May 5, 2024

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Rita Ora Says Ripping Off Zac Efron’s Shirt Was Totally Spontaneous

Remember that time when Rita Ora channeled the desires of everyone ever and heroically ripped Zac Efron's shirt off at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, thus liberating his flawlessly manscaped chesticles from their cottony tomb? Oh, the visual is tattooed on the inside of your eyelids because #NEVERFORGET, too? Cool.

Well, I got the chance to interview Rita recently, so this was clearly a major point of discussion. Don't worry, Bots, I obviously got your fave to spill details about her forthcoming sophomore album, O, and her role in the film adaptation of "50 Shades Of Grey", but, like... There are some things you've just gotta get off your chest, you know? Like shirts. If you're Zac Efron. ANYWAY.

While I didn't ask the "I Will Never Let You Down" singer what Zac's chest feels like — why tease yourself with something you'll never have? — I did get her to reveal whether or not the stunt was planned. Guess what: It was a "spontaneous moment"! Yes, Virginia, there was an impromptu Zac Efron striptease, though sorry about Santa Claus. Still not real.

Not only that, but the event may have been the work of divine inspiration. The moment was, in Rita's words: "Kind of like somebody in my mind spoke to me and said, 'You better go rip that shirt off!' "

I mean, I hear a voice in my head commanding me to do that exact same thing nearly every day. Who knew that I could have been destined for, like, Joan ...

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RZA Gives Raekwon An Ultimatum

The Wu-Tang Clan inner drama is continuing to boil, and there's a deadline on getting it all sorted out. "The album is slated to come out in July," RZA told Sports Illustrated, referencing A Better Tomorrow. "If we don't come to terms [with Raekwon],... ...

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Drake Takes His Lint Roller Everywhere, And These GIFs Prove It

It can't be easy to exist under the glare of the spotlight, with cameras documenting your every move and misstep. With those flashbulbs going off constantly, it's crucial to look sharp, and this week Drake showed us just how serious he is about looking extra crisp at all times — and by any means necessary.

The YMCMB rapper was posted up at a Toronto Raptors vs. Brooklyn Nets game on Tuesday night, where the cameras just happened to catch him whipping out a lint roller and going to work on his pants.

For the record, I sometimes have trouble finding a lint roller in my own apartment even when I buy them in bulk, so this is just another important lesson learned from Drizzy. And apparently that NBA game isn't the only place that Drake has taken the time to get in some lint-rolling. We have the GIFs to prove it.

The Purple Wedding

The Purple Wedding in season 4 of "Game of Thrones" had one monster surprise. No one expected to see Joffrey go out like that, but Drake wasn't the least bit disturbed by it.

Coachella Reunions

Jay Z made a big cameo during Nas' set at Coachella this year. It's not often that you see the former rivals on the same stage, but Drake didn't think it was anything out of the ordinary.

Award Shows

'Nuff said.

The White House

There was so much uproar about Beyonce lip synching the vocals to the National Anthem during President Obama's inauguration, that no even noticed ...

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‘Game of Thrones’ Rape Scene Isn’t So Different From The Books

Over the past week there's been a lot of back and forth about the controversial Jaime/Cersei scene on the last episode of "Game of Thrones." And this discussion only got more heated when author George R.R. Martin came out to lament the treatment/changes of the scene from book to screen. With that in mind, it's probably important to remind people of one basic fact: it's not like there isn't already a lot of rape in the books.

And more importantly: that doesn't make it okay.

A step back for context on the whole situation, and some spoilers for the show and the novels "Game of Thrones" is based on: during the most recent episode, "Breaker of Chains," Jaime Lannister forced his sister to the ground in a church, next to the dead body of their son and had sex with her.

During the incident, Cersei — who had previously been in a long-standing incestual relationship with her brother before they were separated for several seasons of the show — tried to stop him, hit him and yelled "no." With this context, viewers were under the impression that the incident was a rape, compounding an incident that was already several levels of horrible.

Not so, said the director of the episode. In an interview with HitFix's Alan Sepinwall, Alex Graves said:

"Well, it becomes consensual by the end, because anything for them ultimately results in a turn-on, especially a power struggle."
 That's some troubling language there in regards to sexual assault on its own, but more damning was the response from ...

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Lil Boosie’s First Post-Prison Album Is Coming Soon

In his earliest post-prison interview following his release in March, Lil Boosie said that he had more than 1,000 songs written. And now we know when we'll be hearing some of them.

"July 15, I'm hitting 'em with my album," the Louisiana-bred rapper told Complex. "It's a classic, man. I'm just ready to drop it. You know, I ain't wanna come home and play with the mixtape game and all of that. I wanted to come home and hit 'em hard, get that machine behind it, be successful and show the world."

The project, which is slated to drop on Atlantic Records, will be the first album Bad Azz releases since coming home. And he's bringing some friends ‒ who happen to be a few of rap's biggest names, too ‒ along for the comeback.

"I got Jeezy on a record; I got 2 Chainz on a record; I got T.I. on a record," he said with a combination of nonchalance and confidence. "I'm working on getting some more people. The album almost finished. We just gotta get the features, and the samples cleared."

He also said he's returned the favor by knocking out features for all three. Plus, plenty more have reached out, from rappers like Rick Ross, Meek Mill and Game to comedians like Katt Williams and Mike Epps.

Back in March, Boosie made it clear that he had high hopes for both his album and the trajectory of his career. "My music always been based off telling stories and now I really got a lot of stories to ...

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All The Times Justin Bieber Has Been A Bumbling Tourist

Being a tourist can be rough. There's the jetlag, the question of whether to fanny pack or not, the danger of making a buffoon out of oneself because one fails to honor local customs. Yup, it's a minefield, one made even more minefield-esque when you travel as much as Justin Bieber.

The Biebs has managed to stick his foot in it in more than a few places over the years — although most of the time with the best of intentions. His most recent folly? He took a photo of himself in Tokyo in front of a very infamous landmark: the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors former military leaders from Japan's imperial army who committed war atrocities in China and other regions in Asia during the Pacific War.

"I was mislead to think the Shrines were only a place of prayer," Bieber said of the incident, deleting the photo, which had racked up 660,000 likes in the meantime.

"Oops" is a word that could be used in this case — times a thousand.

Check out four more times Bieber was slapped on the wrist by the almighty museum guard we call life.

1. The Anne Frank House

If you've been to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam in the last year, you have likely seen gaggles of teenage girls flipping through the guestbook. Why? Because the Biebs once etched onto its pages the now immortal words: "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber," referring to the teenage Holocaust victim.

Bieber's comment drew ire from ...

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‘Love And Other Foreign Words’ Author Wants One Direction For Movie

If you're the type of literature-loving pop culturalist who likes to read a story before you see it on the big screen, you should clear some space ASAP in your schedule for "Love and Other Foreign Words."

Hollywood has been drooling over this smart new YA romance since way back in 2012, with movie rights snapped up nearly two years before it was set to release. And with the book finally hitting shelves next week, MTV News checked in with author Erin McCahan to get some inside dirt on what to expect from the novel, why contemporary teen love stories are such a hot ticket right now, and which celebs she wants to see bringing her characters to life on the big screen.

"Love and Other Foreign Words" centers on Josie, a linguistically inclined teenager who thinks of every social group as though it's a foreign country: one with its own customs, culture, and most importantly, language.

But where Josie has learned to be fluent in a host of social languages, she still doesn't understand love — which is a problem, because her older sister, Kate, is about to get married to a guy so atrocious that Josie just knows she's making a terrible mistake.

Needless to say, Josie is a fresh kind of character in an oeuvre that's been dominated lately by tough-girl actionistas — and she's not out to compete with them, either.

"I love the action-hero girls we're seeing now in a lot of YA, especially the characters who employ their wits along with specific physical skill sets," ...

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