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‘This couldn’t have come at a better time,’ says Gay Pride Week participant outside the Stonewall Inn. By Vaughn Trudeau Schoonmaker Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images NEW YORK — With the historic passing of the same marriage equality bill in New York State on Friday night, the streets of the city have since been flooded with excited members of the LGBT community and other supporters on what just happens to be Gay Pride Week. Crowds of people have continued to drop by the Stonewall Inn, the famous site that has come to be known as the birthplace of the world’s gay rights movement following the infamous “Stonewall riots” that followed a police raid on the bar in 1969. Erin Healy of Albany, New York, recalled the groundbreaking moment. “I was with my friends last night and everyone was like, ‘The bill’s going to get passed!’ So we were like, ‘Turn on the news!’ and then all of a sudden it was like, ’29 to 33, it’s passed!’ ” “I just think this is such a groundbreaking moment in gay history,” expressed 21-year-old Brianna McDonald. “This vote was so important to the young crowd because it actually gives us something to look forward to, to get married if we want to.” “We are in the gayest part of town!” laughed Tony Benninelli of Queens, who was out with his friends in the West Village celebrating Gay Pride. “This couldn’t have come at a better time.” Jesse Kissel was especially keen on noting the part that both the Stonewall Inn and New York City played when it came to this epic moment. “This is where it all started,” he smiled. “This was where the revolution began, where people started realizing that we need rights and privileges.” The passing of the act gave Miami resident Jorge Orobitg a new hope for his own state. “New York is a big state,” he said, “so that means we’re heading in the right direction.” ( Read how California residents reacted to the news. ) “Hopefully, this will sprout a nationwide thing,” Erin Healy said. “It’s just something ridiculous to me that it’s taken even this long to happen.” Share your reactions to New York’s same-sex marriage bill on Facebook. Related Videos New York Rules In Favor Of Marriage Equality
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Rapper has been undergoing radiation to treat the thyroid condition. By Gil Kaufman Missy Elliott Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/ Getty Images For a while, Missy Elliott was everywhere you looked. The rapper/producer released a string of offbeat smash hits and landmark music videos in the late 1990s and early 2000s that stretched from her breakthrough single “The Rain” in 1997 to 2001’s “Get Ur Freak On” and 2002’s “Work It.” But after a couple of softer-selling efforts in the mid 2000s, Elliott seemed to fall off the radar. Now the increasingly reclusive MC has explained why her long-promised comeback album, Block Party, has been so long in coming and where she’s been for the past three years. The 39-year-old Grammy winner told People magazine that she’s battling the autoimmune disorder Graves’ disease. “You live with it for the rest of your life,” Elliott said. Elliott was diagnosed with the disease in 2008, and she’s suffered from a litany of effects, including a loss of some motor skills, dizzy spells, lumps in her throat, mood swings, hair loss, a fast heart rate and bulging eyes. She underwent radiation treatment, has been taking medication and said she’s now feeling better. The disease affects the thyroid gland, whose hormones regulate the body’s metabolism and affect mood, weight and energy. It causes hyperthyroidism, which produces an excess of the thyroid hormone, causing the symptoms Elliott discussed, as well as anxiety, double vision and muscle weakness. Though the symptoms are uncomfortable, when caught early and treated, long-term health effects can be avoided. The weakness was so bad, Elliott said , that she nearly crashed her car because she couldn’t press down on the brake, and she could hardly even hold a pen in her hand. “I’m 30 pounds lighter because I’ve been exercising,” said Elliott, who will be the first subject of the upcoming season of VH1’s “Behind the Music” biography series on June 29. “My thyroid is functioning, so I haven’t had to take medication in about nine months.” Related Artists Missy Elliott
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Rapper has been undergoing radiation to treat the thyroid condition. By Gil Kaufman Missy Elliott Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/ Getty Images For a while, Missy Elliott was everywhere you looked. The rapper/producer released a string of offbeat smash hits and landmark music videos in the late 1990s and early 2000s that stretched from her breakthrough single “The Rain” in 1997 to 2001’s “Get Ur Freak On” and 2002’s “Work It.” But after a couple of softer-selling efforts in the mid 2000s, Elliott seemed to fall off the radar. Now the increasingly reclusive MC has explained why her long-promised comeback album, Block Party, has been so long in coming and where she’s been for the past three years. The 39-year-old Grammy winner told People magazine that she’s battling the autoimmune disorder Graves’ disease. “You live with it for the rest of your life,” Elliott said. Elliott was diagnosed with the disease in 2008, and she’s suffered from a litany of effects, including a loss of some motor skills, dizzy spells, lumps in her throat, mood swings, hair loss, a fast heart rate and bulging eyes. She underwent radiation treatment, has been taking medication and said she’s now feeling better. The disease affects the thyroid gland, whose hormones regulate the body’s metabolism and affect mood, weight and energy. It causes hyperthyroidism, which produces an excess of the thyroid hormone, causing the symptoms Elliott discussed, as well as anxiety, double vision and muscle weakness. Though the symptoms are uncomfortable, when caught early and treated, long-term health effects can be avoided. The weakness was so bad, Elliott said , that she nearly crashed her car because she couldn’t press down on the brake, and she could hardly even hold a pen in her hand. “I’m 30 pounds lighter because I’ve been exercising,” said Elliott, who will be the first subject of the upcoming season of VH1’s “Behind the Music” biography series on June 29. “My thyroid is functioning, so I haven’t had to take medication in about nine months.” Related Artists Missy Elliott
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Fif, who has famously sparred with MCs, says ‘Playground’ will be based on ‘events from my own childhood and adolescence.’ By Gil Kaufman 50 Cent Photo: Ray Tamarra/ Getty Images 50 Cent is getting in on the bullying game. No, the brawny rhymer/actor with a reputation for starting beef with his fellow MCs is not going in on another of his rap peers, he’s branching out and adding another book to his r
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‘If you are really trying something extraordinary, it’s going to be difficult,’ original director Julie Taymor tells MTV News at premiere. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Rick Marshall “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” Photo: MTV News After months and months of pre-production, including injured actors, troubles with the script and a complete overhaul, the beleaguered Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” officially opened on the Great White Way on Tuesday night (June 14). MTV News braved the rain and crowds at the Foxwoods Theater in the heart of midtown Manhattan to chat with the musical’s production team about what the show’s fits and starts have taught them along the way. “It’s just hard to do anything when you’re trying to do something new and big and different,” original director Julie Taymor said of the challenges. “If you are really trying something extraordinary, it’s going to be difficult. And that’s OK, because eventually you get there.” “I think what happened is that when they were in previews, they discovered that the demographic was so big, they had 6-year-old children in the audience, they had 86-year-old grandparents in the audience. They wanted to make sure the show could reach out to all of them,” explained new director Philip William McKinley. “I think we tried to make the story a bit more linear,” added writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. “But we also tried to bring the characters that fans know and love, Mary Jane, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, the Green Goblin, we tried to give them more material and go a little bit deeper on their journeys.” McKinley told a story about watching two young boys in the theater’s lobby “webbing” each other after one of the preview performances, who declared it the “best Broadway show ever” and said they couldn’t wait to see their next musical. “I thought, ‘Perfect, let’s develop those new audiences,’ ” McKinley said of bringing more people into the theater experience. “The people that we’ve met in the community who really care for the art, they want to see new blood, they want to see new innovation,” said Bono, who wrote songs for the show with U2 bandmate The Edge. “They want to see new characters onstage, and I think we brought that.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com .
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‘People focus on me so much instead of the whole OF collective,’ Tyler tells MTV News of buzzworthy Hodgy Beats and Left Brain. By Steven Roberts, with reporting by Matt Elias Odd Future’s Hodgy Beats and Tyler The Creator Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images Odd Future ‘s MellowHype may seem to have gotten lost in Tyler, the Creator’s shadow, but the rapper/producer duo of Hodgy Beats and Left Brain are still making a name for themselves. The duo released the Matt Alonzo-directed music video for “64” on Monday at midnight through the OF collective’s website . The song serves as the first single the Fat Possum Records re-release of MellowHype’s BlackenedWhite album, which drops on July 12. MellowHype first performed “64” on Fuel TV’s “Daily Habit” with labelmates Bass Drum of Death, and it has since become a fan favorite at OF shows. When MTV News caught up with Odd Future’s de facto leader, Tyler, the Creator , he said he was sure Hodgy and Left Brain could carry the OF momentum. “I know they can, it’s just that people focus on me so much instead of the whole OF collective. If they look deeper, they’ll find way more stuff,” Tyler said. “I want them to get their shine and stuff. I want to make sure that everyone knows the whole circle instead of just R. Kelly.” Tyler also said he wasn’t really thinking about the numbers for his recently released second album. Goblin debuted at #5 on the Billboard album chart, selling more than 45,000 copies in its first week, and Tyler couldn’t be less concerned one way or another. “I think it’s cool. I’m a kid who just made f—ing music out of boredom and made it to #5 [on the charts]. They’ll never be able to do what I did or what I can do. They could never play instruments or start a cult of kids and sell those records. They just sit and talk about it, so I don’t really care. And I’m R. Kelly.” What do you think of Odd Future’s MellowHype? Let us know in the comments! Related Videos The Wonderful Adventures Of Odd Future At SXSW 2011 Related Artists Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All
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The Good Life single looks back to the early days of hip-hop while staying firmly planted in the present. By Rob Markman Nas Photo: C. Flanigan/ Getty Images There’s no R&B chord, A-list feature or catchy chorus. On “Nasty,” the first single from Nas ‘ 10th solo album, The Good Life, the rapper takes things back to hip-hop basics: hard rhymes over an infectious loop. The song, which leaked online Monday night, is reminiscent of New York’s 1980s infamous park jams and starts out with a DJ asking the rapper’s native Queensbridge housing projects, “Are y’all ready to see Nasty Nas?” The question is, of course, rhetorical. After Nasir pushed rap’s envelope in 2008 on his politically charged Untitled album (originally titled N—er ), fans have clamored for new solo material. Thankfully, “Nasty” lives up to its name, as the track’s opening bars paint a picture of New York’s pre-gentrified crack era: “Late-night candlelight fiend with diesel in his needle/ Queensbridge leader, no equal.” Nas continues to toss numerous nods to the ’80s and ’90s on the Salaam Remi-produced track. There’s a shout to Queens street legend Thomas “Tony Montana” Mickens, the now-closed Tunnel nightclub and the late Notorious B.I.G. Still, “Nasty” isn’t just a trip down memory lane. In fact, Nas remains with his feet firmly planted in 2011 as he reflects on his growth from a wide-eyed boy looking out of his project window to rap’s upper echelon, while still leaving room to grow.”We ain’t going backwards, we’re staying forward though,” Nas said in a June interview with DJ Envy on MTV2’s Sucker Free. With the song’s lyrics, he stays true to that notion. “Silent rage, pristine in my vintage shades/ I’m not in the winters of my life or the beginning stage,” Nas spits before revealing his lustful interest in actress Antonique Smith, who played Faith Evans in the 2009 Biggie biopic “Notorious.” Nas continues to fire off quotables in rapid succession. “I’m so high, I never land like Mike Jackson’s crib” and “Your flow’s cheap as limousine liquor” are just a few examples of Nas’ spirited wordplay. If the new single is any indication of what fans can expect from the new Nas album, then for hip-hop fans, life is good. What do you think of Nas’ latest single? Share your reviews in the comments! Related Artists Nas
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