There’s nothing easy about G-Eazy.

Standing at 6’5″, with an all-black-everything wardrobe inspired by Johnny Cash, slicked-back hair and chiseled cheekbones, this self-proclaimed “Lady Killer” may not look he could spit out some pretty fierce lyrics. But after gaining some serious buzz over the years, The Berkeley-bred rapper — who cites Drake, Kanye and Lil Wayne as his influences — is “taking over” with his just-released debut, These Things Happen.

“It’s the story of me, every angle, every side I think that’s what a real debut album should tell is who is this artist and what do they have to say?” G-Eazy told MTV News at the Firefly Music Festival. “So it has the, ‘I’m drunk out of my mind celebrating this roller coaster I’m on right now,’ and then it’s got introspective, reflecting on all the crazy stuff that’s going down and everything in between. From the ordinary, relatable, vulnerable, to the invincible, cool guy, slicked-back hair in a leather jacket.”

Billboard is predicting that his album, which had him teaming up with A$AP Ferg and his hometown hero E-40, could sell 40,000 copies in its first week, which gives him a top 10 debut, and brings him one step closer to his goal: “ultimate world domination.”

“This is a culmination of years of paying dues and working hard and just building towards this,” he said. “Now we party and we rage and we turn up, you feel me? And enjoy the moment.”

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Demi Lovato promised her video for “Really Don’t Care” would be a “celebration” and she wasn’t kidding.

The singer brought her pop-power anthem to life by taking over Los Angeles’ Gay Pride Parade on June 8 to sing with the crowd, party with her friends and brush off all those haters.

The video opens with Demi telling the crowd that a protester at the parade “has a burn in hell poster’ and that “you don’t have to hate because my Jesus loves all.”

The pop star, dressed in leather with rainbow hair, then opens with her song as she marches down the parade on a float as LGBT supporters surround her dancing, celebrating and proudly belting out the lyrics.

But the thousands in the crowd weren’t the only ones stealing scenes. Demi promised MTV News to watch out for a special guest, but in fact there were several. Taking a page out of her lyric video, Demi’s famous friends, including Perez Hilton, “Vampire Diaries” star Kat Graham, her rumored boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama, all sang and posed for the camera. Cher Lloyd also made an appearance as well, spitting out her sassy verse on the song.

Yet, that “badass” moment that Demi was teasing us about had to be when she enlisted Blink 182′s Travis Barker to bring his drumming skills to the song. Demi belts out the end of the song, surrounded by fans, friends and supporters of her strong message.

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One Direction’s Niall Horan is in “a lot of pain” after an object struck him in the knee during a concert in Amsterdam.

Niall was caught on camera by a fan during the Where We Are Tour stop on Thursday hobbling across the stage clearly favoring his knee, on which he had surgery back in January.

Shortly after the show, Niall took to Twitter to thank the Amsterdam crowd for their support, but to kindly ask them to stop throwing things onstage.

The hashtag #feelbetterniall trended on Twitter, with more photos going around of the incident. It appears that a shoe struck Niall, ripping his pants, and causing his knee to bleed. Ouch!

But Niall wasn’t the only one struck by flying objects, Harry also caught a pretty hard shot to the face, but shook it off and kept on singing.

Christina Garibaldi

Christina Garibaldi has been an on-camera reporter for MTV News since 2011. When not interviewing or writing about her favorite stars, she keeps herself busy with baby animal videos and boy bands. Talk to her on Twitter @ChristinaMTV

Today is the day you’ve been waiting for Lovatics, because Demi Lovato is just few hours away from world premiering her brand new video, “Really Don’t Care.”

Today at 5 p.m. ET. on MTV, MTV Hits, and LOGO, we will see Demi take over Los Angeles’ Gay Pride Parade, celebrating with the crowd and sending a clear message to all the haters with her powerful pop-anthem.

“When we performed that at pride there were protesters that were saying that being gay was a sin and stuff like that,” Demi, who was the Grand Marshall, told MTV News of what it was like shooting at the parade on June 8. “And it felt amazing to sing with other people in their faces and sing “I really don’t care.”

Demi has been teasing us over the past few days with clips from the video, but she’s not done yet, telling us to keep on the lookout for a special cameo.

“I have a special guest at the end of the video and its just such a badass moment that I’m so excited for my fans to see,” Demi said, telling us that it is not a fellow singer. “It’s just so cool.”

“Really Don’t Care” is the fourth single off her album Demi. At the time of it’s release, the pop star considered this to be a song about a break-up, but after thinking more about the song she wanted it to have “a deeper message” since she stands for much more than ...

For those of you lucky enough to catch Nick Jonas onstage singing with Demi Lovato during her Neon Lights tour then you know that these two have some serious chemistry…musically speaking.

So much chemistry, in fact, that the two might have a side project up their sleeves.

“I did write an amazing song with Nick Jonas and we want to do something with that, but we are not quite sure, so maybe we can do a side project together,” Demi told MTV News this week. “We may or may not have picked out the band name already.”

While she wouldn’t give up the band name, she did continue when asked if we could expect a duet album, “I know he’s working on his new album too, so it might not be for awhile, but the two of us… I’m always writing songs and he’s always writing songs.”

Nick served as creative director to Demi’s Neon Lights Tour, and while she’s in the early stages of planning her Demi: The World Tour, she knows her former “Camp Rock” co-star will somehow be involved.

“I actually haven’t started the process, so possibly,” Demi said of working with Nick on tour. ” I know he’s busy doing a TV show now, but he’s gonna be involved somehow whether that’s performances or not. Inevitably we end up on the same team, musically. It just always happens.”

Demi Lovato’s “Really Dont’ Care” video premieres Thursday, June 26 on MTV, MTV Hits, and LOGO ...