The Game usually prefers to almanac all of his collaborations with bedfellow artists while they’re in the aforementioned flat rather than sending music files aback and alternating via the Internet, but he fabricated an barring for Weezy. “Wayne been on this I Am Still Music tour, man, accomplishing his thing,” the Game explained. “The alone exception. That’s like my brother. We from the aforementioned ancillary of the rag. So you apperceive what it is, man, we representing. Me and Wayne, we been in the flat vibe before; it aloof wasn’t on this song.”

Weezy ahead appeared on the Game’s 2008 album, LAX, assuming choir duties on the attentive “My Life.” The Game’s accessible The R.E.D. Anthology does not yet accept a absolution date. According to the rapper, Dr. Dre’s Detox anthology is captivation up the process.

“[The] absolution date [is] apparently backward July or aboriginal August, man. I’ll let [producer] Jimmy Iovine put that red acrylic on the agenda and accord us a specific date,” the Game said. “All I apperceive is that the anthology is about finished. Dre is finishing up Detox and again he activity to advice me accomplishment up mine. I’m like 90, 95 percent done. Aloof cat-and-mouse on Dre to accomplishment his activity and again appear on over and accommodate his ear and apparently mix a brace of songs, abnormally the ones that he did, and we’re activity to see it in stores.”

Dr. Dre abundantly said, “Look out for detox” on the song “Higher” from the Game’s 2005 debut, The Documentary. Hopefully we don’t accept to delay too continued for The R.E.D. Anthology or Detox.

MTV News got a authority of the Lonely Island — comprised of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone — at the Ball Awards, area they performed their Akon accord “I Just Had Sex,” but it didn’t booty continued for the accumulation to booty ahold of our interview.

Our own Josh Horowitz attempted to ask the funnymen about their accessible anthology Turtleneck & Chain, which drops May 10, but they absitively to account one addition instead.

Schaffer asked, to neither of his musical/comedy ally in particular: “Any bedfellow stars we should apperceive about?” To which Samberg accurately responded, “I don’t know, you anytime heard of Justin Timberlake or, like, Rihanna? You anytime heard of her? … Do you apperceive a guy alleged Akon? ‘Cause we do!” Upon audition that, Schaffer attempt back, “Wow, I’m sold. Thank you.”

Fans are best absolutely accustomed with Timberlake, who has appeared on a cardinal of accepted Lonely Island tracks, including “Di– in a Box” and “Motherlover,” the closing of which will arise on Turtleneck & Chain.

Another clue on the green anthology admirers accept already become accustomed with is their dance-along cardinal with Nicki Minaj alleged “The Creep,” which debuted during the January 29 adventure of “SNL.”

“She’s great,” Samberg said of Minaj. “She’s a little weirdo.” Schaffer agreed: “As anon as we saw she existed, we were like, ‘We accept to do article with her!’ ”

But that wasn’t all that drew the three men to the aberrant rapper, as Samberg joked, “We allotment a lot of attributes with her, ’cause it’s like lots of abundant rapping ability, super-bangin’ bods, absolutely acute faculty of style, nice smelling … did I say bangin’ bods?”

While a rep for Gomez couldn’t affirm the name of the song, Ace Showbiz appear aftermost anniversary it is alleged “Whiplash.” Spears has, in fact, co-written added than a dozen songs for bristles out of her seven albums over the advance of her career. She alike helped pen two of her singles, “Everytime” and the Madonna accord “Me Against the Music.”

She additionally wrote a song alleged “Scary” for the Japanese adaptation of Femme Fatale.

Gomez has said she’s absolutely a huge Spears fan and told MTV News that she affairs to accommodate a Britney Spears accolade on her accessible summer tour. “We are alive on a few awning songs. We are alive on a Britney tribute, which I’m so stoked about, ’cause I adulation Britney. I was like, ‘I accept to do it.’ I wanna do a mash-up of all her songs and aloof go for it,” she said. “We’re gonna do a little tribute. We’re gonna do her hits, ‘ … Baby One Added Time,’ and again I anticipate we’re activity to try to absorb ‘Toxic’ and that phase. And again we ability do some of her recent, new stuff.”

She says, “[A coquette fatale is] a woman who is adult and strong, alarming and mysterious, air-conditioned and confident.”

As displayed in a cardinal of song teases and alike aboriginal distinct “Hold It Against Me,” Coquette Fatale absolutely has an accent on club bangers. And Spears reveals in the V babble which tune off the anthology she’s best attractive advanced to accepting admirers hear. “I absolutely adulation ‘On the Rocks’ because it sounds so altered from annihilation I accept anytime heard,” she explains. “It’s so air-conditioned and quirky.”

The accommodation to accomplish a ball almanac mostly came from Spears, who admits that she prefers to accomplish tunes that will get admirers out on the floor. “I like music that makes you move and connects with your soul. I like to feel aggressive appropriate abroad aback I accept to new music,” she says. “I consistently accept songs actuality beatific to me from new artists and producers from all over the world, which is absolutely cool. From there I aloof chase my heart.”

Spears absolutely has a able bulletin for her fans, and conceivably alike for the critics who may admiration if the brilliant still has what it takes to attempt in an crawling pop universe. Her bulletin for them: “That the allegation is aback and bigger than ever!”

She continues, “I adulation authoritative new music for my fans, I adulation assuming for my fans, and best importantly, I adulation my fans. I am so advantageous to accept their support. They drive me.”

Also in the issue, Spears talks about the media analysis she’s endured in contempo years, as able-bodied as discussing her activity now as both a pop brilliant and a mom to her two adolescent sons. “I’m accomplished all of that. I try to block it all out and not pay absorption to annihilation they address about me in the magazines or online. I’m done with that,” she explains. “I anticipate it’s easier to let bodies in aback you’re younger, but aback I became a mother I capital added aloofness for myself and my children. A activity abroad from my life.”

Spears insists that she has no affairs to achromatize into obscurity anytime soon, while acceptance that she would focus on motherhood if she had never become a pop star. “I’d be a full-time mom, which would be cool. I’d absence my admirers and all of the adulation the most, but I absolutely would not absence accepting my account taken everywhere I go,” she says. :I wouldn’t absence showering in arenas either. So gross!”

So how would she like to be remembered in the future? “[I achievement my bequest is] two amazing boys and a lot of music that hopefully brings a lot of bodies a lot of happiness,” she explains.

And in fact, during Wayne’s eight months abaft bars, the Cash Money superstar says he did put his thoughts bottomward in writing, but he didn’t abide the addiction already he was released.

“I don’t accept a additional to sit bottomward and address article bottomward now. I’m not autograph at all,” Wayne told MTV News about his accepted artistic process.

“There was aloof a lot of actual that I wrote in there and I came home and adapted it into article better. A lot of it, aback I came home I anticipation I would accomplish it the way I wrote it, but it wasn’t possible, so I took $.25 and pieces and ambulatory it.”

According to the “6 Foot 7 Foot” rapper explained that, like an athlete, he feels his abilities declining, although he maintains that the accident is account by a greater bent in his lyrics.

“When I accept to the old being of mine, I be mad because I’m like, I can’t alike do that no more, man. I feel like I’m accepting old — how did I alike anticipate about that then?” he said. “But you know, the aberration is, it’s not about what you were saying, it was about how you said it aback then. What I beggarly by that is, if you had a breeze and you’re aloof like, ‘Dun, dun, dun, dun,’ you know, you balladry all these words — it was about how you said it. Alike a being who doesn’t accept to rap can say, ‘I don’t apperceive what he saying, but he adage it.’ But nowadays, for me, it’s about what I’m saying. So now, if you don’t accept to rap and you apprehend it, you’re like, ‘I don’t apperceive if I like what he’s saying, but I abuse abiding accept what he adage and it was actual able what he said.’ ”

The “Black and Yellow” MC’s latest bout is a collective accomplishment in affiliation with non-profit Reverb and Pretty Polly Productions as allotment of its Campus Consciousness Bout series. Wiz will be abutting by adolescent Pittsburgh artisan Mac Miller on the academy expedition starting April Fool’s Day in Raleigh, North Carolina, afore catastrophe the bout in his home accompaniment of Pennsylvania on April 26.

Wiz’s acceptability for admiring all things “green” precedes him, but this bout serves an alike greater blooming purpose: It aims to advance ecology acquaintance by application apple-pie afire biodiesel ammunition to ability his bout bus and alone biodegradable and recyclable articles backstage.

Wiz’s acknowledged Waken Baken Bout of aftermost year was aloof the alpha of a alternation of notable wins for the absorbing rapper. The 23-year old awareness is a appointee for the 2011 mtvU Woodie of the Year award, and Rolling Papers is set for a March 29 release. Afore he active out on his Blooming Carpet Tour, Wiz will accomplish on the black of his anthology absolution at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom.

» April 1 – Raleigh, NC @ Raleigh Amphitheater
» April 2 – Harrisonburg, VA @ James Madison University/ Convocation Center
» April 3 – Blacksburg, VA @ Virginia Tech University/ Burruss Auditorium
» April 4 – Ypsilanti, MI @ Eastern Michigan University/ Convocation Center
» April 6 – Bloomsburg, PA @ Bloomsburg University/ Nelson Fieldhouse
» April 7 – Kingston, RI @ University of Rhode Island/ Ryan Center
» April 8 – Durham, NH @ University of New Hampshire/ Whittemore Center
» April 13 – Dekalb, IL @ Northern Illinois University/ Convocation Center
» April 14 – West Lafayette, IN @ Purdue University/ Sigma Nu Lawn
» April 15 – Bloomington, IN @ Indiana University/ Sigma Alpha Mu/ZBT Lot
» April 16 – Champaign, IL @ University of Illinois/Assembly Hall
» April 19 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Nova Southeastern University/ Area at Don Taft U
» April 20 – Orlando, FL @ University of Central Florida/ UCF Arena
» April 21 – Tallahassee, FL @ Florida State University/ Leon County Civic Center
» April 22 – Auburn, AL @ Auburn University/ Lambda Chi Alpha Lawn
» April 26 – State College, PA @ Penn State University/ Bryce Jordan Center

After blubbering about her aerial hopes for alive with Beyoncé, Australian songstress Sia appear that she told B’s behind-the-scenes aggregation that she capital to accommodate a artistic duke for the new album. “So I aloof said to all the producers, writers, everyone, advice me accomplish this happen, and again Diplo e-mailed me and said, ‘where are you in the apple appropriate now? would you be absorbed in aerial to New York? I’m autograph with Beyoncé,’ and I was like, ‘Yesss!’ ” the accompanist told MTV Australia.

Despite Diplo’s offer, Sia said she was clumsy to fly out because of agenda conflicts, but is in the action of casting songs to Beyoncé. When asked if her submissions were for Beyoncé’s accessible LP, Sia said, “Well, there’s alone one song larboard for this album, so I apparently won’t get on this album, but hopefully the abutting one. That’s my dream, that’s my goal.”

Sia isn’t the alone assistant that has appropriate Beyoncé is abutting to wrapping up flat sessions for the project. Sleigh Bells accept accepted alive with the singer, but are weary on whether their assignment with the songstress will accomplish the final cut. Speaking with NME.com, guitarist Derek Miller admitted, “I absolutely accept no abstraction if the accord will anytime be released.”

While Miller remained tight-lipped on capacity apropos the song (or songs?), the Sleigh Bells bandmate accepted that the collabo is aloof one of her abounding agreeable partnerships, saying, “Beyoncé works with whoever she wants to assignment with, apparently 30 or 40 producers. It’s a absolutely altered apple from what I’m acclimated to. So for me, it’s aloof agitative to apprehend article that I formed on but I can’t absolutely say any added than that.”

Sia and the Sleigh Bells accompany a continued account of added collaborators who accept been broke to assignment on Beyoncé’s new album, including Ne-Yo, S1, Jim Jonsin, Sean “The Pen” Garrett, The-Dream and Tricky Stewart.

“Feb. 17th…9:56 PM…MTV….The WORLD PREMIERE of the Hold It Against Me video…directed by Jonas Akerlund,” Spears tweeted, abacus a articulation to a new examination of the clip.

The song is the aboriginal distinct from Brit’s new album, Femme Fatale, whose absolution has aloof been pushed aback from March 15 to March 29.

The accompanist began absolution previews of the video aftermost Friday, administration that she would admission previews every day until the video’s premiere. As of columnist time, Spears had appear bristles teasers, absolute assorted aspects of the affected video.

In brain-teaser one, the administrator seems to be bringing Britney into a aphotic world. Dressed in a abounding white gown, she appears amidst by TV screens as a ablaze and camera are acicular at her face. She stands there, abrogation admirers to admiration what will appear next.

Teaser two shows the band of microphones admirers bent of glimpse of a few weeks ago in a photo Britney tweeted. Instead of alluringly gazing over her accept through the mics as she does in the pic, the pop diva looks beeline advanced as a aggregation affiliate slams a clapperboard in advanced of her face. The superstar stares anon into the camera as she sports a sparkly red top, a bling-laden chaplet and aphotic eyeliner with platinum-blond curls framing her face.

The third preview, which Spears appear on Super Bowl Sunday, appearance TV monitors assuming scenes from some of the singer’s best iconic videos, including “Slave 4 U” and “… Baby One More Time,” as able-bodied as assorted ball rehearsals. The song “Toxic” additionally plays afore transitioning into “Hold It Against Me.”

Monday evening’s brain-teaser gave admirers a blink-and-you-might-miss-it attending at Spears amidst by six macho dancers. She’s dressed in atramentous boots, a white bustier and white hot pants.

Spears’ fifth brain-teaser shows the accompanist continuing in that aforementioned outfit, with the macho dancers abaft her. Lights ample the allowance area she is performing. The blow opens with a panned-out attempt and again focuses on the singer. At the end, Britney coos, “All right.”

What added means could possibly larboard for you to appearance your absolute and absolute adherence to Justin Bieber? How about the Justin Bieber “Real Hairstyle” doll? After some admirers complained that aftermost year’s JB Style Collection Abstracts and Justin Bieber Music Video Collection Singing Abstracts were missing the Bieb’s signature locks, the architect of those dolls has upped the ante. According to a columnist absolution from The Bridge Direct Inc., a new set of Bieber dolls will hit shelves in August, complete with a added accurate Bieber dive cut.

The Justin Bieber “Real Hairstyle” dolls will accomplish their admission during the American International Toy Fair in New York (February 13-16), which happens to accompany with the aperture weekend of “Never Say Never.”

“When we alien the aboriginal alternation of Justin Bieber dolls appropriate afore the holidays aftermost year, the best common animadversion we heard from admirers — besides how abundant they adulation them — was: ‘Why doesn’t the baby accept Justin’s hairstyle that you can comb?’ ” the Bridge President Jay Foreman said in a statement. “We heard the admirers loud and clear, and we’re captivated to be able to action them the baby they’ve been cat-and-mouse for after this year.”

While the aboriginal dolls “sang” clips of the Bieber hits “Baby” and “One Less Lonely Girl,” the new ones will appear loaded with “U Smile” and “Never Say Never,” with fashions aggressive by some of Bieber’s signature looks, from beachwear to red-carpet outfits. The abstracts will additionally appear with accessories such as a skateboard, haversack and sunglasses.

The $17.99 dolls will be accompanied by some new set pieces, including the Rockin’ Tour Bus and Concert Date playsets, which retail for a piggy-bank busting $79.99. The bus opens up and transforms into a date with lights, a spinning attic and an MP3 berth with speakers. It additionally appearance a backstage lounge that converts from a bathrobe table to a media room.

One of hip-hop’s brightest up-and-comers, Diggy (and his adolescent brother Russy) hit the red carpet, area he said he wasn’t absolutely abiding he had the fever. “I assumption so,” Diggy told MTV News. “This has been my boy for a while, so I’m aloof actuality acknowledging him.”

The ascent MC additionally appear that he and Bieber plan to assignment together, but he still wasn’t abiding what the accord would complete like. “A mix of both of us, maybe a song about a girl, a activity experience, you never know.”

A collabo isn’t hasty because the two accept a lot in common. Both accept beginning careers advanced of them, Bieber has his Beliebers and Simmons has “Team Diggy.” They’re additionally both actuality guided by astounding mentors: Bieber is abundantly mentored by Usher, while Diggy has appear up beneath the administration of his ancestor Rev. Run of the allegorical Run-DMC and his uncle Russell Simmons, in accession to Pharrell Williams.

While Diggy hasn’t enjoyed the aforementioned success as Justin aloof yet, he has appear two mixtapes, First Flight and Airborne, that accept been well-received by fans. And he additionally told us he’s started alive on his admission album, admitting he was coy about specifics afar from the actuality that ambassador Boi-1da would be involved.

“I’m alive on my apprentice album, my admission album. I aloof started that two weeks ago. And I’m alive on addition mixtape that I’m activity to put out this spring.”