Machine Gun Kelly has always repped his native Cleveland to the fullest. He’s even rolled with the local sports teams, like when he showed up to the 2013 NBA Draft Lottery with the Cleveland Cavaliers owner. Now, he’s putting on for the city’s football team with his new theme song, “Rock & Roll (Dog Pound Remix).”

“With all of the renewed energy in the city I decided it was time to create a new theme song to celebrate the Cleveland Browns,” Kells wrote when he posted the song, both a reference to the NFL season, which began last week, and the Browns’ rookie quarterback, Johnny Manziel.

Like the title suggests, the track is a rock and roll-influenced jam, with an electric guitar setting the tone throughout (the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is, of course, located in Cleveland).

MGK, who is currently on tour, will be performing the song during halftime at the Browns’ home game against the New Orleans Saints this Sunday.

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After a handful of “American Horror Story: Freak Show” trailers and teasers over the last few weeks, we’ve finally got some info about the actual plot of the upcoming fourth season — including that the main villain will be Twisty the Clown, played by John Carroll Lynch.

“He’s out to make their lives a living hell,” the show’s co-creator, Ryan Murphy, told Entertainment Weekly. “He’s wearing a mask on the lower part of his face and there comes a point in the season where takes the mask off and when you see what’s under you will faint in terror.”

“My character is very manipulative,” star Jessica Lange said. “She understands what’s needed and she provides it. However the thing I want to be very clear that Elsa really loves these people. She truly cares for them in her own selfish narcissistic way. It’s not just exploitation.”

The show returns on October 8 on FX.

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Almost a year after it went down, the epic Kanye West interview with MTV’s Sway Calloway is back on our minds this week, thanks to one particularly impassioned quote from Yeezy: “It ain’t Ralph, though!”

The line came when discussing Sway’s clothing line — which Kanye stressed was not on Ralph Lauren’s level. On Monday night, in a snippet of a new Theophilus London song, “Can’t Stop,” ‘Ye rehashes the line — though in a different context.

“It’s aight, but it ain’t Ralph, though/ And unless your money talkin’, keep your mouth closed,” Yeezy raps on the minute-and-a-half snippet, invoking a flow and cadence that recalls sonics of Graduation-era Kanye far more than Yeezus-era Kanye.

The track appeared online just hours after Ralph Lauren himself responded to the initial comments in an interview with Style.com. “That’s very cool. Well, that’s great,” he said. “If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I’m catering to him. The fact that I make what I make—he gets it.”

The “Can’t Stop” snippet first appeared on an iTunes pre-order for London’s new album, Vibes. According to London’s Facebook page, the project will be executive produced by Kanye and is set to drop on October 28.

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Two years after handing down sweeping sanctions against Penn State’s football team, the NCAA relented on many of the restrictions on Monday (September 8). The penalties — imposed following a sexual abuse scandal that rocked the football program — were initially supposed to last for four years, but were lifted two years early.

In addition to a ban on postseason play and loss of scholarships, Penn State was ordered to pay $60 million — said to be as much revenue as the football program pulls in annually — to “external programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims.” That money was supposed to go into an NCAA endowment, but on Monday, the athletic association announced that it would be redirected to a Pennsylvania endowment, overseen by the state.

Jerry Sandusky, an assistant football coach at Penn State for three decades, was convicted In 2012 of sexually assaulting 10 boys; the 70-year-old was found guilty on 45 counts. He was sentenced to 30 to 60 years behind bars.

Just a month later, the NCAA handed down sweeping sanctions against Penn State’s football team. But by Monday, they had reversed course.

So, why is the NCAA changing its tune now?

For one, those directly involved in the sexual abuse scandal have since been dismissed by the school, and Penn State has shown “progress toward ensuring its athletics department functions with integrity,” as the NCAA put it. Those factors may have contributed to the NCAA easing their ...

Rick Ross addressed the shooting of Michael Brown on the recent posse cut “Don’t Shoot.” But the Bawse had more to say in the issue, and the fallout in Ferguson, Missouri, so he used his “Black & White” remix to get that off his chest.

“Wanna gun me to the ground like I’m Michael Brown/ Settled in the projects, now you knock it down,” Rozay raps to open his verse, which closes the song. The remade hook also makes reference to the teargas used on protesters in Ferguson during recent protest.

Ricky’s MMG cohort, Stalley, takes on similar issues of injustice and police brutality in his verse: “Middle finger up if they ever try and read me my rights/ Hangin’ out the window screaming ‘F the police!’”

Killer Mike and Gunplay both bring their impassioned flows to the remix, too. Each offers their unique story, with Bigga boasting about being a “third generation black businessman” and Gunplay talks of “coming from nothin’.”

The original “Black & White” was included on Ross’ Mastermind, which dropped in March.

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With musical collaborations like “Bed Peace” and “Pink Toes” already proving the chemistry between Jhene Aiko and Childish Gambino, the two took their working relationship to a new level this week, with the released of Aiko’s “The Pressure” video, directed by the multi-talented MC.

“I’m really interested in directing myself, so I like when I meet other people that bring something new to the table that it’s like, ‘Oh, I didn’t even think of that, but I like it,’” she said of her decision to have the 30-year-old at the helm. “So when it came down to doing ‘The Pressure,’ I knew that I wanted it to be something different, and I wanted to bring in an outside view.”

The video takes a stripped down visual approach to depict the rising singer as she grapples with pressures on the home-front — like motherhood — as well as those that come with being in the public eye.

“I knew that I wanted it to be simplistic, and I knew that I wanted it to be different; that’s all I knew,” she said. “For the most part, I gave him creative control.”

With the reigns, not only did Gambino create a video Aiko loved, but the rapper — who first gained notoriety as an actor, writer, and comedian performing under his real name, Donald Glover — fostered an environment that brought the best out of Jhene.

“Most directors, they’ll just tell you what to do,” she said. “He set it ...

Kid Ink is getting ready to drop the lead single from his next album on Tuesday, but before he does that, he’s back with a video for “Rollin’,” off of January’s My Own Lane.

The Los Angeles-bred rapper dropped the George Orozco-directed video on Friday (September 5), and in it, he hops in the driver’s seat of a white drop-top and cruises around his home city. He’s rocking a San Francisco 49ers Deion Sanders jersey, but L.A. doesn’t have a football team, and San Fran is in Cali, so we’ll forgive him.

Next week, the Alumni Music Group MC will be dropping “Body Language,” produced by Stargate and featuring a major guest.

“Last year, we dropped ‘Show Me’ the day after Labor Day Weekend,” Ink told MTV News, referencing his breakout single. “So I found it a great occasion to keep things rolling and kick off my next wave.”

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Mac Miller just dropped a three-and-a-half minute video for “Diablo,” but he says it’s only a teaser. So what does that mean for the real video? Well, if this is any indication, it’ll be dedicated to his dog, Ralphie.

“For Ralphie” flashes across the screen at the end of the Rex Arrow-directed visuals, off of his Faces mixtape. Back in July, Mac told MTV News that the dog had gone missing.

“Lauren is still out here and Ralph is still alive with some crazy lady who thinks she can take care of my dog better than me,” he said. “As a man, for my son, I went back to a meeting and came back and homey was gone. I can start knocking down doors, but it’s like someone loves him and if he comes back, he’ll come back.”

Though he sounded hopeful that he’d get him back at the time, maybe he’s not as optimistic now; the chorus is a repetition of the phrase, “Everybody got dead homies.”

There are also bright moments, though, as the Pittsburgh native and dozens of friends take to the streets of Los Angeles for a day of, well, all sorts of stuff. There’s a bunch of standing around, yeah. But there are also shots of the Mac holding a bouquet of flowers, a cupcake, sitting atop a food truck and rocking a sailor hat.

Come home, Ralphie.

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So, a bunch of people thought Your Old Droog was actually Nas when the unknown rapper dropped his mixtape online earlier this summer. There weren’t any pictures or video of the neophyte, and there were similarities in the sonics, so conspiracy theories abounded. And then he dropped a video a little over a week ago, which basically put those rumors to rest.

But for anyone still doubting, the undeniable truth came to light on Wednesday night, when the Coney Island native performed his first show, at Webster Hall in New York City.

As you can see in the video above, the up-and-comer performed cuts from his recent release to the sold out crowd. Included in that group of fans, according to The New York Times, was MSNBC host Tamron Hall — whom Droog named a song after.

He also addressed those Nas comparisons.

“There was so many dope f–kin’ rappers out there,” he said of years past. “Now, it’s so much trash, some dope sh– come out, it’s like, ‘Yo, it can’t be dope on it’s own; somebody else did it.”

He wasn’t upset with the kind of chatter the theories generated, though. “Good lookin’, though,” he said. “Y’all my street team.”

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When you’ve got one of the biggest rap songs of the summer, why not go soak up some sun and live it up on the beach? That’s exactly what Rae Sremmurd did for the video for “No Type,” their “No Flex Zone” follow up.

Kickin’ it by the water, walking the boardwalk, hanging out with some lovely ladies — life looks pretty good for the duo from Mississippi. And why not? After all, they did just drop the “No Flex Zone” remix featuring Nicki Minaj and Pusha T.

The Mike Will Made It-signed brothers are getting ready to drop their debut EP, SremmLife, though there’s still no exact date on the project.

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