+ Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show has given Paula Abdul the proper American Idol send-off montage. (LogoOnline)

+ Lady Gaga nipple slip -- who wants it? And are you sure? (Drunken Stepfather)

+ And only because she's one of our favorite models of our time, here's Linda Evangelista doing W magazine. (Socialite Life)

+ The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch is doing better after surgery to treat his cancer.  Thanks for asking. (Rolling Stone)

+ Hey, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler! Walk this way! No, no! Not THAT way!! (Dude fell off the stage backwards last night at a show in South Dakota, dontcha know). Word on the street is that he sustained minor injuries to his head, neck, and shoulder (translation: lips). Get better, Stevie! (Seriously? OMG! WTF?)

+ Ricky Martin has finally stopped shaking his bon bon long enough to join the Twitterverse. AY YI YI! (OHLALA)

+ SO amazing. Lauren Conrad and the rest of her Hills friends have been immortalized in pastels and are hanging in some art gallery in Vancouver. And it's even the really good shot of Lauren with mascara streaming down her face. You know, from that one time when she cried? (Pretty Boring)

+ The gargantuan line-up for 2009 Lollapalooza at Chicago's Grant Park was just announced, and it's fuller than a tick on a three-day suck!! The roster includes HUGE acts like Depeche Mode, The Killers, Snoop Dogg, and Beastie Boys, plus more of your favorites like Kings of Leon, Asher Roth, Santigold, and Silversun Pickups. What? NO CHROMEO?? (The Tripwire)

+ Today we mourn the loss of Ozzy Osbourne's dog Little Bit, who was shredded to, um... bits by a coyote. (Sleaze Roxx)

+ Kelly Rowland has bean tearing up the charts both overseas and stateside recently, with the rise of her new single "When Love Takes Over." Tonight we'll get to see her perform it live on the So You Think You Can Dance results show with French DJ David Guetta. Can't wait! (Neon Limelight)

+ American Idol winner Jordin Sparks just dropped her next single "S.O.S." and, thankfully, it's a DANCE track (all the gays say "Ay-ohhhhhh!!!"). What makes it even more awesome is that it samples the old freestyle song "Let The Music Play." Love it. (Perez Hilton)

+ Rapper Bow Wow seemed to be a little down in the Twitter dumps, as manifested in this Tweet from yesterday. (Bossip)

+ Man, I am craving some Toblerone after hearing that Maroon 5 are heading to Switzerland to work on their third album with Mutt "You're-an-idiot-for-cheating-on-Shania-Twain" Lange. (NME)

+ Former Danity Kane member D. Woods provides some terribly blunt revelations about Making The Band and just exactly how real "reality" television is. We applaud her candor. We do not, however, support her new haircut. (Singersroom)

+ Now that Pete Doherty is a Sober Sally, the absolute LAST thing he needs is to be infected with the Swine Flu. NOW GO OUT AND BUY SOME HOG! THE INDUSTRY'S A SUFF'RIN! (Holy Moly)

+ You need to see the trailer for Eminem's new video "3 A.M." It looks like Silent Hill meets a Rob Zombie movie. Pretty creepy (and of course, Em is shirtless). (Rap-Up)

+ As if you needed another reason to head to Austin, TX this year, Pearl Jam and Beastie Boys (along with Dave Matthews Band - meh) are headlining the Austin City Limits Music Festival in October (tix are only $185 for three days.. pretty good for a recesh budgie). Other notables include Lily Allen and John Legend.

+ And here you have it, "the face of digital energy," the official album cover for Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D." It's supposed to be a blend of all four band members' faces, but I think it just looks like Fergie after a hard night of drinking, which could explain where her wig went. (Rap-Up)

+ If you're in the market for a creepy Patrick Swayze wax figure (that looks nothing like him but claims to "sport his famous flowing 1980's hairstyle" from Road House), then you have come to the right place! (Live Auctioneers)

No matter what Katy Perry does for the rest of her life, she'll be hard-pressed to escape her rep as the girl-kissing, cherry Chapstick-abusing, slightly lesbian-leaning pop star.

However, she's also quite the style icon amongst fashion bloggers, and her name is even popping up on eBay as a style search term.

Her looks are undeniably unforgettable -- peel-away banana boob, anyone? So if you wanna bust out like Katy, here are the top 5 style steps you need to take, prontos!

5. Wear Short Skirts...VERY Short: Finish this sentence: Lady GaGa is to leotards what Katy Perry is to_____ Here's a hint: It's SHORT SKIRTS. Like, old-school Cher micro minis. They are CRUCIAL.

4. Smiley Faces: Apparently smiley faces aren't just for your Facebook chats or Twitter status updates or Gnarls Barkley anymore. Attach them to as many articles of clothing as you can, pls! : ) ;P

3. Get Inspired By Other Celebs & Eras: Like Michael Jackson! Or Carmen Miranda! Or '80s glam!

2. Pants = Tight: As the Beastie Boys once put it, "Her pants were tight and that's okay!" So with their blessing and Katy Perry's endorsement, make sure your pants are as tight as possible and/or leather. Both? You're golden!

1. Baby Pink! Katy Perry loves her some pink. Espeshers pink dresses. In fact, if you don't like pink, none of this is going to work at all. Embrace it.

NOTE: We do not, however, under any circumstances, condone the Zebra pantsuit... please proceed with caution. Good luck!

Sure sure, the Beastie Boys pioneered the fake-'staches-and-'70s-suits crime-fighting video with their 1994 classic, "Sabotage," but if you're gonna pay homage, you might as well pay homage to the masters. And in their new "Guilty As Charged" video, Gym Class Heroes tear a page from the Beasties' handbook and from classic Blacksploitation films like Shaft, and, clearly, Bruce Lee kung fu flicks.

Watch Travis McCoy -- who was just named the newest ambassador to Staying Alive, MTV's HIV and AIDS awareness campaign -- Disashi, Eric, and Matt, plus Quang, and a bewigged, Foxy Brown-ed Estelle put the hurt on some old-school dookie chains and nunchucks.

"Guilty As Charged" was directed by Mark Allan Staubach, who also shot The Academy Is...'s "Summer Hair=Forever Young," in the amazing Las Vegas institution that is the neon graveyard, where old signs go to die.

+ Holy stunt double! Zac Efron's waxy doppelganger gives us the Hebrew jeebies. (Dlisted)

+ After a week of R&R, Janet Jackson is officially ready to RockWitchu once again. (MTV News)

+ Watch Katie Holmes sing and dance all sexy-like, and then ask yourselves: What Would Xenu Think? (Usmagazine.com)

+ Even if you didn't win a free trip to Mexico for Los Premios, you'll still want to tune in on October 16th to catch performances by Tokio Hotel and Metallica. (MTV Tr3s)

+ The Beastie Boys hit to road to make sure you can't, you won't and you don't stop...voting. (Rolling Stone)

+ David Archuleta will sing "God Bless America" in the 7th inning of tonight's ALCS series opener. Sorry, ladies, all ball-girl positions are currently filled. (Archuleta Fan Scene)

+ Franz Ferdinand whipped out some new material last night in front of a hipstery, Williamsburg crowd. (Billboard)

+ The good news? Guns N' Roses' new album, Chinese Democracy, is coming atcha November 23rd. The bad news? You can only get it at Best Buy. The best-ever news? Possible free Dr. Peppers for all! (Scandalist)

If you:

+ Only heard "Rapper's Delight" for the first time when that old lady in The Wedding Singer dropped a few lines in that ridick scene

+ First heard of Dr. Dre when Eminem mentioned him

+ Don't remember when the Beastie Boys were actually boys

+ Didn't realize that the Fresh Prince and Will Smith were the same person, or that he left DJ Jazzy Jeff behind when he moved to Bel Air

+ Didn't realize Rev Run was, um, in a rap group

+ Didn't realize Ice-T had a whole separate career before he played Fin Tutuola on Law & Order: SVU

+ Didn't realize Jennifer Lopez and Diddy were once a couple

+ Don't know who the Fly Girls were

+ Thought Queen Latifah made her showbiz debut in BarberShop 2

And/or

+ Don't know who Kid or Play is...

Then you probably need a serious dose of Yo! MTV Raps, the seminal national hip-hop show that was the. shiz. on MTV back in the late '80s and early '90s. The show took hip-hop out of the New York boroughs and pockets of urban Cali, where it'd been brewing, and into the homes of anyone with MTV, beginning in 1988, and it's been a legend ever since.

Now, 20 years later, we've dusted off the turntables -- and the set -- and invited back host Fab 5 Freddy and an impressive roster of the original voices, leaders and pioneers of the hip-hop movement and resurrected Yo! MTV Raps.

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In a weird post-modernist sorta twist of art imitating life imitating gaming imitating a band, Cartel, the group once known as Band In A Bubble, stopped by MTV the other day, and the sore-thumbed kids over at Multiplayerblog (MTV's gaming blog) trapped them in a room and wouldn't let them out until they test drove upcoming video game "Rock Band." (In the interest of disclosure, Harmonix, the company that created the game, is owned by MTV.) Read more...

The Beastie Boys were fighting for their right to throw down long before the Shop Boyz were partying like rock stars. As the godfathers of sampling, they were chopping and screwing while Pharrell Williams was still in diapers. Reversing drum loops before Timbaland got his first 808. Bigging it up to the booty before Lil Boosie was born; feelin' on females before Sean Kingston existed, and dropping rhymes about loose ladies decades before Nelly Furtado hit her hippie phase. They donned furry suits before Gym Class Heroes' entourage zipped up theirs. Experimented with anime style before Kanye West got "Stronger." Faced east spiritually before Madonna -- whose tour they opened back in 1985 (!!) -- rocked a kimono or started going by "Esther."

Their communication was ill before 50 Cent and Justin were over the games we play with gadgets. They were holdin' it and hittin' it before Jennifer Lopez commanded you to "Hold It, Don't Drop It." Shouting out Brass Monkey years before you ever heard the word "Cristal" pumping out of the windows of a boom car. Read more...