If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite rap song would sound like if it was read by their mothers, wonder no more.

In a special segment called “Words From Your Mother” on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Tyga’s mother read the lyrics from “Rack City” live on television, and it was as funny as you’d imagine.

“Hi, I’m Tyga’s mom and this is my son’s song, ‘Rack City’,” she said.

Dressed in a yellow Versace shirt and black skirt in front of a green screen showing footage from the song’s music video, Momma Tyga recited the words, including those that required censorship.

“Woo, that’s my Booki, I love him,” she said when she was finished, shaking her head.

Maurice Bobb @ReeseReport

Miley Cyrus had a whole day off between her Pittsburgh and North Carolina tour stops, so the singer decided to stroll into New York City and hook up with celebrity tattoo artist Bang Bang for some fresh new ink.

Bang Bang and Cyrus played twinsies by inking a pair of matching crescent moons on their skin. The tattooist chose to ingrain the “BFF” tat onto his thumbs, while Miley slapped it onto her left inner-arm (or elbow-pit, as I like to call it).

The “Adore You” singer also nabbed a second piece of ink from Bang Bang, opting to pay homage to the Flaming Lips with the words “Love Yer Brain” tattooed onto her right forearm.

The hand-scripted tat references Wayne Coyne’s psychedelic track off the Lips 1987 album Oh My Gawd!!!.

Jessica Hyndman

I grew up loving Ninja Turtles. So I loved 1991 flick “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze” — and that meant I also loved the catchy “Ninja Rap,” performed by Vanilla Ice. It’s wasn’t particularly artistically groundbreaking, but a song catered so specifically to a movie is gonna have some constraints.

But that fact didn’t stop Vanilla Ice from critiquing “Shell Shocked,” by Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J and Ty Dolla $ign — more or less the 2014 equivalent of “Ninja Rap,” set to be included on the soundtrack for the upcoming “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie.

“With respect to all of the artists, the song doesn’t really do it for me,” the 46-year-old told GQ. “It feels a little artificial — what I mean by that is that it sounds like a bunch of executives in the corporate world put it together. It really does not fit the theme of the Ninja Turtles legend. I think you have to understand, and be a true Ninja, to possess the Magic to really pull off the secret sound.”

Judge for yourself by listening to both below.

Adam Fleischer

The rollout leading up to the release of Blacc Hollywood continues.

Just a day after dropping the audio for “Promises,” Wiz Khalifa returned on Tuesday (August 5) with a video for the low-key love jam from his upcoming third major label release.

The visuals for the Jim Jonsin-produced track are directed by Gerard Victor, and find the Taylor Gang MC kickin’ it in the park with some friends, but mostly focused on courting a special lady — and getting “caught in the moment.”

In addition to “Promises,” Mister Cap has dropped singles like “We Dem Boyz” and “Stayin Out All Night,” plus, he’s got a Nicki Minaj feature that we can look forward to hearing when the album comes out on August 19.

“We actually didn’t get to get in the studio together, but the song is crazy,” Wiz told MTV News last month, during the Team Epiphany-hosted Oh Ship Summer Fridays boat cruise in New York City. “The idea behind it is just real inspirational, reaching out, just trying to tell people — give ‘em a little bit of message. Use our celebrity to motivate. It’s a good song.”

Adam Fleischer

Now we can officially stop all of that talk about beef, bad blood — or, whatever you want to call it — between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. For a minute there, it seemed like things might never be the same between those two (after that “Control” verse) but on Monday night, Drizzy proved us wrong at OVO Fest.

Maybe it wasn’t as “monumental” as Kanye showing up last year to squash rumors of tension and sing Drake’s praises, but it still felt pretty good to know that two of the most talented rappers in the game are back on good terms.

Early in his set Drake brought his “twin brother” J. Cole to the stage, and before saying goodbye, he took a moment to send some love to Kendrick as well.

“I wanna shout out my n—a Kendrick Lamar,” he told the crowd. “Kendrick was on my album, we went on tour…that’s one of the hardest n—-s alive. He should be standing right [here].”

“There’s a lot of kings in this sh–, so shout out to Kendrick and shout out my brother J. Cole.”

Drake made sure to drop that one while everyone “had their camera phones out,” and maybe he did it with J. Cole on stage, because of what happened last week.

During Cole’s Dollar and A Dream II Tour stop out in Los Angeles, both Drake and Kendrick made cameos. But some concert goers interpreted Drizzy’s words as a slight,

Time to cowabunga your way into a music video about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Yup, given that there’s a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and that it opens this Friday (August 8), there’s never been a better time to set these ninja moves to harmonies.

Get amped for the Michael Bay-directed movie by watching Pentatonix’s musical ode to the film in the form of the song and video for “We Are Ninjas.” The video premiered tonight on MTV and you can watch it below for sweet harmonies about pizza, saving the day and some seriously choreographed dance scenes.

The whole thing was filmed at Paramount Studios, so how did they achieve the street-like feel? Plenty of fog, streetlights and filming at night.

“The ideas is we’re kind of riffing of the turtles,” said director Melissa Bolton-Klinger in a behind the scenes clip. Dark alleyway scenes, kind of West Side Story meets ninjas.” Sounds about right!

BRB, ordering a pizza and loading up old episodes of TMNT on Youtube to prepare. Maybe the mutants will head to Broadway next? If so, Pentatonix should definitely be involved so we can have more odes to pepperoni.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

You would think it couldn’t get worse than finding your name on a hit list, but now that Malia‘s finally gotten a glimpse at The Benefactor’s dead pool, she’s had to digest even more unsettling information.

On tonight’s “Teen Wolf” episode, a man disguised as a PSAT proctor turned out to be the latest assassin who had Scott, Kira and their supernatural friends in his sights, and for awhile, it looked like he’d succeed at bumping them off. The killer released a toxin into the air that was designed to take out werewolves, kitsunes and any other bestiary feature, and slowly, each became very, very sick.

Thankfully, as usual, Dr. Deaton had the answers, and after questioning Satomi, an Alpha Wolf who had somehow avoided being killed by the infection in a separate attack, the doc realized that the antidote was an ingredient in Satomi’s favorite tea: reishi. By drinking it for years, she had unknowingly vaccinated herself, and Derek pointed out that there was some left in his vault, where Scott, Kira, Malia and Stiles had stowed themselves away.

It was a close call, but the gang ultimately got the message, and just when it looked like they were goners, the reishi revived them. Unfortunately, the healing came at a cost, and when Malia regained her sight — which she’d lost as a symptom of being poisoned — she saw The Benefactor’s hit list for the first time with her ...

Things for 5 Seconds Of Summer are really picking up speed this summer… see what I did there?

Anyway, the Australian pop punk quartet are nominated for a VMA in the Artist To Watch category, and though they’ve got some stiff competition in Charli XCX, Fifth Harmony, Sam Smith and Schoolboy Q, they seem very intent on taking home the award.

Just take a look at them focusing all their intellectual powers on how much they want to win a VMA!

Can you read their minds? Did you hear that explosive desire: “I just want to blow the roof off!” Sure, they laugh it off after all that psychic tension, they’re total goofballs.

But that doesn’t mean these guys aren’t deadly serious about their musical future. They’re currently on tour with One Direction, which means things are only going to keep getting bigger for them.

Watch their performance live at the VMAs on Sunday, August 24. The show begins at 9 PM, 8 PM Central.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

Let the countdown begin! We’re just three weeks shy of an Ariana Grande My Everything all-night binge, but first the pop star is giving us another taste of what to expect.

Monday evening (August 4) the “Problem” singer took to Instagram to share a 15-second snippet of another song, this time it’s “Love Me Harder.” The track features Toronto’s sultry R&B star The Weeknd. Listen below.

So if you take a dash of “Love Me Harder,” a handful of “Problem” and mix in a cup of “Break Free” it sounds like the recipe for an album chock full of party bangers. Even the Cashmere Cat’s preview of “Be My Baby” is solidifying this record’s smash-hit status.

With all that’s to be anticipated, we’re not even bent over that Justin Bieber collaboration that didn’t pan out. Girlfriend has been putting in plenty of work to make sure the clubs will be bumping this fall.

Jessica Hyndman

Adam Levine is finally ready to show off what it looks like to be married to Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo. The couple’s first post-nuptials selfie shows them grilling the camera in a too-cool-for-school pose complete with both lovebirds wearing reflective shades, and Adam completing his vacation look with an unbuttoned shirt and a headband.

“There is a strong situation going on here,” the Maroon 5 frontman captioned the photo. You mean a marriage situation, right Adam?

Levine and Prinsloo tied the knot last month (July 19) in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in the presence of fellow model Coco Rocha and Maroon 5 bandmate Jesse Carmichael. Levine wore a fitted tux and Prinsloo wore a gown by Marchesa.

The couple had planned a honeymoon in South Africa, however photos of the trip have yet to surface.

Today, Prinsloo took to Instagram to share a photo of herself playing for par in an undisclosed location.

Jessica Hyndman