April 29, 2024

Review Category : TMZ Music News

Rihanna Has A #FamCrush On Pharrell: See The Pic

There's already #ManCrushMonday — a day we at MTV News take pretty damn seriously — and now, thanks to Rihanna, we all have another weekly holiday to celebrate: #FamCrushFriday.

Rih Rih's first pick for her inaugural #FamCrush was Pharrell Williams, his wife Helen Lasichanh and their 5-year-old son, Rocket Man. And we don't blame her: it is a rather adorable pic, as the Grammy-winning producer— wearing his signature hat — gives his son a piggy-back ride while Helen adjusts his beanie.

Even though the two haven't yet linked up for a collaboration, Rihanna and Pharrell are hardly strangers. The two joined forces for Rih Rih's Bravo fashion competition series, "Styled to Rock."

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Watch Mary-Kate And Ashley Reminisce About Their ‘Inappropriate’ ‘Full House’ Dads

It's been so long since Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been on TV that we almost had to do a double-take when they appeared on Friday's episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

The twins, who last made a television appearance back in 2010, were on-hand to promote their new fragrances, but in true Ellen fashion, the talk-show host put them on the spot with a game, asking the girls what sets them apart from each other.

They were given paddles that said "her" and "me" and after each question they would flip the paddle to show which answer fit the sister best.

The usually shy twins shared a lot of secrets about themselves, like who is the messiest (they couldn't decide between the two), who is funniest (Ashley), who is the better dancer (Mary-Kate) and so much more.

However, there was no way the girls would be able to get off set without answering some burning questions about the still fan-favorite sitcom which they appeared on as babies. "It's incredible. I guess people who grew up with us are now having kids and now they're kids are watching it," Ashley said. "It's still relevant and it's amazing."

And even though they were so young at the time, the girls have nothing but fond memories of the show, even if their co-stars, Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier, were a little inappropriate at times.

"They were very inappropriate. We probably couldn't talk about it here," Ashley said. "They were three comedians. We grew up with three comedians that just had fun together."

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Tom Hardy Isn’t Looking For Challenging Roles, Just Good Ones

Tom Hardy occupies a unique space in the stratosphere of Hollywood stars. He had a memorable turn in one of the biggest movies of all time, and starting today, you can see him in "

If that sounds like an almost purposefully boring movie, be assured that it's actually one of the year's best.

Hardy is widely recognized by critics as one of his generation's best actors, but on the street, it's pretty safe to assume that he's hardly recognized at all. That may be because Bane's mask covered most of his face, but it's also because Hardy has picked challenging roles that eschew the typical path for a rising star.

But when MTV News spoke with Hardy and his "Locke" director, he said that his career choices are not an ongoing search for challenging parts.

"Nothing is difficult," Hardy said, speaking of the limitations of roles like Bane and Ivan Locke. "It just presents itself as something you haven't done before. With something like this, that's what I do for a living. As an actor, challenge is always exciting."

For Hardy, his interest in a role and a movie comes down to simple questions.

"It comes back to a very basic principle of story. Is it interesting? Do I want to be a part of it? Yes. How does it work? That's when you get back to a pragmatic sense of 'What's the practical next step?' I don't get up in the morning and go, 'I have to find a piece where I can look into someone's eyes.' "

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Future ‘Lost All Respect’ For T-Pain After Auto-Tune Criticism

T-Pain had some negative things to say about Future's use of auto-tune last year, and although he later praised the Honest rapper and producer's song-writing skills, it seems to be too late to make amends.

Future tells MTV News that there's a very slim chance he would ever work with T-Pain after the way things went down.

Last year Pain took to Instagram to call Future "the new T-Pain," adding in interviews that he didn't understand how to use auto-tune properly. Those jabs definitely didn't go unnoticed.

"I would've worked with him, easy, before he made those comments," Future told MTV News' Sway Calloway, "[But] when he took the jab at me I pretty much just lost all respect for him."

"Why Me?" he continued. "You could've talked to me off the record, or got in contact with me. Before I got in the game, he wasn't no one I looked up to, but he was someone that I loved his songs. He had the radio on lock. I came in the game on 'Tony Montana,' I came in on a song like I'm Sprung,' singing auto-tune. Then I did 'Turn on the Lights,' — that don't sound like no T-Pain."

And even after T-Pain tried to backtrack, it was already too late.

"I don't look at him the same no more, because you've gotta respect the man as a man," Future said. "You can't say something then try to take it back. I know how you really feel. You can't show your hand and try to hide it again.

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Kendrick Lamar Teases New Black Hippy Freestyles

Getting a straight answer about a Black Hippy album seems like a miracle these days, but when MTV News asked Kendrick Lamar about the dream project, we got way more than we expected.

"Yeah, Black Hippy, we're moving around man. They'll be getting something soon. They might get a few early freestyles or something, 'cause I know fans are heated for us," K-Dot told MTV News correspondent Josh Horowitz on Thursday night when he walked the red carpet at "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in New York City.

Lamar linked up in the studio with Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys and Hans Zimmer for the lead single from Spidey's new soundtrack, but now the good kid tells us that he is in the studio at work on his second major label album.

In a February Billboard story, TDE CEO Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith said he expected Lamar to drop his new LP in September, while label co-president Dave Free said that he believed Kendrick, Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul's collaborative Black Hippy project would come before the year's end. Kendrick, however, gave us no time table.

"No tentative date, I'm in the studio now with ideas and things like that and just seeing where it takes me. I look at each project as a journey," he said of his good kid, m.A.A.d city follow-up. "I couldn't give a stable idea of what I'm doing, but it will definitely be a deal."

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Macklemore’s Latest Selfie Is His Most Exotic Yet

There are a few names you think of when it comes to selfie masters — Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Nick Jonas — but few pull out the cameos like Macklemore.

Just a quick browse of Macklemore's Instagram account, and you can see he's posed with people like Michael Jordan, Paul McCartney, T.I. and Miley Cyrus.

Now the rapper has probably the best cam-eo yet: a camel.

Mack, along with Ryan Lewis, is currently stopped in Abu Dhabi on tour with Rick Ross and Wiley. And what better way to get pumped for tonight's show than to find a camel in the desert?

Sure, Kim K has ridden a camel, but who captured a special selfie with the dromedary? This guy.

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Hey Mariah, It’s Not A Surprise If You Tell People

If you're planning a surprise party, you might not want to put Mariah Carey in charge of the invite list. While MC might bring the glamour and flash, she's kind of hazy on how the whole surprise thing works.

Case in point: in a new Billboard cover story, Mariah admits that her long-delayed new album is still a work in progress that has been held up by three singles 
 "The Art of Letting Go" and "You're Mine (Eternal)") that she realizes didn't exactly set the charts on fire.

So her solution appears to be borrowing a page from Beyoncé's surprise-album drop
 from December and sneak-attacking her Lambs with her 14th album's title, track list and music through as-yet-unannounced digital partners.

"I have to be the one that announces this, especially the title," Carey said, hinting that the album's title is derived from a "personal possession of mine that's part of an entity that I've had almost all my life."

Mariah, you realize if you tell us you're going to surprise us it's not a surprise, right?

She never actually mentioned Bey (of course), but Billboard pointed out that, like Carey, Queen Bee was coming off a somewhat lackluster album (2011s 4) when she decided to storm back with a sneak-attack album that has been a smash.

Can she catch lighting in a bottle like Bey did? Some might say no way.

But, so far Mariah has recruited producers Rodney Jerkins and manager Jermaine Dupri, as well as Hit-Boy and Mike Will Made It. Guests include Nas, Wale ...

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