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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Flesh-N-Bone Arrested At An Ohio Show

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Rapper had two outstanding warrants for his arrest due to a domestic dispute with his mom 12 years earlier. By Christopher Campbell Flesh-N-Bone Photo: Valerie Macon/ Getty Images Rapper Flesh-N-Bone, of the Grammy-winning hip-hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, was arrested in Ohio on Sunday for assaulting his mother, according to The Associated Press. The incident occurred in Solon, Ohio, 12 years ago, and the rapper, whose real name is Stanley Howse, was in the local area with his act for a sold-out hometown performance at Cleveland’s House of Blues. The concert was part of the group’s reunion tour, which they kicked off last Wednesday, and marked Howse’s first time in the state in more than a decade. He apparently did not expect two outstanding warrants for his arrest to disrupt the show. Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s deputies planned to take Howse into custody after Bone Thugs-N-Harmony finished their set. However, the rapper spotted the police in the crowd and attempted to make a getaway with help from members of the audience. He was apprehended backstage by one of the deputies with the assistance of the Cleveland Police Department. Howse remained in jail Monday (March 29) with no legal representation reported. He is charged with domestic violence with a firearm and felonious assault. He allegedly struck his mother in the head with a gun in 1998, leaving her with a 1-inch gash on her forehead. Since that time, Howse has had other troubles with the law. In 2000, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison in California on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and probation violation after aiming an AK-47 at a friend. He served eight years. In early 2009, he was again arrested for gun possession, but the charges were later dropped. According to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Web site, a live Ustream chat scheduled for Monday had to be canceled and rescheduled. Related Artists Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

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Erykah Badu’s ‘Window Seat’ Video Is Meant To ‘Inspire,’ Directors Say

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‘She wanted to show expression,’ Coodie of Creative Control tells MTV News. By Shaheem Reid Erykah Badu in “Window Seat” Photo: Universal Motown Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat” video almost didn’t end with the singer getting shot on the grassy knoll where JFK was assassinated. Several endings were tossed around, including one where a naked Badu turned the camera away from herself and onto her camera crew, who were also going to be nude. The fatal ending was a group effort between Badu and the video’s directors, Coodie and Chike of Creative Control. “She’s evolving,” Coodie said. “So it’s almost like you have to kill off the other person to do that.” “It was also to tie [the JFK assassination] in,” Chike added. “He was assassinated there for what reason? There were reasons for his assassination that dealt with him doing things that went against the norm for positive reasons. People try to assassinate your character when you try to step against the grain. That’s where the gunshot in the video came. Also, she was inspired by the Matt and Kim video [for ‘Lessons Learned’], where they did something shocking in the end.” Badu’s video debuted Sunday on her Web site at 3:03 a.m. (Badu has a thing for the number three. Her album New Amerykah 2: Return of the Ankh will be released on 3/30, and they started filming the video at precisely 3:33 p.m. on St. Patrick’s Day.) In the clip, Badu walks to the grassy knoll, stripping down along the way. Finally, she gets shot in the head, and as she lay nude on the concrete, the words “Group Think” leak from her head instead of blood. “It was this redneck out there,” Coodie recalled of the shoot. “She was yelling, ‘Put your clothes on! There’s kids out here!’ She kept going on. Then, there was people out there that was looking. I was like, ‘It’s just a freedom of expression.’ And they was like, ‘You’re right.’ This one guy said that. It was cool.” The directing duo, who also produced Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” and “Through The Wire,” said they’ve seen a mostly positive reaction to “Window Seat” on the Web. “I’ve actually been seeing way more positive reactions than I have negative reactions,” Chike said. “That’s cool to see, just in the times today. I feel like five years ago, it might have been different. Society has grown, so we accept something like this more than normal, than we usually would. I was nervous. You know how you’re excited to put something out, then you get that second emotion: ‘What if people don’t respond to it how they should respond to it?’ I was nervous when I went on the comments first.” Although Badu’s actions in the video are slowed down through editing, “Window Seat” was shot in real time. It took the length of the song to shoot the video. Originally, Badu was going to sing as she walked but decided not to. Days before she went in front of the camera, Badu spoke to her children, all three of their fathers and other family members to make sure everyone was OK with what she was going do. Everyone supported her. Then she had her own insecurities to deal with. “That was a concern of hers,” Chike said about the singer getting naked. “Her body, she’s a vegetarian, she also has three kids. So she was like, ‘I haven’t worked out,’ but it was cool. Nobody was trippin’ on that. Everybody thought she was super sexy. She has big assets, thick assets. … That totally wasn’t the point of the video. [She was] not trying to show off those things.” “She wanted to show expression,” Coodie added. “It was inspired by the Matt and Kim video. She said when she watched that, she got teary-eyed. We needed to be free too. That was her whole thing. She hopes her video can inspire people as well.” What did you think of the “Window Seat” video? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Erykah Badu

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Paramore’s Hayley Williams Sings Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ On Twitter

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‘Most fun I’ve ever had in ever,’ she tweets about performing the cover. By Kyle Anderson Haley Williams Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic Paramore singer Hayley Williams has one of the most entertaining Twitter feeds of any musician on the Internet. She regularly tweets her reviews of movies she has seen (she recently saw and loved “Hot Tub Time Machine”), rants about UFC events and exchanges inside jokes with her own band members, Nashville friends and boyfriend Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory. Though she drops the occasional Twitpic, her Twitter has been mostly a word-based experience. Until now. Over the weekend, Williams posted a video to her Twitter feed . “Feel a bit crazy posting this … but you asked for it!” the 21-year-old frontwoman wrote. “My apologies to Miss Gaga. Love, your friend, Lady Haha.” The link revealed a video of Williams sitting at a piano, adusting her hair and then singing and playing Gaga’s “Bad Romance.” Williams gave Gaga’s hit a nice little remix, making the solo piano version into a cabaret shuffle. She seemed to take extra pleasure in the “Ooh la la” portions of the tune, rolling the R’s and belting out the notes. The video came as a result of a tweet she sent only a few hours before . “Playing ‘Bad Romance’ on the piano and pretending to be Lady Gaga,” she wrote. “Why haven’t I ever done this before? Most fun I’ve ever had in ever.” Williams is just the latest star from the rock world to take on a Lady Gaga song . She joins the ranks of Chris Daughtry, Weezer, Maximo Park, We the Kings and, of course, Eric Cartman of “South Park” fame. Could “Bad Romance” sneak into Paramore sets in the future? We’ll find out when the group kicks off the latest stretch of tour dates on April 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee. What Lady Gaga song would you like to see Paramore cover? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Paramore Lady Gaga

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MTV’s Musical March Madness: We Reach The Sweet 16 — Vote Now!

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Tokio Hotel, 30 Seconds to Mars and more march on in MTV News’ Band Bracketology By James Montgomery 30 Seconds to Mars are poised for domination Photo: Nigel Crane/ Redferns We started MTV News’ Musical March Madness with 64 bands (well, 65 if you count Against Me!), whittled it down to 32 last week, and now, after hundreds of thousands of votes — and nearly as many ticked-off fans — we’ve reached the Sweet 16. Much like the real NCAA tourney, we had upsets, buzzer beaters and even an overtime tilt or two. After some heated, back-and-forth battles, we had heavyweights going down and Cinderella bands dancing on. One of these remaining bands will be crowned champion — and, once again, it’ll be up to you to determine who makes it to the Elite Eight. You can view the updated Band Bracket here , and Sweet 16 voting is now open on the Newsroom blog . Polls will close Tuesday night, so you’d better get cracking. And now, on to the recaps. All results are based on percentage of votes, in case you were wondering. Midwest The region where dreams go to die. Both #11 Shinedown and #10 Breaking Benjamin rolled into the field of 32 with momentum on their sides, and both jumped out to commanding leads over their respective opponents (#14 AFI and #2 Muse) but, in the end, neither band was able to hold on, and both were sent packing. The White Stripes dispensed of pesky 12th-seeded OK Go with relative ease, and, in the bracket’s best matchup, 9th-seeded Patrick Stump needed overtime to best the upset-minded Hold Steady, who led early but wilted under Stump’s full-court pressure. The results: (9) Patrick Stump def. (16) the Hold Steady (OT, Stump won on total votes) (4) The White Stripes def. (12) OK Go, 60-40 (14) AFI def. (11) Shinedown, 61-39 (2) Muse def. (10) Breaking Benjamin, 53-47 The Midwest’s Sweet 16 matchups are #9 Patrick Stump vs. #4 the White Stripes, and #2 Muse vs. #14 AFI. West Things continued to be wild out West, with #9 30 Seconds to Mars and #1 Blink-182 going head-to-head in a battle for the ages. Both bands led for extended periods of time, but in the end (thanks to some rather fervent Twitter campaigning by guitarist Tomo Milicevic), the guys in 30 STM pulled off the upset. Fifth-seeded My Chemical Romance rolled #4 Pearl Jam, #15 Panic! at the Disco blasted #7 Death Cab for Cutie, and #14 the Young Veins mounted a furious comeback to nip #6 Weezer. The results: (9) 30 Seconds To Mars def. (1) Blink-182, 69-31 (5) My Chemical Romance def. (4) Pearl Jam, 63-37 (14) The Young Veins def. (6) Weezer, 53-47 (15) Panic! at the Disco def. (7) Death Cab For Cutie, 72-28 Which means that, in the West, we’ve got a pair of totally epic matchups in the Sweet 16: #5 My Chemical Romance vs. #9 30 Seconds to Mars, and — in a battle that pits former bandmates against one another — #14 the Young Veins vs. #15 Panic! at the Disco. East Tokio Hotel march on! Originally only making the field of 64 as an afterthought, they knocked off #1 Coldplay in the first round of the tourney, then took it to #8 Radiohead in the second round. At this point, they’ve got to be the presumptive favorites to come out of the region. In other action, #4 Vampire Weekend outlasted #5 Phoenix in a battle of blog favorites, #3 Owl City nipped #6 Grizzly Bear, and #7 MGMT knocked off #2 Animal Collective. The results: (16) Tokio Hotel def. (8) Radiohead, 69-31 (4) Vampire Weekend def. (5) Phoenix, 55-45 (3) Owl City def. (6) Grizzly Bear, 51-49 (7) MGMT def. (2) Animal Collective, 63-37 So in the East, we’re left with a rather improbable pair of Sweet 16 matchups: #16 Tokio Hotel vs. #4 Vampire Weekend, and #3 Owl City vs. #7 MGMT. Someone’s got to win, right? South The region that refuses to be figured out. One week after they shocked the world by upsetting #1 Kings of Leon, 16th-seeded Creed got knocked off by Adam Lambert in rather convincing fashion. 13th-seeded Alice in Chains kept their impossible dream alive by outgunning #12 Nick Jonas (and his Administration), #6 Phish rolled past #3 the Dave Matthews Band and #15 Coheed and Cambria — the band nobody wants to face at this point — knocked off #10 Mastodon. The results: (9) Adam Lambert def. (16) Creed, 65-35 (13) Alice in Chains def. (12) Nick Jonas, 56-44 (6) Phish def. (3) Dave Matthews Band, 69-31 (15) Coheed and Cambria def. (10) Mastodon, 68-32 The Sweet 16 matchups in the South should be epic: #9 Adam Lambert vs. #13 Alice in Chains, #6 Phish vs. #15 Coheed and Cambria. MTV News’ Musical March Madness Sweet 16 voting is open now on the Newsroom blog and will run until Tuesday night. Hit the polls, and perhaps you can help your favorite band win a largely arbitrary and non-existent championship! Related Artists 30 Seconds To Mars

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Katy Perry Calls Fiance Russell Brand A ‘Bridezilla’

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‘He’s always buying bride magazines,’ Perry reveals about Brand. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting By Matt Elias Katy Perry Photo: MTV News Katy Perry and Russell Brand got engaged in December, and several months into the wedding planning, it seems that one of the pair has emerged as the bridezilla. It might not be the one you’re expecting … “Well, I have to plan my [new album, due this summer] first and then I’m going to get to my wedding,” she told MTV News on the orange carpet at the Kids’ Choice Awards — before she was extravagantly slimed at the show — over the weekend. “But I’m really excited about that, too.” Since Perry is so focused on her career, it’s a good thing that Brand is into the whole wedding process. “He’s a total bridezilla. He’s like a freak, man,” she shared about her fianc

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Erykah Badu’s ‘Window Seat’ Joins Long List Of Naked Music Videos

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From Alanis Morissette’s ‘Thank U’ to Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone,’ artists have been stripping down in their clips. By Gil Kaufman Erykah Badu in her video for “Window Seat” Photo: Universal Motown Nudity and music videos — two great tastes that go great together. From Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s raunchy “Relax” in 1983, to Madonna ‘s S&M-fueled “Justify My Love” clip in 1990, artists have been pushing the envelope for years, while mostly letting the extras do the dirty work. But in the revealing clip for “Window Seat,” from Erykah Badu ‘s New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), the soul high priestess latches on to a lesser-followed path in altogether videos: the full-frontal artist reveal. Over the course of the nearly five-minute, one-take clip, Badu casually strips out of a black overcoat, purple hoodie, black pants, sheer white T-shirt and black underwear and bra as she walks toward the intersection in Dallas where President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The guerrilla-style video was shot on St. Patrick’s Day and Badu tweeted that it went off without a hitch, though she did get heckled by some parents for the stunt. The intro to the clip pays homage to Matt And Kim’s very similar 2009 video for “Lessons Learned,” in which the duo strip as they walk through Times Square and Kim gets flattened by a bus at the end. Only in Badu’s version, like Kennedy, she is taken out by an unseen assassin’s bullet. Badu said she asked for the group’s permission to remake their video before filming “Seat,” and surely she’s aware that music-video history is littered with acres of celebrity skin. Blink-182 hustled down the streets wearing only their tats in their landmark 1999 “What’s My Age Again?” clip, released a year after Alanis Morissette bared it all while doling out hugs to strangers during the “Thank U” video. D’Angelo nearly revealed his naughty bits (and way-chiseled abs) in 2000’s “Untitled (How Does It Feel).” Robbie Williams stripped off his clothes (and his skin) to impress girls in the “Rock DJ” video that same year, and Britney Spears wore only some carefully placed sequins in her iconic “Toxic” clip while using her hands and some steam to cover up in 2008’s “Womanizer.” More recently, Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne went full monty for “Watching the Planets.” And who could forget Lady Gaga nearly showing us her bits in the intro to the epic “Telephone” video ? Did we forget anything? What’s your favorite naked video? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Erykah Badu

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Dead Weather Talk ‘Racy’ Woodie-Nominated ‘Treat Me Like Your Mother’ Video

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘We had to call the women’s prison every morning and tell them we were going to start firing guns,’ Alison Mosshart says of the clip.

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Death Cab For Cutie, Dead Weather To Perform At mtvU Woodie Awards

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Best Video nominees Matt and Kim will also perform at the show, which airs December 4 at 10 p.m.

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Did Heidi Klum Cut the Cheese?

Posted on October 9, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Tall, skinny and gorgeous women have bodily functions, too! This is one of the many lessons learned on last night’s Models of the Runway. Just before one of the leggy lovelies got…

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