Today's Pick

What's a Miley Cyrus guest spot these days if it doesn't include the words "twerk" and "molly"? In the simple, sharp and spiffy new clip for will.i.am's "Feelin' Myself," the lead single appears on the new deluxe edition of the Black Eyed Peas mastermind's solo album, "#willpower," our pop's reigning queen of doing whatever you want all the time oozes all sorts of nonchalant braggadocio alongside the Black Eyed Peas honcho, Wiz Khalifa and French Montana. Amidst a background of sharp, shifting digital shapes, the four stars keep it simple and boastful, with Will getting his own cadre of clones to back him up on the dancefloor.
This club-ready track finds the Black Eye Pea leader feeling pretty good about himself as he brags about how his profile has risen over the years. And the futuristic clip is the latest example of Cyrus' budding MC skills, which she shows off in the video, along with her signature vocals on the song's hook. The party starts with Will and Cyrus posing on an all-black background as red geometric shapes flutter behind them. she joins him dressed in a black leather bra, matching high-waisted shorts, heels and a gold-chain pattern Chanel jacket.
"We be in the club, bottles on deck/And goddamit, goddamit I'm feeling myself," Will and Cyrus sing in unison, as the BEP boss switches through a series of fly outfits while "Terminator"-style digital graphics flash over his body. Montana's verse finds him hanging in the club, proving his swag by fanning a giant stack of bills and making it rain in his digital playground. "I made it to the top cuz I do it fly," Will raps over the spare, bouncy bass beat. "Feelin' f***in' lucky like the f***in' Irish/I see the whole game from my third iris/I tour the whole world like a dirty pirate/To give my whole club some Miley Cyrus."
Standing in the middle of an infinity shot of red pyramids, Cyrus does her thing, twerking out her NSFW bars about late, fuzzy nights. "Now everybody trippin' like they poppin' molly/Up in the club is where you find me," she raps. "I do it real big never do it tiny/If you 'bout the bulls*** don't remind me." The ode to looking in the mirror and liking what you see also includes some verses from Khalifa about, what else? Hitting the club with paper, bottles and his usual party supplies. By the end all four artists are bouncing around together on the futurescape before their images disappear like a TV turning off.

Mike WiLL Made It filmed a sexy, smoky, high-school-themed video for the silly, fun, insanely listenable "23," the lead single from American record producer's upcoming debut album, "Est. in 1989 Pt.3." The track is a homage to Michael Jordan and his signature Nike sneaker, and features Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J rapping like they just got a shoe deal. The title is a reference to the basketball legend's shirt number, which he wore as it was half (then rounded up) of his brother, Larry's number 45. When Michael was at high school, he believed that he only had half of Larry's skills and wanted to be at least half as good.
Wiz's and Juicy's verses were recorded first; Mike WiLL wanted a female to record the remaining verse. After he and Miley completed her single "We Can't Stop", he played Miley "23." Miley liked the song and immediately recorded the verse. Mike WiLL was originally hesitant to have Miley on the song, but after hearing her record the verse he approved of it. "23" features a midtempo beat and is the first song recorded which features Miley rapping. Its lyrics refer to Air Jordan sneakers, and in the chorus Miley raps about recreational drug use.
The '90s gave birth to Miley Cyrus, and now she's returning the favor by paying homage to the decade of Cross Colors and Saved by the Bell. Cyrus told MTV News why she was so eager to get on the cut. "He had had this track '23' with Wiz and Juicy already, and it's just on some cool like old-school J s**t and that's what's really cool about it," she said. "And like people wouldn't expect me to be on a song about Jordan... right now all they really see of me and Juicy is me at his concert way too twerked up, they haven't seen what we can do when were together and when were together it's this crazy kind of vibe because it's not what people would really expect."
Filmed in Brooklyn, the high school-themed video was directed by Hannah Lux-Davis, and it opens with the school principal leaving his office and Mike WiLL entering and playing the song on a Beats Pill. In the video, the 20-year-old "Wrecking Ball" songstress changes into a Bulls-inspired minidress, a bikini styled like a Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls basketball singlet with the number 23, and uses the foam hand which featured in her performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. Wiz raps his verse in a chemistry lab, and Juicy's verse is given in the school trophy room and is intercut with a school pep rally.

Taking some time away from cleaning baby Bash's poop as a new daddy, Wiz Khalifa is back to his rapper day job in the video for "Let It Go," featuring Akon, is the third single from Khalifa's latest fourth studio album, "O.N.I.F.C," and one of a few (rare) signs in the album that the 25-year-old Pittsburgh rapper thought of more than weed and money. The highly cinematic visuals, which includes a motivational storyline and put Khalifa and Akon in the roll of narrators as a boxing drama unfolds.
Khalifa chronicles his own life, rapping about what he aimed to do with Hip Hop music success and trends he's given to the culture. He made clear that he has re-prioritized his life somewhat, thanks to a small but notable change to his lyrics: "I just had a kid / now homie, I'm the man." Khalifa also vows to "make sure my family gon' eat" - words that he's also taken to heart, given his grind these days. Khalifa performed with Akon on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" just 24 hours after he dropped his music video for “Let It Go."
In "Let It Go," Khalifa and Akon introduce a young lady boxer who's training hard at home while going to night school and working a crappy job at a gentleman's club. And speaking of manners, one night a "gentleman" gets a little too fresh, causing our girl to fight back and almost knock that guy unconscious. Luckily, she leaves before things get too out of control. After an unhelpful chat with her boyfriend, she takes full control of her life by going full throttle on her boxer training at the gym. And to think she's got Khalifa and Akon as her (rooftop) guardian angels!
Over sweeping, atmospheric production, Khalifa rhymes about achieving success despite any detractors along the way. Visually, the narrative from Ryan Hope-directed video is also ironically a motivational picture with various story lines playing throughout the film. The rappers take a backseat from the spotlight to tells the story of a female boxer trying to get her life together and make it to the top, but struggling because her boyfriend isn't supportive and killing her whole vibe. The hook of "Let It Go," is a musical delivery that reminds people to let go of the things holding us back in life. Whether it be a person or a task that we can achieve by staying focused, the duo are reminding listeners to 'do better' as we know.

Self-proclaimed auto-tune king T-Pain returns with a mid-tempo groove and wanders the streets alone in the music video for "5 O'clock," the first official single off his upcoming fourth studio installment, the heavily-delayed "rEVOLVEr," which has no release date but is expected to come out later this year. Like Adele's new video for "Someone Like You," the "5 O'Clock" video shows the 26-year-old artist meandering through the streets of a beautiful Amsterdam, including the famed Red Light District.
It's a pensive contemporary R&B ballad, with rumbling beats, pealing organs, and featuring Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa and a vocal sample from British singer Lily Allen's 2009 track "Who'd Have Known," T-Pain's laidback auto-tuned mid-tempo tune, is built around the dreamy, adult lullaby, finds the autotuned rapper king telling the story of a party animal promising his neglected girl he'll return home soon. T-Pain is apparently over the loony nuttiness that defined him five years ago, and is all on his "this song is serious!" tip with a heavy dose of Auto-Tune, and of those stripper windows in Amsterdam.
"The song is basically about me being where I am at a club. I'm just taking too long and Lily wants me to come home right now," T-Pain explained. "And it happens a lot with me in real life, so why not make a song about it? She doesn't care where I am or what I'm doing, she just wants me to come home. But she needs me, she needs her hubby." Directed by Erik White, the video's story is a literal interpretation of the track, T-Pain getting a text strolling on home as his girlfriend awaits.
It's a long, languid clip that matches Allen's musical bed, and features an emotional T-Pain strolling the late night streets solo, looking like he's about to cry, and struggling to get in contact with his music video girlfriend Allen, who isn't in the video and is represented by a close-up of a woman's mouth singing her oft-repeated part, and she looks distraught and worried about her R&B boo, texting T-Pain and glumly singing her sampled vocals as she waits on her love. Khalifa makes a guest appearance, with a confident, sexual verse that shows no qualms about showing up at your girlfriend's place at 5 AM.