+ Long ago, a promise was made. A man named Diddy promised a boy named Justin Bieber that when he turned 16 he would bestow onto him a Ferrari. And when that day came, did Diddy keep his promise? It doesn't really matter, because Justin Bieber is a baller, and he copped his own Ferrari. (Idolator)

+ As if that weren't enough, I bring you more proof that Justin Bieber has unseated Shia LaBeouf as the world's luckiest boy (TRANSFORMERS? Indiana Jones? Come on, that was a good run!). Here is a gallery of Bieber posing with every beautiful woman in the music industry. Game over. (Rap Up)

+ Facebook has been rife with regular people comparing themselves (and occasionally deluding themselves) with their celebrity doppelgangers. (Sorry. But NO ONE'S ever mistaken you for Megan Fox.) But who will think of the celebrities, themselves? Do they not need doppelgangers? Looks like Ke$ha found hers... (Spinner)

+ Taylor and Taylor sitting in a tree... Though their real-life love story has come to an end, you can get a peek at the lip-locking Taylor Swift and Twilight's Taylor Lautner do in the film Valentine's Day, with this surreptitiously snapped pic from the set. (E! Online)

+ Oh I see you, rapper. You are really stunting out there with your futuristic car sitting on 32" rims. Congratulations. You've made it. Except, you haven't. Because until you have a cake that is made in your likeness, you will never be the Bawse, better known as Rick Ross. Meet Cake Bawse. (Crunk + Disorderly)

+ Marc Jacobs is suing Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier. I thought perhaps this was a class action type of thing where Jacobs is suing on behalf of humanity but no, apparently this is over some tote bag beef. Keep it on the runway, boys. (Pink Is The New Blog)

+ Bonus Ed Hardy content: Spend some time with the NSFW Ed Hardy Boyz. (Funny Or Die)

The Take Action Tour -- featuring We The Kings, Mayday Parade, A Rocket To The Moon, There For Tomorrow, Call The Cops, and Stereo Skyline, with proceeds benefiting Driving For Donors, which seeks to save lives by finding a match for bone marrow donors and those in need --  is well under way and about to swing into your town or hopefully some place that's near your town so you can go.

The other night, My Life As Liz's eponymous star Liz Lee checked out the Take Action Tour and caught up with Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade. Check out Liz and Derek's video. If that doesn't encouraging you to catch a Take Action show, then I don't know will. Plus get the Take Action Tour dates and buy the Take Action Tour Volume 9 double-disc album, which comes (February 9), featuring all of the band on this year's tour, plus This Providence, All Time Low, Cobra Starship and more.

+ Take Action Tour dates after the jump!

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And now, let us cast our minds back to 1990. 'Twas an exciting time in R&B and hip-hop, as both genres were making serious pop chart inroads, as well as doing some serious genre-mating. Two great songs from the Great R&B/Hip-Hop Merger of the Early 90's are LL Cool J's "Around The Way Girl," and Salt-N-Pepa's "Expression."

"Around The Way..." was the romantic single from LL's monstrous Mama Said Knock You Out album. Despite LL's lip-licking and bedroom eyes, it was ultimately a totally wholesome jam with sweet message of loyalty and fidelity to a gal who had held him down through thick and thin.

Salt-N-Pepa's "Expression," taken from their Black's Magic, was a dope female-empowerment anthem that celebrated individuality over a killer New Jack Swing beat.

But I'm not here to talk about hip-hop and R&B crossovers. I'm here to talk about big top hats.

Below is the video for "Expression" and a clip of LL performing "Around The Way Girl" at Yo! MTV Raps! in a very Spring Break-y looking location. And, for whatever reason, these two 1990 clips find both sets of artists rocking absurdly over-sized top hats.

I really can't explain why this happening. Were people really feeling the look of the Monopoly man? Was there a Mad Hatter renaissance going on that I was unaware of? Even the homeless lady at :23 of the Salt-N-Pepa video is rocking one! A leopard-print joint, no less!

Fashion historians, hip-hop anthropologists and just good guessers; I implore you to take to the comments section and solve the mystery of the big top hat trend of 1990! And we see you, T-Pain.

Lady Gaga, in an interview with Elle Magazine last December, spoke openly about looking forward to having kids -- Baby Gagas! -- one day. Then we saw these photos of Lady Gaga carrying a baby while she was out shopping, showing off her maternal/ Angelina Jolie instincts. The thought of Mama Gaga got us to thinking that she'd make a most excellent mom. And here are five reasons why we wanna see Lady Gaga rockin' the Baby Bjorn.

+ You could borrow her clothes.
Yeah, the Latex reindeer ensemble might be a bit much for eighth grade. But once you hit your couture phase, Mama's closet is gonna look like a treasure chest!

+ She would nurture your creativity.
I highly doubt that Lady Gaga would be the kind of mom who would insist you run off and become a lawyer, thus casting your dreams of becoming an interpretive dancer or video installation artist into the dustbin of what-could-have-been, while you slave away in Advanced Studies In Buying And Selling Stuff And Accounting For It 202. Gaga feels more like the nurturing, feel-free-to-finger-paint type of gal.

+ Auntie Beyonce and Uncle Elton!
After making two videos together (Bey's "Videophone" and Gaga's upcoming "Telephone") Beyonce and Gaga are practically sisters. Or at least cousins. Can you imagine being babysat by Beyonce? Be still my beating heart. And, ever since their GRAMMY-opening duet, Elton John and Gaga have been like two peas in a pod. How cool would it be to be sitting around the lunch table in third grade, "Oh yeah? You like The Lion King? THAT'S MY UNCLE ELTON! WHACHOO KNOW ABOUT THE CIRCLE OF LIFE?!"

+ You'd never have to wonder what your mom was like when she was younger!
This might actually go against you. You can't really yell at her about how she doesn't understand, how she was never different. Because she probably does understand and she was different. Any fight about your mom being a square who doesn't get you will probably end with her saying, "Mommy, once made a music video where she had alien eyes and sat in a bathtub nekkid." That's when you will have lost the argument.

+ You'd be well-fed.
Not to be stereotypical, but Gaga, like many Italian women, is a whiz in the kitchen. ""I come from an Italian family -- what more can I say? I love to cook. I am really good at Italian food. So I make great meatballs, pasta and all sorts. I love it," she told England's Daily Star. So you know you'd be all set in the home-cooked meal department.

Bravery comes in many forms, folks. But I think we can all agree that getting your nose hairs pulled out, in a library, on MTV takes a special form of courage.

It is for this kind of courage that we salute We The Kings drummer Danny Duncan who, along with his fellow Florida pop-rockers, went under MTV's Silent Library treatment in their episode which airs tonight.

In this behind-the-scenes video, We The Kings discuss their harrowing experience on MTV's prank show, Silent Library. There's some chatter on what exactly came out of their noses when said nose hairs were extracted and the painful number of takes it took. Lesser men would be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, but We The Kings happily talk about it.

It's not the first time the boys have flexed their funny bones. You can catch up with all kinds of We The Kings-themed hilarity by watching their Kings Carriage skits.

We The Kings' episode of Silent Library airs tonight at 6:30pm ET.

If you like your pop music with a bit of A.D.D., a ton of genres, a lot of humor, and, generally, a bit of attitude, then meet Neon Hitch. You're gonna love her.

Neon Hitch is a London-based artist (and one-time roommate of Amy Winehouse) who is the newest star in producer Benny Blanco's constellation.

You may not know Benny Blacno's name, but you certainly know his sound. The songwriter/producer has been on a heck of a roll recently, having a hand in hits by Katy Perry, Ke$ha, 3Oh!3 and more. Call it "trash(ed)-pop." It's extravagant, punky, genre-hopping party music.

Neon Hitch, who did writing work on Ke$ha's newest smash, "Blah Blah Blah," is something of an oddball in this crowd of 24-hour party people. Her vocals, on songs like "Blow Ur House Down," (which you can hear at her MySpace) are reminiscent early Erykah Badu, and her music incorporates the very in-vogue sound of dubstep (a sound that heavily influenced Rihanna's Rated R), along with heavy rock guitars and techno pulse that characterizes much of Blanco's production.

While she and Blanco work on her debut album, possibly titled Beg, Borrow And Steal, you can hear Neon Hitch collaborating with 3Oh!3 on the song "Follow Me Down," from the upcoming Alice In Wonderland kind-of soundtrack, Almost Alice.

+ Listen to Neon Hitch and 3Oh!3, "Follow Me Down," here.

All hail another amazing mosaic by artist Jason Mecier, who gathered up armfuls of trash and created Lady Gaga's likeness -- right down the hair bow made of hair -- out of a dismembered Kermit doll, Hello Kitty scraps, poker chips (get it?!), broken sunglasses, playing cards, spare pens and pencils, straws, and lots of other crap that may be taking up space in the bottom of your purse.

The result is a visual wonder (and a tribute to recycling!) that pays tribute to Lady Gaga and makes a valid argument for hoarding.

Check out Jason Mecier's Mariah made of makeup, his Michael Jason made of pills (gulp!), and his awesome mosaic of Pink.

+ Not only has Miley Cyrus participated in the recording of both major Haiti benefit singles (Quincy Jones' "We Are The World" and the Simon Cowell-organized cover of R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts"), she's also organizing a charity auction as well. Miley, along with Demi Lovato and Britney Spears, is auctioning off clothing and memorabilia at Ebay.com/Miley. Proceeds will benefit the American Red Cross. (People)

+Last night's Super Bowl, which, in case you were doing your laundry or something, was won by the Saints (WHO DAT!), featured plenty of music. Queen Latifah sang "America The Beautiful," Carrie Underwood performed the national anthem, and The Who rocked (or wheezed) their way through the half-time show. But the whole thing was kicked off by Jay-Z, who, in a pre-recorded segment, performed a version of "Run This Town," backed by the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. The only thing missing was Rihanna, who, though her vocals were used in the segment, did not appear. (MTV News)

+ Maybe it's because girl was busy! Rihanna is apparently back on he studio grind, hard at work with dance-pop producer/hitmaker David Guetta. You have to wonder if Guetta, who recently worked with Kelis, will move Rihanna away from the murky, atmospherics of Rated R and towards the dancefloor. (That Grape Juice)

+ Last week we mentioned that Ke$ha had released a video in which she defaced the famous Holllywood sign so that the letters read "Ke$hawood." Some thought it was a prank then; a bit of viral video trickery. Well, some were right. Entertainment Weekly did the while "news gathering" thing (I think it's called "reporting") and talked to someone at the Hollywood Sign Trust who called you-know-what on the whole escapade. (EW)

+ Justin Timberlake was awarded Harvard's coveted Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Award. Naturally, when accepting an award from such a hallowed institution, one dons a blond wig and a bra. (Rolling Stone)

+ In a recently released Twitvid, R. Kelly announced he had 15 (FIFTEEN!) more chapters of Trapped In The Closet ready to go. Much like with the three additional Star Wars films, I'm hoping for the best but fearing the worst. Wait, what am I saying? The worse these things are the better! Bring 'em on, Kells! (Idolator)

(Credit: Liza Chrust/MTV)

Big Time Rush are the newest kids on the block at Nick, and they're a boy band with a story to tell. Big Time Rush's self-titled Nick show follows the ups and downs of four Midwestern boy, as they move to Los Angeles to make it in the music biz.

We already showed you our get-to-know-you chat with Big Time Rush, and any Big Time Rush fan now knows about Carlos' Supersoakers gig. So now that you know all about Big Time Rush, it's time for some extra eye candy.

Shot by MTV's Liza Chrust, we're happy to present this exclusive gallery of Big Time Rush photos, where we find the guys in various states of excitement, happiness and cool repose.

Check below for some more photos and be sure to tune in to watch Big Time Rush tonight at 8:30pm ET on Nick.

+ Check out all of MTV's Big Time Rush's MTV photos here.

If you missed Christofer Drew's visit to MTV yesterday, where he chatted live with fans on Buzzworthy, and then played a live four-song Never Shout Never set with just his guitar, a harmonica, a stool, and a handful of Never Shout Never fans. And if you're a fan, you know that really don't need much else besides Christofer, a guitar, and his biting yet beautiful lyrics.

Check out the set list below, get photos of Christofer performing at MTV, and watch Never Shout Never's live take on "What Is Love" from his MTV.com appearance on Thursday, February 4 in New York City.

MTV Set List

"Lovesick"

"If You Go Leave Your Key In The Mailbox"

"The Day That Music Died"

"What Is Love"