March 16, 2025

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Wiz And Amber Rose’s Wedding: Twerking, Taylors And Juicy J!

Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose were supposed to have their wedding ceremony this fall, but the lovebirds just couldn't wait and celebrated their nuptials on Sunday in Pennsylvania.

The buzz began on Saturday night after Rose posted a video of her shaking her tail feather in a white dress onto her Instagram. "Only bad bitches twerk the night before their wedding," she captioned the joy-filled clip.

Wiz stayed off of his social networking accounts, but his Taylor Gang members were all too excited about the big day. Juicy J, who performed at the wedding posted a pic of him, Wiz and Taylor Gang executive Will Dzombak onto his Instagram with the caption "Ready for the wedding." Khalifa, who stood holding a joint while smoke rolled off of his lips, wore an aubergine-colored tuxedo jacket, while Juice and Dzombak both wore black.

Rostrum Records Vice President Arthur Pitt sent his well wishes to the couple, while TGOD rapper Chevy Woods toasted to the musicians who kept the party going. "@GQ412 and @DJBonics held the wedding down with the music and @therealjuicyj performed at the wedding .... Dope," he wrote on Twitter.

The couple officially wed on July 8 in a Los Angeles courthouse. "Me and Amber got married today. Weddings this fall. Thought I'd let yall know," he tweeted after they tied the knot last month.

The couple appeared on back in 2011 and spoke to show host Sway Calloway about their very public relationship. About a year after that interview, Khalifa popped ...

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‘Breaking Bad’ Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed From Last Night’s Episode

This week's "Breaking Bad" essentially divided the majority of the cast into sides. Hank is trying to draft as many as he can in his battle against Walter, but he doesn't count on Mrs. Heisenberg choosing to stand by her husband. Jesse remains the wild card, and that may ultimately be a big mystery for the season.

But before we look ahead, there were a number of sly, clever references to past episodes of "Breaking Bad" and pop culture in general hidden in this week's episode, so let's take a look at the Easter eggs you might have missed from "Buried."

Scrooge McDuck
Walter's big move after Hank confronts him is to hide the money in the storage locker, the mountain of cash that was too large for even Skylar to launder. That money was the point of all of this, remember? (Oh, well, and building an empire.) So Saul sends Huell and Kuby to retrieve it, and they do exactly what anyone would do. They lie on top of it. But before Kuby decides to play along he chastises Huell, saying "We are here to do a job, not channel Scrooge McDuck," of course a reference to Disney's greediest cartoon character. It might also be worth noting that Scrooge was an uncle to three ducklings named Huey, Dewey, and Louie, so start factoring in the Huell-Huey connection into your "Breaking Bad" conspiracy theories.

The Cook Site
Once Walter has his precious fortune back in his possession, it met its destiny of disappearing into one of Heisenberg's dreaded barrels, but its fate might not be ...

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Raz-B Out Of A Coma

It was a scary weekend for Raz-B, but now the former B2K singer is in stable condition he was reportedly on life support and in a coma in a hospital in China. Sources close to the singer say that Raz is now breathing on his own, awake and responsive ... ...

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Troy Ave Crowns Brooklyn The Best Place On Earth

If you ask Troy Ave, there's no place in the world like Brooklyn. So what better home for the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards than BK?

Before MTV takes the big show to the Barclays Center on Sunday, August 25, we hit the streets of Brooklyn to soak up some culture from the borough's emerging hip-hop talent. Every day, beginning Monday (August 19), we'll spotlight a brand-new artist for our Brooklyn Hip-Hop Week.

Troy Ave reigns from the Crown Heights section of BK and has made a name for himself with his street-driven and witty raps. His Bricks in my Backpack trilogy of tapes have been critically acclaimed and helped him get respect from veteran MCs like Fabolous and Pusha T. Later this year, he plans to drop New York City: The Album, an ode to the Big Apple, with a special emphasis on BK.

"The borough of Brooklyn is unique," he said. "I've been a lot of places and to me; it's the best place on earth."

Where I'm From
"Crown Heights is just like a mixed neighborhood, you got Jewish people and you got black people and they're both ghetto. The Jewish people ghetto, the black people ghetto and they all fuse into the same neighborhood."

The Brooklyn Influencers
"My influences from Brooklyn would have to be Biggie of course, he was the first rapper that I could identify with... and then Jay Z came through, he had Streets is Watching and that was just like crazy... and then Fab just came through — he was the young Brooklyn cat. So I identify ...

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Lady Gaga’s ‘Applause’ Video … Watch It Here!

Lady Gaga took over Times Square on Monday (August 19) morning to premiere her much-anticipated video on "Good Morning America," and, in the process, presumably freak out a large portion of folks watching at home.

Oh, and as if all that wasn't enough, she also announced she'll be opening the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards with her first live performance of the song.

But back to the "Applause" video, which most certainly wasn't your standard breakfast-hour fare: Gaga cavorts in various states of undress, sprawls out on a mattress (an ode, she explained, to the months she spent recovering from her hip surgery), prances, preens, sprouts wings, sports about a dozen different outfits and, at various points throughout, transforms herself into various mythical creatures. It is obtuse, odd, and most certainly does not go well with oatmeal.

But that's precisely the point. Gaga has always been about provocation — she wants you to think, act, dance, etc — and here, she's stripping herself bare, pulling the curtain back on her creative process, showing the viewer how she's willing to do anything to please the public ... even if that means shapeshifting into a swan. She is the object of our curiosities and our fantasies, something we want to put on a shelf and admire, yet rarely do we think about everything that goes into, well, everything she does.

To that end, "Applause" is her call to consider the creator; repeat viewings also reveal several nods to the art world, both classic (Botticelli) and contemporary (Koons), and she seems ...

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‘The Butler’ Beats Up ‘Kick-Ass 2’ At Box Office

Despite the massive popularity of movies like and "The Avengers," box-office observers predicted that comic-book based sequel would be roundly beaten by a historical drama over the weekend. They were right.

topped the box office over the weekend with a $25 million debut. Starring Forest Whitaker as a character based on a butler who worked in the White House for 34 years, "The Butler" was the last film produced by the late Laura Ziskin, whose producer and executive producer credits included four "Spider-Man" films and "Pretty Woman."

"Kick-Ass 2" floundered in the #4 spot with just $13.5 million, behind both "We're the Millers" and "Elysium" from the week before. Liam Hemsworth's corporate espionage thriller "Paranoia" and Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs biopic, "Jobs," both bombed. Neither movie debuted in the top five, despite the considerable respective fanbases for the two stars.

"Lee Daniels' The Butler" was the only one of the weekend's four widely released new films to receive mostly positive reviews from film critics. The film's success owed a lot to Oprah Winfrey, who put a great deal of time and effort into promoting her first scripted/live-action film role in more than a decade. "Kick-Ass 2" failed to receive the enthusiastic critical reception of its predecessor, amassing just 28 percent positive reviews, according to Rotten Tomatoes. "Jobs" fared even worse, with 25 percent on the Tomatometer, while "Paranoia" was one of the worst reviewed films of the year, sitting at just 4 percent.

"The Butler" was produced for just $30 million and has been called the ...

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Lindsay Lohan’s ‘Oprah’ Interview: 6 Things We Learned

When Lindsay Lohan sat down with Oprah Winfrey Sunday during an episode of the recently rehabbed 27-year-old addressed everything from her dalliances with drugsto her relationship with her family.

The interview served as the latest stop on Lohan's comeback tour, as well as the table-setter for her forthcoming OWN network docu-series, set to air on the network in 2014. MTV News has rounded up the six things we learned about Lohan from the interview.

Coming Clean Lohan confided to Oprah that she's addicted to alcohol, but has tried other drugs including Adderall, Ambien and cocaine. "Yeah, [I'm an addict]. Alcohol, that in the past, was a gateway to other things," she said, "I really haven't done [cocaine] more than 10 or 15 times. I've done it like 10 or 15 times. No, it never felt good the next day. It was a party thing. I snorted it. I never injected anything other than get B12 shots. It went hand in hand with drinking."

Her Parents Aren't To Blame Lohan said she never felt like her parents took advantage of her or her fame. And she takes complete responsibility for her mistakes. "I hate what a bad rap people give my parents, because they're just parents, really, at the end of the day," she said. "I don't blame anyone for my mistakes."

But at another point during the interview, she did note "I grew up in a very chaotic home. Unfortunately I waited too long to face it, I think, so it was a comfortable chaos for me."

I ...

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Getting To Know Priyanka Chopra: The Next Pop Superstar?

With over 40 films under her belt, Priyanka Chopra is known the world over as one of Bollywood's highest paid actresses. But America is just now getting acquainted with the former Miss World as she embarks on her new career of pop star.

The Interscope signee has been taken under the wing of the legendary Jimmy Iovine, Lady Gaga's manager Troy Carter and her producer RedOne. She made a splash in the music industry last summer with her debut single "In My City" featuring will.i.am, which was selected as the theme song for Thursday Night Football. Her new track "Exotic" with Pitbull is making even more noise, garnering more than 10 million hits on YouTube in less than a month and landing in the Billboard Dance charts.

She's a humanitarian, a green activist and there's still more to know about Priyanka Chopra. She paid her first visit to MTV News, and we learned a few fun facts about the Indian beauty.

Looking Good Isn't Always Easy
You might think being the "Indian Angelina Jolie" is a piece of cake but even Chopra has a tough time looking good all the time. Despite showing off her svelte bod in "Exotic," Chopra reveals the hardest part of shooting the video was "to be in the water for six hours and not look like a prune." The comforting discovery proves she, too, is human.

Transitions Can Be Challenging
At her most vulnerable, Chopra calls her transition into the music industry "hard." "I guess I didn't realize how different both the professions were," she candidly reveals. ...

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Macklemore Wants To Win VMA For The ‘Grandkids’

There are those who boast about their Moonmen, there are those who stay modest — and then there's Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who just want a story to tell the grandchildren.

The duo is up for six awards at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, going head-to-head with Justin Timberlake, who has the same number of nominations. "Thrift Shop" is up for Video of the Year, and "Can't Hold Us" landed nods for Best Hip Hop Video, Best Cinematography, Best Direction and Best Editing. The equality anthem "Same Love" may take home the award for Best Video with a Social Message.

"I would love to win Video of the Year," Macklemore said behind the scenes of their VMA promo. "And 'Same Love' next."

" 'Same Love' I feel like I want to win as a song," Ryan Lewis said. "It's the most meaningful. It's the most important."

No matter how special the song feels to Lewis, he still thinks the "Can't Hold Us" video deserves the ultimate award. "Looking back at those three videos — I mean, 'Can't Hold Us' took three and half months to do — I'd love to get an award for that one."

For Macklemore, he's looking to make his possible VMA win legendary.

"But Video of the Year, uunh, uuunh," Mack grunted, slapping his knee. "Get the grandkids. C'mon! Sit down, Johann. Let me tell ya somethin'."

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Lady Gaga’s ‘Applause’ Video: What We Know So Far

Little Monsters finally get to see Lady Gaga's video for Monday (August 19). While little is known, the Mother Monster is famous for her eye-popping visuals like the colorfully epic "Telephone" and the spacey "Born This Way."

With fans watching the guerrilla-style lyric video on repeat before the video's official premiere, we've rounded up what we know so far about the "Applause" video. The partially hand-painted film will premiere on "Good Morning America" six days before she'll perform it live at the VMAs on August 25.

It's Dedicated To Little Monsters
"Applause" producer, DJ White Shadow, has been with Gaga every step of the way, and says that this ARTPOP project is dedicated to her legion of devotees. "She has a complete and total adoration for her fans," he told MTV News. "I've never seen anyone in my entire life work as hard or do as much for her fans. It's a back-and-forth thing. She does so much for them that they naturally want to do stuff for her. The reason why those kids are so into Lady Gaga is because Lady Gaga is so into them."

She's Reuniting With Familiar Faces
Gaga worked with directing duo Inez & Vinoodh on the clip. But this hardly marks her first collaboration with the pair. They recently photographed her V magazine photo shoot, along with several other magazine covers and the fashion videos for "You and I." "She's a very special human being that is all about giving," Inez told us in 2011.

Gaga Had The Final Say
Inez & Vinoodh didn't ...

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