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+ Ke$ha and The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne seem like a match made in glitter/confetti heaven. Coyne tweeted photos and videos of them recording together. "She's crazy... But s***!!!!she can really f***** SING!!," he tweeted. What he said. (Idolator)

+ In honor of Etta James who passed away on Friday, Kelly Clarkson performed "I'd Rather Go Blind" on Saturday at NYC's Radio City Music Hall. Clarkson's rendition of James' "At Last" was the song she auditioned with to get her on "American Idol." (Just Jared)

+ Watch Selena Gomez, who's still sporting some blue/purple-streaked locks, perform "Who Says" during her charity show for UNICEF. (Just Jared)

+ Nicki Minaj postponed Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded's release, which was slated for Feb. 14. "New Album Date: April 3rd. Pink Friday: ROMAN RELOADED," she tweeted. "But have no fear. Tons of surprises before then ;). Love Always, HB." (MTV News)

+ Turns out Swizz Beatz is not the CEO of Megaupload as was widely reported, a source told MTV News. While he was listed as such on their website and he was negotiating to run the company, he was not officially CEO. (MTV News)

+ Check out Aerosmith frontman/"American Idol" judge Steven Tyler serving up the national anthem before the NFL playoff game between the New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens. (E!)

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+ NAACP Image Awards nominees include Beyoncé for Outstanding Female Artist and Outstanding Album, while Chris Brown's up for Outstanding Album and Outstanding Male Artist. Adele's "Someone Like You" received Outstanding Song and Video nods. (Billboard)

+ Lady Gaga and her mom's Born This Way Foundation will launch on Feb. 29 with an event at Harvard University. The foundation will work to end bullying by encouraging youth empowerment and equality. (MTV News)

+ DMX, Swizz Beatz, Eve and The LOX are reuniting for a Ruff Ryders tour. "We are all family and we're going to come back stronger than when we left... It's going to take the nation by storm," said DMX. (MTV News)

+ Swizz Beatz's Megaupload was shut down by the FBI yesterday. While he was not indicted, others in the company were arrested under multiple racketeering and copyright infringement charges. (MTV News)

+ A trial date has been set in April for William Balfour, the suspect accused of allegedly murdering Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew three and a half years ago. (MTV News)

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+ Taylor Swift took home the Entertainer of the Year trophy at the 45th Annual Country Music Association Awards last night. Other winners included The Band Perry, Jason Aldean, Sugarland and Lady Antebellum. (Billboard)

+ Prince, Nicki Minaj, styling clothing...did my invite get lost in the mail? The pair attended and performed at the Versace For H&M Launch event. (MTV Style)

+ Check out Alicia Keys now aka DJ AK-47 rocking the ones and twos at a recent gig with hubby Swizz Beatz and Busta Rhymes backing her up. (Rap-Up)

+ R. Kelly's forthcoming autobiography, Soula Coaster: The Diary of Me, which was slated to release this month, has been postponed. It's now due in spring 2012. (Billboard)

+ Looks like comedy series "Portlandia," featuring Wild Flag's Carrie Brownstein, is gonna be even more rockin' next season. Guests include Eddie Vedder, Sex Pistols' Steve Jones, Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, Johnny Marr, St. Vincent's Annie Clark and Joanna Newsom. (Rolling Stone)

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Bet you didn't see this one coming. In our minds, a Drake and Lenny Kravitz collabo seemed just about as likely as Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj collabo during the height of their feud. But a Lenny/Drake partnership has happened, and the outcome makes us think these two should team up more often.

Co-written by producer extraordinaire Swizz Beatz, "Sunflower" is a melange of disco, electro, '80s, and synth-heavy pop. All those genres somehow meld together and serve as the canvas on which an old school rock-and-roller and a modern rapper come together. For most of the record, Lenny compares his gal to the cheeriest piece of flora around: "You're making me feel that everything is alright/You're my sunflower, you're my sunflower/...Even when I'm miles away, girl/My heart will be there." Dude is laying it on thick.

But Drake's verse comes next, and he does his best to offset Kravitz's sensitive lyrics in the only way Drake knows how: with a quintessentially clever flow and a menage-a-trois request, obvs. "I don't wanna ever make you mad, girl/...a lil you, a lil me and someone else good/Lord, that's a winner right there/But we really got a story to tell and can't finish right there."

"Sunflower" is slated to appear on Lenny's forthcoming album, Black and White America, due out August 30.

+ Listen to Lenny Kravitz featuring Drake, "Sunflower."

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When Swizz Beatz titled his song "International Party," it was a stroke of Machiavellian genius. The latest track from the hip-hop producer, with an assist from wife Alicia Keys, ensures every club from Bolivia to Israel will bump this under the auspices that it's "about them." In the accompanying video, the producer allegedly wrangled seven figures from Reebok, where he serves as the company's creative director, though we're still figuring out where all that money went.

Directed by Chris Robinson, who helmed Keys' "Fallin'" and "You Don't Know My Name" videos among many others, "International Party" is the result of Reebok's ubiquitous "Reethym of Life" campaign, which premiered a snippet of "Party" late last month.

The grinding, electro-hop track starts innocently enough, interspersing a vibrant breakdancing circle with Keys gunning a sports car toward the party. But, as usually happens when people from numerous countries get together, partying quickly turns to primal bloodlust, as the crowd gathers to see Swizz drive head-on, for some reason, into a b-boy enclosed in a glass cube. While the marketing executives at Lotus Cars presumably wonder why their product is being used for senseless murder (?), b-boy moves, as usual, save the day.

+ Watch Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys in "International Party."

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+ Set your ears to "stunned" because vocal powerhouses Alicia Keys and Adele could be teaming up in the very near future. Alicia's husband Swizz Beatz spoke to MTV News about the collabo: "They're fans of each other. So let's make this good for music." This needs to happen, like, yesterday. (MTV News)

+ Just in case you have any questions left for Rebecca Black, the "Friday" singer is accepting questions from fans over at Buzznet. She really wants "random" questions so maybe ask her what she would name a miniature pony if she had one. Just a thought. (Buzznet)

+ Justin Timberlake recently revealed that he likes a girl with a dirty mouth, and now he says his mom walked in on him once doing the deed. "My mom wasn't cool about it. I was too young to be in bed with a girl, so she was upset." Remember when JT was a goody two-shoes? We don't. (E! Online)

+ Hey, Kelly Rowland fans! If you can't wait until its official release date of July 26, Idolator has a preview of the singer's upcoming album Here I Am. Check out three of the songs from the upcoming 10-song EP. (Idolator)

+ Taylor Momsen recently took part in the long-standing tradition of giving a female concert goer a lap dance. Let's just say this one got pretty intimate (read: shirtless). (PopEater)

+ Remember "Walkin' On The Sun" band Smash Mouth? A writer over at Something Awful is offering lead singer Steve Harwell $20 if he can film him eating 24 eggs in a row. Yeah, we have no idea what that's about. (BuzzFeed)

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Earlier today we engaged in some pop music discourse and discussed how Nicki Minaj and Lil' Wayne used their duet, "Roman's Revenge 2.0," to get some things off their chest, aggressively spitting bars over Swizz Beatz' droning track.

Andre 3000 and Ke$ha use their duet for a more typical purposes: a bit of he-said, she-said and a musical treatise on modern love.

"Sleazy," the original version of which can be found on Ke$ha's Cannibal, sounds like kids banging on cafeteria tables while beatboxing. After a brief Ke$ha intro, where she claims she doesn't need a brand-new Benz or her suitor's bourgeois friends (slow down there, Das Ke$hital!), Andre comes in. Three Stacks sounds great as ever over this sick Bangladesh beat, and if anything, the "Sleazy" remix serves as yet another reminder of how badly the world needs either another Outkast album or an Andre solo platter.

To be fair, Ke$ha actually holds her own against rap royalty here, rapping about how she doesn't give a you-know-what and how she wants to grab a bottle and some boys and get sleazy. It may not be new, content-wise, but she definitely has tightened her delivery leaps and bounds.

Like we mentioned, the O.G. version of "Sleazy" is featured on Ke$ha's Cannibal. Look for the Andre 3000 remix to be officially released sometime soon.

+ Listen to Ke$ha's "Slezy" remix, featuring Andre 3000.

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We haven't heard a lot of new music from Alicia Keys recently, and with good reason. The lady only just gave birth to her first child--a little boy by the name of Egypt--weeks ago. And she's been busy... dying (digitally) and raising $1 million for her Keep A Child Alive African AIDS relief organization. So she's probably been mad busy feeding her baby organic baby food and dressing him up in adorable outfits and posting the pictures on Facebook. We wouldn't know. Alicia Keys didn't accept our Facebook friend request. Sniff.

That being said! We were pretty excited to get this audio post-Christmas present: It's "Speechless," a new Alicia track featuring Eve. Released as part of Swizz Beatz's (husband of Alicia Keys and father to baby Egypt) Monster Mondays series (sort of a take on Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Fridays.)

It should come as little surprise that Alicia Keys' first post-baby single is all about her new baby. And it should come as little surprise that "Speechless" is a lush, piano and electric guitar led vamp, with Alicia extolling the virtues of motherhood and Eve rapping about finding love when you least expect it.

+ Listen to Alicia Keys and Eve's "Speechless" at Monster Mondays.

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+ Today is Kevin Jonas' 23rd birthday. The senior Jonas brother is spending his special day in South America, where his band of brothers are touring. (Celebuzz)

+ Demi Lovato checked into a rehab facility following a scuffle that allegedly involved a dancer named Alex Welch, a veteran of "America's Best Dance Crew" Season 3 contestants, the Beat Freaks. (MTV Remote Control)

+ Kanye West held a lengthy UStream chat yesterday, where he revealed more details about his upcoming My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album. (Idolator)

+ Swizz Beatz is not only a new father, but now he is New York University's "producer in residence." (Vulture)

+ Nick Lachey is engaged to Vanessa Minnillo, and Jessica Simpson is reportedly sad about it all. (PopEater)

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+ The above grainy photo was snapped at a Canadian laser tag center, from whence Justin Bieber was tossed from over the weekend. The "Baby" singer allegedly assaulted a fellow teen during a laser tag match. (MTV News)

+ Kanye West revealed the NSFW album cover for his forthcoming My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album, announcing that the design had been "banned." No word yet by whom, though. (Idolator)

+ Taylor Swift is reportedly in talks to have her music used on an episode of "Glee." (TheFABlife)

+ Alicia Keys gave birth to her and Swizz Beatz' first child together on Friday. The musical couple named the boy Egypt. (ABC News)

+ Katy Perry performed "Firework" for the first time on television this weekend, on Britain's popular "X-Factor." (That Grape Juice)

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