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Weezy mixes his swat and stone worlds in the just-released clip.
By Jayson Rodriguez

Lil Wayne’s “Get A Life”

Photo: Cash Money Records

Rock-star standing, rap-star strut . That’s the diagnosis for Lil Wayne’s video for “Get a Hold up, ” which premiered Sunday( May thirty) on MTV2 and MTV Jams as partial of Lil Tunechi Week end . The shave is the ultimate visible from Lil Wayne’s Miami marathon event progressing this year, during which he shot 4 videos in one week end, together with “Da Da Da, ” Knockout” and “Runnin’.”

Like the “Da Da Da” shave, the video for “Get a Life” finds Lil Wayne jamming with stone rope ¡Mayday! on tip of a South Beach road house as detached of the performance-heavy shave . The buoyant balance is between the Cool & Dre-produced marks from Lil Wayne’s rock-leaning bid Rebirth.

Unlike “Prom Queen” and “Drop the World, ” “Get a Life” is reduction driven by guitars and is some-more symphonic in receptive to advice . Dre told MTV News final year, prior to Rebirth was expelled, which the plan wasn’t a finish stone manuscript and was some-more in line with many collections by the New Orleans MC.

“The most appropriate approach to report the Rebirth jot down is which it’s a Lil Wayne jot down, ” the writer pronounced . “It’s where Lil Wayne is right right away in his hold up and career — he’s expressing himself musically . ‘Prom Queen’ came out, and that’s a stone jot down, and so everyone is similar to, ‘He’s putting out a stone manuscript, and he’s on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.’ Yeah, there’s a little stone annals on there, but there’s additionally a little annals where he’s rapping . It’s a Lil Wayne manuscript . It’s what you design from Lil Wayne, where he’s at creatively.”

The 4 Rebirth clips were shot in Feb, when the rapper motionless to bank videos prior to his imminent prison judgment . The executive, David Rousseau, told MTV News at the time which Wayne was focused on the formidable charge at palm . “He was in a section, ” Rousseau pronounced of the ambience . “He was ready . It was a work genius . He’s removing rebuilt for all that’s about to occur to him . He knows it’s the fourth entertain . He was utterly mild and utterly professional.”

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The Young Money honcho wants to fool around Ken to Nicki Minaj’s Barbie in shave .
By Steven Roberts

Lil Wayne attainment . Nicki Minaj – “Knockout”

Photo: Cash Money Records

Lil Tunechi Week end is in full outcome . To flog off this Memorial Day legal holiday, MTV2 and MTV Jams have already delivered video premieres of Lil Wayne’s “Da Da Da”( featuring rockers ¡Mayday!) and “Runnin’, ” with Young Money songstress Shanell . Now, the much-anticipated “Knockout” is eventually here.

Directed by Jeffrey Panzer and Lil Wayne, the Nicki Minaj-assisted shave premiered premiered Saturday( May twenty-nine) . The video is identical in demeanour to Wayne’s “Runnin’ ” visuals, expected owing to the actuality which both were shot regulating a immature shade . Panzer is a music-video maestro whose scarcely three-decade career includes shave credits for the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Erykah Badu, between most others . In “Knockout, ” Wayne and Nicki have been ecstatic from a pinkish( and alternately blue) locker room to the core of a ring on quarrel night . The dual have been seen playfully flirting, and afterwards Weezy poses a rsther than confidant subject to Minaj.

“Hey, Barbie! Have been you in to black men?” he sings . “Hey, Barbie! I can be your black Ken/ Wow! ‘Cause once you go black, you never go back.”

Nicki spits nearby the finish of the lane, and additionally shows off a little little-known singing talents . The video is one of 9 Wayne rushed to fire in expectation of his yearlong bonds, which began in Mar . The Young Money honcho filmed them over Super Bowl week end . The Queens MC was only respected to have gotten the possibility to work with Wayne, she certified progressing this year during mtvU’s Spring Break.

“He did, similar to, 1, 000 videos prior to he went in, meaningful which he had to go to prison . A lot of us wouldn’t do which . A lot of us would be twisted up in a round similar to, ‘Oh, my God, my hold up is about to be over.’ So shout-out to Lil Wayne . We’re respected which he chose each and each one of us, handpicked us . And we love him.”

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‘Easy Rider’ star died of prostate cancer Saturday.
By Kelley L . Carter and Jem Aswad

Dennis Hopper

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Actor Dennis Hopper — star of “Easy Rider, ” “Blue Velvet, ” “Giant” and most alternative drive-in theatre — died Saturday of prostate cancer at his Los Angeles-area home, according to The Associated Press. He was 74.

The two-time Academy Award hopeful, who voiced by a physical education instructor in the tumble of 2009 which he had been diagnosed with the disease, was surrounded by family and friends at the time of his genocide, crony Alex Hitz told the AP.

The actress destined, co-wrote and starred in destined 1969’s “Easy Rider, ” maybe the most noted movie of his extravagantly haphazard, scarcely six-decade-long career . In which classical, generation-defining movie — which additionally determined Jack Nicholson as a vital star — he and Peter Fonda played motorcycle-riding hippies “in poke of America.” The movie was a Hollywood success story; it was constructed for reduction than$ 500, 000 and in conclusion warranted in additional of$ 40 million . “Easy Rider” additionally warranted dual Academy Award nominations, together with a common screenplay curtsy for Hopper, Fonda and Terry Southern.

Born in Kansas on Might seventeen, 1936, and lifted in San Diego, Hopper done his symbol in movies as a teen, starring with James Dean, whom he treasured, in the 1950s classics “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant.”

His career followed a rough trail over the decades, veering in between celebrity and shade — due in next to magnitude to piece abuse and his legendarily rebel celebrity — prior to being henceforth regenerated by his noted 1986 purpose as the crazy Frank in “Blue Velvet.” He appeared in dozens of drive-in theatre over the years, together with “Apocalypse Now, ” “Hoosiers, ” “Speed, ” “River’s Edge, ” “Rumblefish, ” “True Romance, ” “True Grit” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, ” to name only a few; he additionally done most radio appearances, together with “24″ and “The Twlight Zone.” His directing credits enclosed “Colors, ” “The Hot Spot, ” “Chasers” and “The Last Movie, ” his catastrophic 1971 follow-up to “Easy Rider, ” the prolongation of which was so haphazard which it effectively blackballed him from the movie attention for years.

Hopper’s personal hold up was no reduction thespian than his work: Married five times( together with an eight-day matrimony to Mamas & the Papas thespian Michelle Phillips in 1970), he struggled for most years with alcoholism and drug abuse prior to apropos solemn in the 1980s . He filed for divorce from his fifth mother, Victoria Duffy, in Jan, after fourteen years of matrimony and one kid( daughter Galen Grier) . He was additionally an zealous photographer and art collector.

Hopper appeared thin when he was awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Celebrity in Mar of this year.

His work will continue: In Sep he will be listened as one of the lead voices in “Alpha and Omega.”

Hopper seemed to be acutely wakeful of his own mankind, revelation Time repository in 1986: “I suspicion I’d be passed prior to I was thirty . Turning 40 dumbfounded me . Fifty is a vital spectacle, and I think I might even have 70.”

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Hear what the ‘Tropic Thunder’ movie exec suggested RPattz to do to his ‘filthy hair’ prior to the 2010 MTV Movie Awards.
By Kara Warner

Grossman Gives Robert Pattinson Style Tips

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Doing his partial to supplement some-more VIP cred to the arriving 2010 MTV Movie Awards, movie exec Les Grossman — final seen jolt his moneymaker in “Tropic Thunder” — not prolonged ago took time out of his bustling report to suggest “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson a couple of bathing tips prior to the big show, which front live Jun 6.

In a brand new promo, Grossman tells Pattinson( bluntly and spewing profanities) which the awards show is lucky to have him: “MTV is sportin’ insane timber which you’re you do the show.”

Pattinson, seeking a small dismayed and worried, admits to Grossman which he’s been meditative about cleaning himself up a bit for this year’s awards show . “Maybe[ I'll] get a fit, have a trim . Maybe[ I'll] rinse my hair, ” RPattz responds.

“I love it, ” Grossman says sweetly, prior to raising his voice and rising in to a harangue . “In actuality, I love it so most I’m going to fly Vidal f—ing Sassoon here to privately give you a Brazilian blowout! And when he’s finished, I’ll give you the series of a great plumber since you only burning your f—ing career down the toilet!

“Your unwashed hair done you a star, ” Grossman reminds Pattinson . “Your unwashed hair done me hundreds of millions of dollars and, he adds, ” pausing for thespian outcome, “sent my fat a–kid to space stay 4 times.” He manages to ease down prolonged sufficient to ask Pattinson a question: “What kind of shampoo have been you going to use?”

“Dirt?” Pattinson offers nervously.

Grossman, confident with his star’s reply, reaches out for a fist strike . “That’s my unwashed dog . Playa, ” he smiles.

Watch out for some-more of Len Grossman’s difference of knowledge this week.

Don’t skip the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, airing live from Los Angeles on Sunday, Jun 6, at 9 p.m . ET/PT.

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Shanell tells MTV News about sharpened the video prior to Weezy went to jail.
By Steven Roberts

Lil Wayne attainment . Shanell – “Runnin”

Photo: Cash Money Records

NEW YORK — For Lil Tunechi Weekend, MTV Jams and MTV2 have been premiering 4 mint Lil Wayne videos, which the Cash Money star shot in discerning period progressing this year during Super Bowl weekend.

The videos embody “Da Da Da” and “Get a Hold up, ” both featuring the stone rope ¡Mayday!, “Knockout”( featuring Nicki Minaj) and “Runnin’ “( featuring Shanell) .

While the full-length video for “Da Da Da” premiered on Thursday night, fans will have to get by for right away on the previews of the alternative 3 clips . But luckily, MTV News held up with Young Money songstress Shanell who offering to mangle down the judgment for “Runnin’, ” which she certified she had nonetheless to see in full.

“Well, it was a prolonged day, and a lot of the videos we did which day were immature shade, ” Shanell told us during a outing to the Manolo Blahnik store in New York City on Thursday . “The strain is articulate about using and[ asking] when will whatever it is which you’re going by that’s not a certain thing finish . So ‘Runnin’ ‘ is about wanting whatever it is in your hold up to stop.”

Shanell explained which in the video, an trembler and alternative healthy disasters and even a fight, have been metaphors and not visuals she had in mind whilst she was essay her apportionment of the strain . “That wasn’t in my head . It was whatever personal thing which I was going by which I longed for to finish . That’s what I was expressing, but when you write a strain you wish everyone to kind of describe, so the assembly can have it meant whatever it equates to to them.”

Asked about either she’d not long ago oral to Wayne, Shanell suggested she had seen and oral to the MC given he began portion a yearlong judgment on Rikers Island in Mar . Despite his stream resources, Weezy’s staying clever, according to the singer.

“He’s a really clever particular so he’s not going to get on the phone with any of us and be similar to, ‘Oh I can’t do it . I can’t’ .. . He sounds clever, and we’re all praying for him and all of the fans have been praying for him.”

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Symbolyc One got a content observant, ‘Kanye is amatory your things . He pronounced he’s about to shift your life.’
By Jayson Rodriguez

Kanye West

Photo: MTV News

Kanye West has aligned a murderer’s row of producers for his stirring manuscript, together with Pete Stone, the RZA and Q-Tip.

But “Power, ” the initial lane to arise from the Chicago MC’s rarely expected LP, wasn’t constructed by one of the aforementioned acclaimed beatsmiths . Instead, subterraneous writer Symbolyc One manned the fool around for the number.

The Dallas-based writer( a.k.a . S1) has formerly worked with Ghostface, Slim Thug and Chamillionaire, but he’s frequency a domicile name.

“The approach it came together, I work with Rhymefest, ” S1 told MTV News about the strain, referring to an additional Chicago MC . “I did similar to 4 joints on his manuscript . And one day, out the blue, I got a content from Rhymefest that pronounced, ‘Kanye is amatory your things . He pronounced he’s about to shift your life.’ Dual days after, I got an e-mail that pronounced my moody to Hawaii[ where West available most of the manuscript] leaves in 3 hours! So I was on a moody, and it only happened similar to that . I went down and stayed for similar to dual weeks, banged out a little joints.

“The ‘Power’ corner that we did, it was essentially a lane that I already done and gave to Rhymefest, and he only so happened to fool around it for Kanye in the college of music and he desired it . So when I got out to Hawaii, Kanye had already available to it.”

A month after, S1 returned to Hawaii and listened “Power” again, this time with some-more “polish” combined by ‘Ye, who co-produced the strain . However, S1 picked the representation that drives the record: a dash of British on-going stone rope King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man.”

Initially, he didn’t think West would be meddlesome in the kick, given a drum mangle resembles a receptive to advice the rapper already visited on “Crack Music, ” a strain from one of his prior albums.

But West showed a complicated seductiveness in the strain, and used it to glow behind at his detractors: “I’m vital in the 21st century, you do something meant to it, ” ‘Ye raps on the initial hymn . “Do it improved than anybody you ever seen do it/ Screams from the haters, got a great ring to it/ I theory each superhero need his thesis music.”

“It was implausible, ” the writer pronounced . “We would only attend to the corner in the college of music over and over, with the lights incited down and these layers of lights on in the college of music . And we would crash it shrill, over and over.”

In further to producing, S1 is a partial of a contingent billed as the Strange Fruit Plan, who have been releasing element given 2004.

Their subsequent plan A Dreamer’s Journey — that S1 described as “alternative hip-hop” — is set for tumble release; he and his prolongation parter Caleb oversaw all the material.

In the meantime, S1 pronounced he’s fielding phone calls and guidance as most as he can from West.

“They kind of welcomed me in to the family, ” S1 pronounced . “I’ve been you do a lot of work with him . He’s only a great city slicker . He has a super-good heart . He unequivocally took caring of me and done me feel similar to a partial of the family . And I’m so beholden for the on all sides he’s put me in right now.”

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Kim Kardashian, Kevin Smith, Olivia Wilde and John Stamos additionally take to Twitter to recollect ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ star.
By Brian Warmoth

Gary Coleman

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Gary Coleman will be remembered for one TV purpose some-more than any alternative fulfilment in his career, but the “Diff’rent Strokes” star — who died Friday( Might twenty-eight) due to an intercranial hemorrhage — was mourned by people opposite the party industry.

Some focused on what he had to strike as a kid actress, whilst others chose to recollect him as Arnold Jackson.

“I’m at a loss for difference on guidance of Gary Coleman’s flitting, ” pronounced Janet Jackson, who appeared on “Diff’rent Strokes” as the partner of Todd Bridges’ impression . “I wish to recollect him as the fun, witty, darling and sexual male he was . He has left a durability bequest . I know he is eventually at peace.”

John Stamos, who starred with multiform immature Hollywood names during his time on “Full House, ” remarkable the difficulties Coleman gifted perplexing to strike his “Diff’rent Strokes” persona . “Mamas, do not let your babies grow up to be…actors . r.i.p . gary, ” Stamos tweeted.

Tom Arnold credited Coleman with brightening up his adolescence . “He done my teenager years funnier!” the actress and stand up comic wrote . “Now I goal people will stop bullying him.”

Both Kim Kardashian and Shannon Elizabeth offering prayers for Coleman and his family.

“Oh wow Gary Coleman upheld away!” Kardashian tweeted . “My prayers go out to his family.”

Those difference were echoed by Elizabeth: “RIP Gary Coleman . Diff’rent Strokes was a outrageous partial of my childhood . My prayers have been w/his family & friends-you’ll indeed be longed for Gary…”

Ashton Kutcher kept his thoughts splendid on Coleman’s genocide, pledging: “I will regularly be a fan!” Others, together with Alyssa Milano, Ken Jeong and Nick Frost kept their messages elementary with “R.I.P.” tweets . Olivia Wilde additionally forsaken an R.I.P . in to her posts, adding, “Poor Gary Coleman . Goal it was painless.”

Kevin Smith might have summed up his feelings many eloquently, referencing one of Coleman’s best-known “Strokes” episodes . “Fare thee well, Mr . Coleman, ” the executive tweeted . “As Arnold, you taught us how to contend no to pederast bike dealers . But as Gary, you taught us distance doesn’t matter.”

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‘Always knew we had the biggest fans, ‘ Paramore frontwoman tweets after a topless print strike the Net.
By James Montgomery

Hayley Williams

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Ever given a topless design of Paramore’s Hayley Williams strike the Internet on Thursday — that she claims came from a rsther than mean-spirited hacker — the flame-haired frontwoman has remained often silent on the matter.

She quickly addressed the situation in a twitter Thursday( “well .. . my night only altered drastically . got hacked.”) . But on Friday( May twenty-eight), Williams got a small some-more in-depth, thanking her fans for their await during the perplexing time.

“Always knew we had the biggest fans, ” Williams tweeted . “Thank you so most for all the await . Overwhelming . Today is a brand new day . Gonna keep my head up high.”

In the hours after the print leaked, Paramore fans took to Twitter en masse to show their await for Williams, essay messages similar to “Stay clever Hayley! Do not compensate courtesy to the media[ or] any one else . Everything will be okay” and “I do not love you any reduction . You’re still my inspiration.” Others spoken fight on the hacker presumably obliged for the situation — someone/thing job themselves “Treb Queron” — melancholy all sorts of corporeal harm.

A orator for Paramore’s tag had no criticism on the print when contacted by MTV News . Williams and her Paramore friends will strike the highway in the U.S . again in Jul, as the headlining action on the 2010 Honda Civic Tour, along with Tegan and Sara, Brand new Found Glory and Kadawatha . The journey kicks off Jul twenty-three in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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The ¡Mayday!-starring shave, and 3 alternative mint ones, to premiere during MTV Jams’ Lil Tunechi Weekend.
By Shaheem Reid

Lil Wayne

Photo: Young Money/Cash Money

Lil Tunechi Weekend: ‘Get A Life’

We get behind to merrymaking and rebel stone and hurl on Lil Wayne’s “Get a Life” shave . All this week, we’ve been previewing Wayne videos — “Da Da Da, ” the Nicki Minaj-featuring “Knockout” and “Runnin’.” — which have been set to get their debuts on MTV Jams and MTV 2 during the Memorial Day legal holiday . On Friday( May twenty-eight), the preview resolved with Weezy and the versatile rope ¡Mayday! rocking on “Get a Life.”

Like the shave for “Da Da Da, ” “Get a Life” was filmed on the roof tiles of the Marlin Hotel, and it facilities an desirous opening by the Birdman Jr . and his organisation of instrumentalists . Behind in Feb, ¡Mayday! bandmember Plex spoke to MTV News about sharpened with Wayne.

“It was a total disaster of people, ” he pronounced of the sets for “Da Da Da” and “Get a Life, ” which were filmed back-to-back in Miami during Super Bowl week end . Those were only dual of 9 Wayne shot in reduction than 72 hours . “I didn’t notice who was there, but I saw Shane[ Mosley] since I’m a big fan . Afterwards, you know, the total Cash Money/ Young Money class was there . A couple of NFL players were there . It was crazy.”

“I’m only tryna get my own, ” Wayne sings, ready to go in a red ¡Mayday! T-shirt . “I’m up early in the mornin’, gettin it by all means/ Gotta get this dough!”

The change of the ripened offspring of their common work, a full-length “Da Da Da, ” premiered Friday( May twenty-eight) on Jams and MTV2.

“[ The video] was set up similar to a being show, ” Plex pronounced of “Da Da Da.” “They followed us out of the debate train, up the steps and afterwards we jumped on the theatre and proposed personification . It was fun, male . They was perplexing to re-create, turn off of ‘The Streets Have No Name’ by U2 — the one where they were behaving on the rooftop and people begin entertainment around . [ Wayne's video] was you do something together to which on the rooftop of the Marlin . They had helicopter shots and all.”

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‘I’m a hologram, ‘ Cruise jokes about online rumors he had died in New Zealand.
By Jocelyn Vena, with stating by Josh Horowitz

Tom Cruise

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On Friday sunrise( May twenty-eight), as the great people of America rebuilt themselves for the prolonged Memorial Day week end by make-up their bags and streamer off to the beach, a gossip began swelling online which Tom Cruise had died . Word was, the actress died in an collision whilst in New Zealand.

But MTV News can endorse which the “Knight And Day” star is unequivocally most alive, and we got the word from Cruise himself . He only happened to be on the phone with MTV News on Friday, job from London with Will.I.Am to foster the Black Eyed Peas’ singular “Someday, ” the thesis strain from the arriving film.

When asked if he could endorse which he was alive, he joked, “No, I’m not . I’m a hologram.”

Cruise obviously seemed to be enjoying the gossip . “I’m unequivocally alive, ” he pronounced . “Did the Internet get it wrong again?”

When told how he reportedly died, in a plumbing collision in New Zealand, he laughed observant, “Get out.” But he got critical for a impulse to encourage his fans . “Yes, you can send the summary out[ which I am still alive] .”

Cruise is the ultimate luminary whose genocide has been erroneously reported on the Internet . Everyone from Britney Spears to Justin Bieber to Jeff Goldblum has been the plant of a identical hoax.

Are celeb genocide hoaxes droll or ill ? Sound off in the comments.