Do Not Want: Lucy In Disguise Haight & Ashbury Dress

Lucy in Disguise Dress

Lily Allen and her sister Sarah Owen have collaborated on Lucy in Disguise, a modern take on retro style clothing. As owners of a vintage store of the same name, the sisters definitely know about fashions from decades past. But their Haight & Ashbury Dress confuses us because we don't know anyone who wants to spend $240 to dress like an ethereal wench. We suspect that folks who enjoy Renaissance faires shell out that much money and more for their costumes, but at least those are appropriate for the period. The Haight & Ashbury Dress isn't even appropriate for the rest of the collection, which also features leopard-print and bandana fabrics.

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Pet Tags

Man, I'm so irritated.

I just received four pets tags that I ordered for Bev and Mary Margaret (two for Brooklyn and two for LA) and they're all messed up. Not only did they leave off the "Margaret" on Mary Margaret's tags, but the text isn't centered correctly and runs off the right side on all four of them. (The last letter of the address is cut in half.) The tags themselves are also ugly. The edges aren't smoothed out... they look like someone just cut them from a piece of sheet metal and called it a day.

So anyway, I got them this morning on my way to Starbucks (yesterday's mail), so while I was there, I started drafting a strongly-worded letter in my head, like what I was going to say to these people when I sent them back.

And then I saw it.

In tiny print on the bottom of the invoice it said, "Our handicapped employees appreciate your order."

So now I can't send them back. If I did I'd be a total asshole.

I'm just going to order new ones from someplace else. Any recommendations?

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Rob Zombie Brings The Horror To New Woolite Ad

Hard rockin’ Rob Zombie, director of flicks like The Devil?s Rejects and House Of 1,000 Corpses, is back with yet another scary project — a television ad for Woolite laundry detergent! Perhaps not the pairing one might guess where consumer marketing is concerned, but big applause is in order for Team Woolite thinking outside the [...]

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Neil Patrick Harris Announces Engagement To David Burtka

Neil Patrick Harris Announces Engagement To David Burtka

Actor Neil Patrick Harris celebrated the the New York Senate’s passing of the Marriage Equality Bill by announcing his own engagement to his partner, David [...]

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Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Ace Hood 'Hustle Hard' At BET Awards

Drake joins Ross and Wayne later in broadcast to perform Khaled's 'I'm on One.'
By Rob Markman


Rick Ross and Lil Wayne perform at the 2011 BET Awards
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Things started off slow when Rick Ross took the stage to perform at the 2011 BET Awards on Sunday (June 26) evening. Wearing a half-buttoned red silk shirt, Rozay emerged as his 2010 hit single "Aston Martin Music" blared from the speakers. Neither Drake nor R&B singer Chrisette Michele, who both sing on the song's hook, were present onstage, and their absence was noticeable as Ross carried on without them, spitting his LL Cool J-inspired bars, "When I'm alone in my room, sometimes I stare at the wall," with his usual gruff.

The set began to pick up, however, when DJ Khaled stormed from backstage with his protégé Ace Hood. Khaled shouted his usual "we the best" mantra, and a shirtless Ace, along with Ross and Khaled, performed Hood's "Hustle Hard (Remix)."

The hustler's anthem definitely raised the energy in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, but it wasn't until Lil Wayne came out for the song's third and final verse that the crowd reached a fevered pitch. Weezy, who wore a white sleeveless tee, black fitted hat and black sunglasses, bounced around the circular stage, rapping, "OK, now black card in my pocket, ridin' around in that 'Gatti/ Pistol off in my boxers, I ain't got time to be boxin'."

As Wayne got deeper into his verse, Ross, Khaled and Ace gathered around Tunechi in what resembled an old-school rap cypher, which typically took place in the urban neighborhoods of New York, where rap originated.

Still, despite their street-corner appeal, the pyrotechnic-laced performance proved that Ross, Wayne and company came to put on a show. It may have started off sluggish, but by the end, it was clear that Ross, Wayne and Khaled have themselves another hit.

In actuality, they have quite a few. Later in the broadcast, Drake joined the hyped-up DJ to spit his bars on Khaled's new single, "I'm on One." The track's video premiered during BET's pre-show, and towards the end of the show, Drizzy, Rozay and Wayne treated fans to a profanity-laced, network-censored rendition of the single. 

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'American Idol' In 60 Seconds: Scotty McCreery Wins It For The Kids

As the youngest top two in 'Idol' history awaited their fates, the guest-stars got a little dirty for the finale.
By Jim Cantiello


Scotty McCreery in the "American Idol" finale
Photo: FOX

"American Idol" season 10 has drawn to a close, and while Scotty McCreery was still digesting all that confetti he ate on Wednesday night, we here at MTV News were working around the clock to bring you news from the big finale, including Thursday's "Idol Party Live" (streaming live right here on MTV.com at 12 p.m. ET) and "Idol" in 60 Seconds, the script of which you can peruse below while you watch the video:

On Tuesday night, Fox televised a Southern junior high school talent show. Yes, season 10 came down to Scotty McCreery and his smirk versus Lauren Alaina and her doctor. There were songs about teenage love, and moms, and the civil war and ... I'm so sorry, guys, I'm trying, but me and country music go together like Haley Reinhart and pants.

On Wednesday, producers booked only the biggest, most contemporary pop stars for the big finish: Gaga, Beyoncé, Tony Bennett, Tom Jones ... Gaga, Beyoncé.

And after every guest star from stage and screen and total f---ing catastrophe [shot of "Spider-man"] finished their cameo, Ryan Seacrest did this. [Montage of Seacrest plugging all the guest stars' projects.]

Wow, if "Idol" did this good a job promoting their own artists, Lee DeWyze might be selling records.

Unless you were a fan of James Durbin's armpits, the night was really all about the big winner, Scotty, and runner-up Lauren, the two youngest "Idol" finalists ever, so producers made this finale especially family-friendly.

[Gaga gets busy with a dancer.] [J.Lo shakes her booty.] [Beyoncé sings, "Let's make love! Make love!"]

Or not. But give "Idol" some credit for still trying to kickstart David Archuleta's puberty.

Ding!

Don't miss a special edition of "Idol Party Live" Thursday at noon on MTV.com for analysis, finale red-carpet coverage and the last "Idol in 60 Seconds" of season 10. Get in the conversation by tweeting with the hashtag #idolparty! In the meantime, get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' "American Idol" page, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.

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Rakim Calls His Longevity In Rap Game 'A Blessing'

'The MC's life span in the game is maybe seven years, 10 years, 12 years,' pioneering MC reflects to MTV News on 25th anniversary of Paid in Full.
By Rob Markman


Black Thought and Rakim
Photo: MTV News

In the 1980s, critics largely labeled hip-hop a passing fad, refusing to believe that the budding art form would grow into a respected genre. So for hip-hop pioneer Rakim, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his and DJ Eric B.'s 1987 debut album, Paid in Full, is rather humbling.

"It's a blessing to be in the game this long and to have your work recognized after 25 years," Rakim told MTV News on Wednesday from his dressing room after performing the first of two shows with the Roots at legendary New York jazz club the Blue Note.

Even though the RIAA's website lists Paid in Full's original release date as July 9, Rakim Allah celebrated early with Philadelphia's (and "Late Nate With Jimmy Fallon" house band) the Roots. Together they ran through select cuts from the groundbreaking album. Fans were treated to spirited renditions of PIF classics like "Eric B. Is President" and "I Ain't No Joke," as well as other favorites like 1992's "Juice (Know the Ledge)."

"It's a big thing," Rakim said of the occasion. "The MC's life span in the game is maybe seven years, 10 years, 12 years, so to be around and to get respect at this point is a blessing."

Roots rapper Black Thought can still remember the impact of Paid in Full and how "The R" changed things in hip-hop, particularly by introducing the teachings of the Five-Percent Nation to rap. Five Percenters, as the Nation's followers are called, brought a heightened sense of spirituality to the music with their ideologies based on many Islamic principles. "Pre-Paid in Full, you didn't hear too many records — there were MCs out there, I used to hear some types with MCs rapping about having knowledge of self and dealing with that type of spirituality — but before Rakim, like, pre-Paid in Full, it wasn't out there like that. It was very much still a rarity," Thought said.

Ra opened the door for Five-Percent MCs, most notably, the Wu-Tang Clan who based many of their songs on the Nation's teachings. But that wasn't all. With Paid in Full, Rakim is credited not only with introducing a more sophisticated vocabulary to hip-hop, but also more complex flows and rhythms and an interlaced rhyme structure.

"I'm not saying lyrics or rap was simple or simplistic before that," Black Thought said, "but the complexity of it, the musicality of it changed after Rakim came out."

Share your memories of Paid in Full in the comments below!

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Concert Picks: The Wooden Birds, Oh Land, Imelda May?

Working with the idea that all work and no play makes most everyone do something they’ll eventually regret, once again we are here encouraging you to get out of the house and perhaps in a standing room only frame of mind, time and space. While the following acts have their own individual musical something-fabulous to [...]

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