It's been a week since Kendrick Lamar threw his rap gauntlet down on Big Sean's And while none of the actual rappers that K-Dot called out have issued a lyrical response, a number of other MCs have, including Joe Budden and Uncle Murda, who answered Kendrick's call over the weekend.

Budden had been teasing his answer record all week, and on Saturday, he finally decided to let it loose. Like the majority of "Control" responses, Joey's freestyle was laid atop Big Sean's original instrumental, but the Slaughterhouse MC managed to break away from the pack with densely-packed bars that exhibited his rap cred.

Budden respectfully aimed his attack at Lamar, while other rappers caught collateral damage. "This ain't for bandwagon fans, sit ya asses in the same spot/ Y'all the same n---as that made Trinidad Jame$ hot," he rhymes dismissively about the Atlanta upstart who happened to drop his sophomore mixtape, 10 PC Mild, the day after Kendrick's fiery verse became the chief topic of conversation.

The New Jersey MC went on to note that he wasn't offended at Kendrick's rhyme, which seemed to ruffle so many rap feathers. Budden did, however, challenge a few rappers: A$AP Rocky, Joey Bada$$, Tyler, the Creator and Meek Mill all became subjects of Joe's rhyme. "To me it's just one Joey that's Bada$$," he spits.

Budden does soften his stance by the end of the verse though. "This ain't a dis/ I don't want it to get spun wrong," he raps before telling Kendrick, "This is ...

VANCOUVER — She may be showing off her new dance moves, covering Rihanna and singing all of her hit songs, but the fun doesn't stop for Selena Gomez once she steps off the stage on her Stars Dance World Tour.

Last week, MTV News got an exclusive look backstage at the Stars Dance kickoff in Vancouver, British Columbia, with Gomez showing us what a day in the life is like for her while on tour.

Gomez invited us back into her zen-like dressing room, with lights hanging from the ceiling and sheer purple curtains draping over the couches. Relaxing incense overpowered the room. The "Come & Get It" singer, who admitted pickles and fried Cheetos are her food of choice on tour, sat on the floor among her dancers, doing some last minute homework for the show — watching videos of her idol, Britney Spears.

"That's our inspiration I think because it's just so good," Gomez said of Spears. "I think that's the vibe, I want everybody to be able to come in."

Throughout the day, Gomez rode her bike, "Dolce," through the venue, while her dancers rolled around on scooters, keeping up their energy for the show. At night, minutes before she hit the stage, she gathered her crew for one final pep-talk.

"Preshow rituals, we usually just kind of get together, I have about 20 minutes of lockdown where I do vocal warm-ups," Gomez revealed. "And then my dancers come in and we hype each other up. We just kind of run around, get the adrenaline going through us and ...

With only days until hits theaters, Ariana Grande and The Wanted's Nathan Sykes are giving fans a peek at the romantic side of the flick with the music video for off the soundtrack.

The video's concept is pretty simple. In addition to catching the glimpse of the two singers in the studio — we see them in the booth and at the piano — it also features some of the footage from the film, which hits theaters on Wednesday. We also see Sykes and Grande playing pool and getting cozy on a couch in between sessions.

Four days after "Mortal Instruments" debuts, Ariana will take the stage during the VMA pre-show Sunday, along with Artist to Watch nominee Austin Mahone. She'll perform "The Way" and "Baby I" two songs off her September 3 debut album, Yours Truly, while DJing duo Nervo serve as the guest DJs on the red carpet.

In addition to appearing on the "Mortal Instruments" soundtrack, "Almost" will also appear on Grande's album. When MTV News caught up with Grande, she told us just how amazing it was linking up with the Wanted singer.

"And Nathan just sang the hell out of it. I thought it was Brian McKnight. I'm like 'Who is this?' Honestly I wasn't expecting it. I didn't know he had that in him. I saw him perform live on one of the radio shows that we were at together and I was like, 'Damn he can sing.' This song I think will pleasantly surprise a lot of people," ...

Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose were supposed to have their wedding ceremony this fall, but the lovebirds just couldn't wait and celebrated their nuptials on Sunday in Pennsylvania.

The buzz began on Saturday night after Rose posted a video of her shaking her tail feather in a white dress onto her Instagram. "Only bad bitches twerk the night before their wedding," she captioned the joy-filled clip.

Wiz stayed off of his social networking accounts, but his Taylor Gang members were all too excited about the big day. Juicy J, who performed at the wedding posted a pic of him, Wiz and Taylor Gang executive Will Dzombak onto his Instagram with the caption "Ready for the wedding." Khalifa, who stood holding a joint while smoke rolled off of his lips, wore an aubergine-colored tuxedo jacket, while Juice and Dzombak both wore black.

Rostrum Records Vice President Arthur Pitt sent his well wishes to the couple, while TGOD rapper Chevy Woods toasted to the musicians who kept the party going. "@GQ412 and @DJBonics held the wedding down with the music and @therealjuicyj performed at the wedding .... Dope," he wrote on Twitter.

The couple officially wed on July 8 in a Los Angeles courthouse. "Me and Amber got married today. Weddings this fall. Thought I'd let yall know," he tweeted after they tied the knot last month.

The couple appeared on back in 2011 and spoke to show host Sway Calloway about their very public relationship. About a year after that interview, Khalifa popped ...

This week's "Breaking Bad" essentially divided the majority of the cast into sides. Hank is trying to draft as many as he can in his battle against Walter, but he doesn't count on Mrs. Heisenberg choosing to stand by her husband. Jesse remains the wild card, and that may ultimately be a big mystery for the season.

But before we look ahead, there were a number of sly, clever references to past episodes of "Breaking Bad" and pop culture in general hidden in this week's episode, so let's take a look at the Easter eggs you might have missed from "Buried."

Scrooge McDuck
Walter's big move after Hank confronts him is to hide the money in the storage locker, the mountain of cash that was too large for even Skylar to launder. That money was the point of all of this, remember? (Oh, well, and building an empire.) So Saul sends Huell and Kuby to retrieve it, and they do exactly what anyone would do. They lie on top of it. But before Kuby decides to play along he chastises Huell, saying "We are here to do a job, not channel Scrooge McDuck," of course a reference to Disney's greediest cartoon character. It might also be worth noting that Scrooge was an uncle to three ducklings named Huey, Dewey, and Louie, so start factoring in the Huell-Huey connection into your "Breaking Bad" conspiracy theories.

The Cook Site
Once Walter has his precious fortune back in his possession, it met its destiny of disappearing into one of Heisenberg's dreaded barrels, but its fate might not be ...

If you ask Troy Ave, there's no place in the world like Brooklyn. So what better home for the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards than BK?

Before MTV takes the big show to the Barclays Center on Sunday, August 25, we hit the streets of Brooklyn to soak up some culture from the borough's emerging hip-hop talent. Every day, beginning Monday (August 19), we'll spotlight a brand-new artist for our Brooklyn Hip-Hop Week.

Troy Ave reigns from the Crown Heights section of BK and has made a name for himself with his street-driven and witty raps. His Bricks in my Backpack trilogy of tapes have been critically acclaimed and helped him get respect from veteran MCs like Fabolous and Pusha T. Later this year, he plans to drop New York City: The Album, an ode to the Big Apple, with a special emphasis on BK.

"The borough of Brooklyn is unique," he said. "I've been a lot of places and to me; it's the best place on earth."

Where I'm From
"Crown Heights is just like a mixed neighborhood, you got Jewish people and you got black people and they're both ghetto. The Jewish people ghetto, the black people ghetto and they all fuse into the same neighborhood."

The Brooklyn Influencers
"My influences from Brooklyn would have to be Biggie of course, he was the first rapper that I could identify with... and then Jay Z came through, he had Streets is Watching and that was just like crazy... and then Fab just came through — he was the young Brooklyn cat. So I identify ...

Lady Gaga took over Times Square on Monday (August 19) morning to premiere her much-anticipated video on "Good Morning America," and, in the process, presumably freak out a large portion of folks watching at home.

Oh, and as if all that wasn't enough, she also announced she'll be opening the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards with her first live performance of the song.

But back to the "Applause" video, which most certainly wasn't your standard breakfast-hour fare: Gaga cavorts in various states of undress, sprawls out on a mattress (an ode, she explained, to the months she spent recovering from her hip surgery), prances, preens, sprouts wings, sports about a dozen different outfits and, at various points throughout, transforms herself into various mythical creatures. It is obtuse, odd, and most certainly does not go well with oatmeal.

But that's precisely the point. Gaga has always been about provocation — she wants you to think, act, dance, etc — and here, she's stripping herself bare, pulling the curtain back on her creative process, showing the viewer how she's willing to do anything to please the public ... even if that means shapeshifting into a swan. She is the object of our curiosities and our fantasies, something we want to put on a shelf and admire, yet rarely do we think about everything that goes into, well, everything she does.

To that end, "Applause" is her call to consider the creator; repeat viewings also reveal several nods to the art world, both classic (Botticelli) and contemporary (Koons), and she seems ...

Despite the massive popularity of movies like and "The Avengers," box-office observers predicted that comic-book based sequel would be roundly beaten by a historical drama over the weekend. They were right.

topped the box office over the weekend with a $25 million debut. Starring Forest Whitaker as a character based on a butler who worked in the White House for 34 years, "The Butler" was the last film produced by the late Laura Ziskin, whose producer and executive producer credits included four "Spider-Man" films and "Pretty Woman."

"Kick-Ass 2" floundered in the #4 spot with just $13.5 million, behind both "We're the Millers" and "Elysium" from the week before. Liam Hemsworth's corporate espionage thriller "Paranoia" and Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs biopic, "Jobs," both bombed. Neither movie debuted in the top five, despite the considerable respective fanbases for the two stars.

"Lee Daniels' The Butler" was the only one of the weekend's four widely released new films to receive mostly positive reviews from film critics. The film's success owed a lot to Oprah Winfrey, who put a great deal of time and effort into promoting her first scripted/live-action film role in more than a decade. "Kick-Ass 2" failed to receive the enthusiastic critical reception of its predecessor, amassing just 28 percent positive reviews, according to Rotten Tomatoes. "Jobs" fared even worse, with 25 percent on the Tomatometer, while "Paranoia" was one of the worst reviewed films of the year, sitting at just 4 percent.

"The Butler" was produced for just $30 million and has been called the ...