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Here’s the official video for Madonna and Justin Timberlake’s collaboration effort, 4 Minutes. The Timberland-produced track is the first single off of Madonna’s 11th studio release, Hard Candy. Gotta love the dope effects in the video!

According to Perez Hilton, the international pop superstar has already began work on her second video, which is for the Pharell Williams-produced song, Give it To Me.

Hard candy is set to hit stores April 29th 2008.

Fox Reality Channel’s Albert Lawrence interviewed Diddy backstage at the Making the Band 4 (season 2) finale. Among other things, Diddy explained how he came up with the word “Bitchassness,” and let us know why he’s “hotter than fish grease.” Shout-out to Albert from Fox for sending this over!

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Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who is famous for her deranged temper, was arrested at Heathrow airport in London after she reportedly spat on and physically assaulted an officer. According to UK’s The Sun, what set Naomi off was the fact that the airline had lost one of her three bags. Apparently the bag never made it on to the flight. The airline allegedly assured the model that her bags would be located, and returned to her soon, but obviously that wasn’t enough.

She began harassing airline staff who called cops as the flight was called and Naomi walked onto the plane. She was still yelling at boarding card staff as she took her seat. Three officers from the MET’s SO18 Aviation security branch then came onto the plane. They tried to calm the model down, but she is alleged to have reacted by spitting at an officer and then laying into him with her fists. Frenzied Naomi was bought under control after a struggle and then physically hauled off the plane. Cops were called and she was heard screaming “get off me, leave me alone” before she attacked one and was taken away to Heathrow police station.

An eyewitness said: “She attacked a male police officer and spat at him and she was taken to the airport police station.”

A Heathrow spokeswoman said: “We can confirm that a passenger was removed by police from a BA flight this afternoon.”

That damn Naomi! I’m guessing she didn’t learn from her last bout with the law…

#1: SOULJA BOY

17-year-old rapper Soulja Boy has cranked his way all the way to the top of Forbes Magazine’s Hottest New Music Stars 2008 list. He shares the list with the likes of Sean Kingston (#2), J. Holiday (#4), Flo Rida (#5), Jordin Sparks (#7), and more. The list was populated by artists who had big hits in 2007. How were they determined, you ask? Check out the info below:

To compile a list of the hottest new stars of music, we examined several measures of popularity and success. To start off, we looked at the top searches and downloads on peer-to-peer networks during the past 12 months as measured by BigChampagne, as well as press mentions as measured by Factiva.

Then we looked at U.S. digital track downloads and album sales in 2007 and the first two months of 2008, as measured by Nielsen SoundScan. Finally, we took a look at “mastertone” ringtone sales during the same period, as measured by Nielsen RingScan (mastertones are ringtones that play a snippet of the actual recording of your favorite song). [ VIA FORBES » ]

#2: SEAN KINGSTON
#3: COLBIE CAILLAT
#4: J. HOLIDAY
#5: FLO RIDA
#6: PLIES
#7: JORDIN SPARKS
#8: HUEY
#9: HURRICANE CHRIS
#10: ONE REPUBLIC

Too bad a good 40 – 50% of this list probably won’t even be around in 2013!