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+ Miley Cyrus is out and Selena Gomez is in to voice the part of Dracula's daughter in the animated film, "Hotel Transylvania." Adam Sandler plays Dracula, and Cee Lo Green will also star. (E!)

+ Though Adele beat out the Jonas Brothers in the Grammy category for Best New Artist in '09, there are no hard feelings. "To Adele... she's only like one of the best artists ever. It's cool," says brother Kevin. She's up for six noms on Sunday. (MTV News)

+ After much speculation Justin Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, confirms via tweet that Drake is indeed collaborating on Bieb's Believe. (MTV News)

+ Maroon 5's Adam Levine has launched his own label. His first signing to 222 Records is "Glee" star Matthew Morrison. "I am excited for everyone to hear Matthew's forthcoming album. Great things are in store for him with this release," said Levine. (E!)

+ OutKast's Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy have been tapped for a Gorillaz collaboration. The free track, "DoYaThing," will be available on Converse's website on Feb. 23. (Rap-Up)

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Sorry, Hanson's brilliant "Blues Brothers"-inspired "Thinking 'Bout Somethin'," but I have a new favorite music video. Ke$ha recently uploaded the visual accompaniment to her "Sleazy Remix 2.0 Get Sleazier," and there are so, so many things to like about it! I will tell you about them!

The glitter princess chose to sit this video out and instead enlist the help of a couple senior citizens, Pedro from "Napoleon Dynamite," and a gaggle of drag queens. They all come together to lip-synch verses from T.I., Lil Wayne, Andre 3000 and Wiz Khalifa, while a large African-American man with a mohawk won the prized role of Ke$ha. I know, you already like the video and you haven't even seen it.

There isn't too much rhyme or reason to what's going on in "Sleazy Remix 2.0 Get Sleazier," but it's not like you need it -- there's just something about an old man playing chess in a park and ABSOLUTELY SLAYING T.I.'s verse that really makes our hearts flutter. I mean, when's the last time you saw a 65-year-old in a wheelchair mouthing the words "Bitch, my swagger supernatural/Get you pregnant lookin' at you"? (Hopefully never.)

+ Watch Ke$ha's "Sleazy Remix 2.0 Get Sleazier" video. (Language NSFW.)

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Not even Christmas can slow down B.o.B. Bobby Ray's adventures continued over the holidays with "Play the Guitar," an ax-packed jam you may have missed during that epic post-presents nap. (MISS U.) But don't sleep on it now! The track finds the MC rapping over a chunky "American Woman"-style guitar riff, educating the haters: "My flow is the stupidest/Dumb/Probably have to after school tutor it."

As MTV News notes, Drake stans will remember the "Play The Guitar" title hook from T.I.'s verse on "Fancy," but the ATL party doesn't stop there: Andre 3000 rolls in for some crucial, possibly dinner-inspired bars. "I keep having this reoccurring image where I'm standing on top of Church's Chicken playing guitar/Look over and I see B.o.B. with this strange cigar/He standing on top of Dunkin Donuts, it's like he own it." Pretty sure we had the same dream the last time we ate a bear claw and listened to "Nothin' On You" before bed. (Late-night donuts: great idea or greatest idea?)

It's always a treat to get some new rhymes from Three Stacks, who also dropped a verse on Ke$ha's "Sleazy 2.0" remix last month -- it actually got sleazier! He'll have some competition in the rapping department on B.o.B.'s Strange Clouds, which is set to feature Lil Wayne, T.I. and Big K.R.I.T. in addition to Bobby Ray himself. The album drops March 13.

+ Listen to B.o.B.'s "Play The Guitar."

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+ "VH1 Divas" airs tonight. Watch Kelly Clarkson, Florence Welch, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson, Jill Scott and Jessie J perform. Welch, Wanda Jackson and Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings pay tribute to Amy Winehouse, and The Roots serve as house band. (MTV News)

+ Justin Bieber and Drake joined Stevie Wonder for his 16th Annual House Full Of Toys benefit concert on Saturday. Watch Wonder and Bieber perform "Someday at Christmas." (Idolator)

+ Biebs and Drake (busy boys!) were also joined by Chris Brown, Wiz Khalifa, J. Cole, Lil Wayne and more for L.A.'s Power 106 holiday concert on Friday. Watch various callabos here. (Idolator)

+ If you didn't get to catch the gazillion Jay-Z/Kanye West encores of "N****s In Paris" live, perhaps watching Timbaland premiere a live remix of it will almost make up for missing out. #craycraycool (Rap-Up)

+ Kanye West's been relatively Twitter silent the last couple months, but this weekend he shared a couple dozen photos ranging from fancy cars to sexy women. Holiday wish list or some secret communication? (@kanyewest)

+ Ke$ha dishes about her "Sleazy" remix with Lil Wayne, T.I., Wiz Khalifa and Andre 3000 to MTV News. "Dr. Luke and I had this idea that we wanted to just get them all on one track and make it as gangster of a track as we possibly could." (MTV News)

+ Jonas Brothers fans, hold on to your fan-made lockets: They premiered a new tune, "Dance Until Tomorrow." (Just Jared Jr.)

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In between putting hairy men's beards in her mouth, Ke$ha somehow found the time to befriend every rapper ever and ask them to appear on a remix of her 2010 hit "Sleazy." In "Sleazy Remix 2.0 Get Sleazier," Ke$ha balls out with Wiz Khalifa, T.I., Andre 3000 and Lil Wayne, who take over most of the song while Ke$ha holds strong on the original hook: "I don't need you or your brand-new Benz/Or your bougey friends."

First up is Wiz who uses his verse to pay homage to his woman and all the expensive ish he can afford to buy her: "I got a wifey at home/And what she wants she could have it." Wiz passes the baton to Andre 3000, who, in his signature speedy flow, walks us down memory lane: "We start out so cute/In our baby pictures/That mama shot for our daddy so he wouldn't forget you." Tip follows suit, and uses his time to make sure the world knows he's a master in the bedroom: "My demeanor is so special/And this d*** is so impressive." Moving on... Lil Wayne brings us home and rhymes over thudding drums: "I'm financially straight/Like a line/I ain't lying." You wear diamonds in your teeth, Weezy, so it's not like we thought you were going bankrupt or anything.

While we're not sure what all the different verses have to do with one another or why this remix is considered "sleazier," we are sure that Ke$ha's Rolodex is stacked, and may possibly rival that of cover queen and BFF to the stars Taylor Swift. Duke it out girls, and let us know who comes out on top.

+ Listen to Ke$ha featuring Lil Wayne, T.I., Wiz Khalifa and Andre 3000 "Sleazy Remix 2.0 Get Sleazier."

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+ Check out a clip from Nick Jonas' guest appearance on "Last Man Standing," where he steals the show during a choir's performance of "Silent Night." (Idolator)

+ Willow Smith's having a fun week. She just released her "Fireball" video; now watch her Jimmy Fallon interview where she talks about working with Nicki Minaj. They also race bumper cars! (Rap-Up)

+ Selena Gomez looks like a pretty, purple underwater siren in her promo shots for her soon-to-be-released fragrance. She's also asking fans to help choose the scent notes for her perfume. (Just Jared)

+ Who had the best MTV performance of 2011? Paramore, Jay-Z and Kanye West, Robyn, Adele, Beyoncé, Lupe Fiasco, Lil Wayne and more are up for your vote. (MTV News)

+ Ke$ha's tapped Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, T.I. and André 3000 for her remix of "Sleazy." It drops Dec. 13. "Get ready, this is the SICKEST and SLEAZIEST version YET," she contends. (Rap-Up)

+ She and Him's Zooey Deschanel says she's gearing up for their new record. "I've been writing a lot," she said in an interview, "So we'll hopefully be in the studio pretty soon." (Billboard)

+ Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi penned the soundtrack for the movie "We Bought A Zoo," which hits streets on Dec. 13. But you can stream the gorgeous, atmospheric album here. (Rolling Stone)

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The most hugely anticipated track off Young Jeezy's long-awaited TM 103 Hustlerz Ambition is here at last, and it's real romantic. Debuted today by Funkmaster Flex, "I Do" has Jizzle, Jay-Z and Andre 3000 getting all mushy about cruising down the aisle, cutting wedding cakes and making cute babies -- Hova's even got a sorta-head-scratching line about catching the bridal bouquet, and Jeezy keeps promising to strike some kind of sweet deal with the tooth fairy to win over his would-be wifey.

Rapping over a smokin' beat and sax-soaked sample of soul singer Lenny Williams' "Let's Talk It Over," all three hip-hop heavyweights take a verse on "I Do." Snowman's thugged-out as ever but lets his guard down enough to drop swoon-inducing lines like, "And in these unlucky streets, you're gon' be my charm." After Jigga takes his "unlawful lady to have and to hold" in the second verse, Andre 3000 sweeps in to steal the show with a whole slew of kooky-adorable rhymes (e.g., "So we can float up outta here in this hot air balloon/Let's put a baby butterfly up in your li'l cocoon"). Three Stacks also delivers the outro, daydreaming up a daughter who'll "love books, and cook and look just like you." Aww... these guys are starting to give us a toothache.

Two years coming, TM 103 Hustlerz Ambition (Young Jeezy's fourth major-label release) drops at long last on Dec. 20.

+ Listen to Young Jeezy featuring Jay-Z & Andre 3000, "I Do."

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+ Rihanna canceled her show in Malmö, Sweden, last night after reportedly being hospitalized for flu-like symptoms. "It would have been a great time... I'm really disappointed I couldn't be there," she said in a statement. (Billboard)

+ Justin Bieber has set a record on YouTube. He's the first person to reach 2 billion views, surpassing the 1 billion views record Lady Gaga set last year. (E!)

+ Drake's Take Care, out Nov. 15, is star-studded with collabs that include Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, The Weeknd, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne and Andre 3000. Peep the entire track list here. (Billboard)

+ Watch Lady Gaga's live debut of "Marry The Night." She premiered a pretty, sitar and piano-infused version in India. (Neon Limelight)

+ Madonna's producer William Orbit tweeted she's "going deep" on her forthcoming album. He also wrote, "Madonna has phenomenal understanding of both the minutiae of music and the big picture. Zooming in, zooming out. 4ever amazing. Plus VISION!!!" (MTV News)

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+ "She leaves a gaping hole in our lives," Amy Winehouse's family said in a statement released Sunday following the singer's untimely death on Saturday. Fans left memorabilia outside Amy's London apartment to mourn the loss of the singer, and many celebs took to Twitter to express their condolences. The cause of death has not yet been determined. (MTV News)

+ An Outkast reunion may be on the horizon. Big Boi, who's currently working on his upcoming album Daddy Fat Sax: Soul Funk Crusader, told Rolling Stone to expect a cameo from André 3000. "I hope it does [happen], and I really don't see why it wont." (Rap-Up)

+ You can find Jay-Z and Kanye West's long-awaited album, Watch The Throne, on Aug. 8 on iTunes. They're now being referred to as The Throne. Yes, really. (MTV News)

+ Renaissance man Drake threw out the opening pitch at a recent Cleveland Indians game. Watch an interview with the rapper/singer before the pitch, and see the swaggiest post-pitch swag you've ever seen in your life. (Nah Right)

+ Nick Jonas was spotted out and about in California on Sunday looking unsurprisingly attractive. I don't know about you guys, but I would just feel a little better about him being so hot if he was just a few years older. (Just Jared Jr.)

+ Rihanna, who's been busy out on the road with her Loud tour, just announced her next single -- "Cheers."  Looking forward to the TV-show-of-the-same-name themed music video, RiRi. (Come on, there are worse ideas.) (That Grape Juice)

+ Alt rock icons The Flaming Lips just released their new album... located on a USB stick inside of a toy gummy fetus. Way to drop the ball, Lady Gaga. (BuzzFeed)

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Can we be real here? Beyoncé has been KILLING it lately. First, she drops the anthemic Diplo-produced "Run The World (Girls)." Then, she changes the live-performance game with her jaw-dropping and awe striking performance of "Run The World (Girls)" at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards. Oh, and did we mention she also received the prestigious Billboard Millennium Award at that same event? Definition of killing it right there.

And quite frankly, the latest leak off the Queen B's forthcoming album, 4, should be added to her list of wins. Aptly titled "Party," featuring a white-hot verse by Andre 3000 and production by Consequence and Kanye West, the record is a laid-back slow jam, rife with '70s soul meshed with late '80s/early '90s New Jack Swing swag. It's just begging to be played at your next rooftop BBQ or driving around with the top down in slow-mo.

Layers upon layers of harmony in Beyoncé's vocals take over the sweet summer serenade. 'Kay, maybe we're getting a little too sappy here, but it's probably because WE WE SO ESSITED that Andre 3000 has decided to come out of hibernation! Our boy Andre been lying low recently, but if anyone could lure him out of the honeycomb hideout, it'd definitely be Beyoncé. Andre's swagger on "Party" is unmistakable. His verse has all that signature-Dre smoothness you'd come to expect from the man, and it makes us miss him terribly. Furthermore, the intro to "Party" features a quick Kanye West cameo, where he kindly asks, "You got that swag sauce? You drippin' Swagu." So, it's pretty pretty self-explanatory why we're obsessed with this new song. Now we're off to go ripen up some tomatoes, cook up a batch of Swagu and pour it all over some 'sghetti.

Beyoncé's 4 album is out June 28.

+ Listen to Beyoncé's "Party," featuring Andre 3000 and Kanye West.

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