When Action Bronson raps, oftentimes, it’s at least partially about food. The way he handles this subject is one of the things that has made the New York native a favorite among his fans.

In the first episode of his VICE series, “F–k, That’s Delicious,” Bam Bam takes us with him on a snackventure from New Zealand to South Africa to Queens, New York. At various points in the 10-minute episode, the entire palate gets satisfied: there’s pizza, pork belly and a malted milkshake, among other general delectability.

OK. Time to go eat.

Adam Fleischer

50 Cent and Jadakiss may have put their issues in the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s all love on their new collaboration, “Irregular Heartbeat,” which also features Kidd Kidd.

In fact, it’s anything but all love. The hook and verses on the song and video, which dropped on Tuesday (May 6), are filled with tough talk and the lyrical equivalent of the three MCs puffing out their chests. For his part, Kiss decides to take aim at Internet thugs: “30 something and you ain’t even open your mouth yet/ Social media is giving cowards a outlet/ See him in person, say something, I doubt that/ Rather get caught with it than get caught without that/ Trying to back peddle and stumble on the curb/ You starin’ at the ground, you mumblin’ your words.”

The spooky, minimalist G Rocka & Medi track is the latest in a weekly string of 50 Cent releases. The accompanying visuals, falling in line with the gritty lyrical themes of the track, show the story of a home-invasion-turned-kidnapping.

50′s fifth solo album, Animal Ambition, drops on June 3.

Adam Fleischer

Neon Trees‘ Tyler Glenn may have come out before releasing the band’s newest effort Pop Psychology, but most of the pronouns in the band’s new songs — and the love interests in their videos — are still female.

Does Glenn plan to whip out some “he”s moving forward? MTV News hit him up to find out.

“I don’t think pronouns matter really with music because music is so universal,” Glenn told MTV News, adding that women are not always the love interests they seem in the band’s work.

In the video for “Sleeping With A Friend,” for example, Glenn says the woman functions as a kind of a villain.

“Technically I’m sort of running from this girl in the video,” he said. “Not to make women out to be bad, but… I kind of spent my life trying to date girls when in reality it just wasn’t my nature.”

Glenn, who was raised Mormon, came out in a recent interview with Rolling Stone after turning 30.

Still, he does say that mixing up the pronouns could be possible in the future.

“I think there might be an opportunity,” he said. “We do have a lot of love-centered songs — whether they’re good love or bad love. I don’t know, maybe it would be fun to make out with a dude and raise some eyebrows in a music video.”

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File this under “Things That Are So Weirdly Awesome We Literally Clapped With Glee”: Los Angeles garage thrashers together PANGEA saved a child’s life on last week’s episode of “NCIS: Los Angeles.” Yup, still more proof that rock ‘n’ is far from dead.

The band doesn’t have a song on the episode’s tracklist — or a guest-starring role. Nope, the “Too Drunk To C-m” singers are integrated directly into the plot. Allow me to break it down:

When a 10-year-old girl that NCISLA agent Sam Hanna (LL Cool J) once provided protection for in Saudi Arabia goes missing, he’s certain that her disappearance is related to the theft of a fancy new plane designed by her engineer father.

Why? Well, the only thing left in the getaway van is the CD booklet for together PANGEA’s new record, Badillac, and the little girl is a HUGE TP fan. She used to play the band’s jam “Snakedog” all the time on the drums when she was in Saudi Arabia with LL — I mean, Sam.

“It’s a little girl’s SOS,” Hanna says of the CD.

So how did this gloriousness — which includes LL Cool J muttering “together PANGEA” in a “it’s a clue!” voice — come about?

According to music supervisor Mark Wike, he had been aware of the band for a while and was looking for a way to integrate them into the show.

“Jon Granat [who signed the band] and I were barreling down a killer single-track trail in the Santa Monica mountains on our ...

Stars Came Out For The 2014 Met Gala
While you may have been having a ball yesterday with your Cinco de Mayo festivities, stars lined the red carpet in NYC for the 2014 Met Gala. “Gossip Girl” alumnae Blake Lively and Leighton Meester, Oscar award winner Lupita Nyong’o and Victoria Beckham were just some of the stars who glammed up the red carpet. I applaud the certain stars who went the unconventional route (Michelle Williams dared to go short while Brie Larson wore sequin pants). Peep all the photos here.

Music Meets Fashion At The Met Ball
What’s a red carpet without Jay Z and Beyonce? Other music artists who attended the Met Ball were Janelle Monae, Rita Ora (who popped into our studios just a couple of hours before), Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, who, thanks to her cat, almost wore a torn custom-made Oscar de la Renta dress!

Besties Reunited
Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift put the feuding rumors to rest when they hit the dance floor inside. Proof’s in the video.

Katy Perry Gears Up For Prismatic Tour
One music artist missing from the Met Gala last night was Katy Perry, who kicks off “The Prismatic World Tour” tomorrow in Ireland. She shared a picture of herself in a larger-than-life yin-yang dress and joked that she was missing the ball because it “wouldn’t fit through customs.”

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More so than many genres of music, rap is based around words. They hold a special importance. It’s why there are full books and websites dedicated to lyrics alone.

To help quantify some of the the variance in words that rappers use, Matt Daniels, who is a coder, designer and data scientist, put together a project he called “The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop.” To do this, he compiled dozens of rappers’ first 35,000 lyrics, using the website RapGenius, and sought to determine which MC had the largest vocab.

“I used a research methodology called token analysis to determine each artist’s vocabulary,” he exlpains on his site. “Each word is counted once, so pimps, pimp, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words. To avoid issues with apostrophes (e.g., pimpin’ vs. pimpin), they’re removed from the dataset. It still isn’t perfect. Hip hop is full of slang that is hard to transcribe (e.g., shorty vs. shawty), compound words (e.g., king sh–), featured vocalists, and repetitive choruses.

Some of the results are surprising. For instance, Eminem, at 4,494 unique words, used less than 100 more than Diddy. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, with their rapid fire deliveries, were fourth to last on the list.

Others aren’t quite as jarring, like the fact that members of Wu-Tang Clan, Outkast and Kool G Rap were all near the top in terms of unique words used.

Head over to Daniels’ site for the entire interactive project

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FOX may have only just finished the pilot for their young Batman series “Gotham,” but the series already has been picked up — rumors place it at a thirteen episode order — and has a trailer, which debuted during the premiere of “24: Live Another Day.”

The series is created by Bruno Heller (“The Mentalist”), and stars Ben McKenzie as a young Commissioner Gordon in his pre-mustache days. Picking up with the murder of young Bruce Wayne’s parents, the series will follow his long journey to becoming Batman, while meeting other villains along the way including Penguin and Catwoman.

What do you think of the first teaser? Sound off in the comments below.

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Every year XXL Magazine puts out their annual Freshman class cover, where they give fans a new crop of hip-hop talent to check for.

In the past B.o.B, Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa and Macklemore have all graced the list and this year’s cover boasts 12 fresh faces with a range of talents. Some guys have had hits and some have been building strong fanbases a bit under the radar; some are from the East Coast, some West, some Midwest, some South. But they’re all sure to get fans talking one way or another.

Get to know the guys on this year’s list below.

What do you think of this year’s selections?

CHANCE THE RAPPER
Age: 21
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Last release: Acid Rap
Random Fact: Has decided not to sign with a major label thus far.
Listen To: “Everybody’s Something”

RICH HOMIE QUAN
Age: 24
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Last Release: I Promise I Will Never Stop Going In
Random Fact: “Type of Way,” his breakout single, hit No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Listen To: “Type of Way”

TY DOLLA $IGN
Age: 29
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Last Release: Beach House EP
Random Fact: Sang the chorus on YG’s 2010 single “Toot It & Boot It”
Listen To: “Paranoid”

TROY AVE
Age: 28
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Last Release: White Christmas 2
Random Fact: Troy offered a money back guarantee on his New York City: The Album LP.
Listen To: “Show Me Love”

AUGUST ALSINA
Age: 21
Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana
Last Release: Testimony
Random Fact: His brother was killed shortly before August turned 18, which motivated him to increase his focus on music
Listen To: “I Luv This Sh–”

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