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Like any candy or confection, mashups are to be ingested responsibly; pig out on 'em and you're liable to get pretty sick of the taste. But if you save them for a special occasion (it is Cinco de Mayo, after all), they can really brighten your day.

Which is a roundabout way of saying: Look, everyone! A mashup of Drake and John Mellencamp (spotted via Pigeons & Planes). Take the instrumental for Mellencamp's classic "Jack & Diane," (from back when he had the cool or dorky fake middle name "Cougar") and the vocal from Drake's recent club anthem "Over," and you got yourself some juxtaposed joy.

The mashup comes courtesy of White Panda, who previously caught our ear with their mix of Owl City and Yung Joc ("Fireflies Going Down").

+ Listen to White Panda's "Drake & Diane (Drake vs. John Mellencamp)" (NSFW!)

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Tags Drake, John Mellencamp, Owl City, Song You Need To Know, video, Yung-Joc

Mash-ups may have run their course as a pop culture phenomenon, but every once in a while one of them comes along and catches your ear, reminding you of the original thrill the first time you heard "Stroke Of Genius" (the legendary Strokes/Christina Aguilera combo).

Here we have a track from the DJ duo The White Panda, made up of Procrast and DJ Griffi, who got the rather inspired idea to throw together the backing track of analog-emo favorites, Owl City's "Fireflies" with the a cappella version of Yung Joc's '06 banger, "It's Goin' Down."

The result is deceptively awesome. Yung Joc calling out, "MEET ME IN THE MALL," over the bubbling keyboards of Owl City's smash hit. You wouldn't expect the two tracks to go together, but then, that's the whole point of mash-ups, right?

Hat tip to the always excellent Pigeons & Planes for pointing this out.

+ Listen to The White Panda's Owl City vs. Yung Joc mash-up, "Fireflies Goin' Down," here.

Tags Christina Aguilera, Owl City, Song You Need To Know, The Strokes, video, Yung-Joc

When people talk about Paul Wall, they invariably talk about his teeth. It's his own doing, of course -- not only does Paul Wall rap about grills, but he also makes and sells them. But when it came time to list the most important factors that influenced his new album, Fast Life, grills didn't even crack Paul Wall's top five.

What did? Beef jerky and baseball. The essentials.

Also notably absent from Paul Wall's list are Fast Life collaborators Travis Barker, Yung Joc, Gorilla Zoe, Too $hort and Tech N9ne. No room for Mr. Boomtown (the Dirty South's leading video director responsible for Paul Wall's "Bizzy Body" clip, as well as new joints from Mike Jones, Slim Thug, Gucci Mane and Bun B) either.

That's how important beef jerky and baseball are to Paul Wall. Don't forget it. Fill in the blanks on the rest of his list in the video below.

Tags Bun B, Gorilla Zoe, Gucci Mane, Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Tech N9ne, Too $hort, Travis Barker, Yung-Joc

Rihanna's smash hit "Umbrella" is such the perfect pop song, you'd think it fell from heaven fully formed and ready for prime time play like the singer herself, right? Well that ain't how it works. But it's pretty close.

"Umbrella" wasn't written by fairies or angels or kittens. It was written by Southern songwriter The-Dream (born Terius Youngdell Nash), a singer himself, who refers to his sound as “Prince meets R.Kelly at a T-Pain concert in ATL.” Read more...

Tags Celebrity, J.-Holiday, Mary J. Blige, News, Nicole Scherzinger, Prince, R.-Kelly, Rihanna, T-Pain, The-Dream, video, Videos, Yung-Joc