March 17, 2025

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Justin Timberlake Explains Why He Squashed Beef With Kanye At VMAs

You're going to hear a lot more from Justin Timberlake over the next few months. In addition to the second part of his The 20/20 Experience double album, which has two just-revealed major features, JT will also be popping up on a long-rumored Nas track.

After picking up his Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award
 at Sunday's 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, Justin made the rounds of some New York radio stations on Tuesday to talk about his upcoming projects, as well as his face-to-face with Kanye West at the VMAs, during which they settled their mini-beef from earlier this year.

Speaking to MTV News' Sway Calloway on his Shade 45 show on Tuesday, Timberlake revealed that he had an hour-long sit down with West to air out their differences, and probe a possible collaboration.

The very first item on the agenda was discussing Yeezy's dis of "Suit & Tie" earlier this year ("Man I got love for Hov, but I ain't f---ing with that 'Suit & Tie.'"). As you might recall, Justin swiped back during his "Saturday Night Live" appearance a short time later ("My hit's so sick got rappers acting dramatic.")

"It doesn't matter," Timberlake said of the months-old flap. "It was one of them things where I love it, in a way, because at the end of the day it's just music," he said. "I love the record, I love 'Suit & Tie.' It reminds me of the music I grew up listening to. I respect his opinion because I think he's a genius. But I don't ...

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What Happened When Macklemore Met Kanye Backstage At The VMAs?

There was so much happening at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards — both onstage and behind the scenes — that sometimes, it takes a few days for the subtler moments to rise to the surface. Hey, it wasn't all twerking Teddy bears.

Case in point, this genuinely sweet interaction between multiple-VMA winners Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and the mercurial Kanye West, which occurred backstage following West's performance of . It's just a quick conversation between artists, but it shows that, no matter how big Mack & Lewis have gotten, they're still fans, first and foremost.

"Thank you for raising the bar as an artist, appreciate it" Macklemore tells Kanye.

He then praised his performance, saying "You killed that sh--."

And despite what you might think about Kanye, he was incredibly gracious, thanking Macklemore for his words, shaking hands with Lewis, and embracing who gives 'Ye a kiss on the cheek.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis would win three Moonmen at Sunday's show, and performed their equality anthem on the VMA stage with an assist from special guest Jennifer Hudson onstage. Kanye, on the other hand, basically breezed in and out of Barclays, doing a somber version of "Blood," then spending a few minutes in the artist VIP area before departing. But based on this quick interaction with Macklemore, he also found time to make some dreams come true.

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Could ‘Gravity’ Be The Year’s Best Movie?

With the Venice Film Festival kicking off and Telluride, Toronto, and New York starting soon, the festival circuit has officially begun, and already a film as emerged with potential to be the year's best.

Critics reporting from Venice have given Alfonso Cuarón's space thriller, "

"Gravity" took Cuarón four years to complete, mostly because he needed to develop filmmaking technologies in order to capture believable spacewalk performances from his stars, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, and it appears to have been worth the effort, based on what the early reviews are saying.

Todd McCarthy opens his review for The Hollywood Reporter by saying, "At once the most realistic and beautifully choreographed film ever set in space, 'Gravity' is a thrillingly realized survival story spiked with interludes of breath-catching tension and startling surprise."

The tech on display also Justin Chang of Variety stunned with its complexity, but he also wondered why a movie with such palpable tension and such a straightforward story wasn't made earlier, by someone else. "It falls among that increasingly rare breed of popular entertainments capable of prompting genuine 'How did they do that?' reactions from even the most jaded viewers, even as its central premise is so simple and immediately gripping that one might just as readily ask, 'Why didn't anyone do it sooner?'" he wrote.

Of course, none of this would mean anything without a strong human element, in this case Bullock, who spends most of the film by herself. McCarthy gave high compliments to both her and her main co-star. "Clooney supplies both manly reliability ...

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What Did Justin Think Of Miley’s VMA Performance? JT Speaks Out

Justin Timberlake didn't just show up at Sunday's 2013 MTV Video Music Awards to pick up his Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award
 and shut down the Internet by reuniting with 'NSYNC
. No, he was also there to watch the other performers, including, of course, Miley Cyrus.

While Miley's twerk-a-thon
 has gotten lots of attention and spurred plenty of discussion
, Timberlake said he was not one of the slack-jawed celebs in the crowd who were caught on camera reacting to the spectacle. No, he was backstage getting ready to perform when it went down and when he visited Angie Martinez's radio show on Tuesday, JT seemed unaware of the controversy.

"Is everybody giving her a hard time about it?" he said with a smile. "I don't look at Miley that way, because I think the first time I met her she was Hannah Montana ... My thoughts on it are, it's the VMAs. It's not the Grammys. We're talking about Madonna in a wedding dress humping the stage. We're talking about Britney doing a striptease. This cycle is not uncommon."

Timberlake said Cyrus deserves a break because she's young and because the song ["We Can't Stop"] is "jamming." Plus, "I like all the bears," he said. "To me, it's almost if something like that doesn't happen at the VMAs it's boring ... something happens every year."

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Katy Perry ‘Lets the Light In’ On <i>Prism</i>

Katy Perry fans might have to wait close to two months to hear Prism, but in the meantime, she wanted to make one thing clear to her Katy Cats: this album will not take a darker turn.

Last year, Perry told L'Uomo Vogue that album would be "much darker" since she was pulling inspiration from everything she went through, seemingly referring to her divorce from Russell Brand.

However, when she recently sat down with MTV News she admitted she's now seeing things differently.

"There's not really any darkness on the record," Perry told MTV News of her upcoming third album. "There's definitely some textures and colors but I think I was saying that when I saw going through a different phase, but I really let that light in."

And because she was able to turn that darkness into light, Perry decided to appropriately title the album, Prism.

"The reason why I called this record Prism is because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself," Perry said. "I felt very prismatic because of that I feel like now I get to show these songs off and share these songs with the listeners and it's almost like I get to beam the colors that I've experienced out from me."

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Who Had Rachel McAdams Crying All Day?

"About Time" is the kind of movie you're supposed to bring tissues to. With time traveling, real human flaws, a wedding, a few births and an inevitable death, there's no holding back tears.

The film follows Tim (Domhnall Gleeson), a man who learns he can time-travel and uses it to find his soulmate Mary, played by Rachel McAdams. But he learns that his power can't be used to change everything, including what leads up to the movie's most emotional scene.

Spoilers Ahead

And as the gloomy cancer diagnosis of Tim's dad (Bill Nighy) leaves most in the theater with dripping mascara eyes, it wasn't too much different for McAdams, who had to give Nighy a figurative last goodbye on set.

"Bill Nighy, he just makes my heart swell," Rachel told MTV News for our Fall Movie Preview. "There's this scene where I had to, you know he's sick, and I had to give him a hug and it's kind of like maybe the last time we see him. I was crying that whole day. I could not stop every time I went to hug him.

"And then he'd have to remind me like 'I'm not actually dying,' " she continued. "I was like, 'I know, but it's just so sad.' "

That realness comes from director and writer Richard Curtis ("Love Actually"), who, according to McAdams, writes moments so relatable that it's life-changing.

"You come out of his movies and you want to call your mom and tell her you love her," she said. "I think he's a master at making people feel and making ...

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What Is ‘NSYNC Doing After VMAs?

If you haven't already seen the epic 'NSYNC reunion that went down on Sunday night at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, we just have two words for you: Watch it. For those wanting more, we have it. Watch what our cameras caught backstage as the guys t... ...

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A$AP Rocky Weighs In On Those Rihanna ‘Video’ Photos

BROOKLYN, New York — Remember that music video that A$AP Rocky and Rihanna were spotted filming in New York just a few weeks ago? Well, they weren't filming a video at all — if you're willing to take Rocky's word for it. "Nah, we weren't filming no video, we were just chillin,' " Lord Flacko told MTV News of the August 15 photos, despite the presence of cameras, lighting equipment and plenty of extras on what appears to be a video set.

In one pic, Rocky wears a backward snapback and a black varsity jacket, while Rihanna appears in two different outfits, one of which is a pretty fancy zebra-print gown. The pair look quite cozy on the streets of New York City. But if they weren't snapped together for professional reasons, could the paps have caught them getting close offscreen? Again, when we spoke to him on the Video Music Awards red carpet, Rocky denied rumors of any romance, saying, "People crazy. You know people say a lot." A$AP has been dating supermodel Chanel Iman — the couple even rode the subway home from Sunday's VMAs in Brooklyn — yet even that hasn't stopped the speculation. At last year's VMAs, Rocky joined Rihanna at last year's VMAs, where he made headlines for squeezing her rear at the end of the opening set. The Harlem rapper then joined Rih on her Diamonds Tour.

"She has a lot of style, and I think that's what she saw in me and what she liked, because she saw that I ...

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TLC Rally Behind J. Cole: ‘He Deserves To Be #1’

As soon as TLC saw an early glimpse J.Cole's "Crooked Smile," they knew they wanted to work with the chart-topping MC.

The feel-good message of theBorn Sinner track fits right in line with the message the girl group has been spreading for two-plus decades.

"He called for us. It just made sense it has the kind of message that we stand for," Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins told MTV News at the VMAs Sunday night. "He's an amazing artist. I actually have a newfound respect for him. I didn't know he was so deep lyrically, [and as a] producer. So he's a really great artist and he deserves to be #1 like he is."

A video for "Crooked Smile" is being shot this Thursday, but the ladies remained tight-lipped about what fans are going to see in the visual. The J.Cole collaboration comes hot on the heels on TLC's resurgence— they've appeared at various music festivals and will be the subject of an upcoming VH1 biopic, But, T-Boz warns that this isn't a reunion.

"We never broke up, but we came back out 'cause we've always been together," she explained, noting that Lil Mama (who has performed with them and will be in the biopic) will be the first of many people to fill in for Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, who died in tragic accident in 2002. "We'll have different guest appearance paying homage to Lisa."

Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas added, "The reaction has been so amazing. It just makes us feel really good and happy about that too."

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