Throughout her prolific videography, Beyonce's given you plenty of opportunities to see her at her wildest and most wanton -- her brazen "Ring The Alarm" video, her mindblowing dance skills in "Crazy In Love," "Single Ladies," and "Get Me Bodied," and her ironclad sex appeal in her "Sweet Dreams" video, to name a few.

But you've never seen a fire like the one Beyonce causes in her brand-new "Video Phone (Extended Remix)" video, in which B's got guns -- and Gaga -- blazing. Kids, don't play with guns unless you're shooting fashion flames.

Watch Beyonce go fluorescent-futuro beast mode, show off her freaky-deaky Bettie Page side, and get in lockstep with Lady Gaga in a pair of white-hot one-pieces in "Video Phone (Extended Remix)," directed by Hype Williams, who lives up to his name, as always.

I'm almost nonplussed by how dope this video is. Don't you hate when that happens? You read about something being in the works -- in this case, legendary hip-hop video auteur Hype Williams getting behind the camera to lens Jay-Z and Alicia's Big Apple anthem, "Empire State of Mind" -- and you think, "That will be excellent."

And then it happens, and it's excellent, and the very fulfillment of your expectations winds up being something of a minor letdown!

Talk about splitting hairs. This rules. Hype still has that gloss that he applied to all this mid-'90s Bad Boy classics. The montage of still photos reminds me a little of Mark Romanek's amazing clip for Jay's "99 Problems," but the star is really the city; all helicopter shots of skyscrapers and splendorous lights. That's the anthem, get your damn hands up.

+ Watch Jay-Z and Alicia Keys perform "Empire State Of Mind" live at the 2009 VMAs.

Drake, Kanye West (sorry!), Lil Wayne, and Eminem's new video, "Forever," was directed by the legendary Hype Williams and is featured in the new LeBron James film More Than a Game.

Watch "Forever" now, and celebrate the air horn, the club, LeBron, and the struggle.

Much like the name "Digital Girl" suggests, almost no part of Jamie Foxx's "Digital Girl" -- neither the song nor the new "Digital Girl" video, directed by Hype Williams -- was created without digital assistance. Hype Williams' electro-roboto-futuro style may be his calling card as an auteur, but "Digital Girl" is just ridiculous. Wait... I just went back and read what I wrote. Jamie Foxx? Ridiculous? Right. Silly me. Okay! More Drake please! Also, that one model looks FAR too much like Aaliyah for my personal comfort. Awkward.

Watch Jamie Foxx's "Digital Girl" video, featuring Kanye West, The-Dream, and Drake.

For our latest installment of "Buzzworthy Twitters With," let's say twhello to our favorite Daddy formerly known as Puff, Diddy!

His tweets are in bold, our responses are in italics. Herrrre. Weeee. Goh!

I'm back!!! I was a little under the weather. Partied a little to hard. Lol   5:24 PM Feb 26th from TwitterBerry
Oh snap! It's hard out here for a pimp. We feel you, Diddy.

I feel very overwhelmed!!!. What do you do to help with that. Help me!!!   12:47 AM Feb 27th from TwitterBerry
Well, yoga might be cool? Or knitting? OR maybe starting a new reality TV show?? We hear that's kinda relaxing too...

In a stolen car on sunset with jonah hill and hype williams. Somebody call the cops!!!! Lol I'm serious   2:01 AM Feb 27th from TwitterBerry
WHAT THE?? A. You roll with Jonah Hill? That is amazing! LOVE him! B. Why is your ass in a stolen car!? C. Speaking of reality TV shows, Diddy Dispatches People To Junior's For Cheesecake Or To KFC From Behind Prison Bars would be *such* a killer show.

Having tantric sex!!!! I feel so much better.!!! Thank you   8:29 AM Feb 27th from TwitterBerry
Wow. Why. On. Earth. Did. You. Tweet. This. WHHHHYYYYYYY??? Please don't tell me Sting was involved. (Washing my eyes out with bleach).

For all those just tuning in. I'm 6 and half hrs in on a 36 hour tantric sex session. Welcome    3:59 PM Feb 27th from TwitterBerry
Uhm, Dear Dids/ Pappa Diddy/ Pops: please stop talking about gettin' busy. We don't want to have to beg, but we're not above it either.

If anyone is with q tip. Tell him to call me pls!!!!!   9:03 PM Feb 27th from TwitterBerry
Yo, Q-Tip Twitters too! Direct message dat ass (are there ANY celebs not in the Twitterverse now?). Also, thanks for not mentioning tantric sex again.

I believe I can fly!!! I'm flying!!! You can fly to if too if you would just BELIEVE!!!!! BELIEVE!!!!!! Do you BELIEVE??????   6:37 AM Feb 28th from TwitterBerry
You know what Diddy, we USED TO believe. But after following your 36-hour tantric Twitter sex fest, we no longer believe in living anymore.

We believe in Twitter and Diddy... but please, no moar tantric, dude. See you round the Twitterverse! Until then, appropriately, R. Kelly...

T.I. may've offered to prove his love via a hardcore boutique binge in "Whatever You Like," but Bow Wow's taking his commitment to you step beyond that. And if Bow Wow's told you once, he's told you a THOUSAND times before -- he loves your mind AND your body! He EVEN SAYS SO in "You Can Get It All."

You still sending me crazy emails
Like i know it's just sex you want
I can't lie the sex is truly incredible
And every part of your body is so edible
I get tears from just thinking bout it

Awww! What a sweetie!

Check out Bow Wow's "You Can Get It All" video, directed by Hype Williams. The single was produced by Jermaine Dupri, BTW, and that familiar sample? It's TLC's "Baby-Baby-Baby." Fun fact -- Jermaine Dupri also makes a cameo in TLC's "Baby-Baby-Baby" video! (Watch it after the jump.) Also, does anyone wanna let that girl know that her butt is showing?

PS: You've only got one day left to ask Bow Wow a question!

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One of the best things about being a cartoon is that you can smoke all the cigarettes you want and never have to worry about your face looking like a ratty old catcher's mitt or your teeth turning buttered-popcorn yellow or eventually having to talk with a fake voicebox (true, you'd save time not having to futz with AutoTune; downside -- no trachea). Another great thing, you can ogle jiggly, generously endowed cartoon model chicks with zero consequence, and you can adorn all of the walls of your too-good-for-rap home with cartoon Warhols for days! But if you're cartoon Kanye West, you're probably too busy smoking, and being mad, and not Twittering to care.

Check out Kanye's latest video, "Heartless," based on the 1981 Ralph Bakshi film, American Pop. It was directed by Hype Williams and animated by 65 individual illustrations in Hong Kong using the rotoscopic technique. Do work!

Much as I fully embrace old-school "Respiration"-era Common, and boho/ Bob Dylan/ not-afraid-to-love-out-loud "Come Close" Common, and socially conscious/pensive "Drivin' Me Wild" Common and all the Commons in between, it's nice to see the dude dish out a hot-ass, swagger-centric booty-dropper, like the Neptunes-produced "Universal Mind Control."

Unless you have a fear of robots (that's Pharrell, by the way, who you'll also see in Fall Out Boy's "I Don't Care" video) watch the new video, directed (somewhat obviously, no?), by the legendary Hype Williams -- which is exactly why the video will remind you a bit of Lloyd's "Girls Around the World" clip and Kanye's "Stronger."