On any other night, when you see Usher and Blake Shelton sitting side-by-side the pair are exchanging friendly digs and teasing one another on "The Voice."

But on Wednesday night they joined a roster of country greats to raise money for the victims of the May 20 tornado
 that took the lives of 24 people in Oklahoma during the 
 telethon organized by Shelton.

The show opened with ominous images of the F5 twister that all-but flattened the city of Moore and Shelton's performance of "God Gave Me You," which featured the lines, "But you stayed here beside me/Watch as the storm blows through/And I need you." Shelton, a native of Ada, Oklahoma, organized the one-hour concert benefiting the United Way of Central Oklahoma at the sold-out 14,000-capacity Chesapeake Energy Arena. The special aired on NBC, as well as CMT, Style, G4, Bravo, E! and Palladia.

"I'm here tonight with some of my closest friends from Oklahoma and beyond to join in and help with the rebuilding and recovery of this land that means so much to me," he said.

One of the night's highlights was an emotional performance of "The House That Built Me" by Shelton's wife, Miranda Lambert. The country star, whose mission was to raise awareness about the animals affected by the storm, was so overcome with emotion midway through that she began crying, prompting the audience to sing for her as she regained her composure.

Shelton and Usher capped the night of touching tributes with a duet on Michael Bublé's "Home," which featured Shelton strumming an acoustic ...

Cornrows, massive gold rings and funky Elton John-inspired sunglasses define Ke$ha's eye-popping couture in her just-released .

If you're wondering who may have inspired the pop star's latest look, well, she isn't denying that onetime star Riff Raff may have been in her subconscious when she was styling the visual.

"Well I love Riff Raff. I love that reference," she told MTV News on Tuesday night during in response to comments that she resembles the former MTV star and rapper in the video.

She continued, "I just kind of have been braiding my hair a lot recently. I like kind of looking like a gangster. The hair, it took four hours to get it braided and I had to sleep in a do-rag. And, I'm just really proud of that hair."

So with Ke$ha's style inspiration (mostly) explained, the Warrior singer then went on to recall the birthday party that motivated her to write the track with will.i.am, who appears in the video as a hologram.

"That particular birthday was really bad... and fun. But at the end of the night, I was having so much fun, at like 7 a.m.; I was literally jumping by myself on a mini trampoline going 'I'm having so much fun.' And then, for my birthday party, I got a tattoo artist, so everybody [who] came could get a tattoo to remember the night," she recalled. "And so I couldn't figure out what to get so I just got 'fun' tattooed on my foot. So now I have a tattoo to ...

While Kelly Rowland dropped some pretty shocking revelations about Beyoncé and an abusive relationship on "

Speaking with Washington radio station 93.9 WKYS, the recently announced said that Bey and Michelle Williams' response to The-Dream-penned collaboration was endearing, with Bey telling Rowland that she "never left" her side.

"She heard how real I was and was like 'I'm so proud of you,' " Kelly explained.

Even though "Dirty Laundry" tells listeners of the story of Kelly's envy with Beyoncé's solo success, Rowland has come far past that point, explaining, "What matters to me most right now is what we have. I love her and Michelle more than anything. They mean the world to me. I'm so grateful for what we have as sister away from Destiny's Child."

All the love and sisterhood can be heard on Kelly's latest song "You've Changed," which features none other than Beyoncé and Michelle. With a sound that mimics some of the slow jams right off 2004's Destiny Fulfilled, the ladies reunite once again to shed the pain caused by relationships gone sour. It's the latest track to surface from her new album Talk a Good Game, which is scheduled to drop June 18.

Until then, Rowland is staying busy on tour and at the "X Factor" judging panel alongside Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato and Paulina Rubio. Due to her judging duties, the singer had to adjust some tour dates for her "Lights Out" co-headlining trek with The-Dream. Rowland and the mega-producer are scheduled for shows in New York City, Philadelphia and Mashantucket, ...

In hip-hop culture, there are certain works of art that shape the way a generation views the world. Mostly, they come in the form of albums like the Notorious B.I.G's 1994 debut Ready to Die or Young Jeezy's 2005 classic Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101. As far as films go, offered the same type of unfiltered look into street life when it was released on May 26, 1993.

For some, it was a most-accurate depiction of a too-harsh reality, and for others, it was a gruesome eye-opener to the violence-ridden streets of South Central Los Angeles. " 'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film," said actor Larenz Tate when he skyped into "RapFix Live" on Wednesday (May 29). "It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre."

Tate played O-Dog, a trigger-happy youth who murders two Korean shopkeepers in the opening moments of the film. On his side was actor Tyrin Turner, who played Caine, a troubled youngster with a conscious. In the final tear-jerking moments of the film, Caine is killed in a drive-by shooting, just as he is getting set to leave South Central and start his life on the straight and narrow.

"I thought it was just gonna be another film," Turner admitted while he sat on the "RapFix Live" couch.

"Menace II Society" was anything but. While "Boyz n the Hood" and ...

It's a big weekend for the Kardashian family. The new season of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" premieres on E! Sunday, the same day of Kim's baby shower, where family and friends will gather to celebrate her and Kanye West's first baby.

"Baby shower... party! I am excited. I'm so excited," little sister Khloe told MTV News on Wednesday. Khloe is co-hosting the event with her mom, Kris; sister, Kourtney; and music manager Irving Azoff's wife, Shelli. "We've been planning it for a while, so I'm excited to get that over with too, 'cause the planning is really annoying. But I'm excited to celebrate Kim and the baby and everything."

Beyoncé and Fergie are among the rumored invitees, and Kanye just might be making a cameo at the fete. The music-box invites for the "garden chic" party made their way online last week and feature a dark-haired ballerina dancing to Kanye's 2005 Late Registration track "Hey Mama." Kim is expected to give birth in July and fans will learn the baby's gender during Sunday's season premiere.

And after the big weekend, Kanye fans will be just weeks away from Yeezus. And, as it turns out, one of the perks of being a Kardashian is an early listen to tracks off the highly anticipated June 18 album.

"I have heard some of his new music. I do love 'New Slaves'," she said of the track he previewed during the May 18 season finale of "Saturday Night Live," the same weekend Kim tweeted out a photo of the album's ...

Adam Levine is a passionate man. You can hear it in the yearning vocals of Maroon 5 songs and in the spirited banter he engages in with his fellow celebrity judges on "The Voice" every week.

But some viewers felt that Levine got a bit too emotional after Tuesday night's results show revealed that two of his team members were going home.
 "I hate this country!" Levine muttered off camera before host Carson Daly announced the voting results.

The next shot showed a grinning Levine crossing fingers on both hands as he awaited the news. Soon after, Twitter blew up with angry calls for him to be fired from the show, deported, or otherwise penalized for his seemingly unpatriotic quip.

Levine calmly responded with a simple, English lit major-worthy comment. "Joke- noun 1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or prankish act," he tweeted.

Levine, who has only one team member left, country singer Amber Carrington, followed with the dictionary definitions of "humorless," "lighthearted" and "misunderstand." Many of his 4.3 million followers seemed to get it, with a number referring to him as "Adam the Dictionary," and one, Shanice, writing, "I love how you handle things haha."

With the heat still coming in on Wednesday morning (May 29), Levine also released a statement through his spokesperson, which read, "I obviously love my country very much and my comments last night were made purely out of frustration ... Being ...

When M. Night Shyamalan signed on to helm "After Earth," the new movie starring Will and Jaden Smith, the director had been working on a script that had already interested the likes of Bruce Willis, Bradley Cooper and Gwyneth Paltrow, even in its partially finished form.

The opportunity to work with the father/son duo meant shelving the project for some time, and when Shyamalan stopped by MTV News to talk with Josh Horowitz, he explained that his screenplays require an emotional connection to his life right at the moment he's working on them.

"The problem with me is that the screenplays are so about a moment. 'After Earth' ultimately became about a moment of having a teenage child," Shyamalan said. "It's about when you let your child become an adult, and you're scared. You can't protect them. That's where I am right now in my life. My kids are young teenagers, and I'm scared. So I make a movie about that."

The highly secretive director wouldn't divulge the story details of his current project — different from the pre-"After Earth" project he's taking an indefinite break from. But he described his idea as a "micro film" with "the catering budget" of "After Earth" and dished on its emotional hook.

"Now I'm writing a new movie for what I'm feeling right this second," he said. "It's actually about forgiveness and about [when] you've done something wrong to a family member, and you're waiting for that to be healed. That's at the center."

That clue about the next Shyamalan joint won't get you too ...