Don’t let the fact that Kanye West has been laying low lately fool you into thinking that crowds don’t go crazy for him anymore. British concertgoers had already packed London’s famous O2 Arena to see Beyoncé perform and lucked out when a couple more superstars showed up. Hov came through to support his wifey, and Kanye hit the stage to spit his verse from thier hit, “Ego.” The festivities went down a few nights ago, but quality footage is just now hitting the web. Watch Ye’s cameo above.

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No lengthy introduction is necessary when talking about Beyonce and Lady Gaga. Two women with a daring sense of fashion. Two women who sell more records than your favorite rapper. Two women who Kanye West rides hard for. It was only a matter of time before today’s reigning queens of pop music worked together on something. That something happens to be a remix of B’s “Video Phone” that’s much more effective as a music video than a song, but generally great nonetheless. Budding female superstars take note: these ladies have raised the bar…again.

Tune in to Complex.com every morning at 8 AM for your daily “Wake N’ Watch” video.

NAME: Beyoncé
COMPLEX SAYS: Mrs. Carter once again puts the rest to shame with cleavage and some inner thigh action. Never lets us wonder why Jay put on ring on it.

NAME: Cassie
COMPLEX SAYS: Cassie looks a lot hotter without Diddy hanging off her. We vote for solo Cassie more often. Still getting used to that hair, though.

NAME: Amerie
COMPLEX SAYS: Amerie keeps it simple and sexy and always gets the passing grade here at Complex.

NAME: Katy Perry
COMPLEX SAYS: Channeling a vintage superhero sexpot with this dress, Ms.Perry knows boobs, legs, and role-play are the keys to every boy’s heart.

NAME: Solange
COMPLEX SAYS: Big sis always seem to take the top spot, but it don’t stop Solange from bringing some boho hotness. Cropped dos work when your last name is Knowles.

NAME: Amber Rose
COMPLEX SAYS: This outfit kinda makes her look like a snake digesting dinner in two different parts of its body. We heart her lady lumps.

NAME: Jennifer Lopez
COMPLEX SAYS: She’s got her red carpet “Fuck Me” face mastered…and we’d gladly comply J. Lo. Gladly.

NAME: Amanda Bynes
COMPLEX SAYS: Whoa? Girl, when’d you get those curves?!

NAME: Kristin Cavallari
COMPLEX SAYS: So we guess she’s “famous” again after disappearing post-Laguna Beach. We don’t really care what she does—the whole bitchy, blonde, California girl set-up works for us.

NAME: Shakira/Pink
COMPLEX SAYS: Both these ladies invoke dominatrix fantasies. Question is, who do you actually want holding the whip?

NAME: Alicia Keys
COMPLEX SAYS: Besides looking amazing last night, Alicia Keys left Swizz Beatz at home. We pretended she was single for one night, and we’re sure you did too.

September’s a month, 30 days it has, unlike some other months that have 31. And in those 30 days of September, some hot girls were born, and really, why read any more—let’s look at pictures of the 10 Hottest Girls Born in September…

SALMA HAYEK, 9/2/66
CLAIM TO FAME: Twos
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: Dos Testes
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BEYONCE, 9/4/81
CLAIM TO FAME: Not really that famous, but apparently she sings or something.
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: DIY divorce papers so she can dump that old dude she’s married to.
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EVAN RACHEL WOOD, 9/7/87
CLAIM TO FAME: Native of Raleigh, NC, ya heard?!
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: Our ever ratcheting wood.
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FIONA APPLE, 9/13/77
CLAIM TO FAME: CRSWILF (Chick Rock Singer We’d Like to Friend)
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: A cheeseburger
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HEIDI MONTAG, 9/15/86
CLAIM TO FAME: The stupidest person alive
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: A lobotomy
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MADELINE ZIMA, 9/16/85
CLAIM TO FAME: Complex starlet!
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: A clear, lime-flavored malt liquor drink. About seven of ‘em.
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MOON BLOODGOOD, 9/20/75
CLAIM TO FAME: Terminator Salvation badass
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: A skateboard
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CATHERINE ZETA-JONES, 9/25/69
CLAIM TO FAME: Spouse of an aged douchebag.
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: Pearl necklace
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CHRISTINA MILIAN, 9/26/81
CLAIM TO FAME: “Dip It Low”!
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: Gift certificate to PinkBerry
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MONICA BELLUCCI, 9/30/64
CLAIM TO FAME: Kinda pretty much the hottest woman ever
PRESENT WE’D GIVE HER: Any damn thing she wants

Knowing the severity of his injury, we just hope the kid gets better soon, because while sometimes it’s funny to laugh at people falling down, this injury could be costly for the young MC. Although he’s the latest, Drizzy’s not the first artist to take a spill at a concert, so while we wait for him to recover, check out (and feel free to laugh at) 15 other Memorable Stage Tumbles…

Beyonce
• A fall this epic can’t be kept quiet no matter what you do.

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Lil’ Wayne
• For all the jokes he cracked after Drake’s fall, Weezy took a pretty nasty spill himself during this show.

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The Game
• He recorded a diss song aimed at the stage after the concert.

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Mya
• Things like this “happen all the time.” Righhtttt.

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Bret Michaels
• Giving new meaning to the word “staged.”

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The Streisand Effect refers to “an Internet phenomenon where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires… [and] instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity, often being widely mirrored across the Internet, or distributed on file-sharing networks (Wikipedia).”

See you learn a new term everyday. Hit the jump for the Complex’s history of the Streisand Effect, when censorship failed, and everyone got a look, listen, and feel of the supposedly “banned” content…

2003: The Start. Barbara Streisand sues the California Coastal Records Project
• Silly Babs. The Streisand Effect gets its name for Barbara Streisand’s suit over an image the California Coastal Records Project held on its site. The Coastal Records Project is/was a photographic database of over 12,000 frames of the California coast and the suit asserts that the image that included her Malibu home violated the “anti-paparazzi” statute. Thanks to the publicity around the suit, everyone had a look at her house, and a phenomenon was born.
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2004: EMI tries to squash the Grey Album
• Danger Mouse was a relatively unknown producer until one day he decided to mix up samples from the Beatles White Album under lyrics from Jay-Z’s Black Album. College students went nuts with it on Napster and the New Yorker reviewed it glowingly. But it wasn’t until EMI, who owned the rights to the White Album, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Danger Mouse and to stores that were selling the mixtape that the album reached critical mass. This lead to a protest known as Grey Tuesday, where close to 200 websites posted the album for 24 hours as an act of protest. More than 100,000 copies of the album were downloaded, totaling over a million individual tracks. Thanks to EMI, Danger Mouse’s projected career got a jumpstart, allowing him to go crazy.
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2006: Daniela Cicarelli tries to stop her sex tape from leaking
• Ohhh sex tapes. If you want something to disappear, you shouldn’t start making a giant iFuss over it. Especially if we’ve never heard of you. Oh wait, you’re a super hot Brazillian? Wait, what’s the link? Daniela Cicarelli lost a GM endorsement contract because of the video, and following the suit, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered YouTube to find a way to permanently block the intimate video from being uploaded on its servers. Hahahahahaha yeah.fucking.right. Silly girl, next time, make the video yourself.
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2007: Beyonce falls down the stairs
• This isn’t the most solid example of the Streisand effect, but the video is too awesome not to re-link. Sony BMG tried to get this video of Beyonce falling down the stairs during a July 2007 concert in Orlando removed, and got the video taken down from a few of the bigger sites, but the Internet doesn’t let things go away. One could make the case that Sony’s attempt to get personal videos banned increased the press surrounding it, but Beyonce is such a huge star that this thing was going to be giant in the viral video world anyway.
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2008: The Church of Scientology tries to make Tom Cruise seem sane
• On January 14, 2008, a Tom Cruise Scientology video leaked of the actor just kind of talking about Scientology. Whatever, right? Tom Cruise is just a crazy asshole. But then the Church got all freaked out and started taking it down. Of course everyone went, “Wait, what?” and then we all watched it again and actually listened, and now we really know that that whole thing is nuts.
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2006-2009: Everyone tries to stop Pirate Bay
• In 2006, Entertainment executives were super psyched that they got Pirate Bay shut down, stopping illegal downloads and pirating of content. Great job guys. For three days. The news surrounding the shutdown worked as free advertising for the site. Several countries acted similarly, generating news stories and driving traffic to the Swedish website, until the founders were finally arrested this year. Unfortunately for the idiots at giant companies, the site is still up, and these dudes will be selling it for a gabillion dollars this August. Thanks lawyers!
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2009: LeBron James tries to keep you from seeing him get dunked on
• The thing is, this would have been just a whatever moment if they had just let it go. Now everyone in the world has watched the LeBron dunk video, and just in case you haven’t and want to get in on this Streisand Effect shit, click play and enjoy above.

B’s original version was good enough (just look at that preview image), but a classic ’Ye cameo puts it over the top. “Ego (Remix),” which premiered last night on BET’s Access Granted, is today’s video of the day. Good morning!

Never one to stir the pot (ah ha!), we spoke to Spencer while he was on his way to shoot guns with wifey Heidi—good practice for an aspiring MC. Read on to see how he and his wifey Heidi plan to outdo Jay-Z and Beyoncé, why Roth doesn’t stand a chance against him, and how Brody as a hypeman would damage his street cred…

Listen To Spencer’s new song “I’m A Celebrity”:

Interview by Joe La Puma

Complex: What’s going on man, how are things?

Spencer Pratt: The usual, just another amazing day in my life. On the way to the gun range with my wife, ready to go fire off some hollow points out of the 19…

Complex: Ha, OK. So you made headlines yesterday talking about Asher Roth, saying he lacks swag. If you had to battle Asher Roth, what would you use against him?

Spencer Pratt: I mean, the fact that I’m so paid, and he’s broke [laughs]. Simple as that. That’s my whole point, being that I’m fly with tons of money, and he doesn’t have that yet. I’m sure he’ll have a lot more swag in three years if he keeps selling.

Complex: You also said, “I’m like the white Jay-Z.” Would you consider Heidi the white Beyoncé?

Spencer Pratt: A little bit more than the white Beyoncé. Beyoncé had to be built by a group like Destiny’s Child, but Heidi shines solo. I’ll actually give you an exclusive: I could guarantee you Speidi’s [Spencer and Heidi's] “Bonnie & Clyde” version is going to stunt on Jay and B’s version.

Complex: Wow. Is that song going to happen?

Spencer Pratt: Yes. Steve Morales is already working on the track. That’s my Puerto Rican guru on the beat.

Complex: I saw that you’re trying to reach out to OJ Da Juiceman for him to get a verse on a Morales-produced track.

Spencer Pratt: Yeah, I’m trying to get him on my first real single because “I’m A Celebrity” is not my single. That’s just my marketing tool for the show. My first single, I just want to have me, Gucci Mane, and OJ Da Juiceman. It’ll be the flyest song in the game. I’m going to track them down, that’s my priority today.

Complex: Who’s rapping career would you use as a blueprint for yourself?

Spencer Pratt: I think I’m the future of hip-hop. You know, I feel bad for saying that. That’s unfortunate, but that’s a fact. You can’t compare my model of hip-hop with what I’m about to come out with versus anything in the game. You know I’ll take the Diddy route. I’m not a lyrical MC, I’m just like Diddy. Look what it did for him? He is still balling.

Complex: I know you said that you’re trying to infiltrate the ringtone game…

Spencer Pratt: Yeah. People are not even going to have time to listen to radio in their cars because they are going to be talking on their phones or twittering, or BBM’ing. So I feel like the only time people are going to hear music is when your phone rings, so that’s the whole market I’m going after. I don’t care about the clubs, I don’t care about the radio, all I care about is getting my digital downloads like Soulja Boy.

Complex: There’s a lot of money to be made in that…

Spencer Pratt: I think it’s only going to multiply in the next ten years. There are more people with cell phones in the world than any other thing on the planet. There are billions of cell phones. There’s not not billions of radios.

Complex: Now, Jay-Z had Memphis Bleek has a hypeman. Would Brody Jenner be your hypeman?

Spencer Pratt: Nah. A person who has a show called Bromance can’t be in on this clique.

Complex: You think that would hurt street cred?

Spencer Pratt: The Bromance show definitely hurts my street cred, so I’ll definitely distance myself from Brody as a hypeman. I’ll be pretty much be the first rapper/hypeman. I would take on both roles. I would wear both shoes. I’ll hype myself before I start rapping. I’ll get on the mic and be like, “Who is hotter than me in the game? No one.”

Complex: Interesting…

Spencer Pratt: The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn’t auto-tuned, then I would be like, “I can’t be a rapper.” The fact that I could get up to perfect pitch just like Kanye West now, and T-Pain, it’s an even playing field. I don’t have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag.

Complex: Obviously you twitter a lot. Which rapper do you think has the most interesting tweets?

Spencer Pratt: I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing. But, I’m not really interested in anybody, that’s why I started rapping. I’m still a fan of Tupac. That’s the only rapper that I’m still like, “Oh! Tupac!” Besides Gucci, and Juiceman, I’m not really excited about anybody in the game. I just love Gucci and Juice because they just have too much swag that they don’t know what to do with themselves.

Complex: Now obviously, in the previous episode of The Hills, you kind of Kufi smacked your sister’s ex-boyfriend, Cameron. Are you prepared in case someone comes at you sideways?

Spencer Pratt: I mean, I’ve been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing, you know. I’m definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.

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Not that we’re gonna miss Obsessed this weekend just because of a perceived plot issue. You see, we’re just a little (obvious segue alert!) obsessed with Beyonce ourselves. Whether you’re an ass man, a breasts man, a legs man, a face man, Bey’s got a little something for everybody (unless you’re an ugly ass/breasts/legs/face man). And to kick your weekend off right, we present Beyonce’s Hottest Pics, ever, ever, ever…

LOS ANGELES CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE, 2008

CLICK NEXT TO SEE MORE OF BEYONCE’S HOTTEST PICS

The Lone Star State’s on our mind this week for a couple reasons. One, the habitually slept on Friday Night Lights with Minka Kelly (above) starts its third season on Friday, and two, next Tuesday the state gets its village idiot back from Washington. To celebrate these two developments, we present the hottest women in that hot state’s history.

Click here to see who the 9 hottest Texan women are.

Today is your last day to vote on the snowboard videos that the talented young students from NYC's School Of Visual Arts put together using our November fashion story. [Complex]

The Dunks continue to drop…Check out this new make-up. [KicksOnFire]

Kanye and A-Trak discuss their beards. [Nah Right]

Check out this compilation of 20 hot-headed athletes from the past, and present. [Attuworld]

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There’s no disputing that Beyoncé is the baddest chick in the game (at least until she hits 30 and starts looking like an opera singer). While stunning beauty will make us overlook a lot of things, we can’t ignore the fact that B, whose new album I Am…Sasha Fierce is out now, is pushing an agenda of man hate disguised as female empowerment.

Ever since she was pretending not to be a solo act in Destiny’s Child, she’s been making it acceptable for women to dog men in public. Equal rights activists that we are, Complex won’t stand for it, so we’re calling out her for her five most man-hating singles. Man up, grab your nuts and check out the hate…


“Bills, Bills, Bills,” 1999
Male Perspective: So, if we’re struggling financially and need a woman to contribute, we’re a scrub? We thought the P was free, but apparently money can buy us love, which is why we go to hookers. At least they don’t want to cuddle.

“Bug-A-Boo,” 1999
Male Perspective: You say stalking, we say courtship. And then you nag us because we don’t pay enough attention to you.

“Irreplaceable,” 2006
Male Perspective: We cheat one time and we’re out on our ass, replaced by the next man? Men are like machine parts? This makes us pine for the days when we were objectified as pieces of meat.

“If I Were A Boy,” 2008
Male Perspective: How dare B put our “my phone’s broken” side-piece tactic on blast? Men have a basic biological need to spread the seed! And anyway, ignorance is bliss. That’s what our mom always told us before throwing back bourbons at breakfast.

“Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” 2008
Male Perspective: We’re in the midst of the worst recession in our lifetime and yet we don’t really love you unless we go broke buying you an engagement ring with a big-ass bloody conflict diamond? Really?! Hope that rock is tasty cause there’s no food on the milk crate in our cardboard box.

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5. MOVIES THAT ROCK, DECEMBER 2007

4. DESTINY’S CHILD’S “SURVIVOR” VIDEO, 2001

3. AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS, 2007

2. ON A YACHT, JUNE 2007

1. GRAMMY PERFORMANCE, 2008

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Even more than we rock with Beyoncé. We know, we know. Beyoncé’s one of our generation’s greatest superstars, but who is she, really? Damn we if know. We here at Complex like to feel like we know our stars, flaws and all. Just ask, Cassie, Weezy and the Knicks. To prove it, we listed a couple reasons why we like Solange that much more than her superstar sibling.

Click here to see our reasoning…