"Hell Of A Life" is a track off of the upcoming re-release of T.I.'s Paper Trail. The track echoes Tip's smash, "Whatever You Like," from the same album.

The video, which shows T.I. at both his flossiest and most humble, is a staged depiction of the Atlanta MC's last 24 hours before he checks himself in for incarceration, filmed in the days leading up to his actual incarceration.

Now I'm Team T.I. all the way, but if you were facing a prison sentence, would you spend your last hours of freedom making a video about facing a prison sentence? Especially a video that includes scenes of you in prison!? If it were me, I'd rather spend my last few days outside. Oh? You want to make a video pretending that you're on your way to/spending your first night in prison? Ok! You can do whatever you like!

T.I. is SERIOUS about being sorry. You know how I know? Because he put Mary J. Blige in his new video, "Remember Me," and no one calls on Mary J. Blige unless they're super serious. I'm not saying Mary J.'s a downer, but she is strictly business. No one puts Mary J. in their video strictly for comic relief, you know? She doesn't pop up in wacky pie-in-the-face gag reels. Because Mary J. Blige a closer.

But just because T.I.'s had the book thrown at him and the jail cell closed on him -- he's currently serving a 366-day jail sentence for attempting to buy firearms from an undercover cop -- doesn't mean he's gone for good. T.I. DOES NOT want you to forget him. Ever.

Promise T.I. you'll be waiting for him the minute he gets out of the clink by watching his new video, "Remember Me," directed by Jessy Terrero (50 Cent, Wisin & Yandel).

Maybe not that sorry?

+ Exciting news about Madonna that has nothing to do with adoption and nannies! The Queen of Pop will be teaming up with none other than Paul Oakenfold for the U.K. and European legs of her "Sticky & Sweet" tour, as well as some new tracks on her September 2009 greatest hits album that will consist of "cutting edge sounds combined with classic Madonna."

+ Cher is finally speaking out about her daughter Chastity Bono's decision to transition from female to male. She seems to be pretty cool about the whole thing. OMG my mom would ground me for at LEAST three weeks. (Star Magazine)

+ After Whitney Houston turned down the part, rapper Eve has signed up for a two-episode story arc on the upcoming FOX series GLEE as a high school choir director. (EW.com)

+ Ooh! A new video from Ciara f. Missy Elliott where Ciara turns a construction site into a catwalk? We'll take two. (Rap-Up)

+ Geography is HARD y'all!  Britney Spears slipped up and said "What's up, London?!"at the only concert she did in the U.K. 200 miles outside of London (the show was in Manchester). Let's just say the fans were not amused. (CelebWarship)

+ Meanwhile, back in an Arkansas prison, T.I.'s got a rill RILL bad case of the squirts. (Bossip)

+ Brooke Hogan has a new video out for her song called "Falling," off her forthcoming album. The song doesn't sound bad, but does anyone care? (PopCrunch)

+ Kanye West of course pleaded "not guilty" to misdemeanor charges stemming from last September's incident at LAX in which a photog's camera and equipment were thrown to the ground and smashed into bits. "Not. Guilty." (E! Online)

+ We meant to tell you about this yesterday, but the Black Eyed Peas new song "Imma Be" from their forthcoming album is reeeeeally hot. It's not their next single, but it should be. (Rap-Up)

+ And evidently Fergie is a hater -- a GERM hater, to be exact -- pouring hand sanitizer on just about anything (Josh Duhamel, we feel your pain). (Star Magazine)

+ Rapper T.I.'s jail sentence was falsely reported to have been reduced to just over two months -- which would have been good news for the guy who at least tried to do a little good before going to jail. The U.S. Attorney General's office clarified Tuesday afternoon that he will indeed serve all of his one year and one day sentence. (MTV News)

+ Hahah... looks like Lady GaGa's leotard leanings landed her in trouble with Russian authorities, who mistook her for a hooker. (TMZ)

+ Michael Jackson just selected the dancers that will be performing with him during his run at London's O2 arena. Recognize "Jersey" from MTV's Dancelife (spoiler alert: it doesn't look like she made the cut)? We're not gonna lie -- how in the HELL is MJ going to even move his body?? (Bossip)

NO FAIR! Jojo Simmons -- yes, JoJo of MTV's Run's House (repreSENT!) fame -- TOTALLY GOT OUTSIDE HELP with his new Team Blackout video, "Gotta Have Her."

Just playin'. JoJo Simmons proves he's got the rap skills (do I perhaps hear a budding T.I., minus the legal fail?) in Team Blackout's new video, "Gotta Have Her." And DAMN!! Zach's got that Twista tongue!

Also, check that video-as-film narrative. And THANK YOU, JoJo and Team Blackout for employing that technique but not resorting to Jamie Foxx "Blame It" extremes, mkay?

Major news! With Eminem's sixth album, Relapse, around the corner (it's due May 19), and the accompanying single, "We Made You," just days from release, we nabbed a super-exclusive interview with the man who has become hip-hop's most notorious living spitter.

We catch up with Em after a five-year hiatus from the spotlight -- a hiatus during which he's battled addiction, lost Kim to a second divorce and lost his best friend, DeShaun "Proof" Holton to gun violence. But Marshall Mathers is a survivor. We've known that from day one, when he broke out of the obscurity portrayed in 8 Mile to establish himself as a force to be reckoned with in the rap game. In other words, he's seen too much in this life to let tragedy disrupt his flow.

In the clip below, that same force -- now a flat-out legend -- checks in from the set of "We Made You," the Relapse single slated for an MTV premiere on Tuesday (April 7). From the comfort of a chair next to a console that looks like it could be part of the Star Trek set, what looks like a brown-haired (!!!) Em, minus the baby fat, fills us in on his choice to re-enlist the services of video director Joseph Kahn (Britney Spears, Chris Brown, 50 Cent, U2). Apparently the "Without Me" director is particularly attuned to the essence of Eminem, making him the perfect choice to guide Em out of hiatus and into a fresh video incarnation of his trademark sound.

Em also gets into the psychology of "We Made You," revealing it to be a mind game designed to seduce every woman alive. Watch, love and get hyped for Eminem's exclusive MTV video premiere of "We Made You" on Tuesday!

Singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada is no rising star. She's actually been on the Japanese music scene since the early 1990s -- she got her start as U3, bounced around record labels, recorded in English and Japanese, and in 1999, when she released her first official debut album, First Love, it became Japan's biggest-selling album in history and reached Mariah/ Britney levels of chart success.

Also, like Mariah and Britney, Utada also became a Major Star in Japan and one of the biggest-selling Asian artists of all time. But despite her monster levels of fame in Japan, her Incredible Hulk-like smashing of the Japanese charts, and her residencies in the U.S., and despite the depth and reach of her music and skills (she's also a producer and arranger), outside of Japan Utada's still primarily known just by J-pop and J-music aficionados.

MTV News asked it back in 2004, and I'm asking it yet again: Nine albums into her storied career, will her latest English-language album, This Is the One, finally be the one that makes her a star outside of Japan?

Watch Utada's brand-new video, "Come Back To Me," directed by Anthony Mandler (Rihanna's "Shut Up And Drive," T.I.'s "Live Your Life," M.I.A.'s "Bucky Done Gone," and Beyonce's "Irreplacable," to name just a few), and tell me what you think. It's kinda like a poppier Portishead meets Beyonce. And all that melancholy makes me wanna follow it up with Janet Jackson's original "Come Back To Me," which is never a bad thing...

Duffy and Lady Gaga (and, most recently, um, Britney) aren't the only ones doing the no-pants dance, and T.I.'s not the only one with swagger. Def Jam R&B-pop act Electrik Red's got swagger and legs... and style too.

Watch all four of them -- Naomi, Sarah, Lesley, and Binkie -- work all three in their newest video, "So Good," which looks a little like Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" video in all the right ways.

Then, check out some more of Electrik Red's tracks -- produced by The-Dream -- to hear what Destiny's Child and Pussycat Dolls might sound like if they had a chance to get as nasty as they wanna be. (Damn, girls! "We F--- You" is NO joke.) And big up to Naomi's throaty Mary J. alto pipes.

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+ John Mayer sure has a lot to say about Britney Spears for not having done anything with himself in the last five years.  Irrelevant?  What?  (Pop Crunch)

+ Aussie pop rockers (and personal faves -- sooiiiiiii cuyote) The Veronicas prove they're not as 'Untouched' as people think.  (Undercover)

+ Since the not-at-all overexposed rap industry will be down a man when T.I. goes a boot-scootin' to Sing Sing, LL Cool J is holdin' auditions, ya'll!  (The Hip Hop Chronicle UK)

+ Bitty Bite (to scale):  Bored?  Help Chester French name their new mixtape?  (Chester French)

+ In caaaaase you missed this from a couple of days ago, what the EFF is wrong with Kellie Pickler???????  '07 feels so breezy!  '09 is like the French Maid from Clue!!  (Cele|bitchy)

+ It's a JoBro NO SHOW for Taylor Swift (to the 3-D Movie Premiere, that is) -- who needs them anyway when there's plenty of other sweaty men to cheer for?  (OceanUP)

+ Speaking of sweaty men, I'm sure Ne-Yo was turning it OUT while recently on the road with Jazmine Sullivan, my little soul sister.  Hey girl hey.  (Neon Limelight)

+ Yummy-on-a-stick (not skewered, but like, wraaaaapped arrrrounnd it) Gavin DeGraw will soon release some new material collectively titled Free.  Could he just take that hat off for one second?  Or FOREVER?  Seriously! We don't CARE if you have no hair a perm.  (E Spot)

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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