Check out Pitbull and Akon’s new music video for their latest single, “Shut It Down.” The song comes straight from the Miami rapper’s fourth studio album, Rebelution, in stores now. Peep the video after the cut!

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Singer/actress Jennifer Lopez is jumping on the alter ego bandwagon and his naming her other personality “Lola” (what happened to J.Lo???). Lopez is releasing a new album in January 2010, titled Love? and this track here, “Fresh Out the Oven” (featuring rapper Pitbull) is a promotional track for the LP, which will be Lopez’s 7th studio album (and her first in 3 years). Though Lopez is calling herself “Lola” for the sake of promoting this new track, sources tell People.com that she hasn’t adopted the alter ego just yet.

A note of explanation: Lopez’s new song will not appear on her upcoming album – and a Web site established to promote it, featuring a dancing female figure named Lola, has spawned rumors that Lopez has adopted a new persona.

Not so. “Lola is just for this song, it’s not her ongoing persona,” says a source close to the singer. “It’s something fun. She hasn’t become Sasha Fierce [Beyoncé's artistic alter ego]. There won’t be anything to do with Lola on her Love? album.”

“This is a hot club record that the label loved and Jennifer thought was fun,” Amanda Ghost, president of Epic Records tells PEOPLE. “Jennifer and Pitbull got together and the record leaked. Lola is a fun character just for this song.”

D/L: J.LO & PITBULL – “FRESH OUT THE OVEN”

Here are the videos featuring the performances from Sunday night’s (Sep 13) MTV Video Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga and more! Even with all of the mishaps (Kanye and Lil Mama, we’re talking about YOU!), the show turned out great. This year’s VMAs were possibly the best in a while: fun, entertaining and definitely unpredictable. Continue reading to check out all of the performance videos!

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Here are some photos from the red carpet of the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, held Sunday night (Sep 13) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Big names like Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Ne-Yo, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Kanye West and more all showed up and posed for pictures. Continue reading for the rest of them!

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Jasmina Anema’s search for a match for a bone marrow transplant has been made a bit easier, thanks to a few Florida-based entertainers and athletes who have united together to help the 6-year-old patient, who has just weeks to live after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia.

Florida natives Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Pitbull and Flo Rida are a part of the group of celebrities providing their support to a special event, scheduled to take place in North Miami, Florida, in honor of Anema.

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MTV News has obtained a federal complaint filed on behalf of former Pretty Ricky member Pleasure by his attorneys Robert Meloni and Steve Schwartz.

In the complaint, the R&B singer (born Marcus Cooper), alleges a number of wrongdoings against Joseph “Blue” Smith and Bluestar Entertainment, the company Pretty Ricky is signed to in a deal with Atlantic Records. The group’s management and booking company, International Artist Agency, is also named in the suit.

According to Pleasure, Smith deceived the singer by first acting as a surrogate father to him and also serving in roles that were conflicts of interest for Pleasure and the group, including acting as a personal manager, business manager, booking agent, record exec and music publisher. The suit alleges that Smith “exploited conflict of interests in the competing roles he occupied in Cooper’s life.”

International Artist Agency, headed by Stephen Brush, is alleged to have abetted a number of Smith’s practices, according to the complaint.

Pleasure, according to the information filed earlier this week, is seeking a release from his contract with Bluestar and back pay owed to him. The suit claims that the former Pretty Ricky star has not been properly compensated for his contributions to the group, whose two albums have both been certified gold (500,000 Units sold).

The suit also alleges that Smith used physical intimidation. According to the complaint, when Pleasure began to distance himself from the group and sought out the friendship of others, in one instance, Smith attacked a friend of the singer’s as a means of coercion.

Pleasure first raised eyebrows earlier this year on the red carpet at the BET Hip Hop Awards, when he announced he was leaving the successful act. The group’s only singer told the media he would be pursuing a solo career instead.

- MTV via ONTD!
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Pitbull feat. Lloyd • “Secret Admirer”

Here you can find Pitbull’s new single, featuring R&B singer Lloyd, “Secret Admirer” from his upcoming album The Boatlift (TVT Records). Boatlift is currently set for a fourth quarter Fall release. In my opinion “Secret Admirer” is a smooth, melodic production, this courtesy of the rap duo Play-N-Skillz, I found it relaxing with the sudden calmness and subtly. Lloyd’s voice matches so perfectly with the arrangements of vocals.

K, we got a couple new video premieres for y’all! First up, I’m sure you guys remember American Idol’s Jordin Sparks’ single “Tattoo” last Summer, I love Stargate, but they are over-doing it with the “Irreplaceable” thing … I know that was like the number one song – but dang – I mean COME ON! I’m getting sick of it now!! Anyway, the video for that recently premiered on Yahoo! Music along with Pitbull’s new single, featuring Lloyd, “Secret Admirer,” which you can peep after the cut, I should have a review of that posted up in a minute. ;-)

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