The day after her son with (Usher was released from an Atlanta hospital following a life-threatening pool accident, Tameka Foster Raymond spoke out about the incident on "Good Morning America."

"I was mad because I was like,' how did this happen?'" Foster Raymond said. "Who was watching him? Why was my son under water for nearly three minutes?"

Usher Raymond V, who landed in the ICU after nearly drowning while trying to retrieve a toy from a pool drain, "is going to be just fine," a source close to Usher told People magazine. The 5-year-old was reportedly sitting up, smiling and eating in his hospital bed just days after the accident, which took place while Usher was not at home.

Foster said she was at a dental appointment when Usher called to tell her about the near drowning. And, because her ex doesn't call her very often, she immediately grabbed her phone, figuring that the singer was calling to discuss their children. A year after her 11-year-old son from a different marriage died in a Jet skiing accident, Foster Raymond said she feared the worst.

"It was like I re-lived it ... my brain went into all those modes," she said about the call from Usher. "I even said on the phone, 'I've had this call before ... I didn't blame [Usher] for it. I was just angry that It happened on his watch. Because while accidents happen, never have my children been injured on my watch."

Foster Raymond attempted to regain temporary custody
 of the divorced couple's son last ...

A month after the actor's death, fans are getting a new look at Cory Monteith in one of his last movie roles. A new still from "McCanick" has been released before the film heads to the Toronto International Film Festival next month.

In the new photo, a long-haired Monteith stands on a darkened street corner in a hoodie, deep in conversation with another man. In the film, the late "Glee" star plays a drug addict. The film will premiere on September 9, Entertainment Weekly reports.

"McCanick" is one of two movies featuring the Canada native set to head to TIFF next month. "All the Wrong Reasons," featuring Monteith and "Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" star Kevin Zegers, will also make its debut at the film festival.

Since his death in July, several plans have been announced to pay tribute to the late actor, who died on July 13; it was later determined he died from a mixed drug toxicity involving heroin and alcohol. , who played one of the show's leading men, during the third episode of the next season. The episode is slated to air on October 10.

"That is the episode where Cory's character will be written off and will deal directly with drug addiction and with the circumstances surrounding Cory's death," Fox president Kevin Reilly said last month. Reilly wouldn't confirm if Monteith's character, Finn Hudson, would die of a drug overdose. A tribute is also planned for the Emmy Awards, airing in September. Emmy's executive producer Ken Ehrlich said it will be "something that reflects an ...

When Lady Gaga went dark to recuperate from hip surgery, she went all the way away. But with the countdown clock to the November 11 release of ARTPOP ticking, Gaga has exploded from hiding with the kind of Gagalanche of creativity that we expect from Mother Monster.

It's only Wednesday, and the week already seems like ground zero for the ARTPOP-apalooza we can expect over the next few months. In addition to quashing a budding media-spawned fake feud
 with Katy Perry, Gaga grabbed headlines (and eyeballs) with a stunning series of images form the upcoming issue of V magazine.

Along with an interview by collaborator performance artist Marina Abramović in the issue
, the cover of the magazine contains a striking topless image of Gaga in black rocker wig and sparkly cropped jacket, with one hand cupping her left breast. Inside there's a fully topless photo with Gaga wearing only a white tank top around her midsection and another with a sideboob view.

Earlier in the week, she tweeted about the shoot for the 
 lyric video, which went down at famed Hollywood gay nightclub Micky's. According to E! Online, after alerting her fans to the shoot, the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards performer got to the club around 11:15 p.m. and stayed for nearly an hour.

Wandering around the bar with a few bodyguards, Gaga filmed the crowd, encouraged them to clap and filmed two fans who showed up with their faces covered in smeared painted similar to the cover of the ...

fans will have to wait until 2015 for the Barden Bellas and Treblemakers to make an encore appearance in a planned sequel, but until then, a cappella enthusiasts can unwrap this aca-awesome gift: a holiday album from the cast.

Actress Hana Mae Lee, who played quiet, quirky student Lilly in the 2012 comedy, gave MTV News the details during Sunday's Teen Choice Awards, where the musical movie won four surfboards.

"We have a holiday album coming out so stay tuned," she teased. "I'm going to be singing a very special song."

So should fans expect the usual yuletide offerings?

"There are Christmas classics," Lee confirmed. "I'll be singing 'Silent Night.' I'm pretty sure it's going to be all a cappella. You know, for our 'Pitch Perfect' soundtrack, it's all a cappella — even the percussion. It's all us, so it's going to be sweet though because it's going to sound like there's other things, but it's all us."

A rep for movie studio Universal confirmed the holiday album to MTV News but was unable to provide further details as of press time.

"Pitch Perfect" continues to hit a high note on the charts. Anna Kendrick's "Cups (PItch Perfect's When I'm Gone)" is currently #6 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

Kendrick took to Instagram Tuesday to share her surprise over the track's performance.

Also while at the Teen Choice Awards, the stars opened up about their hopes for the planned sequel.

"I want everyone to go abroad. I want the whole thing to be international just so we can film in a ...

Sure, Robin Thicke pretty much has the single of the summer on lock with "Blurred Lines." But Icona Pop's 
 is a really close second.

We figure you can't get it out of your head, and neither can we, so when MTV News caught up with the bubbly Swedish duo recently we had them play a game we're calling "I Love It/I Don't Care."

The rules were simple: we gave them topics from the news or pop culture, say, A-Rod's suspension, the cronuts craze, the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal or their thoughts on wearing maxi dresses in the summer heat, and they had to give a lighting fast answer of ... oh, you get the idea.

So check out what they had to say about all those topics and more, as well as their thoughts on their daredevil new video
for "Girlfriend" and Thicke's sultry cover
 of "I Love It."

Kendrick Lamar shook up the rap world with his ear-popping verse on Big Sean's but while boasts of being king of both coasts and verbal warnings were issued to friends like Drake, J. Cole and Big Sean dominated the conversation, K-Dot's 64-bar rap marathon were packed with tons of goodies.

Now that we've had some time to sit with the epic verse, which dropped on Monday, MTV News examines the highlights. Here's what we learned.

Tupac Taught Me
What made the good kid go mad? It's hard to say. "Control" doesn't seem to be a beef record per se, but like the late Tupac, Kendrick spits with a competitive fire; he wasn't shy about calling out his targets by name either. Through it all he even makes reference to 'Pac's Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory album where he changed his name to Makaveli and took aim at everyone from the Notorious B.I.G. to De La Soul. "I'm Makaveli's offspring, I'm the king of New York," Lamar spits drawing clear comparisons to the fallen rap star.

Hip-hop reacts to Kendrick Lamar's "Control" verse

Hey New York, Kendrick Claims The West Coast Crown Too
Sure Big Apple MCs took exception when Kendrick claimed the coveted "King of New York" title, but how do Cali spitters feel now that Dot also crowned himself king of the west? "I'm the king of New York/ King of the coast, one hand, I juggle both," he brags. Will any left coast spitters step up to the plate?

Dot Really Doesn't Like Molly
The good kid, m.A.A.d. city lyricist ...

It's been awhile since Foxy Brown sat down for an in-depth interview, and on Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET, the Brooklyn-bred rapper will make her first appearance on to chat with host Sway Calloway. Pusha-T will also be live in the studio to make an announcement about his anticipated debut album, My Name Is My Name.

Foxy Brown burst onto the scene with her 1996 debut album, Ill Na Na, followed by 1999's Chyna Doll and Broken Silence in 2001. Brown, born Inga Marchand, was signed to Def Jam when she was only 17 years old, appearing on hits like Jay Z's "Ain't No N---a" and teaming up with Lil Kim, Da Brat and Total for the now-infamous remix of "No One Else."

Later in her career, Foxy would deal with label woes, legal issues and sudden hearing loss that derailed her musical efforts — but the Don Diva is gearing up for her return, while pushing her latest single, "Band$$$ Up."

G.O.O.D. Music rapper Pusha-T will follow her appearance with a very special announcement about his upcoming solo album, My Name Is My Name, which will be released via Def Jam this year. Last year, Push previewed the single "40 Acres" for MTV News, and soon enough, fans will be able to hear it in full.

Catch Foxy Brown and Pusha-T on "RapFix Live" Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET on MTV Jams and RapFix.MTV.com. Join the conversation using the hashtag #RapFixLive and send your questions for the MCs to @MTVRapFix!

First, the a-POP-calypse was advancing. Then, it was averted. But now that Katy Perry and Lady Gaga have dropped singles on the same day — within 13 hours of each other — it's probably time to go all once again ... because surely, the end is nigh.

Yet, 24 hours after the battle between and officially began, there have been no casualties, and fans are crawling out of their bunkers to discover that the pop landscape remains intact. It's almost as if the supposed war between Katy and Gaga was nothing more than — gasp! — a storyline created solely by the media, and, more importantly, that no matter how deep our desire to declare a winner in this conflict, there probably won't be one.

That's not entirely correct, mind you. There will be download figures to report, and first-week album sales to compare, and music videos to analyze ... someone will come out on top. But that's taking the short-sighted approach, focusing on a few rather unimportant aspects of a much larger picture: that the real winner in all this is you.

Because you are a fan of pop music. And for too long, pop music has been polite, with releases strategically staked months in to maximize profit margins and superstars performing elaborate footwork routines to avoid stepping on each other's (well-manicured) toes. Things have gotten pretty boring. Turns out, a little head-to-head competition is all we needed. It's unlikely that Katy heard Gaga's new song before it hit the airwaves (and ...