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Video facilities pitchman Vince demonstrating the most uses of the front, out Jun 21.
By Gil Kaufman

Eminem

Photo: Nigel Parry

Now that Eminem has pushed up the recover date of Recovery by a day to Jun twenty-one( following the album’s trickle final week), the Detroit rapper is pulling out the big guns to foster the disc.

In a brand brand brand brand brand brand new video ad called “Emwow” that looks distributed to go viral, Vince the ShamWow man sets in reserve the spectacle consume for thirty seconds to sell you about the slice-it, dice-it wonders of the brand brand brand brand brand brand new Marshall Mathers front . Wearing a black polo festooned with the Recovery pretension and his signature headset, Vinny binds up the front and announces, “Hey, it’s Vince with Eminem’s brand brand brand brand brand brand new manuscript, Recovery, and you’re gonna be clappin’ when you listen to Eminem rappin’.”

He afterwards demonstrates the “dozens of uses” for the front, together with rupturing razor-thin tomatoes for your sandwich, portion as a splash coaster, a necklace for the ladies or even as bling for your grassed area hose( get it ?) . He even suggests slicing the front in half( an surprising offered point for a CD, but we’ll go with it) and regulating one partial to cut cheese and the alternative to clout onions.

“Tacos, beef bone, silicone, ” Vince demonstrates, tossing in reserve a breast have and oversharing, “I similar to cave genuine, so dont think about about it.”

This being Eminem, the ad ends with a little lavatory amusement, as Vince announces a special reward product thrown in for free, a feminine-hygiene product called the ShamPon.

The rapper astounded his fans at Activision’s E3 celebration on Monday night in Los Angeles, bringing out guest Travis Barker and Rihanna to assistance him applaud the arriving release.

A orator for Em’s tag pronounced the manuscript, that facilities guest spots from Pink and Lil Wayne in further to Rihanna, will strike stores a day progressing than approaching to prove the rapper’s greatest supporters.

“We hold fans wish to await their the one preferred artists by purchasing the genuine manuscript and not a leaked chronicle, ” Steve Berman, vice-chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M, pronounced in a press recover announcing the brand brand brand brand brand brand new date . “At the same time, we comprehend speed is of the hint when fans have been so ardent about wanting to listen to brand brand brand brand brand brand new songs from such an enormously renouned artist similar to Eminem . .. . Even by releasing Recovery usually a day progressing than formerly voiced, it creates a disproportion to those fans.”

What do you think of the “Emwow” ad ? Does it have you some-more expected to buy the brand brand brand brand brand brand new front ? Sound off in the comments.

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Rapper headlined Activision unison which enclosed Usher, Will.I.Am, Jane’s Addiction and others.
By Matt Elias

Eminem performs at E3 on Monday

Photo: Chris Weeks/ Getty Images

LOS ANGELES — Eminem achieved an electrifying set at Activision’s E3 celebration on Monday night, abrasive any doubts which he is indeed at the behind of in the diversion after his prolonged interregnum . The Detroit MC headlined a large check which enclosed Usher, Will.I.Am, N.E.R.D., Jane’s Addiction, Chris Cornell, David Guetta, Deadmau5 and DJ Z-Trip.

Em’s set kicked off with his initial warn of the night at the Staples Center, with Travis Barker jumping at the behind of the drums for an acrobatic drum piece for one person . Em assimilated him moments after( flanked by D12’s Denaun Porter), receiving the theatre only prior to midnight . He was embellished out in a black coupler, black jeans and a china crucifix unresolved around his neck.

With Em, Barker, Porter and a live rope all onstage, the throng was up on the feet right from the get-go . The six-song set began with “Won’t At the behind of Down, ” off of Recovery, which Em only voiced would be expelled on Jun twenty-one, a day progressing than creatively programmed . From which impulse, there was an appetite in the locus which could be felt from the building all the approach up to the oppulance suites.

Eminem followed with a integrate of his brand new facilities — one from B.o.B’s “Airplanes( Part II) ” and the alternative from Drake’s “Forever.” As Drake’s carol blared, Eminem marched down the stage’s catwalk, chanting “Bounce, rebound, bounce.” He was obviously on his diversion, bobbing and weaving whilst he delivered his verses . All of this was punctuated by Barker’s thumping drumbeats, which done it feel some-more stone show than swat show.

After 3 songs, Eminem addressed his adoring throng, cheering, “Los Angeles! What the f— is up ? Make a little motherf—ing noise!” As if he had to ask, Staples Center erupted in ovation.

Em afterwards dedicated his subsequent strain, “Not Afraid, ” to all of the fans which have stranded by his side over the years . His live rope was assimilated by a full rope on both sides of the theatre . If which wasn’t sufficient, after in the strain, Eminem was assimilated by an complete gospel church rope which numbered in the dozens.

Then Eminem sprung his subsequent warn . “Before I get in to this subsequent strain, ” he pronounced, “I wanna move out a really special guest.” After a couple of moments, Barbadian beauty Rihanna appeared onstage with a splendid stand of candy-apple-red hair . The twin got right in to “Love the Approach You Lie” — an additional brand new strain off the arriving Recovery. Em and Ri had good chemistry onstage, receiving turns sauntering down the catwalk and flitting glances at each alternative via the performance.

As the strain finished, the show seemed to be over . Eminem thanked the throng and exited the theatre . His rope stayed on, however, and solemnly proposed personification the opening records of “Lose Yourself.” As the strain built, Eminem stormed at the behind of onto the theatre and the throng( as if they could get any louder) exploded . As he ripped by the strain, Porter served as the hype-man, and fad one after another to set up until the finish, when a showering of bullion confetti rained down on the audience.

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Travis Barker appears in ultimate shave from Rihanna’s Rated R LP.
By Jayson Rodriguez

Rihanna in her “Rockstar 101″ video

Photo: Def Jam

Burning abandon ? Smashed guitars ? Slash?

Well, it’s not utterly a Guns N’ Roses video, but Rihanna premiered her “Rockstar 101″ shave Tuesday( May twenty-five) in full-on rocker conform, regulating a tip shawl, shades and an ax to finish her makeover in to the mythological guitarist.

The video is a brew of goth bondage-esque voyeurism, finish with Rihanna’s gyrating moves and a distracted rope which facilities Travis Barker on the drums.

“Strut up in the bar, posted in the behind, feeling so great, seeking so bad, ” Rihanna sings . “Rocking this dress, rocking this bar, got my center finger up, I do not unequivocally give a f—.”

“Rockstar 101, ” featuring Slash, is the fourth singular from Rihanna’s brand new Rated R LP, following “Russian Roulette, ” “Hard” and “Rude Boy.”

The strain was created and constructed by The-Dream and Christopher “Tricky” Stewart; the span additionally oversaw “Hard, ” which pennyless in to the tip 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart.

Although Slash is featured on the lane as a actor, the former GNR part of doesn’t quite crop up in the video — at slightest, not in the strength . But Rihanna pays loyalty to him toward the finish of the shave, comically sporting a skull-laden tip shawl, wig, tanned hide coupler, dim eyeglasses and toothpick . Rihanna projects Slash’s strut and plays the guitar in a approach which would have many blush.

Rihanna straddles the instrument in one shot and after suggestively points it up from her arm, a la Prince.

Last month, Rihanna achieved “Rockstar 101″ on “American Idol, ” and in Mar Travis Barker raved about her burgeoning pitter-patter and guitar skills.

“She jams! Watch out for her, ” Barker after tweeted.

What do you think about Rihanna’s brand new video ? Let us know in the comments!

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‘It was unequivocally critical for me to have one show where I could do an central dedication’ to AM, A-Trak says.
By MTV News staff, with stating by Akshay Bhansali

DJ A-Trak

Photo: MTV News

MIAMI — On Thursday night, Travis Barker, A-Trak, Lil Jon, Jazzy Jeff and Steve Aoki were a little of the guest on palm to respect the late DJ AM at an unannounced reverence show on Thursday night at Miami’s LIV nightclub during the Winter Music Conference . MTV News held up with A-Trak in the diminutive hours of Friday sunrise( Mar twenty-six), after his set at the Fools Gold celebration at Grand Central.

“At LIV, it was a celebration for DJ AM — patently a loyalty to him, ” A-Trak pronounced . “[ He was] a dear crony of cave, we skip him a lot . I’m right away you do shows with Travis, so it was unequivocally critical for me, generally meaningful how many Travis and AM determined a partnership prior to[ AM] upheld, to have one show where I could unequivocally do an central loyalty and a dedicated slight to him — a scratching thing which he quite favourite, and do it in his respect and pass the flame, in a sense.”

The lineup of the show — partial of the Winter Music Conference — was a firmly rhythmical tip, yet many in assemblage suspected which both Barker and Trak, who not long ago toured as a twin, were partial of the check . And when they strike the theatre before long after midnight, those suspicions were confirmed.

Trak voiced which he and Barker were behaving “in respect of the depressed crony, DJ AM, ” and the dual launched in to their set, which saw the DJ slicing up a strain which referred to AM by name whilst Barker flailed at his pack . Both group were wearing “Rest in Peace AM” T-shirts, and a video shade at the back of the theatre displayed a collage of images of AM( genuine name: Adam Goldstein), who was found passed in his New York unit final Aug, of an random drug overdose in September.

Barker and AM famously teamed together for years — they were the residence rope at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards — survived a burning South Carolina craft pile-up in Sep 2008 . Earlier this year, Barker remembered his crony and co-worker by removing an “In Memory Of” permanent skin stain on his thigh.

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‘She jams! Watch out for her, ‘ Barker tweets.
By James Montgomery

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Rihanna’s European debate doesn’t flog off until subsequent month( with a full U.S . journey scheduled for the summer), but from the looks of things it’s already moulding up to be a can’t-miss show.

That’s since, in further to the common ephemera — Lights! Props! Costumes! — Rih Rih is additionally expanding her repertoire for the debate by guidance how to fool around the drums . And she’s receiving lessons from one of the most appropriate in the business: remarkable metronome/masher Travis Barker.

Late Tuesday, Barker’s reps sent MTV News a print of the energetic twin after a new use at the Hollywood Center Studios and the Blink-182 smasher enclosed a note that betrothed that not usually will Rihanna be personification live onstage( no click lane here), but that “she’s unequivocally good.”

He after posted even some-more about the rehearsals on his Twitter comment, essay, “She jams! Watch out for her!”

We’re prone to hold him since at this point, Barker has collaborated with most everybody underneath the object, together with his stream gig with DJ A-Trak, that he denounced progressing this month with a fibre of shows at the Roxy Theatre in Hollywood.

Rihanna’s European debate gets underneath approach Apr sixteen in Antwerp, Belgium, and runs until early Jun . She’s additionally set to perform at the arriving Kids’ Choice Awards, along with Justin Bieber . There have been no organisation dates for her U.S . debate, but it is reportedly set to flog off this summer.

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‘Every impulse is similar to a slap in the face, ‘ Trak says of their onstage collabos.
By James Montgomery, with stating by Kelly Marino

Travis Barker and DJ A-Trak

Photo: MTV News

Fans who packaged Hollywood’s Roxy Theatre on Wednesday night to catch Travis Barker and DJ A-Trak’s second-ever opening no disbelief left the place feeling similar to the energetic twin had rehearsed their indisputable set to inside of an in. of the hold up . But, in reality, zero could be serve from the truth.

“We flattering most came up with all in the past integrate of days, ” A-Trak told MTV News . “Like, we came in with nothing.”

This is zero brand new for Barker and Trak, who motionless to perform together after a extensive jam event final tumble . So it was rather wise which their “rehearsals” for the Roxy gigs flowed in most the same way.

“[ It was similar to] the progressing times when we had gotten together . It was jamming . It was only .. . saying, similar to, what strain he would throw at me and what I would do . Only saying what the chemistry was similar to, ” Barker explained . “And right away it was similar to, you know, piecing it together . And we found which we used a garland of my remixes and his remixes, [ and] a little of his strange songs, so it’s unequivocally cool.”

And whilst the twin were cuttingly accurate Wednesday night, there was additionally a liberating familiarity to their set . And that’s what unequivocally got the throng — which enclosed Kanye West and partner Amber Rose, Tim Armstrong and Rob Anton from the Transplants, Samantha Ronson and onstage guest Kid Cudi and Lil Jon — relocating . Because notwithstanding the actuality they were examination only a drummer and a DJ, the Roxy gig seemed some-more similar to a genuine, honest-to-goodness show, be it stone, hip bound or something in between.

“I think the show is unequivocally, similar to, a unison opening . It’s a philharmonic, ” A-Trak pronounced . “It’s, similar to, unequivocally precipitated and in your face, and I think which each notation, each impulse is similar to a slap in the face . That’s how I described it.”

“There’s something for all song fans . If you’re a fan of song, you’ll puncture it, ” Barker combined . “And afterwards if you’re a fan of A-Trak and all his song or you’re a fan of me and you wanna see us only crush, afterwards I think you’ll be stoked to see it.”

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‘I’ve listened to their strain given I was a kid, ‘ says the R&B diva, who available ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and ‘Whole Lotta Love.’
By James Montgomery, with stating by Larry Carroll

Mary J . Blige

Photo: MTV News

You wouldn’t brace Mary J Blige as the black-light-and-tapestry arrange, but, as has turn straightforwardly strong in brand brand new weeks, she positively loves Led Zeppelin.

In early Feb, reports began present which Blige had re-recorded Zeppelin’s classical “Stairway to Heaven, ” operative with Travis Barker, “American Idol” decider Randy Jackson and guitarist Steve Vai on the lane, which is slated to crop up on the general reissue of her Stronger With Each Tear manuscript, due Monday.

But after she had available “Stairway, ” Blige one after an additional to get the Led out, covering another Zeppelin classical — the howling “Whole Lotta Love” — for the manuscript as well . And when MTV News held up with her on the Black Women in Hollywood red runner, she told us all about channeling her middle Robert Plant for the marks, a routine which came most simpler than you’d substantially imagine.

“I did Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and ‘Whole Lotta Love’ — it’s funny, ” she pronounced . “I am a Led Zeppelin fan . I’m not going to contend I’ve been to their concerts, but I’ve listened to their strain given I was a kid, and it’s regularly changed me, generally ‘Stairway to Heaven, ‘ and ‘Whole Lotta Love’ is usually fun.”

Blige additionally pronounced she available an additional brand brand new strain — a “club record” called “I Can’t Wait” — for the re-release . And whilst it’s usually slated to strike shelves outward the U.S., she hopes her fans will get a possibility to listen to all the brand brand new songs flattering soon.

“I wish y’all to listen to it, ” she laughed.

‘It’s a live jot down — we were in a room together where all was live, ‘ he says of partnership with Wu-Tang’s RZA.
By Kyle Anderson

Travis Barker

Photo: MTV News

Travis Barker is a bustling male . He only voiced his brand brand brand new partnership with DJ A-Trak( a debate which will flog off in Hollywood on Mar 9), a brand brand brand new Blink-182 manuscript is on the setting and he has his ongoing event and remix work.

But his many evident plan is a long-in-the-works piece for one person manuscript . Barker told MTV News behind in Nov which he longed for to have the manuscript out “in Jan or Feb, ” and yet he’s blown which deadline, the subsequent one is set in mill . “We only got a brand brand brand new date for Jun, ” Barker pronounced . “That’s when I have to spin it in . It can’t shift, it can’t move — that’s the time!”

The yet-untitled manuscript promises to be a pick up which leaps opposite genres and facilities a who’s who of low-pitched luminaries, together with Slash, Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington and the aforementioned A-Trak . More not long ago he scored himself collaborations with Wu-Tang Clan designer RZA and Slipknot thespian Corey Taylor( yet not on the same lane) .

Barker says the lane which facilities Taylor on guitar and vocals is “on the heavier side — not as complicated as Slipknot, but heavier than any stone things I’ve finished . We available the total thing in an hour or two.”

As for his team-up with RZA, it authorised the rapper/producer to widespread his wings a bit . “RZA plays guitar on the lane which will be on my jot down, ” Barker says . “It’s a live jot down — we were in a room together where all was live . It reminds me of old Beastie Boys, similar to Check Your Head when they all proposed personification instruments again.”

In the meantime, fans prickly for Barker’s work will shortly be means to suffer his remix of Snoop Dogg’s strike “I Wanna Rock.” “It’s finished, ” Barker pronounced . “I goal people similar to it.”

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‘We’re about to begin operative on it, ‘ drummer says of brand brand brand brand new LP.
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Travis Barker

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Travis Barker has listened what both of his Blink-182 bandmates have had to contend about the standing of the group’s much-anticipated brand brand brand brand new manuscript .. . which it would be entrance out in 2011 or, otherwise, which it would be entrance out most earlier . And right away, he’s wading in to the fray.

When MTV News held up with Barker backstage at the Grammy Awards on Sunday — mins after he rocked the theatre with Lil Wayne, Eminem and Drake — we asked him for an refurbish on Blink’s follow-up to their self-titled 2003 bid . And, from the receptive to advice of things, it’s gonna be a prolonged year for Blink fans.

“We’re about to begin operative on it . I’m gonna try to hang up my manuscript and, uh, Tom has his rope, he’s jacket up which manuscript, and afterwards we’ll begin operative on a Blink jot down, ” Barker pronounced . “We go to Europe in Aug for all the festivals .. . we do, similar to, 6 weeks out there, and afterwards the manuscript will come out substantially early subsequent year.”

A orator for Blink-182’s tag Interscope did not reply to MTV News’ ask for criticism at press time.

So whilst the rope seems to be following bassist Mark Hoppus’ devise of “just removing behind in the college of music and do what we do, ” the fruits of which devise competence not be listened for a whilst . But Barker maintains which a brand brand brand brand new Blink jot down is still really most the tip priority for all 3 group, generally after they upheld their initial exam — a high-profile reunion debate — with drifting colors.

“This summer was the exam, and we got out there, and it was the most appropriate time I’ve had personification with those dual dudes in my hold up, ” Barker pronounced . “It felt even improved than old times, so I can’t wait for to do an manuscript together again.”

Are you seeking brazen to the brand brand brand brand new Blink-182 manuscript ? Let us know in the comments next, or upload a video to Your.MTV.com!

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Game, Keri Hilson, Brandy additionally take the stage.
By Gil Kaufman

Justin Timberlake and Timbaland perform in Los Angeles on Friday

Photo: Gil Kaufman/MTV News

LOS ANGELES — Membership has the privileges . And when that disdainful organisation happens to be Timbaland’s Beat Club, you never know who competence peep their membership label when he takes the stage.

At the packaged House of Blues in Hollywood on Friday night, the register was a who’s who of Timbaland’s pals, from Justin Timberlake and Drake to Keri Hilson and Brandy . The two-hour throwdown was a star-studded strike march that usually someone with Tim’s poke and low residence book could lift off.

The night proposed off simply sufficient, with the master writer on foot out wearing his Beats by Dr . Dre headphones and punching up a little chest-rattling rhythms as his six-piece rope laid down a delayed rolling despondency bedrock for “Timothy Where You Been.” It wasn’t prolonged prior to Drake came ambling out for “Say Something, ” from Timbaland’s Shock Value II LP, throwing the throng in to a frenzy as he bounced opposite the theatre, clearly utterly healed from his knee damage last year.

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The nimble rapper slid in to his strike “Forever” but compatriots Eminem and Lil Wayne, who have been approaching to stick on him for a delivery of that strain — along with Travis Barker — at Sunday night’s Grammys.

The throng competence have been happy sufficient with Drake, but as shortly as the rapper left the theatre, L.A . local the Game hustled on with his posse, rolling tough to “Put You on the Game, ” afterwards dropping an X-rated freestyle prior to giving the theatre at the back of to Tim . He wasn’t alone prolonged, yet, as Hilson was up subsequent, strutting in wearing a shimmery china crop-top over a black catsuit and trade verses with Tim on “The Approach I Have been, ” afterwards adhering around for her own “Turnin’ Me On, ” “Knock You Down” and a musty ambience of Bobby Brown’s “Don’t Be Cruel.”

The throng went funny when Timbaland gave a scream out to “Twilight” — that he’s pronounced was an change on Shock Value II and, since all the guest to illustrate far and the actuality that he was display images of Robert Pattinson on the big shade at the back of the theatre, competence have led them to hold that a castmember was entrance out — but they were usually as happy when he achieved “Morning After Dark.” The review of guest didn’t stop there, as womanlike rapper SoShy came out and reprised her bit in the strain prior to Tim led the rope in to an instrumental relapse where he gave everybody a bit of gleam, James Brown-style.

Alas, Katy Perry was usually there in suggestion( i.e . on the big shade), singing a practical duet on “If We Ever Meet Again, ” but after an lengthened salsa jam, star time revved up again as a smart-alecky Brandy( a.k.a . rapper “Bran’ Nu”) walked out for the complicated despondency of “Meet in the Middle.” Wearing black prohibited pants, a black tanned hide tip and black fit cloak with china lapels, Brandy was roughly unrecognizable as she pennyless in to a freestyle over Timbaland’s beatboxing, overhanging her prolonged black plat from side to side and braggadocio about being “born in Mississippi but lifted in Cali.”

And usually when it seemed similar to there was no one else Tim could move out, he kicked in to the rib-rattling intro to “Carry Out.” Now, at this point, the throng had seen approach some-more than it bargained for, so even usually peeping video footage of Justin Timberlake on the big shade done them go funny . But when JT strolled out, the place exploded . The old pals ripped it up for the passionate innuendo-heavy balance, afterwards slid in to JT’s “SexyBack” and “My Love, ” that usually served to remind the throng usually how most they venerate the thespian with the free vocals, fleet-footed refinement and critical beatboxing skills.

Clearly carrying a explosion, the span afterwards served up “Crazy Girl, ” that was available for but didn’t have the last cut of Shock Value II — a contrition, since Timberlake was in excellent falsetto form . The dual looked out in to a sea of cameras gnawing photos of their luminary limit, gave a ambience of JT’s “LoveStoned, ” and afterwards called it a night.

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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