Happy Birthday, 50 Cent! You are 38 years old today (July 6)! To celebrate, we enlisted the expertise of our resident psychic, Licorice Root, to shed some light on the year ahead. Now party like it’s your birthday, dude!

With a new album out last month, Animal Ambition, a TV show on Starz and another soon on Comedy Central, rapper, entrepreneur, and writer 50 Cent must be doing 50 things an hour. Surely, this 4th of July weekend should be special for 50 — it’s his birthday on July 6th! Let’s sneak a peak at his birth chart and see what fate has in store.

50 Cent was born in the sign of Cancer, a sign that is famous for two things. First, its ability to create a lovely home (no wonder he is so tight with neighbor Martha Stewart). Cancers understand security, both physical and emotional. Second, its tough exterior — crabs have difficult shells to crack! Getting to know a Cancer, as nurturing and empathetic as they are, can be a difficult feat.

50 Cent is likely doubly tough and impenetrable. In his birth chart, the sun is coming up right behind Saturn, the planet of discipline, restriction and boundaries. This combination influences him to be very serious, tenacious and rigid. He’s no doubt an extremely disciplined person, and the rules he created for living his life are never broken.

So what could magnetize fame toward such a serious — and probably shy ...

Fifth Harmony are back, they’re sexier than ever, and they’re making it perfectly clear who’s “Bo$$.”

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Camila Cabello, Normani Hamilton, Dinah-Jane Hansen, Ally Brooke, and Lauren Jauregui’s highly anticipated single, “Bo$$” — the first off their upcoming debut album — is an upbeat girl-power anthem that features the fivesome demanding your respect, showing off their confidence, and unabashedly getting exactly what they want. Or, in other words, to quote the single, they’re on some ‘Michelle Obama sh–.”

But the First Lady — who gets ultimate ‘BO$$’ lady respect on their track with the line “purse so heavy getting Oprah dollars” — isn’t the only name Fifth Harmony drops in the song. The track opens with trumpets blaring over catchy hand claps as heavy bass sets in before the girls cleverly drop lines like “You’re talking to a lady, I want a Kanye and not a Ray J.”

With a message reminiscent of Destiny’s Child’s “Bills Bills Bills” and “Independent Women,” the “X Factor” alums proudly sing about the fact they don’t need a man as they “pledge allegiance to my independent girls in here.”

“I see you tryin’ to holla/ But that ain’t how I was brought up, next/ working for the money cause that’s what my momma taught me so your ass better show me some respect,” they sing.

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Jessica Simpson is officially a newlywed again! Jessica, 33, wore a custom gown by Carolina Herrera for the outdoor ceremony to wed former NFL player Eric Johnson, 34, today (July 5) in Santa Barbara, California.

The wedding was held at the San Ysidro Ranch with over 250 friends and family in attendance, including Jessica’s sister Ashlee Simpson and her fiancé Evan Ross, Jessica Alba and more.

In a statement to PEOPLE, the couple expressed their joy.

“We are overwhelmed with complete happiness and love having made our eternal commitment,” said their statement.

The couple began dating in May 2010 when they were introduced through friends, and have been engaged since November of 2010. But, they’ve had to put their wedding on hold twice, first for the birth of their daughter Maxwell, and then again for another pregnancy — their son Ace who was born last June.

Both the couple’s children were part of the ceremony. At just one year old, Ace was a ring bearer, and Maxwell, 2, was a flower girl and accompanied by Ashlee Simpson’s five-year-old son Bronx. What an adorable wedding party! Here’s a cute pic of Ace and Maxwell that Jessica posted on Instagram a few weeks ago:

Congratulations Jessica and Eric!

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MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

Shailene Woodley thinks that bullies should be a way bigger deal to parents than whatever Miley Cyrus is doing. The actress who plays the cancer-stricken and love-stricken Hazel in “The Fault In Our Stars” was Vanity Fair‘s July cover star, and she defended Miley in some of the outtakes from her cover story interview.

What it boils down to: Miley is just doing herself and it’s nobody’s business but her own.

“Miley isn’t rude or mean or cruel to anyone in her actions,” Shailene said. “She just does herself. And regardless of whether you agree with what she’s doing or not, it’s none of your business what she does. She’s not in the world doing mean things.”

Case and point—here’s one of Miley’s silly 4th of July outfits. Harmless, right?

“Why are all these parents or all these people freaking out about Miley being herself?” Shailene continued. “If you don’t want your kids to watch it, you know, you can change that situation at home, but don’t make a big deal of what she’s doing. Make a big deal about the bullies at school who are beating kids up.”

She may not consider herself a feminist, but she’s got strong-minded opinions about the way society judges young women and their behavior. You tell ‘em Shailene!

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

Now that we’re recovering from hangoversBBQ comas all the fireworks fun from America’s birthday celebration, we wanted to see how celebrities spent their 4th of July. From the looks of it, there was plenty of fun in the sun, festive outfits, sparklers and hanging with friends to go around.

Vanessa Hudgens chilled out poolside, with a red, white and blue bikini and head scarf number:

Vanessa wasn’t the only one showing a little skin, Zac Efron saluted fans and in turn showed off his impressive guns:

Mindy Kaling’s sported her ode to Old Glory as a hoodie:

Marlon Wayans, Jennifer Hudson and Questlove snapped this backstage candid at the 2014 Philly 4th Of July Jam:

Lena Dunham flaunted some sparkle:

Miley Cyrus got ready to dive into a pool:

Plus, Miley cuddled up to a bald eagle:

Miley also gave her best Uncle Sam impression:

Also, um, Smilers, do you know what this is about? (oh look, there’s a cat!):

… And Katy Perry went to Disney World, duh. She’s still living the teenage dream.

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Kickstarter has been used to back some fabulous things, but it’s also been used for some pretty ridiculous crowdfunding. The latest?

A kickstarter for potato salad.

Because sometimes you need a little help saving up for those expensive ingredients like pickles, potatoes, mustard and mayo! It turns out, Americans really, really do love their potato salad, and the project was just quirky enough to pick up steam.

So far, the man behind the project, Zack “Danger” Brown of Columbus, Ohio has successfully raised $1,823 to make his potato salad.

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USA Today reported the story yesterday, and at that time, Brown had 87 backers and $340—in just one day that number has multiplied exponentially. During the writing of this post, another backer contributed $3, which is what pushed the new number to $1,823.

When we reached out to Zack by email, he admitted that he had no idea the project would get this big. “No way. With the project 1/10th of the way over, I thought we’d be somewhere between 1 and 2 dollars,” he wrote. “It has always been my dream to do something that would connect people all over the world. Did I think that would happen with potato salad? No. But Kickstarter has made my dreams come true!”

But, Brown hasn’t rested on his laurels–the goals for his potato salad making have increased as his funding grew. The original goal was a mere $10, after hitting that, Zack amended with some ...

Fresh off G-Unit‘s remix of YG’s “Who Do You Love?,” 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, Tony Yayo and Kidd Kidd are on the remix game again, this time they take on Nic Nac’s beats from Chris Brown‘s top 10 single, “Loyal.”

50 Cent has promised both a mixtape and an official album, although there’s no word yet on release dates. Also check out the Unit rapping over the DJ Mustard-produced “Don’t Tell ‘Em” and their freestyle of Future’s “Move That Dope.”

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Everyone’s favorite oddball comedy “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” has spread well beyond Philadelphia, and even past the borders of America itself. Yup, there’s now a Russian version of the show, and though it sounds almost bizarre enough to be part of a plotline, it’s actually true. The spinoff version will be called “It’s Always Sunny in Moscow” and there are clips of it posted on TNT Russia’s YouTube channel.

The name of the bar that they use in the Russian version isn’t called “Paddy’s Pub,” but instead, it’s titled “Philadelphia”—a great way to nod to the original show.

When you type the show’s name in Russian into YouTube, plenty more clips show up. Apparently, the first episode of the Russian version of the show aired on May 12 of this year.

All the characters are here: Max “Thick” Borisenko (Charlie Kelly), Sergei Kovalev (Dennis Reynolds), Alain Kovalev (Dee Reynolds) and Roman Makarov (Mac). Even the waitress, aka “girl with whom love Max” (Honestly, Google translate could use an update), is here!

Oh, and here’s the poster:

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Here’s the synopsis we get from a translation of the description on the show’s official page:

“Strong friendship, true love, idealism, nobility and dignity, humility and kindness – all this has nothing to do with the heroes of the series ‘In Moscow Always Sunny.’ Four young heroes: Sergei Kovalev and Alain, Maxim Borisenko and Roman Makarov. They went to school together. They have their own business — a pub ...