Do you feel that thumping in your chest? The sweat trickling down your brow? Can you smell the stench of rotten flesh in the air?

Yeah, maybe you should get that checked out.

But maybe it's just a reminder that "The Walking Dead" is back tonight, resuming its action-packed fourth season after two months off the air. The midseason premiere, titled "After," picks up where the zombie drama left off: Rick Grimes and his fellow survivors have been cast out of their prison, scattered to the nine winds and back on the road. Poor Hershel lost his head. The Governor, too, is dead. And no one knows for sure what happened to baby Judith.

We're bound to get some answers tonight. But before then, here are some of our predictions for what will go down during the midseason premiere.

1. We're going to see a whole lot of Rick and Carl. The prison assault ended with a badly injured Rick and a grieving Carl walking off into the forest, on their own, away from all of their friends. The Grimes family is right at the heart of the show; there's no way the series returns without these two front and center.

2. We're not going to see a whole lot of anyone else. Michonne is on her own. Daryl and Beth are together. Tyreese is off with the children. Glenn is on the bus with the old folks. Maggie and Sasha are taking care of a wounded Bob. There are just too many stories to follow right now in one episode, so expect many ...

Do you feel that thumping in your chest? The sweat trickling down your brow? Can you smell the stench of rotten flesh in the air?

Yeah, maybe you should get that checked out.

But maybe it's just a reminder that "The Walking Dead" is back tonight, resuming its action-packed fourth season after two months off the air. The midseason premiere, titled "After," picks up where the zombie drama left off: Rick Grimes and his fellow survivors have been cast out of their prison, scattered to the nine winds and back on the road. Poor Hershel lost his head. The Governor, too, is dead. And no one knows for sure what happened to baby Judith.

We're bound to get some answers tonight. But before then, here are some of our predictions for what will go down during the midseason premiere.

1. We're going to see a whole lot of Rick and Carl. The prison assault ended with a badly injured Rick and a grieving Carl walking off into the forest, on their own, away from all of their friends. The Grimes family is right at the heart of the show; there's no way the series returns without these two front and center.

2. We're not going to see a whole lot of anyone else. Michonne is on her own. Daryl and Beth are together. Tyreese is off with the children. Glenn is on the bus with the old folks. Maggie and Sasha are taking care of a wounded Bob. There are just too many stories to follow right now in one episode, so expect many ...

Fashion magnate, J. Crew creative director and all-around Cool Chick Jenna Lyons guest starred on this week's episode of "Girls," titled "Free Snacks." (There were so many free snacks, but those will go unlisted for now. Suffice to say, we're the Sun Chips guy.)

This week, Hannah quit her job at Ray's in an un-classy fashion (tell us more about those talents, Han), starts a classy gig in sponsored content at GQ and then maybe-possibly loses that job, all the while listening to Lyons' monotone comments.

Hannah's project at the mag is compiling a "Field Guide For the Urban Male," described as "something like you'd find in a birdwatcher's manual, but funny. Not corny-funny, smart." (In reality, it's an advertorial tie-in for Neiman Marcus.)

Here are all the "types" of man pitched for the guide, with further description if provided.

»The Millennial Man's Man

» Mr. Midnight

» Gowanus Yachtsman

» Classic Dad (also known as Dad Classic or Kewl Dad)

"He's a dad but he's not trying to be like the coolest dad. But he's also like embracing vintage, Bill Cosbyish dadness, so that actually inherently makes him cool."

» The Kabbahler

"He is a little sleazy, you know, he's like out looking for sex, but he's wearing a Kabbalah bracelets, so he's a little spiritual. He'd, like, f--k some serious enlightenment into you."

"He's got, like, drawstring yoga pants, widow's peak like Justin Theroux."

» The Mod Hatter

"Like, a snappy dresser. Not like a hey look at me, I'm wearing a fedora or a porkpie hat."

The wait is finally over. After months of preparation (and a slew of teasers), Demi Lovato is kicking off her Neon Lights Tour on Sunday (February 9).

And when she takes the stage in Vancouver for her first tour since 2012, the "Heart Attack" singer will watch months of hard work with music and creative director Nick Jonas pay off.

"This is bigger and better than any show I've ever put on," Lovato told MTV News at one of her final tour rehearsals. "It's a completely different tour. It's kind of just the next step of my career, and 2014 is going to be f---ing amazing."

Lovato, who said that elements of her tour were inspired by Beyoncé, is hitting the road with Fifth Harmony, Little Mix and Cher Lloyd.

"I'm looking forward to being in a routine — living on a tour bus, being in different cities and seeing different fans," Lovato said. "Every show, it gets better and better and you become more comfortable with the set list and some of the songs and see how it progresses and just be able to get closer with my fans."

However, she won't have too much down-time while on her tour bus, since Lovato is already hard at work for her upcoming fifth album, the follow-up to 2013's Demi.

"I've already started recording for my new album, and I have plans to record during the tour," Lovato said. "The sound just evolves into everything that I've been and everything that I want to become. I've never been so sure of myself ...

Matt Damon can't do much wrong, considering he is an Oscar-nominated actor and screenwriter, but for the actor didn't want to ruffle any feathers.

Though the film is based on an amazing true story, Damon noted the difficulty of relaying the story while leaving out factual details that might insult the people who were involved, and why George Clooney, who co-wrote and directed the film, ended up changing the names of the real-life people for the film.

"Hugh Bonneville's character has a drinking problem, for example," said Damon. "You don't want to use real people and then somehow offend their families."

While Damon and Clooney have been friends since "Ocean's Eleven," it doesn't seem like Damon had any problems taking direction from his friend.

"That's great, to get a call like that from a person you admire so much professionally, who also happens to be your buddy," said Damon.

Another one of his buddies, Ben Affleck, has also won acclaim after stepping behind the camera, and Damon talked about the possibility of pulling double duty by playing actor and director.

"I think the way in for someone like me or George or Ben is to play a role because they get you at a discount," said Damon. "I need leverage at my stage, they obviously don't need any. People are beating down their doors."

Clooney, who is both director and star of "Monuments Men," taught Damon a lot on set.

"I learned a lot from George," said Damon. "Particularly it was good watching an actor direct who's in the movie, because that's tough to do."

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February 9 marks 10 years since Kanye West dropped his debut album, The College Dropout. He's been on a winding journey to get from "Jesus Walks" to "I Am a God," but his constant outrage, conviction and inability to exercise self-control has remained steady over the past decade. Coupled with an undeniable ear for melody, that has made Mr. West nothing short of iconic.

In February 2004, less than two years after a life-altering car accident, MTV News' Sway Calloway sat down with the Roc-A-Fella rapper/producer to pick his brain about his career and album, and some of his words still reverberate years later. "I got a lot of frustration because I'm hurt," he said emphatically. "People told me I couldn't rap, I couldn't sell a record, that I didn't have a f---ing chance and it hurt me. I just wanna stunt."

New decade, slightly different issues.

"The way I'm acting right now as a new artist, I'm not gonna be like this [in the future]," he continued. "I'm gonna be like [Dr. Dre] in a few years. If you interview Dre, he be like, 'Yo, I'm rich I have nothing to say to you.' I have everything to say because there's so many doubters and I'm talking sh--, but I realize that I will grow."

At the time, Kanye tried to predict his future temperament, explaining that he wanted to take queues from artists like Fiona Apple and The Strokes, who didn't waste time venting about their issues with labels and other big corporations. It didn't work out so well though, ...

With the release of his Mastermind album trailer earlier this month, Rick Ross teased a new single called with his one-time rival, Jeezy, and he delivered the track on Friday (February 7), as promised.

Over a booming beat from Mike Will Made It, Ross opens up the braggadocios track declaring, "If money is power, n---a I got millions of power," before Jeezy steps in on the second verse to add that, "A coward dies a thousand deaths, a real n---a dies but one."

Ross and Jeezy have been feuding for a few years now, even getting into a squabble at the 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards when they ran into each other backstage, but it's all smooth sailing now. The two Def Jam rappers have made their reunion official with "War Ready."

"The mark of a powerful man is not only his ability to make war, but to also make peace," Ross told MTV News in a statement. "That's why it was nothing for me and Jeezy to work out whatever past differences and get back in the booth to make history. This album is a celebration of the Mastermind, which reflects my music as an artist and my business ventures as a boss. We did this not only for ourselves, but for hip hop."

Stream "War Ready" via XclusiveZone.

Mastermind is set to hit stores on March 4, with additional features from Kanye West, Jay Z, Lil Wayne, The Weeknd and Big Sean. The album is executive produced by Diddy and the full track list was revealed earlier today.

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