• Kanye West calls his new song "Love Lockdown," which he wrote a week and a half before his performance at the VMAs, his "favorite song 2 date." [MTV]

• Universal and Prince really need to let some things on YouTube go. [EUR]

• If young guys are going to get arrested for sagging, then this is fair game. [Jossip]

• Jordin Sparks knows that people who don't wear purity rings aren't "necessarily sluts," but she meant what she said at the VMAs and she isn't sorry. [EW]

• All right, Georgia politicians. I'll say it slowly. Stop. Calling. Black. People. Uppity. [TPM]

• I'm both pleased and disappointed that Al Sharpton rejected a request from ABC to appear on Dancing With The Stars. [EUR]

• Trina and her boyfriend, NBA player Kenyon Martin, got into a fender bender in Belize. Shrug. Everyone else was writing about it, so I thought I would mention it. [AHH]

• Will Britney Spears send out a memo to all budding pop stars explaining that it's a mistake to announce to the world that you're saving yourself for marriage? [SP]

• New music! From Whitney Houston! [CL]

• Plies has joined the Lying Rapper Club. [RTNY]

Someone forgot to tell Jordin Sparks that the story everyone is going with is that Rihanna and Chris Brown are like "brother and sister." She spilled the beans, Mary J.-style, in a recent interview in the UK.

Are Chris Brown and Rihanna dating?

Yeah, they are. It was really cool because I walked on the set and she was sitting there with Chris Brown and I was like I can’t believe she’s here. She came and she told me that she loved No Air, and that it was one of her favourite songs. It was really cool hearing that from one of my peers. She just wanted to support him.

Ruben Studdard, aka The Velvet Teddy Bear, aka the guy who won Clay Aiken's season of American Idol, has been dropped by J Records because of the dismal sales of his last album, which only moved 235,000 copies. Poor Jordin Sparks seems to be following in Ruben's footsteps. [SOHH]

Has Terrence Howard finally found that non-promiscuous woman who has baby wipes on display in her bathroom and won't seduce him into breaking his vow of celibacy? He attended the Kennedy Center Honors last night with Zulay Henao, a Colombian-American actress with whom he is filming a probable-stinker called Fighting. Recently, there have also been rumors that Zulay was dating Nick Cannon. This chick sure can pick 'em.

Honorees at the annual event included Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson. More after the jump.

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Jordin Sparks had a not-so-great debut for an American Idol winner last week, with her album opening at number 10, three spots behind

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• Professor Ludacris doesn't really have a nice ring to it. [BV]

• Oh, virginity vows. They're so easy to maintain until you start dating Justin Timberlake. And then it's all downhill from there.[SP]

• Chris Brown, next time just say, "No comment." You'll sound more mysterious and less inarticulate. [Bossip]

• Is a non-feminist the same as a racist? And should we be taking feminism (or racism) lessons from a Playboy executive? [Racialicious]

• Totally off topic, but it got me through the day. [SH]

See the look on Nick Cannon's face as he hosted last night's Teen Choice Awards? I think we are witnessing the moment, captured for posterity by an ingenious photographer, when Nick Cannon officially realized he was too old for this shit.

And yet, the show had to go on. If you have even the slightest interest in who won what, you can find the list of winners here. If not, check out the stars in their teen-friendly award show gear after the jump.

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I'm shocked and amazed at the lack of major fashion don'ts last night, considering the crowd. Even Lil' Kim, while I wouldn't have chosen that outfit/makeup/hair necessarily, could have done much, much worse. I'm not saying there weren't some questionable wardrobe and hair choices — I'm talking to Keyshia Cole and Vivica Fox specifically, here — but in general things were looking pretty good. More red carpet pics than you can handle after the jump.

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Mary J Blige, Johnta Austin and Jermaine Dupri won songwriter of the year honors at last night's ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards in LA. Other winners include Sean Paul, Beyonce, Yung Joc, and Kirk Franklin. Check out the red carpet pics after the jump.

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In light of their constant engagement rumors, take this "news" with a grain of salt. Some reports say that Beyonce, who had a rare night of partying in London two nights ago, is finally tying the knot with Jay-Z. Please. I'll believe it when I see the ring. [Dlisted]

Anti-obesity activist MeMe Roth has been getting death threats ever since she called Jordin Sparks fat. [BV]

Students in Illinois get their diplomas taken away because their friends and family cheered for them at graduation. [Clutch]

Rihanna's enemy? Carbs. And Mary J. Blige. [MC]

When you're just getting over a scandal involving humping an underaged girl, the best thing to do is to hurl what looks to be an underaged boy off the stage. [Bossip]

Evil media whores from on Fox News be damned, American Idol's Jordin Sparks says she's finally comfortable with her body. We all know that's probably a lie.

After nailing her Idol audition, Jordin's confidence began to soar. For the first time in her life, she embraced her right to bare arms. Before the show, "I liked to wear sleeves because they would cover up my arms," she says. When the show's stylists made suggestions, "I'd go, 'This dress is way too beautiful. If I add sleeves it will ruin it.' So I just got over it."

These days, "I'm really comfortable in my own skin," Jordin says with her signature wide smile. "I learned that I'm not ever going to be a size 2. I would look so weird as a size 2. Somebody would blow and I would fall right over. It just wouldn't be healthy."

Let me stop being cynical. She was probably telling the truth when said all of this. Give her a few months before she starts shrinking exponentially, insisting she still eats whatever she wants, and blaming the weight loss on the stress of fame.

[People]

When I look at American Idol-winner Jordin Sparks, I see a cute teenager. When MeMe Roth of the National Action On Obesity looks at her, she sees diabetes, heart disease and high cholesterol. Nice.

On Fox News, Roth implied that Sparks shouldn't win the show because she would be a bad influence on American children. Because of her weight. Come on! American Idol has had a few contestants through the years that were fat to the point of being unhealthy, and Jordin Sparks is not even close to being one of them. And she's a child! She will have enough pressure to slim down in the coming months from her handlers and agents and record label without a so-called child obesity activist calling her fat and basically telling her she's going to die on cable television. I'm not labeling Roth a racist or a sexist, but I find her comments similar to the ones Don Imus made about the Rutgers girls. This is a teenager who just accomplished something amazing, and here comes Roth to knock her down over a percieved physical flaw. It's sick, and it's mean. And if Roth was really interested in fighting obesity, she would not be wasting her time on a girl like Jordin Sparks.

Maybe she should pick on somebody her own size.

I watched enough of last night's American Idol finale show to see a cringeworthy Blake Lewis try to keep up with Doug E. Fresh and look into Smokey Robinson's (kinda creepy) eyes as he sang Motown greats with the all the male losers, but I had to change the channel before Jordin Sparks' winning moment. On the scales of television importance, the season finale of Lost weighs about 100 lbs more than American Idol. But hey, I can relive the night in pictures, right?