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The stars will take the theatre at the seventh annual Keep a Child Alive fundraising event.
By Mawuse Ziegbe

Alicia Keys and Jay-Z

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Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and Sade will all beauty the theatre at the seventh annual Black Ball NY at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom . The eventuality, that is mounted by Keys’ Keep a Child Alive classification, will take place Sep 30.

“Sade ? Jay-Z ? Both icons and both vital influences of cave . I am impressed by their munificence in assisting us go on the convention of creation the Black Ball the most appropriate fundraiser in NYC, ” Keys pronounced in a matter . “There have been some-more surprises entrance up! Stay tuned!”

KCA additionally orderly the Black Ball London this past May, where U.K . organisation Kasabian and British thespian Bryan Ferry achieved . The classification helps family groups struggling with HIV/AIDS via India and Africa and, given 2004, has generated some-more than$ 10 million . Keys co-founded KCA in 2003, and given afterwards, the classification has assisted some-more than 250, 000 people . KCA additionally provides monetary await to waif caring and clinical centers in countries such as Rwanda and Uganda.

Last year’s Black Ball in New York drew 1, 000 guest, lifted some-more than$ 2 million and was co-hosted by Keys, “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi and supermodel and businessman Iman . The fundraiser was additionally hold at Hammerstein Ballroom and respected former President Bill Clinton, Virgin trainer Sir Richard Branson and Senegalese fable Youssou N’Dour for their work fighting misery and HIV/AIDS . Keys, N’Dour, John Mayer and Coldplay’s Chris Martin achieved . A operation of celebs, such as Halle Berry, Mary J . Blige, Swizz Beatz, Nick Cannon, David Bowie, Spike Lee and Usher, came out to await the cause.

What do you think of this year’s Black Ball lineup ? Let us know in the comments!

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‘My mom done me get a pursuit at, similar to, Wienerschnitzel, ‘ Cannon says of his initial job.
By Jocelyn Vena

Nick Cannon

Photo: MTV News

Nick Cannon is you do only excellent for himself . He’s a air wave host, actress, TV celebrity, is tied together to Mariah Carey and he additionally happens to be a TV exec . But there was a time when income didn’t come simply to him: He had to get a pursuit during in high propagandize to assistance his family out . It’s only as well bad he was as well focused on being an hostess to keep it for really long.

“When I was seventeen, we weren’t you do that well financially, ” Cannon, who right away has a really great work ethic, says in this week’s part of “When I Was 17″( airing Saturday at eleven a.m . ET), that additionally facilities Aubrey O’Day and Donald Trump . “And my mom, at the time, was operative intensely tough . She was going to propagandize . She had a integrate of jobs.”

In sequence to take a little of the vigour off Mama Cannon, she asked her son to representation in . And he tried.

“My mom done me get a pursuit at, similar to, Wienerschnitzel, ” he recalls in the part . “[ It was a pursuit] only to kind of assistance ends encounter . I finished up removing fired.”

Why was Cannon dismissed ? Well, he was putting in service for his destiny career . “I finished up removing dismissed since I was personification on the intercom complement at the drive-thru, revelation jokes, ” he explains . “That’s when I knew I longed for to be a stand-up comic.”

“When I Was 17″ — this week featuring Donald Trump, Nick Cannon and Aubrey O’Day — front Saturday at eleven a.m . on MTV.

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‘Naturally, my puncture instincts kicked in, ‘ Carey tweets about her drastic moment.
By Jocelyn Vena

Mariah Carey( record)

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Mariah Carey saves the day! Just prior to she illuminated up the theatre for a show in Egypt, the star put out a really verbatim glow . The thespian tweeted about the situation as it was happening.

“In Egypt removing ready to go on theatre and unexpected there was a surge of energy and an electrical glow proposed underneath my feet! Wtf?!” she tweeted on Monday . “Naturally, my puncture instincts kicked in and I put out the abandon w/a towel . Lol( nonetheless loyal), ” she tweeted.

Carey seemed to have a flattering great clarity of amusement about the situation . “The droll thing about this is an ol’skool air wave hire in the alternative room proposed personification ‘aww weird out!’ @ which expect moment!”

She afterwards tweeted her crony, Jasmine Dotiwala, observant, “@jasminedotiwala . Appalled U didn’t twitter to see if I’m ok after the glow situation in Egypt!( Said in my diva melodramatic accent:) ”

Carey additionally posted a print of the surge guardian which held glow . “These r the charred stays of my glow on the Nile, ” she wrote.

This essentially isn’t the initial time Carey has acted as her own personal firefighter . Hubby Nick Cannon suggested which on one Valentine’s Day, Carey saved the legal holiday from branch in to a blazing combustion . “So you travel in to this room and all you see is red and lights and candles . We were opening gifts and I smell fume .. . the total room was on glow, ” he removed to MTV News . “And I screamed similar to a small dog . Mariah, being a favourite which she is, put the glow out . She’s my favourite . She’s my Valentine favourite, so hopefully this year we won’t set zero on fire.”

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‘Justin can’t play, ‘ the air wave host says of the cocktail sensation.
By Jocelyn Vena, with stating by Christopher “C.J” Smith

Photo: MTV News

Justin Bieber went bowling for his birthday, and he goofed around with Drake and Ludacris at an alley in his song video for “Baby.” Now Nick Cannon wants to throw a small strikes and spares with the Canadian teenager prodigy when he arrives in Brand new York City to foster his brand new manuscript, My World 2.0.

“Oh yeah! Justin Bieber and I have been going bowling pleasantness of my sunrise show, ” Cannon told MTV News . Cannon voiced the compare, which takes place on My World 2.0’s recover date of Mar twenty-three, on Twitter . “His manuscript comes out on Mar twenty-three and[ so does the manuscript by an] artist which I have sealed, the School Gyrls . So we got a small foe, me and Bieber.”

And Cannon is some-more than peaceful to provoke Bieber about his capability to hurl in the run-up to the compare . “Justin can’t play . I do not know if you’ve seen his ultimate video, but his form is off . So I know I’m gonna win . So me and Justin[ will go] head to head at the bowling alley.
We’re only bringing out as most people from Brand new York[ to] Lucky Strike for a recover celebration . Biebermania!”

Bieber might have his own insanity, but Cannon is assured which he has the higher ability . “Of march I’m gonna win, ” he pronounced . “I’m athletic.
Justin Bieber, he can sing and dance and all of which, but I think I got him in the floating department.”

While Cannon might be dismissive of Bieber’s bowling technique, he does have most kind difference for the teenager sensation’s low-pitched abilities . “I think he’s an extraordinary bent, and My World 2.0 is gonna be crazy! Which city slicker is the law, ” he pronounced . “I’ll discuss it you to one side — the manuscript is fire.”

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‘I didn’t hold until I was physically in the college of music which I was you do with something with Mariah, ‘ Minaj gushes.
By Shaheem Reid

Nicki Minaj

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Nicki Minaj says she was so astounded which she got a call to work with Mariah Carey on the remix of “Up Out My Face” which she kept the partnership really hush-hush.

“That one, I didn’t hold until I was physically in the college of music which I was you do with something with Mariah, ” the New York local told MTV News final week . “I didn’t even discuss it any one I shot a video with Mariah, given I didn’t even hold . In the behind of my mind, I felt similar to, ‘This video is not gonna come out . There’s no approach I’m gonna do a video with Mariah Carey prior to I even put out my album.’ Then, when it came out, I think it was the #1 video on YouTube in one day, something droll similar to which . She’s an idol, I’ve desired her given I was small, similar to ‘Vision of Love, ‘ ‘Someday.’ I was one of those small girls in the counterpart singing her songs with my mother.”

Much similar to her associate Mariah Carey co-operator and great crony Gucci Mane, Minaj pronounced the genuine Mariah was zero similar to she imagined.

“When I met her, she was so droll and stupid, ” Nicki removed . “I suspicion when I was gonna work with Mariah, [ she] was gonna be similar to this diva . But we were enormous jokes the total day . She’s a honeyed, practical person.”

Nicki and Mimi had their names created on dual hulk baby doll boxes in the video . In the Nick Cannon-directed shave, the dual bust out and have a great time becoming different outfits and personification with group . The doll point of view plays ideally with Nicki’s “black Barbie” persona.

“I think it was bone-head, ” Minaj pronounced about the video . “A lot of times, some-more important artists or some-more assured artists take from a younger artist but they’ll never embody you in which . I feel similar to she favourite the total doll thing and she longed for to do it with me . But she pronounced that: She pronounced, ‘Everybody’s gonna contend “she’s you do Nicki.” But I told her, she’s regularly had a doll persona, similar to all which ‘doll baby’[ things] . So it goes undiluted with Barbie and we had fun . That’s all which matters.”

The remix will crop up on Mariah’s Angels Advocate remix LP, due on Mar 30.

Nicki has been creation the rounds with guest appearances not long ago, from Mariah to Robin Thicke’s “Shakin’ It 4 Daddy, ” and of march Lil Wayne’s Rebirth, and she not long ago shot the video for “My Chick Bad” from Ludacris’ stirring Battle of the Sexes LP, which is slated for recover early subsequent month.

“He sent me the kick . He didn’t have verses on it nonetheless, ” Minaj pronounced about operative subsequent to Cris . “I told him, ‘You could take what I did to the subsequent turn given you’re charcterised and droll . People know you for which . I kinda went charcterised and droll on which . Luda is really one of those people — I love when people do not take themselves as well seriously.”

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Josh Groban, Jason Mraz and Melanie Fiona additionally weigh in, and they’re all disposition toward the New Orleans Saints.
By James Montgomery

Snooki

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Las Vegas oddsmakers have the Indianapolis Colts as 5-point favorites streamer in to their Sunday showdown with the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV . And whilst they competence know what they’re articulate about, they patently haven’t been listening to the luminary oddsmakers of the universe, since, well, they’ll discuss it you a opposite story.

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been asking a little of the greatest stars in the song commercial operation for their Super Bowl picks, and they’re receiving the Saints . ( So have been Lil Wayne and Drake, who additionally gave us their predictions .)

“They’re both good teams, they both have extraordinary quarterbacks, but for me the story is, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if the Saints were means to do which for their city and do it for their team?’ ” Josh Groban pronounced . “They’ve never been to the Super Bowl, and it’s been unequivocally fun to watch them fool around this year . They fool around a unequivocally seemly game.”

“I have to go with the Saints . My male Reggie Bush — 619 all day!” Nick Cannon laughed, referring to Bush’s San Diego upbringing and the actuality which the Saints using behind writes the city’s “619″ area formula on his eye black prior to games . “I competence put ‘619′ on my face which night too!”

And the Saints subsidy didn’t stop there.

“I’m gonna go with New Orleans, since I love New Orleans, and I think they could make use of as most feat and mercantile progress as they can get, ” Jason Mraz said.

“I gotta go with the Saints, ” Melanie Fiona combined . “They’ve been receiving it all the approach, stately finish.”

About the usually Colts devotee we could find isn’t even a thespian — and she’s not just a football fan possibly . Seems they do not watch a total lot of football down on the Jersey Shore.

“I’d contend Colts, ” “Jersey Shore” star Snooki pronounced “I do not know[ because] . I do not watch football.”

Who do you think will win the Super Bowl ? Have been you siding with Nick or Snooki ? Let us know below!

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John Legend and Nick Cannon additionally weigh in on the night’s most-nominated ladies: Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.
By Eric Ditzian, with one some-more stating by Shaheem Reid, Matt Elias, Christina Garibaldi and Kelly Marino

Black Eyed Peas’ Will.I.Am

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MTV News has already taken a demeanour behind at a little of the oddest Grammy winners of all time, from former Soviet kingpin Mikhail Gorbachev to stream White House tip dog Barack Obama( not to discuss schwing-tastic singer Tia Carrere) . Now, with the 2010 awards usually days divided, it’s time to begin seeking toward this year’s show.

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been asking artists who they think will win big, from long-lived champs similar to Beyoncé to relations newcomers similar to Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga . A little were means to have choices, whilst others couldn’t confirm in between the gifted women.

“It’s difficult, given Beyoncé had a good, good year, ” Mary J . Blige told us . “But Lady Gaga is Lady Gaga! But Taylor Swift — wow! That’s a difficult one . I do not know, but I instruct all those ladies love.”

That was a view echoed by most of the artists we spoke with, yet in further to praising Gaga and Beyoncé, John Legend forked out, “There have been a lot of nation fans . Never blink the nation fans.”

Nick Cannon, as well, argued which the nation star should have a big Grammy dusk . “It’s Taylor Swift’s year, ” he pronounced . “Ever given Kanye did what he did[ at the VMAs], Taylor Swift has usually been scooping ‘em up . I’ll stone with Taylor Swift.”

In the area of hip-hop, Lupe Fiasco referred to Mos Def had the most appropriate manuscript of the year( he’s up for dual Grammys, together with Most appropriate Rap Manuscript) and which Drake should be up for Most appropriate New Artist( he usually perceived a curtsy for Most appropriate Rap Solo Performance) .

“I think he’s honourable of it, ” Lupe pronounced of Drake . “As most accolades as he can amass, pre-album, is a unusual charge . I think which should be rewarded . He has the intensity to do good things — not good or common, but good things.”

Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.I.Am, duration, declined to have a collect and instead voiced fad for the night’s performances, trimming from Lil Wayne to Eminem to Gaga to the Peas themselves.

“It’s indeterminate . It’s up in the air, ” he pronounced . “You think it’s going to be the viewable one, similar to, ‘Wow, which was everywhere.’ And it ends up being not . And that’s not cool . I usually can’t wait for for the performances, given which is not a distortion, which is no governing body . A slice is a slice, a space station is a rocket.”

Who do you think will win big at the Grammys ? Let us know!

Stick with MTV News all week for the coverage of the 2010 Grammy Awards . We’ll have reports on your the one preferred nominees, celebration photos, behind-the-scenes video and most some-more heading up to and during the big show Sunday at 8 p.m . ET.

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Adam Lambert vs . ABC, Eminem vs . Mariah Carey and some-more showdowns done for a warlike year.
By Jocelyn Vena

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Long prior to Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at the VMAs, celebrities were removing on one another’s cases in 2009 . Whether it was Speidi vs . Al Roker or outrageous stars essay songs about one an additional, this was the year when people weren’t frightened to conflict it out.

Taylor Swift vs . Kanye West
Joe Jonas competence have in the future gotten behind at Taylor for essay that strain about him( afterwards she got behind at him again!), but the VMAs came along and blew that argument out of the H2O . West bum-rushed the theatre during Swift’s acceptance debate, and the ensuing recoil led Kanye to terminate his debate with Lady Gaga and fundamentally go in to stealing . Swift did accept West’s reparation, but not prior to everybody from the boss to Jay-Z weighed in on the matter.

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Eminem vs . Mariah Carey
Eminem and Brüno got in to utterly a small football practice at the MTV Movie Awards, but it was his strain conflict with Mariah Carey that had everybody articulate . Em expelled “Bagpipes From Baghdad, ” that was about Mariah, afterwards Mariah expelled her paper to Eminem, “Obsessed.” Appearing in the video as an Eminem look-alike, the thespian sparked rumors that she was singing about their purported hurl most moons ago . And Em didn’t leave well sufficient alone . Although she denied the strain was about him, he expelled a satirical reply strain about the cocktail star, “The Warning.” To this day, no one unequivocally knows what unequivocally went down in in in between the span, but we know it was luscious . Plus, Nick Cannon was zero as well pleased.

Miley Cyrus vs . Twitter
Miley competence have found herself inextricable in a conflict with Radiohead and Jamie Foxx, but her genuine rivalry this year was Twitter . When the thespian canceled her comment in the tumble, the site went funny and fans didn’t know how they were going to get their hourly Miley fixes . She pronounced that rumored lover Liam Hemsworth had zero to do with her preference to leave and that her hold up is so most improved but Twitter.

Adam Lambert vs . ABC
After Adam Lambert strike the American Music Awards theatre for an over-the-top opening of “For Your Entertainment, ” ABC was anything but entertained . The “American Idol” runner-up didn’t feel the need to swallow ones pride for his risqué opening, and ABC canceled multiform of his programmed appearances on the channel . When he did in the future have it behind on the network, he wasn’t authorised to go live: His “View” coming was pre-taped.

Speidi vs . Al Roker
With Lauren Conrad no longer on their radio detector, Speidi found a brand new chairman to scare . They sat down with Al Roker on “Today, ” where they were primarily set to discuss about their time outlayed on “I’m a Celebrity .. . Get Me Out of Here!” The speak fast and surprisingly incited repugnant, sharpening in to a conflict of difference in in in between Roker and Speidi . The 3 afterwards slung difference at one an additional on assorted speak shows and Twitter . Spencer even gave Al a small nickname: The Weatherman . Have they buried the small axe ? Well, Spencer and Heidi were ostensible to crop up on “Today” in the tumble, but that mysteriously never happened.

Don’t skip MTV News’ “Top 9 of ‘09″ — that counts down the year’s greatest stories, from Michael Jackson to Eminem and all in in in in between — airing Brand new Year’s Eve at eleven p.m . on MTV.

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