Main Pick

Headliner: Spenzo

Representing: Chicago, Illinois

Mixtape: In Spenzo We Trust

Real Spit: Don't let Spenzo's age fool you, the 18-year-old spitter may be young, but there's nothing kiddie about his raps. On Monday (July 15), the teen released his debut mixtape, In Spenzo We Trust, and it's reflective of the world around him.

"I'm just tellin' 'em my story, so it's gonna get picked up by the people that see what I see," Spenz told Mixtape Daily about his latest project. "They see the violence, they're growing up around it or they're being in the hood. They see everything I see."

On Sunday, a day before the tape was released, Spenzo's name began to trend on Twitter, a testament to his popularity. "At the Moment" is an appropriate ode to his newfound fame, as is the Sonny Digital-produced "Different Now." On the opening track, "Englewood," Spenz paints a picture of his former life in the hood. "They tryna trap up in the rap, how is that/ Dumb mother----er you still up in the trap," he spits in his unique drawl.

With "Clearly Now," the young MC shows a different side, telling the story of his absentee dad. "1995 I became a bastard/ My pappy, who knows I give a f---? Who knows I give a f---/ I turned 15 and met the one who had, but I was just too old to give a f---, too old to give a f---," he raps before giving props to his step-dad.

It's not all serious however. The Young Chop-produced "Wife Er" is a fun auto-tuned track ...

Main Pick

Headliner: Spenzo

Representing: Chicago, Illinois

Mixtape: In Spenzo We Trust

Real Spit: Don't let Spenzo's age fool you, the 18-year-old spitter may be young, but there's nothing kiddie about his raps. On Monday (July 15), the teen released his debut mixtape, In Spenzo We Trust, and it's reflective of the world around him.

"I'm just tellin' 'em my story, so it's gonna get picked up by the people that see what I see," Spenz told Mixtape Daily about his latest project. "They see the violence, they're growing up around it or they're being in the hood. They see everything I see."

On Sunday, a day before the tape was released, Spenzo's name began to trend on Twitter, a testament to his popularity. "At the Moment" is an appropriate ode to his newfound fame, as is the Sonny Digital-produced "Different Now." On the opening track, "Englewood," Spenz paints a picture of his former life in the hood. "They tryna trap up in the rap, how is that/ Dumb mother----er you still up in the trap," he spits in his unique drawl.

With "Clearly Now," the young MC shows a different side, telling the story of his absentee dad. "1995 I became a bastard/ My pappy, who knows I give a f---? Who knows I give a f---/ I turned 15 and met the one who had, but I was just too old to give a f---, too old to give a f---," he raps before giving props to his step-dad.

It's not all serious however. The Young Chop-produced "Wife Er" is a fun auto-tuned track ...

Twitter was practically groaning Saturday under the weight of a sea of protests from the likes of Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin last February. These tweets, scattered with hashtags like #nojustice and #RipTrayvonMartin, were just a small part of a massive social media-spun protest between the 17-year-old high school student's shooting and Zimmerman's "not guilty" verdict.

In February of 2012, Trayvon Martin was found shot and killed, George Zimmerman standing over his body holding a handgun. Martin was unarmed, wielding only a bottle of iced tea and a bag of Skittles. Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense and walked away from the scene. He was later arrested on April 11 and charged with second-degree murder in the shooting after months of protests.

Those protests, to a large degree, were created online — first with a petition posted to Change.org by Martin's family. That petition, made on March 8, saw support from the likes of Janelle Monae and MC Hammer, who both urged people to sign. The petition soon became the fastest-growing campaign in the site's history, netting 250,000 signatures in its first few days. It got 2,278,988 signatures total.

In the meantime, other social protests started to bubble, starting with A Million Hoodies, a campaign and march headed up by digital strategist Daniel Maree that also had ties to the Change.org petition.

"The big impetus for Million Hoodies for me was reading about the Trayvon Martin case and noticing that ...

Earlier this year, Carly Rae Jepsen threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Baltimore Orioles game ... and things went pretty well.

Perhaps emboldened by her (semi) strike, Jepsen returned to the mound in Tampa's Tropicana Field on Sunday, to toss out the first pitch before the Rays/Houston Astros game. And, let's just say she probably could have used a few more warm-up pitches.

Yes, in an effort that is already being called the "worst ever," Jepsen's throw barely managed to make it past the pitcher's mound, as the ball slipped out of her hand and went skidding towards a photographer snapping pics on the first base line (the wayward pitch actually smashed into his camera, proving that she does have some accuracy).

The throw — and Jepsen's embarrassed reaction — quickly got the .GIF treatment, became a viral sensation and even showed up on ESPN's "SportsCenter."

Meanwhile, Jepsen has taken it all in stride, posting photos of her receiving a consolatory hug from Rays' pitcher Matt Moore on her Instagram, and retweeting messages of mock congratulations from her family members.

So what went wrong? Well, MTV News reached out to some baseball experts in an effort to find out ... and surprisingly, some of them even responded, including former pro (and current ESPN MLB analyst) Aaron Boone, who recommended that Jepsen re-think her entire pitching routine.

"There's only one thing she can do and that's to improve, so she has that going for her," Boone wrote in an email to MTV News. ...

Just days after Cory Monteith's untimely death, former co-stars and friends continue to remember working with the late actor on his projects. Some of those memorable roles included his breakthrough stint on "Glee," his part in the big-screen escapade "Monte Carlo" alongside Selena Gomez and Leighton Meester, and one of his early starts on the small screen playing a rocker on the MTV series,

Before he belted out pop hits on Fox, he had a role in this other music-themed show, which aired on MTV for one season in 2007. On the music-industry drama, Monteith played Gunnar, the drummer in "it" girl Kaya's (played by Danielle Savre) band, as well as her on-again, off-again hookup. Adding to the ups and downs of that relationship, the series also touched on the tensions between Kaya and her bandmates (Justin Wilczynski and Joe MacLeod). The show follows her rising fame as the lead singer of their band.

Read How Monteith Left Behind An Incredible Legacy Of Helping Others.

Whereas "Glee" deals with the ups and downs of trying to get that big break while struggling with identity and relationships, "Kaya" focused on the drama of what happens once all your dreams of superstardom come true.

However, during the show's 10-episode run, "Kaya" had many of the same issues from "Glee," as the band attempted to hold it all together while handling major-label pressure.