Nicki Minaj reportedly clashed with her former maid at her home in Hollywood earlier this morning. According to TMZ,
Minaj fired the maid a few weeks ago after she took a photo of the
rapper taking out the trash and asked her to autograph it. The maid
returned to Minaj's house demanding not to be "treated like an animal,"
which resulted in the performer allegedly shouting, "I'll show you how
to treat someone like an animal. Get the f**k out of my house!"

Photos: Nicki Minaj's Best Looks

One
source suggests that Minaj actually mistook a different maid for the
one who was fired. Either way, the maid has reportedly filed a battery
report with police, claiming that Minaj and her boyfriend got physical
with her when ejecting her from the house.

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Lady Gaga has been challenged to embraced vegetarianism
and pose in a lettuce dress on her visit to India this weekend. The
singer, who famously wore a dress made out of meat at the MTV Video
Music Awards in 2010, will be in New Delhi for the country's first
Formula 1 Grand Prix race, as well as an invitation-only concert at one
of the city's five-star hotels on Sunday.

Photos: Lady Gaga's Best Looks

PETA
India has put the pressure on the pop star to promote vegetarianism,
and they have offered her a lettuce gown for a photo shoot. The dress,
which would be held together by pins and threads, would need to be
constructed leaf by leaf on her body. "Someone will be on hand to spray
the lettuce with water so that it doesn't wilt," says Sachin Bangera of
PETA India.

As of yet, Lady Gaga has not publicly accepted PETA India's challenge.

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Mark Ronson was one of five influential DJs and producers asked by the
Grammys and the Re:Generation Music Project to take a specific genre and
record a new track within that style with a collection of high-profile
collaborators. For Ronson's track, titled "A La Modeliste," he teamed up
with Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Trombone Shorty, members of the Dap Kings
and drummer Zigaboo Modeliste for a dynamic, hip-hop accented take on
jazz. You can check out that track below.

All five remixers who participated in the project — Ronson, DJ Premier,
Skrillex, the Crystal Method and Pretty Lights — will discuss how they
made their tracks in a documentary due in February 2012 on YouTube.

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Scott Weiland and Christmas music are probably not things that most
people associate together in their minds. But the Stone Temple Pilots
frontman - whose album of Christmas classics Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
hit shelves earlier this week - says he's always loved holiday
standards. "I've been listening to these songs my entire life," he tells
Rolling Stone. "It was a great honor to do this album."

The album features standards like "White Christmas," "Silent Night"
and "I'll Be Home For Christmas."  Many of the songs were cut with a
large orchestra. (You can hear a stream of "Winter Wonderland" below.)
Weiland's vocal style varies wildly between tracks. "I've never recorded
something commercially before where I'm crooning," he says. "But if you
listen to my solo albums it shows that there is such a major difference
in the music that influences me and the way that I use my voice. I look
at my voice as an instrument. My two favorite singers, John Lennon and
David Bowie, had very

Click to listen to The Jezabels' 'Try Colour'

Australian quartet the Jezabels are hitting the road in North America
to support the digital release of their full-length debut, Prisoner,
on November 8th via Mom+Pop, with a physical release to follow in early
2012. Lead track "Try Colour" starts off light, then picks up with
heavy guitar riffs and drums. Guitarist Sam Lockwood explains that this
shift in mood and tempo was intentional. "'Try Colour' is our Nineties
song. At least it starts that way, and then morphs into a
dystopian-pop-nightmare. But that's fitting, I think, because we are in
many respects a band with strong contrasts," Lockwood says. "We wrote
this song quite quickly — it was actually the first song to be completed
on the album. I think that's because it does have a natural type of
movement to it. Nik's drums are the guiding force for the rest of us to
perform upon."

Lyrically, Lockwood adds, "Try Colour" is "about literally 'trying
color.' Trying things that are

Big Sean has been cleared of sexual assault charges
stemming from an incident earlier this year in Buffalo, New York.
Third-degree sex abuse and forcible touching charges against the rapper,
born Sean Anderson, have been dropped as part of a plea deal for a
misdemeanor count of unlawful imprisonment. Anderson had been accused of
harassing a 17-year-old girl at a concert along with Willie Antonio
"Sayitainttone" Hansbro, who accepted the same plea deal.

"In
order to get this entire ordeal behind him Mr. Anderson agreed to plead
guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful imprisonment with a $750
fine," the rapper's lawyer Scott Leemon said in a statement to XXLMag.com.
"Mr. Anderson regrets any misunderstandings that occurred that day and
reiterates he did not engage in any type of sexual misconduct."

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In a phone interview with the Today Show this morning, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler insisted that he was sober when he fell in the shower of his South American hotel room earlier this week, breaking his front teeth.

"Being
in the program, it's something we have to expect," Tyler told Matt
Lauer, shooting down speculation that he had relapsed into alcoholism.
"People thinking that is natural and normal. We flew last night from
Paraguay after that incident and we're in Argentina for two hours. And
anyone who knows anyone who uses substances wouldn't be up at this hour
having a talk with Matt Lauer and the rest of America. It's nothing I
don't understand. It makes me a little upset. But people think that."

Despite
the superficial injuries to his face, Tyler confirmed that he will not
be missing any shows on the band's current tour. "Short of having my
legs taken off, people are going to expect me onstage no matter what,"
he said. "I went out onstage last night and I wore my

Claiming serious vocal problems, Adele - the bestselling artist of
2011 - canceled her second run of U.S. dates this year on October 4th.
The soul superstar has yet to announce when she'll return. "If I
continue to pick up everything before I have properly conquered these
problems and nipped them in the bud, I will be totally and utterly
f**ked," she wrote on her website. "Singing is literally my life, it's
my hobby, my love, my freedom and now my job. I have absolutely no
choice but to recuperate properly and fully, or I risk damaging my voice
forever."

The condition she's suffering from, a vocal hemorrhage, generally
doesn't require the extensive break Adele is taking, according to
several top throat surgeons. But because Adele has suffered repeat
injuries, she could need the kind of throat surgery Aerosmith's Steven
Tyler underwent in 2006. (He was singing again within five months.
Graham Nash and Elton John have had similar issues.) "It's very fixable,
basically," says Tyler's