Is it just me or does Tom Morello have the same voice as Barack Obama? I had to watch Street Sweeper Social Club's interview twice because the first time I was so distracted by his presidential tone that I pretty much couldn't concentrate on anything he said.

The Rage Against The Machine / Audioslave alumnus is half of Street Sweeper Social Club. His accomplice is Boots Riley of Oakland rap group The Coup. Together they just released their self-titled debut, along with a star-studded video for first single, "100 Little Curses."

Meet Street Sweeper Social Club in this exclusive MTV interview, keep an eye out for "100 Little Curses" (featuring Sopranos star Drea DiMateo and Road Trip star Breckin Meyer), and look for Street Sweeper Social Club on tour this summer with Jane's Addiction and supposed retirees Nine Inch Nails.

+ THIS JUST IN: Before leaving for Harvard, Tom Morello grew up in Chicago with his European mother and Kenyan father. WEIRD!

Say what you will about Kanye West's music. Obviously, it's amazing. He's on a level all his own. But it wasn't beats and loops that made him an international superstar. It wasn't anything that happened in the studio. It was his mouth. Sure College Dropout was a new level of hot, but it didn't really HIT with full force until Kanye got up on TV with the whole world watching and said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." It was a heroic moment.

All of a sudden, in one sentence, the little backpacker that could went from being one of those nobody wrestlers who use their real names to being The Ultimate Warrior. All of a sudden he was hip-hop's Hulk Hogan. And, although he may not have reached that transcendent level of social significance since, Kanye West has come a long way as a source of immortal quotes. Whether he's pumping himself up, cutting himself down or throwing his whole self into his mouth, foot first, Kanye's always got all the best s--- to say by far.

Kanye West, I mean you no disrespect. Don't let South Park get you down. Don't check that ego. No matter how much laughing comes back at you, you must know, that second to Barack, you are the great orator of our time. Yeezy, excluding your tweets, here are my top 10 favorite things you have ever said. Complete list after the jump!

10. "MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!"
This quote, which 'capped' off an anti-Twitter rant isn't particularly profound, but it is useful foreshadowing for many fantastic capitalized things to come.

9. "I'm typing so f---ing hard I might break my f---ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!"
Note the rare use of lower-case letters. This rager, also excerpted from Kanye's blog, is directly followed by an all-caps tirade against the haters who tried to say Kanye didn't give his all at Bonnaroo.

Also in this rant: "LET'S BREAK DOWN THE WALLS ON THIS TRUMAN SHOW AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY OCCURRED!!!"

8. "I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I’M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE."
Aw man, take it back, Kanye. You kill me when you cut yourself down! Does Lebron apologize for outscoring the whole Knicks? No. He wins games. Does Vince Shlomi apologize for the volume of his voice? No, dude. Vince Shlomi sells Sham Wows. Being the Louis Vuitton Don is what you DO, baby. So go on and do it well!

Also in this downer: "I'M SURE THE WRITERS AT SOUTH PARK ARE REALLY NICE PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE. THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DRAW MY CREW. THAT WAS PRETTY FUNNY ALSO!! I'M SURE THERE'S GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN THIS ... THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW IT'S ME!"

7. To a PETA VIP: "They need more fur in this show!"
Speaking of take it back ... Kanye pissed a whole buncha people off with this one. The fashion show of an aggressive animal rights activist (Stella McCartney) is not exactly the place to start spouting off about your minks. Especially when Pink is there and tells the press! But Kanye, deep in my vegetarian heart, I know that you were only joking.

6. "I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis Vuitton the King, Jr. Address me as such."
Enough of the flubs and the self-deprecation. Let's let the real Kanye speak. The visionary. The great thinker. The ... great ... fashion rights ... leader? Hmmm. This quote was pulled from a video blog in which Kanye likened the success of his new line of Louis Vuitton shoes to Martin Luther King Jr.'s success as a civil rights leader. Bold.

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To help you properly enjoy this clip of Green Day's brand-new video, "Know Your Enemy," which premieres on MTV on Friday, I've had my ear to the speaker all morning decoding lyrics. Here's what I've come up with:

Bringing on the fury/ The choir infantry/ Revolt against the honor to obey

Overthrow the effigy/ The vast majority/ Burning down the foreman of control

Silence is the enemy/ Against your urgency/ So rally up the demons of your soul

Do you know the enemy/ Do you know your enemy/ Well, gotta know the enemy

At first I wasn't sure that I did know my enemy. Or at least, I wasn't sure who Billie Joe Armstrong was shouting about. Clearly American Idiot railed directly against George W. Bush with every ounce of spit it had. It's widely accepted to be the protest album of the Bush era. But he's gone now. Then I was considering the possibility that Green Day were anti-Obama, too, until I remembered this Billie Joe Armstrong quote from a Rolling Stone interview:

"After his acceptance speech, I have to admit, it took me an hour to get the lump out of my throat. Obama inspires people, and this country needs inspiration. People are jaded, pissed off and embarrassed."

So who could the enemy be? The big clue in this exclusive 30-second "Know Your Enemy" preview comes in the third stanza. Look: "Silence is the enemy/ Against your urgency." Silence is the enemy! Billie Joe is suggesting, like Lit before him, that our enemies are... ourselves! "Revolt against the honor to obey," he snarls. Do what you believe is right -- make noise -- even if it's not what you're "supposed" to do.

The enemy is your instinct to go along quietly in the name of comfort. Green Day hasn't turned on Obama. They've written him a rallying cry, reminding the world that it wasn't a president that put us where we are. It was our own silent apathy. And on top of that, no president -- no matter how inspiring -- can get us out of our mess if we continue to choose complacency over responsibility.

"Know Your Enemy" they scream, before a wall of flames. Do what's right, not what's easy. DO. Do your part to make sure that this 21st Century Breakdown has a happy ending. Course all that's just one man's opinion. What do you think?

"Know Your Enemy" premieres on MTV.com at the stroke of midnight, Friday, April 24. Be here.

+ Go behind the scenes of Green Day's "Know Your Enemy."

+ Watch the ultimate Green Day video playlist!

+ Green Day video director reveals details of "Know Your Enemy.

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One For The Team have a song called "A Better Job" that opens, "Let's move to Brooklyn together/ We'll both get internships at Matador Records." Is that the indie rock version of that thing rappers do when they mention specific street corners and recent cultural events? It's definitely the indie kid equivalent of "Seats down/ Windows up" and other such rap fantasies. Few of them would admit it, but no skinny mustache-faced hipster in his right mind wouldn't choose a shoebox Brooklyn apartment loaded with discontinued Yo La Tengo t-shirts over a steamy night at the club.

The One For The Team indie kid fantasy doesn't end there. Not only do the band's lyrics cater directly to aspiring hipsters everywhere, but they've got a sound to match. The Minnesota based power-pop balladeers sound like a cross between The Arcade Fire and The New Pornographers, with hints of Shins and early Beatles. Take note, Matador! Maybe this dream works both ways ...

Finally, on top of all that, One For The Team back up their Obama-era optimism with this kinda incredible DIY promise:

The album [Build a Garden] was recorded and mixed entirely by One For The Team in their apartment in Minneapolis. Each individual order will be filled personally by the band and will include unique items sent directly from the band to you. The album's packaging is printed on recycled materials and is assembled and numbered by hand by the band. Only 500 physical copies of the EP will be made, however, the album will be widely available for MP3 download.

Live One For The Team's new age rock 'n roll fantasy, right here.

We recently put together a playlist over here called "Be The Change." It includes videos from Daughtry, Common, Green Day, Will.I.Am and other artists who are doing their part to join Barack Obama in moving the country forward. What a terrible oversight it was not to include Flo Rida.

Have you seen the original "You Spin Me Round" video? Have you ever even seen a photo of Dead Or Alive, the band responsible for it? Oh my holy Lord, how times have changed.

Shot in what appears to be a Sears portrait studio, "You Spin Me Round" is basically a walking, talking Yellow Pages ad for a pirate law firm. Dudes in unthinkable hairstyles and business suits (with the exception of the crimped leading she-man in the eye patch and the kimono) pose with their elbows on each others' shoulders and their grins set to "win." It's downright unbelievable.

Any practical artist would have trashed the video at first glance and started over. Not Flo Rida. He's a humanitarian with a vision for the future. While preserving certain visual cues, such as a shimmering disco ball and a variation on the eye-patch called "sunglasses," Flo Rida ushers in an era of accountability (err... sorta) by trading out the suits for shortie-shorts on fly girls. He replaces the law firm / maypole sequence with a glossy black turntable slathered in chicks. As for the vampire fingernails... well he just completely ditches them. Wise.

Thanks Flo Rida! Thanks for making America great again! Watch Flo Rida's update below and the original after the jump!

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You asked, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em answered! Watch Soulja Boy Tell 'Em answer your Buzzworthy fan questions from the infamous MTV Studios green room, where he covered everything from the lines in his eyebrows (good question!!) to Barack Obama and Kanye West, the hater who inspired his "Yahhh!" single (thanks, dude, and no, it wasn't a pirate), his acting rising career, and even Tay Zonday of "Chocolate Rain" fame. (You forgot about Tay for a second there, didn't you? Shame on you!)

And -- spoiler alert! -- ever the hypeman, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em brought S.O.D Money Gang's JBAR along to MTV with him, so there's your two-for-the-price-of-one action for the day.

But did the ringtone rap kingpin/ phone freak/ Xbox aficionado touch upon that Bow Wow beef so many of you guys wanted to know about? Did he discuss the Soulja Girl of his dreams? Reveal a new Soujla dance?

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As any true fan will tell you, 29-year-old Shaffer Chimere Smith got his stage name from producer Big D Evans, who told him, "You see music the way Neo sees The Matrix." What exactly that means, the interviewer at SoulMusic.com never asked, but if you listen to Ne-Yo's work -- from Mario's "Let Me Love You" to his own "Closer" -- it's not hard to see what Big D saw. Ne-Yo's songs are intuitively constructed, brilliantly simple and impossibly catchy. It's as if he knows music so well that the path of a song is clear to him before it's even written. Trippy.

But Ne-Yo's road to success hasn't been all movie magic. The whole reason he started writing songs in the first place was to deal with his anger over his parents' divorce. Growing up in Las Vegas, he wrote song after song for his own group, Envy, and for other artists. And although he achieved modest success through Marques Houston's recording of "That Girl," nothing took hold.

Until it did. After "Let Me Love You" struck gold, Ne-Yo could do no wrong. He penned hit after hit after hit. "So Sick" launched his debut album, In My Own Words, into the stratosphere and Ne-Yo was #1 on The Billboard 200 album chart, with more than 300,000 copies sold in his first week.

With Year Of The Gentleman, Ne-Yo delivers on his fervent support of Barack Obama, complementing the President's vision for an era of accountability with a more grown up approach to music. And that goes beyond pressed suits and fedoras. His mature approach to relationships and fame, as depicted in his songs, set an example for fans. An example that Ne-Yo has taken from his own source of inspiration: The Rat Pack.

But when Ne-Yo, our featured artist, comes face to face with his creativity, it's not wearing a bow tie. MTV's exclusive "Meeting Inspiration" clips envision Ne-Yo's muse as a ball of light, raining sparks in a phosphorescent room. Watch as Ne-Yo glides across the floor in a series of performances and interviews about harnessing the inventive electricity that runs through all of us.

+ Exclusive behind-the-scenes photos of "Meeting Inspiration."

Dudes, Alicia Keys is SO SO SO beautiful, but she's just NOT looking like herself these days! She had some full-effect cat eyes at the Oscars, and in the photo above, taken at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party last night, she almost looks like she's gone redhead.

Moreover, Alicia appears to be totally morphing into Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air star Tatyana Ali. Which is totally fine -- Tatyana's gorgeous -- but they're nearly indistinguishable now. Alicia, honey! You're beautiful! Don't go changing!

And I know Tatyana did The Young and the Restless and some producing and helped with the Obama campaign (yay!), but here's the most recent music video we have on record. Old-school jam!

Just in case you forgot how sweet it is livin' on Yeezy Street, check out the latest statement from Camp Kanye, ripped directly from the pages of Details magazine:

"Put this in the magazine: There's nothing more to be said about music. I'm the f---ing end-all, be-all of music. I know what I'm doing. I did 808s in three weeks. I got it. It's on cruise control. . . Man, we talked about music for God knows how long! Now let's talk about how my f---ing sweater didn't come back right from Korea. That's what's interesting me."

Why do we love this man??? How does his mega-ego continue to launch our thousand ships?!? Or wait! could this be another case of mistaken identity? Maybe the same frollet-headed fraud who brought us Kanye's Colbert beef and bi-porn debacle has slipped one past Details, too! But then again... that swag is vintage Kanye. Par for the course from the great one, who has just jetted back from dropping his Louis V sneaks on Paris Fashion Week. Who has just declared himself nuclear energy. Who just got off the phone with Barack Obama. Yup yup, all in a day's work for Martin Louis The King, Jr.

+ Read the complete Kanye interview in Details.

+ A Charlie's Angels 3 producer says she'd love for Rihanna to join the feathered-hair trio this time around. Meanwhile, Drew Barrymore claims she's more interested in having a foursome with Penelope Cruz. (Wambie)

+ Paris Hilton and Scarlett Johansson aren't the only celebs who decided to try their hand at "singing." Relive the train wreck-y amazingness of Eddie Murphy's high-pitched warbling with this collection of actors who shouldn't quit their day jobs. (Details Blog)

+ And speaking of crossover ventures, singer/ glittery princess Taylor Swift has announced that she'll be launching her own Wal-Mart clothing line (a la Olsens!). (LimeLife)

+ Audrina Patridge says she and Justin Bobby have called it quits! Again! Hey, wonder if this means she's taken off that saliva-drenched promise ring once and for all... (Remote Control)

+ Biggie Smalls' mom refuses to let her feud with Lil' Kim die down. Her latest message for the once-incarcerated rapper? "Tell [Kim] to find herself, go drink a cup of green tea and get a life." (MTV News)

+ Since getting dumped by Kate Moss, Pete Doherty has stayed true to himself and his goals of going through life... as a crazy cat person who enjoys writing on the walls (like Will Hunting, except in blood!) and long walks on the beach drinking. (Scandalist)

+ President Barack Obama busts a move to Beyonce's "Single Ladies," but refuses to don Justin Timberlake's stretch leotard. (MTV News)

+ Meanwhile, Macy Gray denies (self-perpetuated?) rumors that she is in love with Barack and wants to go all Single Black Female on Michelle. (OMG! Yahoo)

+ Jessica Simpson steps out in public, pretends Everyone In The World isn't mentally obsessing about her BMI. (Usmagazine)