Lil Wayne has a special relationship with Katie Couric. Back in 2009, the pair hung out, bowled
 and talked about what it means to be a gangsta.

The unlikely friendship continued on Monday (September 9), when Wayne (who Couric called "hip-hop's mad genius") sat down with the former network news anchor on her syndicated "Katie" talk show to discuss why he dropped out of high school, his dangerous addiction to syrup and why he's really, really ready to call it a day on his rap career.

Since their last talk, Wayne did a stretch in prison on gun possession charge, so naturally Couric was curious how the other prisoners treated the rapper. "It's jail," he answered when asked if the other convicts were excited to see such a famous face. "So, for the first 20-30 seconds you're like, 'Oh my God that's really him,' then ... the reality of where you're at clicks right back in."

Couric, or ("Miss Katie" as Wayne referred to her the first time around), also asked about how Weezy's children are doing, which caused the Young Money boss to shake his head a blush a bit. "My oldest is my beautiful daughter she's 14, Reginae. She's awesome, she's a firecracker," said Wayne, who dressed conservatively in a white t-shirt, khakis and a "trippy" baseball hat. "Personality out of this world." He called his three sons his "everything" and reiterated that he wants to retire in five years when he turns 35.

"Whatever they want to do," he said about his plans to spend time with ...

Beliebers won't have to wait much longer to hear new tunes from Justin Bieber. Manager Scooter Braun confirmed that new music will drop next month.

Scooter took to Twitter on Monday (September 9) to hype up releases from his artists, including The Wanted's delayed release date. During the Twitter flurry, he revealed that Bieber "gives u some new music in October until December and then a special movie on Christmas," he shared, teasing that the long-in-the-works documentary, "Believe," may also be released by the end of 2013 that is "...provided we finish the movie on time [director] @jonmchu."

Though no specific dates were revealed by Braun, Bieber has been long teasing new music from his for months, even giving fans a small taste of its lead single, in a commercial for his latest perfume, The Key, and in an a capella Instagram video.

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Previously, Braun had told MTV News he thinks that "Heartbreaker" will end the "witch hunt" of the teen star and added that "he wants to speak for himself."

He continued, "For this project, we want to do things a little bit differently. And there are more songs than 10 or 12, so if you have more music and you have more things you want to express, you gotta think out the box, and [think like] 'How do I get this out there in a unique way where it gets directly to my fans and I can express myself through music directly to them?' ...

Back in 2010, Paramore's Hayley Williams made a departure from her punk-y path when she teamed up with B.o.B. on a song that become a massive hit ... despite the fact the two collaborators never actually met until the night before they performed the track for the first time.

Three years later, Williams is taking a similar detour, joining forces with rising EDM star Zedd on his new single "Stay The Night." And though this song definitely isn't "Airplanes," turns out, it was created in much the manner: without either artist being in the same room.

"The only time we've had a chance to talk was before we recorded the song; we did not get to actually meet yet," Zedd told MTV News. "I'm sure it will happen; hopefully we'll play a show together and perform it. Our schedules are obviously pretty busy."

Still, that doesn't mean the two were strangers. Zedd has been a fan of Paramore — and Williams' voice — for nearly a decade, ever since he began playing in the German rock act Dioramic. And once he had written "Stay The Night," he knew she would be a perfect match for the track.

"We had the topline written and we needed a singer, and we were kind of brainstorming on who would be a good fit; at first we thought it might be better to have a male singer," Zedd explained. "But then, since I know Hayley's voice, we had the idea to use her for the track ... I kind of think ...

Sure, One Direction's 3-D documentary, already had their real-life cast, but there's one Hollywood A-lister who would've loved to assume the role of 1D singer Niall Horan. That guy is none other than "Harry Potter" baddie Tom Felton.

It all started after Horan told Yahoo! last month that he'd love to have the actor play him in a fictionalized account of 1D's life.

Felton heard his call loud and clear.

"I heard this. I read this. Niall is one of the wonderful members of One Direction," he explained to his "Therese" co-star Elizabeth Olsen while chatting with MTV News at the Toronto International Film Festival. "They are awesome. They are a dominating force."

So, should the script come his way, would he ever really consider it? "Of course! Oddly... what's really sweet is the rest of them have said like Tom Cruise, Leonardo [DiCaprio] and then Niall said Tom Felton. He's blonde, yeah. I could dye it, whatever," he said. "It's very flattering and I'm a big Directioner."

Until that movie gets made (or not), 1D's mentor, Simon Cowell, recently told us that he would consider green lighting a , under the right circumstances.

"Yeah, for sure. We'd love to do another movie with them," Cowell said last week. "But they've got this massive tour next year, so we've got to work into their schedule, hopefully." (1D still have more dates on their Take Me Home tour lined up through October before they launch their globe-spanning Where We Are tour in April.)

In addition to some heavy box-office play, 1D ...

Miley Cyrus really can't be stopped. The "We Can't Stop" singer has confirmed that she will appear as both the host and musical guest during the October 5 episode of "Saturday Night Live." Another pop princess, Katy Perry, will also stop by the show later this season.

The appearance comes just days before Cyrus will drop her upcoming album, Bangerz, which will hit stores October 8. Cyrus previously hosted "SNL" back in 2011. On Monday (September 9), the same day the news broke, the singer dropped a new music video for her latest Bangerz single, The video, in which Miley cries and appears naked on a — you guessed it — wrecking ball, was shot by famed photographer Terry Richardson.

Another big name slated to drop by Studio 8H this season is former "SNL" star Tina Fey, who will host the September 28 season premiere (Arcade Fire are set to play that episode). Meanwhile, one week after Cyrus plays double duty, Bruce Willis will host the October 12 episode, joined by "Roar" singer Perry as the night's musical guest, "SNL" confirmed on Twitter. Perry will release her new album, Prism, on October 22.

Additional performers and hosts have yet to be announced. However, with those hosts and performers locked in, rumor has it that Lady Gaga may also serve as a host and performer at some point this season. "SNL" has yet to confirm the Mother Monster's appearance on the show.

Arcade Fire are heralding the Monday (September 9) release of their new single and video for "Reflektor" with an interactive mini-film created in partnership with Google Creative Lab.

The single "Reflektor" is set to premiere Monday night at 9 p.m., the release coming on the heels of an elaborate, long-tail campaign replete with twists and turns: spray-painted tags featuring the single's title popping up around the globe, a mysterious Instagram account documenting said tags, and, finally, the news that the Anton Corbijn-directed video would drop on 9/9 at 9 p.m.

Sadly, part of the fun was spoiled this past weekend when the song, featuring David Bowie himself, leaked. However, the band proved that they still had some secrets up their sleeves when an interactive accompaniment to the song — directed by Vincent Morisset and created by Google Creative Lab — dropped Monday.

"Just a Reflektor," according to the official description, was filmed in Haiti and tells the tale of a woman who travels between our world and hers. If that sounds obtuse, that's because it is — the narrative and interactive elements intersect to create an experience that's both dizzying and immersive.

After navigating to the experience via a Google Chrome browser, users will be asked to go to a dedicated site via their smartphone, punch in a code and hold up their device to the webcam as the video begins to play. Your phone will dictate what you see on the screen and, at one point, will find you reflected in a ...

TWFanmily, you might want to brace yourselves: Even though the Wanted's third studio album, Word of Mouth, was previously slated to drop in September, the boys have announced, via a video message to fans, that the disc has been pushed back to November 4.

After reassuring fans that they have been hard at work on Word of Mouth, the band's Tom Parker said forlornly, "Unfortunately, and this is where the bad news comes in, guys ... unfortunately the album date for Word of Mouth has to go back to the fourth of November as our worldwide date."

Nathan Sykes quickly jumped in to assure fans that they won't be left empty-handed or, rather, -earred, this month. "We hear your frustrations and we see on Twitter and online that you're being so patient and to say thank you we want to give you a brand-new single," he said. "You can hear our brand-new song 'Show Me Love' on all your favorite radio stations from tomorrow morning."

The band then tweeted an image of the blinged-out album cover.

We've already heard singles like the stripped-down and the anthemic from the upcoming record.

"They had a bunch of records that wasn't them and now we have the album that we feel like is them," their manager Scooter Braun recently told MTV News. We'll just have to wait and see how "Show Me Love" fits into that equation when it drops Tuesday (September 10) morning.