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  • Eminem, the Beastie Boys, Yelawolf, Paul Wall, Insane Clown Posse, Vanilla Ice -- you've likely heard of a white guy rapper. Nicki Minaj, Missy Elliott, Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown, Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte -- chances are you're familiar with a black woman rapper. But white women rappers are a little harder to come by. There have been some notable ones over the years (Lady Sovereign, Northern State, and Amanda Blank, to name a few), but none that has lit up the mainstream or cracked the upper echelons of the Billboard charts. That's probably partly why the web is going nuts over its latest discovery -- a new white girl MC who isn't going to give Adele a run for her money anytime soon, but is pretty cool and you should still learn her name.

    It's Kreayshawn, who was born Natassia Zolot and pronounces her nom de rap "Crishon." She's a 21-year-old Oakland native whose mom was in the punk band the Trashwomen. Until recently, she was a film student on a full scholarship who directed videos for other

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  • Michael Jackson worked with a ton of unlikely collaborators before his death in June 2009 -- 50 Cent, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Grohl, Will.i.am, and some New Jersey sound-alike, to name a few -- but the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb might have been the strangest. According to Gibb, he and the King of Pop got together in a recording studio in December 2002 to lay down a song they'd co-written called "All in Your Name." We're not sure why nearly a decade later the song is finally being excavated, but Gibb promises the whole track will be available soon. Gibbs and Jackson did co-write another song together back in 1985 when they appeared on "Eaten Alive," which ended up as Diana Ross property.

    "Michael Jackson and I were the dearest of friends, that's simply what it was. We gravitated towards the same kind of music and we loved collaborating and he was the easiest person to write with," Gibbs wrote on his website. "The more we got to know each other the more those ideas entwined and it all came to

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  • Based on the information Mastodon's Brent Hinds just gave Spin about the band's upcoming fifth LP, the Atlanta metal quartet's target demographic is people on PCP:

    "It's a jump-on-your-bed, get naked, and go streaking kind of record. ... We've got a song about fighting, there's a song about lifting heavy stuff, there's a song about people on meth creeping around in trees trying to get the best wood grain out of a tree to sell it at Lowe's for [drug] money... The album is kind of silly. We're taking the piss out of things."

    Mike Elizondo produced the disc, likely because he's Warner Bros.' new in-house staff producer and senior VP of A&R. This is the same Mike Elizondo who cowrote 50 Cent's "In Da Club" and Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady," and produced Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine. This man was in the studio with the band who wrote a concept album about hallucinating on a Blood Mountain. This is going to be interesting. And Hinds is definitely amped for the release. "I haven't

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  • That’s Enough, INXS

    Once upon a time, decades ago, INXS were a significant band. They had songs you liked. Unfortunately, their Jim Morrison doppelganger of a singer Michael Hutchence passed away in 1997, which should have meant the end of INXS. However, the band soldiered on. Firs they hired singer Jon Stevens, then they used a reality show in 2005 to find a Hutchence replacement. The winner of the contest was J.D. Fortune, who served as the band's singer until 2009, when the band fired Fortune in a Hong Kong airport because of an alleged cocaine addiction. Now, INXS have announced another tour, only they're not divulging who their lead singer is going to be.

    INXS' latest album Original Sin finds vocalists like Rob Thomas, Ben Harper, and John Mayer singing on reworked INXS tracks, but none of those dudes will fill the vacancy this tour. Instead, according to Slicing Up Eyeballs, even though Fortune isn't featured in the band's new promo shots, more than likely he'll rejoin INXS for a second stint.

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  • Who's Number One: This time next week, Lady Gaga will be slipping her tea crystal into a glass of champagne, celebrating a mammoth opening sales week for Born This Way (hawking your album for a buck and at CVS will do that). But for now, Adele is still Billboard's top lady. The U.K. singer's ninth week at Number One came via 137,000 sales of 21 according to Nielsen SoundScan, which means it's now just a hair shy of 2 million copies sold. Billboard reports that 21 is only fourth album in the last 12 years to spend so many weeks at Number One.

    Who's Not Very Bummed About Being in the Same Conversation as Lady Gaga and Adele: Seether, who took second place on the Top 200 with 61,000 copies of Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray. That is actually more than their last album, 2007's Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces, moved its debut week. Wow.

    So That Means ...: The 38th Now! comp came in third with 50,000, Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party rose to Four with 29,000, Mumford & Sons'

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  • The voters of Miami have spoken, and unfortunately 2 Live Crew's controversial frontman Luther Campbell will not be South Beach's next mayor. After announcing he'd pursue a mayoral run in January, Campbell knew that it'd be an uphill struggle for an African-American candidate to win in Miami, where the Hispanic/Latino population dominates the polls. Campbell was right: With 11 candidates vying for the two spots on the ballot, former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and former County Commissioner Carlos Gimenez both garnered enough votes to move on to the June 28th election. Campbell finished fourth with 11 percent of the votes, not a bad figure considering no other candidates beyond the top four managed to secure over 4 percent of the vote. Oh, well. At least the Heat won last night.

    Campbell made honorable campaign promises about the creation of new jobs and more public housing, but perhaps it was his hard-line decision to tax strippers that caused his eventual downfall. Despite the

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  • VH1 has ordered 60 brand-new half-hour episodes of Pop-Up Video, reviving the show that dropped bubbles of information over music clips for the first time since 2002. Nobody is happier than twentysomethings nostalgic for the series that debuted in 1996, and nobody is more bitter than its creator, Woody Thompson. "I have sat on the sidelines for the last decade and watched as everyone and [his] brother has ripped off Pop-Up in some way or another with the Internet coming out of nowhere and Twitter being hauntingly familiar and all of these devices that are using snarky, pithy text," Thompson told the Hollywood Reporter in a long, run-on of bitterness that was not that snarky and certainly not pithy.

    In the days before Wikipedia could tell you when and where Rick Astley was born and how Ace of Base got their name ("They consider themselves the four "aces" of their home studio "base", FYI), Pop-Up Video posted "info nuggets" on the screen accompanied by a satisfying TiVo-esque sound

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  • Deen says she used slur but doesn't tolerate hate

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    UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Cher is no stranger to tabloid fodder.

  • 'The Voice' Winner: Who Did the Experts Choose?

    By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - NBC's "The Voice" will crown another winner on Tuesday night's finale. Season 4's three finalists - Daniellle Bradbury, Michelle Shamuel and The Swon Brothers - battled it out for the title on Monday's performance finale episode. Before the performances, coaches Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Shakira and Usher performed The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends." The Top 16 then got together for the second group performance of the night on Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros' "Home. ...

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