breaking Dawn
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