Lil Wayne landed in hot water last February when a line name-checking tragic civil rights figure Emmett Till on Future's 
 raised eyebrows and drew complaints from Till's family.

The verse featured the line: "Beat the p---y up like Emmett Till," drawing a dark reference to the teen who was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman in 1955. Till was beaten beyond recognition, but his mother insisted that he have an open casket funeral, so the world can see and remember the brutality. Future's label quickly removed the lyric and then remixed the song again in a version featuring Birdman, Rick Ross and French Montana, but no Weezy.

At the time, the rapper attempted to reach out to the Till family in an apologetic open letter
, a gesture the family said at the time 
 The controversy also lost Wayne an endorsement deal with Mountain Dew
.

But a year later, does the lyric still sting?

MTV News recently sat down with civil rights icon and Congressman Rep. John Lewis to get his take on the incident. "I think when a star, a singer, uses the name of someone like an Emmett Till in music ... a lot of young people grow up not even knowing anything about Emmett Till," he said. "So maybe it would help people go and [say], 'Who was Emmett Till?'"

In fact, Lewis said that if it hadn't been for music the civil rights movement might have been like "a bird without wings." Imagine not having songs like: "We Shall Not Be Moved," ...

It's been in the works for more than a year now, but, finally, Kim Kardashian has her "Vogue" cover ... with Kanye West, of course.

Yes, the happy couple graces the April issue of the iconic magazine, and inside, they're the subject of an Annie Leibovitz photo spread. Looks like the reports of a feud between "Vogue" Editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Kardashian were just slightly overblown.

And based on a new behind-the-scenes clip posted by the mag today, Kanye and Kim aren't the only ones who appear in the new issue: Their daughter, North West, is also featured, posing with her parents in a garden and solo with Kim. And, yes, she looks adorable.

The shoot is appropriately over-the-top, featuring Kim and Kanye strolling down an abandoned stretch of highway (they must've ditched the motorcycle), posing on board a private jet, and getting steamy on a black Lamborghini. And then, there's the glossy cover shot, where Kanye nuzzles up to Kim above the headline "Kim & Kanye: Their Fashionable Life and Surreal Times. #WORLDSMOSTTALKEDABOUTCOUPLE."

Hashtag please! Their "Vogue" spread is a definite — and decidedly demure — departure from the coital cover shoot the couple did for French fashion magazine "L'Officiel Hommes" earlier this year, which showed them in a passionate embrace (to put it mildly).

Many would-be successors have tried and failed to match the success of "The Twilight Saga" and "The Hunger Games." Box-office forecasters are confident that will break the young-adult adaptation curse, succeeding where "The Mortal Instruments," "Vampire Academy" and many others have failed.

may very well open north of $60 million at the box office, according to projections from The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and ComingSoon.net. Box Office Mojo was more conservative, pinning the number closer to $50 million. The Los Angeles Times split the difference at $55 million.

The entire movie industry and its observers are in agreement on one point: "Divergent" will succeed where so many recent attempts have failed. As our own Kevin P. Sullivan recently pointed out, Shailene Woodley built serious indie cred prior to this franchise kickoff, just like Jennifer Lawrence before her.

In the last year and a half, "Vampire Academy," "The Mortal Instruments," "Beautiful Creatures" and "The Host" all came and went with little fanfare. "Percy Jackson" and "I Am Number Four" didn't fare well, either. "Twilight" opened in November 2008 to the tune of $69 million, launching a franchise that eventually made over $3.3 billion around the world. With just two films thus far, "The Hunger Games" series has made $1.5 billion already.

Of course "Divergent" isn't the only youth-friendly franchise in theaters this weekend. Aiming at a much younger audience in addition to nostalgic parents, looks to capitalize on the success of the 2011 franchise reboot, "The Muppets." The film starts literally where the last one ended, but the ...

Given all the doom and gloom surrounding Young Adult novel adaptations at the box office, you'd think it was a dying genre. Except given the presumed success of "

In fact, YA adaptations have given fruit to some of the best movies of all time.

49. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"

48. "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones"

47. "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"

46. "Inkheart"

45. "Ender's Game"

44. "The Spiderwick Chronicles"

43. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1"

42. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

41. "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"

40. "City of Ember"

39. "Tiger Eyes"

38. "The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2"

37. "I Know What You Did Last Summer"

36. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2"

35. "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief"

34. "Youth in Revolt"

33. "Warm Bodies"

32. "

31. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"

30. "It's Kind Of A Funny Story"

29. "The Indian in the Cupboard"

28. "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"

27. "The Book Thief"

26. "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"

25. "The Princess Diaries"

24. "Freaky Friday"

23. "Holes"

22. "Rumble Fish"

21. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

20. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Nicki Minaj has millions of fans across the world, but perhaps none bigger than her Young Money mentor Lil Wayne. Weezy is currently in awe of Nicki's new single but he still pushes her for more.

"That's what Nicki does — she never fails to amaze me with anything she do," Tunechi said of YM's first lady. "Honestly, I'm a tough judge and I'm the boss, so I kinda be like, 'That's nice, but you can do better.' "

"Lookin' Ass" is a current single from YM's new Rise of an Empire compilation. On it, Nicki wages a war of words in rap's battle of the sexes. Nicki flows a similar rhyme pattern throughout, stacking multisyllabic bars and ending each bar with the controversial N-word. She blasts men for staring at her butt, lying about their finances and exaggerating about their drug-dealing pasts.

It's been a while since women had a real rap anthem to champion, and Weezy loves the reaction the song is getting in the clubs. "It's either that song that's making 'em feel good like that or that new Beyoncé," he said of Bey's "Drunk in Love" single.

Weezy has no shortage of praise for Nicki, but says he will continue to push her as she works on her third solo LP, due out later this year. As great as she is, he just thinks she can do better. "But that's what I tell myself every day, too," Wayne added.

If you get puked on by a half-naked woman during a concert while riding a mechanical pig with an apple in its mouth, chances are people are going to notice.

And If you're Lady Gaga and it all goes down during a hyped gig at the SXSW Festival in Texas, people are definitely going to notice. And that's kind of the point, isn't it?

Now back to the puke part. Mother Monster got some flack from, among others, Demi Lovato, for inviting a performance artist on stage in Austin to regurgitate green and black liquid on her earlier this month. During an appearance on "The Today Show" on Friday (March 21) to preview her 
, Gaga said she fully expected, and welcomed, the backlash.

It wasn't surprising to her that the recent vomit-art performance at SXSW made headlines and drew some complaints. "Millie and I know that not everybody is going to love that performance," she said of the messy collaboration with performance artist Millie Brown
. "But we both really believe in artistic expression and strong identities. I support her in what she does and ARTPOP, my new album, is about bringing art and music together in the spirit of creative rebellion."

For Gaga and Brown, that performance embodied art in its purest form. "We totally understand that some people won't be into it," Gaga said. "Did we want the controversy? I suppose it doesn't matter. We don't make things for any intention in particular other than in the spirit of entertaining the crowd and creating something that is really ...

"orgasmic posters, an unusual discount for infants and — probably most notably — its use of digitally added porn doubles for the sex scenes.

The unusual concept was a way to avoid filming the A-list cast featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf and Uma actually having sex while keeping the hardcore images that von Trier wanted for his deep dive into sexuality.

On set, the whole process was anything but sexy, according to Stacy Martin, the 23 year-old actress who plays the younger version of the main character Joe. When I spoke with her at the press day for "Nymphomaniac" she walked me through what filming a sex scene was like before it was altered.

While most the composite footage won't make it into US theaters, the uncut version of the sex scenes only featured the midsection of the actors' porn double. Everything above or below actually belonged to Martin or LaBeouf, for example.

You'd think that removing all spontaneity from a sex scene would kill any believable chemistry, but for "Nymphomaniac" every move had to be carefully predetermined.

"Basically, we would do the scenes," Martin said. "What happens is that we have to agree on a position because of the CGI. Everything has to be set, so we would do the scene with Shia or whoever it was, and we would get little black dots on our bodies," Martin said. "It was very unerotic, very technical and it gets quite boring because then they have to do exactly the same with the porn doubles. But they're having real sex, and they put the ...

For months, fans of the "

And though the professionals were already quibbling yesterday over whether the film was a thrilling success or a bloated flop, the real reckoning is happening on twitter as we speak, where fans who flocked to the midnight premiere are sharing their thoughts on seeing this beloved story on the big screen.

Anticipation Was Running High

One YA Author Was Floored

And Fans Were Not Disappointed!

...Except When They Were

Meanwhile, The Franchise Has At Least One New Fan

And People Are Looking On The Bright Side

Except When Actively Embracing Denial

But Hey, Whatever. INSURGENT!

"I seriously still haven't realized what's going on," Soko told MTV News, flummoxed that her single became a hit after it — and she — appeared in that viral "First Kiss" video.

"My girlfriend is almost more enthusiastic than I am — I was like 'WTF is this thing I'm charting on? Ze Billboard?' She freaked out, laughed so hard at me and said, 'It's not THE Billboard, just Billboard Hot 100.. you don't know what Billboard is?'" she said.

Even though Soko doesn't wholly understand what Billboard is, the singer's track "We Might Be Dead Tomorrow" is nevertheless climbing its charts; it's currently at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on Billboard's Streaming Songs chart.

Given that Billboard started factoring YouTube streams into charts last year and "First Kiss" has been viewed close to 70 million times on the video-sharing service, Soko's inclusion on the charts was inevitable.

Nevertheless, it's still surprising to the singer, who was basically invisible to labels mere weeks ago. It was not until she agreed to be a part of fashion label Wren's short film, "First Kiss" — in which strangers smooched for the first time on camera — that her music was catapulted into the public eye (or, rather, ear). Good thing she's a self-proclaimed "kiss bandit."

"Two weeks ago I was still struggling to get anyone interested in signing my second album," Soko said. "And now, I have back-to-back meetings with labels who are finally 'out of the blue' waking up because, 'They've been fans for years... uh-huh.'"

The ...