Nipsey Hussle hit a big payday after he decided to sell his Crenshaw CD for $100, but don't expect the Los Angeles MC to pull the same move when he drops his official debut album Victory Lap.

"I can't say off top, I know I'm gonna continue to pay attention to the game and I'm not gonna follow what was done," Nip told MTV News on Wednesday, suggesting that he won't be following any traditional release plans. "I feel like the major labels — I'm not gonna say all of them, but as a whole — that business model is a failing and dying business model."

With Victory Lap, Nipsey does promise to keep things creative, even if it's not the same $100 idea that he employed for Crenshaw. On Tuesday, Hussle set up a pop-up shop in his native-L.A. and sold physical copies of his latest project for $100 each, he also sold them to fans on his ownIamProud2Pay.com.

For Nipsey it was less about the money and more about the statement that he was making for his own musical independence. "It ISN'T the price of the plastic case and polyurethane disc...it's the price of Revolution! The price of Rebellion against an industry that has tricked us all into making products that have no soul for fear of not being heard if we don't," Nipsey said in a statement issued to RapRadar.com.

Hussle first began to make a name for himself with the release of his 2008 mixtape Bullets Ain't Got No Name Vol.1. He was later signed to ...

Last month, Britney Spears caught everyone's attention with the feisty including her songwriter/producer, Sean Garrett. He was so impressed that he's begging Britney's executive producer will.i.am to let him in on her December 3 album release.

"I definitely got my eyes set on it. will.i.am, wow I mean, I'm a big fan of will.i.am as well. But this first single, man, that 'Work Bitch' is crazy. will, you got to let me in on this, G," Garrett pleaded when he stopped by the MTV News offices earlier this week. "I just got a call from will's camp, so it looks good. You know what I'm saying? I just got to turn up, turn up one of them magical things."

He continued, "I mean she just completely shut it down with this first single. I think she just took the world by storm with this first single, see. I'm not one of those producers or songwriters who hate. When it's right man, it's right and I ain't even trying. I ain't messing with the cake."

Despite showing love to "Work Bitch," he does really want the chance to show the world what he can "turn up" for the singer. Before working on Miley Cyrus' "SMS" with Spears, he also produced her Blackout track "Toy Soldier" and worked with her on 2009's Circus.

"I got to go in my bag and pull out one of those monster records, which is gonna happen," he said, adding, "When it's right at that point, I'm just like, 'Yo, respect. Let me ...

Afrojack didn't just release a new track on Friday (October 11); as the first track off his debut album, "The Spark" marks the beginning a new chapter for the Dutch DJ.

It's been two years since his last official song release, and despite being hard at work the whole time, Afrojack wanted to keep his fans hungry until the right moment. And now he's finally giving them a taste of what he has in store.

"I want to party, I want to have a good fun time; I want to have a party that everyone can dance to. I want the party that my fans love," he told MTV News of his goals on the new track. "It's right between EDM and pop."

The album will include many features, most surprisingly a collaboration with Sting and an acoustic guitar.

"It's my album. It's Afrojack music," he said. "It's not me producing songs for other people; it's me producing what I think is cool at this time, what I like, my own favorite styles of music."

It's been a historic week for the Dutch DJ. Last weekend he became the second DJ ever to leave his handprints on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and became the first to ring the NASDAQ bell in Times Square. And he has a feeling these historic occasions are only the beginning for him as an artist, and for electronic music as a genre — that is, if they continue making quality music.

"You still have the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and now you see some rappers getting close ...

It's safe to say that one of the most talked-about people of this year is Miley Cyrus.

The pop star just released her fourth album, Bangerz,which is slated to sell 250,000 copies in its first week, giving her the #1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. It'll outsell her last album, Can't Be Tamed, almost doubling its first-week sales.

However, it hasn't all been about the music this year for the "Miley: The Movement" star. She's shocked and wowed us with her revealing interviews, wacky dancing and her quirky style. With every headline, she's created a lasting conversation among critics and fans, which is why MTV News has rounded up six things that Miley made mainstream in the past months.

Twerk It Out

Twerking has been around for more than 20 years — and has even been referenced in Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" and Beyoncé's "Check on It" — but it wasn't until Miley threw on a onesie and posted a video of herself twerking to J. Dash's "Wop" back in March that the booty-shaking moves started flooding pop culture.

That video was just a warm-up for what was in store, Miley then went on to show off her twerk skills at a Juicy J concert. She worked it out in the "We Can't Stop" video and, of course, she twerked up on Robin Thicke during the 2013 Video Music Awards. As a result of the dance move becoming such a phenomenon this year, the term "twerk" was added to the latest edition of Oxford Dictionaries Online.

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When the Jonas Brothers abruptly canceled their tour earlier this week, fans were were crushed. Though, ultimately, it may be the Brothers themselves who get squeezed.

That's because the reason their rep gave for canceling the 19-date trek — — probably wasn't covered under the insurance policy they took out on the tour, meaning that the Jonas Brothers may be on the hook for millions of dollars, as promoters and vendors look to recoup the money they've laid out in advance of the shows.

"It really depends on how their [insurance] policy is tailored, but generally speaking, there are cancellation policies that cover things beyond their control," Carol Thornhill, executive vice president at insurance broker Robertson Taylor, told MTV News. "If they canceled because they had a rift within the band, that's something that's not insurable, because that's within their control. ... There is no insurance that is going to respond to something that is within their control."

Since the 1970s — Robertson and Taylor were early pioneers in entertainment insurance, and have written policies for artists like Paul McCartney and Elton John — artists and promoters have been taking out insurance on their tours, offering them financial protection for everything from general liability and worker's compensation to "kidnap and ransom." There are also cancellation policies, which, as Thornhill explained, cover everything from natural disasters to venues losing power, and allow artists and promoters "not to profit from cancelations, but put them back where they were."

"If an artist had, say, $2 million of cost and expenses on ...

"Alan Rickman has hit theaters. And though Rickman disappears into his linchpin role as club founder Hilly Kristal, as MTV News' Josh Horowitz found out, Rickman had no idea what the punk mecca was until filming.

"I, of course, as a student in London in the 1970s had never heard of CBGB's," Rickman told Horowitz. "I knew nothing about it, so I'm on big catch-up about the whole thing... But by the time we started shooting, I felt like it had been part of my life forever."

It probably didn't help that they filmed in Savannah, Georgia, rather than the landmark's home in New York City.

"Most days it was 95 degrees," continued Rickman. "That's when I wasn't thankful for flannel shirts, and a wig on my head. But that's American filmmaking. It's a city that's wise enough to give you tax breaks, so you go there and guess what! It looks like New York. You have these beautiful eighteenth century squares in Savannah, and yet, lo and behold, there's some crappy backyard two minutes away."

Interestingly, Rickman was actually in New York during the club's second renaissance. After defining the Punk and New Wave scene in the 1970s — despite the letters in CBGB standing for "Country, Bluegrass, and Blues" — CBGB became the home of the hardcore punk scene throughout the 1980s. Rickman, though, was a little too busy with theater gigs to check out The Misfits.

"The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week," noted Rickman. ...