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If you were to hear DJ duo Major Lazer's "Original Don" without any visuals, you might imagine the video featuring some kind of off-the-wall house party full of sweaty people going as buckwild as the dancehall beat in the song. WRONG. The recently released "Original Don" video does feature a house party, but the only people in attendance are a young man and woman LARPing with swords in T-shirts and jeans and their grandmother (?) chillin' in her BluBlockers. In other words, THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO EVER CREATED.

Internet nerds (read: us) got our first glimpse at the sword swinging magic a few months ago when a weird-ass video, "Jian Sword Dancing," was picked up by a few of our favorite sites. (The video has more than 500,000 views to date.) After shaking our head and hitting replay about 60 times, Diplo and Switch (aka Major Lazer) have now completed the puzzle with "Original Don," where we finally learn what those two crazy weapon wielders were up to -- basically just sword dancing for the hell of it.

You guys ready for this story line? "Original Don" opens on the two kids role playing with swords in their backyard. Grandma watches for a bit before she heads inside (very slowly -- she's old) to grab a different sword for the female sword dancer. Diplo's there too, reading a magazine on the couch while Grandma grabs the sword. Then he heads outside to join the crew whereby he greets them with sandwiches. Fin.

As the old saying goes, "Everything Major Lazer does terrifies me." That also happens to be why they're so rad.

+ Watch Major Lazer featuring The Partysquad, "Original Don."

Tags Diplo, Major Lazer, Switch, WTF

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Beyoncé took home Billboard Music's Artist Of The Millennium Award last night after it was determined that -- yes -- she is, in fact, better than Leonardo da Vinci, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons or any other virtuoso from the past 1,000 years. After all, who would you rather see bust a move in that skimpy outfit: Pablo Picasso or Sasha Fierce?

(Before you say it, we already know that DaVinci, Warhol, Koons and Picasso aren't the same kind of "artist" as Beyoncé, but thinking about them reenacting the choreography in her "Single Ladies" video makes for a pretty hilarious mental picture.)

Beyoncé's song "Run The World (Girls)" (produced by Switch and Diplo, Major Lazer duo and superstar DJs in their own right) has been steadily climbing the charts and was the talk of the awards show ceremony. Just check the Twitter accounts of stars like Missy Elliott and Bey's own sister Solange Knowles, who were among those in attendance to tweet their approval.

It was a killer performance if we do say so ourselves! Way to keep it fierce, Beyoncé.

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Tags Beyonce, Diplo, Major Lazer, Missy Elliot, Solange Knowles, Star Spotting, Switch

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Our friends over at Idolator just got their hands on a 15-second clip of what just might be Beyoncé's new single, currently dubbed, "Girls (Who Rule The World)." OMFG, excuse us for a second while we breathe slowly into a paper bag...

We've been hearing lots of rumblings from Beyoncé's camp as of late. First, there was that '70s-inspired photo shoot that had us all in a tizzy, and recently we saw Queen B on the set of what totally looked like a major music video. Now we have some mysterious audio and ahhh! We need more!

From what we can hear from the sound byte, Beyoncé is laying some major girl power lyrics over a busy reggae beat -- a sample of Major Lazer's "Pon De Floor." Beyoncé and Major Lazer together?! It's a match made in dance hall heaven.

+ Listen to what may or may not be Beyonce's new single, "Girls (Who Rule The World)."

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If you're expecting another "Boyz," or "Paper Planes" or "Galang" from M.I.A., you might have to wait a bit longer. The controversial, post-pop singer is on the verge of releasing a new album, /\/\/\Y/\,  that's occasionally as hard to listen to as its album title -- the typographical equivalent of M.I.A.'s name -- is to pronounce.

Take, for example, "Teqkilla," co-produced by Major Lazer's DJ Switch. It's a cut-and-paste epic that builds, slowly and steadily, with layer upon layer of samples and digital squelches, with M.I.A. rap-singing while drowning in a digital bath.

Thrown into this mix is everyone's favorite Barbie, Nicki Minaj. The Young Money princess tells M.I.A. that the beat is on fire as she doles out a flow somewhere between drunk valley girl, dance hall queen and math nerd.

Pretty strange stuff for a song that seems to be about doing shots and going crazy. Of course with M.I.A., nothing is what it seems. Check out the song below.

+ Listen to M.I.A., featuring Nicki Minaj, "Teqkilla (Remix)" here.

Tags M.I.A., Major Lazer, Nicki Minaj, Song You Need To Know, video, Young Money

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Snoop, where are thou? I miss you, Dogg! Thankfully, with the absolute ubiquity of D-O-double-G's last hit, "I Wanna Rock," and the cut's Jay-Z-assisted remix, I feel like I'm living through a second coming of the Doggfather. Plus, with the recent release of his new track, "That Tree," it doesn't look like Snoop's going to fizzle anytime soon-izzle.

Produced by Diplo (Major Lazer, M.I.A., Santogold), "That Tree" is a glitchy, Neptunes-esque track, with bubbling keyboards layered over a skipping beat. Snoop raps about groupies sticking to his head like a kufi before he passes the mic to Kid Cudi, who's more in the mood to sweetly croon.

The How To Make It In America co-star and "Make Her Say" rapper is in fine form, playing the role of R&B hook-master before injecting a verse of his own into the track.

Following the Lady Gaga/The Fame/The Fame Monster routine, "That Tree" is taken from Snoop's upcoming More Malice, a deluxe version of his 2009 full-length, Malice N Wonderland. The re-release is due out March 23rd and will feature the aforementioned Jay-Z track, as well as a collaboration with Soulja Boy.

+ Listen to Snoop Dogg, featuring Kid Cudi, "That Tree," here. Warning: NSFW language.

Tags Diplo, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Lady Gaga, M.I.A., Major Lazer, Santogold, Snoop Dogg, Song You Need To Know, Soulja-Boy, The Neptunes

East Coasters, look out your window. Sucks, right!? Well, here's something to transport you to a more tropical state-of-mind. All you nice-weather-having folks can enjoy it too, even though I'm jealous of you and your stupid sunshine.

Here we have a new track of undetermined origin (or eventual album destination) by Swedish pop legend Robyn. Though she is usually known for her razor-sharp, electro-infused, dance-floor anthems, "No Hassle" is something of a sandy siesta from the Scandinavian singer.

The reggae lover's rock beat of "No Hassle" comes courtesy of Diplo, of Major Lazer/M.I.A. fame. Robyn gets into the mood, toasting, "I still run this thing like a dancehall queen/I really don't want no hassle." True that!

It's a welcome return from the "Konichiwa Bitches" singer, who hasn't released an official album since her 2005 self-titled full-length—and it's a welcome return of poppy sunshine to some of our snow-banked lives.

+ Listen to Robyn's "No Hassle," produced by Diplo, here

Tags Diplo, M.I.A., Major Lazer, Robyn, Song You Need To Know, video

Uh, so, this new Rihanna jam is mad naughty. See, I was initially distracted from the risque content by the fact that it is largely comprised (visually) of Rihanna dancing around various fake (or...very still) forms of wildlife (lions, zebras, DAMN!).

In this Melina Matsoukas-directed clip, Rihanna does her fair share of suggestive writhing (as is her wont). But it wasn't until I closely scrutinized the lyrics that I started blushing a bit. "Come here, rude boy boy Can you get it up? Come here, rude boy boy. Is you big enough? Take it, take it Baby, baby. Take it, take it Love me, love me." WAIT A SECOND! I think she's talking about hanky-panky!

"Rude Boy" features Rihanna dancing and singing in front of a green screen, with a rainbow of Jamaican-flag-inspired colors animated in during post-production. According to MTV News, Rihanna claims the vid was inpsired by the Pop Art movement, and there's definitely some Keith Haring homage in the clip.

But there seems to be some other inspiration at work here, as well. That of M.I.A.'s vibrant video for "Boyz." The colorful, purposely lo-fi animation, the color palette. Nothing particularly wrong with it; heaven knows there's a hundred videos of dudes playing guitar in the desert.

No less an authority on M.I.A. than Diplo has noted the similarity in this tweet: "anyway.. riri is lookin soo damn hawt in this video but its super boyz boyz boyz #howmaydere ? yahmsayin?"

The Major Lazer producer's ongoing war with the English language aside, he does have a point. And he might wanna look at his "Keep It Goin Louder" video and see whether Rihanna's giving him the leatherman hat tip there too.

Tags Diplo, M.I.A., Major Lazer, Rihanna, video

When you listen to Beyonce's "Halo" -- the patented Ryan Tedder melody, the beat collapsing on itself, Bey's increasingly dramatic delivery -- you probably don't think to yourself, "This is pretty good, but what it really needs is some gruff, grimy dancehall toasting from Jamaican music legend Elephant Man."

If you did think that, well, you're probably Diplo. The chief genre blender/producer/superstar DJ/half of Major Lazer, spent most of his GRAMMY night on Sunday sending out tweets that varied in their levels of veracity from probable to patently false (having a hard time believing M.I.A., Susan Boyle, and Perez Hilton were partying in the same space).

One that turned out to be at least half true was this: "SERIOUSLY CANT BELIEVE beyonce won a GraNNY when My VErSiOn of HaLo with elefant man + @majorlazer is SoOO MUCH BETTER!"

Spelling, caps and grammar aside, Diplo wasn't joshing about the existence of his Elephant Man-aided version of "Halo." Whether it's better than Beyonce's original? Only you and time will tell.

Check out Major Lazer's version of "Halo," featuring Elephant Man as well as the video for Beyonce's original and her "Halo" performance at the Hope For Haiti Now benefit.

+ Listen to Major Lazer featuring Elephant Man, "Halo," here.

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Tags Beyonce, Diplo, Elephant Man, M.I.A., Major Lazer, Ryan Tedder, Song You Need To Know, video

Yesterday we got pretty amazed with life and the Internet while looking at this Star-Wars-as-disco-musical from 1970's French television. Well, it's another day, time for another game-changer.

This one is courtesy of Eric Wareheim, one of the mad geniuses behind Adult Swim's TIm And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job. He also recently directed Major Lazer's mind-bending "Keep It Goin' Louder" video.

But this newest submission of kitschy craziness is really out there; not so much for what's going on in the video, but who's doing it. We're talking about LaDainian Tomlinson's "Electric Slide."

Tomlinson, for the non-Sportscenter viewers among us, is the running back for the San Diego Chargers, who are currently poised to play the New York Jets this weekend in the NFL playoffs.

Basically, this is a dance instructional video rendered in public access TV quality. It doesn't seem to be attached to any particular product or event (though there is some speculation that it's a viral video commissioned by Nike.

Check out the video, as well as Wareheim's clip for Major Lazer, below.

Tags LOL, Major Lazer, Random, WTF video

Tuesday saw a veritable Nor'easter of hip-hop releases to nod your head to: Gucci Mane, The Clipse, Snoop Dogg and Timbaland. But the Rap Factory never stops, so let's all get hip to some more hot-off-the-Internets jams.

First up, a remix of Gucci Mane's "Danger's Not A Stranger" by Major Lazer mastermind/producer/superstar DJ Diplo. This is the first we're hearing from a planned remix project wherein Diplo and other artists will be re-imagining Gucci Mane's epic Cold War mixtape series (titled, hilariously, Guccimerica, Brrrussia and Great Brrrittain).

Diplo replaces the dark electro of the original with some piano and synths that wouldn't sound out of place on a Mike & The Mechanics song.

Next, we have some brand-spanking new Eminem for you. "Drop A Bomb On 'Em" is classic Shady. Riding what sounds a lot like the production handiwork of Dr. Dre, Em spits with a Jamaican accent for a few bars before threatening to send a bomb to his mom's lawyer. Same Marshall, same sunny disposition. "Drop A Bomb On 'Em" is taken from the Relapse sequel, Refill, due December 21st.

+Listen to Gucci Mane, "Dangers Not A Stranger (Diplo Remix)" and Eminem's "Drop A Bomb On 'Em."

... And relive Major Lazer's amazing "Keep It Goin' Louder" video:

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Tags Diplo, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Gucci Mane, Major Lazer, Snoop Dogg, Song You Need To Know, The Clipse, Timbaland, video