Kanye West forgot to take his meds and has once again started spewing his patented brand of crazy, this time referring to Beyonce as the greatest singer of all time:

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• Kansas City Chiefs star Larry Johnson has women problems. And by that I mean they keep accusing him of crimes against them. [C&D]

• Baron Davis and Kate Hudson are buddies from high school… and might have a thing going on. [Bossip]

• Who else never wants to hear the name "Pacman Jones" ever again? [EUR]

• If it's not bad enough that people relentlessly make fun of Raven Symone's weight, now they've moved onto her eyebrows. What else is a gal to do but rant on her blog? [MG]

• Should concert reviewers give Tina Turner a pass for a sub-par performance just because she's Tina Turner? [Jezebel]

Aretha Franklin probably doesn't like this song.

People thought Nas and Jay-Z's beef was epic? Try Tina Turner vs. Aretha Franklin.

It all started at the Grammys, when Aretha Franklin expressed her displeasure with Beyonce's introduction of Tina Turner, during which she referred to Turner as "the Queen." Obviously, Franklin is the only queen, and took Beyonce's innocent intro as a personal slight. Tina Turner weighed in on the old controversy recently while she was doing press for her new tour. She told USA Today: "Aretha has always been like that. We've always accepted that from her. She's the queen of soul, and I'm the queen of rock 'n' roll. There were so many kings and queens there that night. Her ego must be so big to think she was the only one."

Aretha didn't like that too much. In a statement to the same newspaper, the Queen of Soul said, "I never figured [Tina Turner] to resort to tacky press just to sell a few tickets. I understand and I know that the concert market is down where ticket sales are concerned. I really had put her in a different class — higher than that."

If one of them comes out with a mixtape filled with battle ballads, we'll know this thing has gone too far. Read Aretha's full statement after the jump.

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One of the joys of being a long-time diva in the music industry is that you can say whatever you want. Aretha Franklin know this. Tina Turner knows it, too. If you recall Franklin was upset at last year's Grammy Awards when Beyonce introduced Turner as "the Queen." According to Aretha, there's only one queen. But Tina Turner told USA Today recently that that was just Aretha being Aretha.

"Aretha has always been like that. We've always accepted that from her. She's the queen of soul, and I'm the queen of rock 'n' roll. There were so many kings and queens there that night. Her ego must be so big to think she was the only one."

Turner laughs. "That's how queens are!"

In the same interview, she admitted that she felt nothing after Ike Turner's death, since he had been dead to her for a long time. She also said she could attribute her youthful good looks to genes, "but then again, as [she] look at [her] family, [she would] have to say [she's] the only one that got them." [USAT]

Tina Turner is taking her taut 68-year-old body back on a world tour this year, and she's enlisted famed designer (and old friend) Bob Mackie to design her costumes.

Turner, 68, says she’s “leaning a bit more towards a rock-influenced look.” To that end, Mackie has been looking back at the thigh-grazing dresses, beaded tops and shiny stretch pants he created for Turner’s solo club act in the late Seventies. His new designs include the requisite “Proud Mary” minidresses, as well as a postapocalyptic look inspired by Turner’s role in 1985’s “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” and a vixen getup à la “GoldenEye,” the 1995 James Bond film for which she wrote the theme song. And, though he’s working in a mostly neutral palette (“Because there’s so much there, you wouldn’t want to [use a lot of color],” he notes), Mackie’s going full throttle with the details, including plenty of lacing, fringe, studs and jewels.

“The only restriction I’ve given him is that I must be able to move easily,” Turner says. “If I have to concern myself with a dress sleeve or a sequin or things coming out that shouldn’t — that’s a problem.”

This particular sketch looks like something Beyonce would wear, but hey! If you got it flaunt it. [WWD]

I had a roommate in college who was inexplicably really into this song (note: I entered college a good 15 years after this song came out). Anyway, "Private Dancer," is a fitting close to our economy Rewound week.

• I want to be Jonathan Vargas when I grow up. [N&V]

• Mimi wasn't trying to ruin Nick Cannon's boy's night out a few nights ago, she just needed an assistant at her photo shoot. [Bossip]

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: promoting a movie means throwing your dignity out the window. [Str8NYC]

• Tina Turner says Beyonce's not "rock and roll." Beyonce would probably agree. [SR]

• Diddy's making millions off of his partnership with Ciroc vodka. If only he actually liked to drink it. [TMZ]

Aretha Franklin doesn't have delusions of grandeur, per se, since she is grand, in many more ways than one. But has her ego raged slightly out of control? Her ridiculous interpretation of Beyonce's introduction of Tina Turner at the beginning of their Grammy performance, during which Beyonce (who I don't believe would ever dare insult Aretha Franklin) calls Tina Turner "the queen" leads me to believe that it has. I mean, she felt the need to release a statement about it.

I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers and Beyonce," Franklin said in a statement issued by her publicist. "However, I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy…"

In the first few seconds of Knowles' intro to Turner's performance, she name-dropped Franklin and a long list of famed female singers. Then the "Crazy in Love" chanteuse focused on Turner.

"There is one legend who has the essence of all of those things: the glamour, the soul, the passion, the strength, the talent," said Knowles, strutting in hot pants. "Ladies and gentlemen. Stand on your feet and give it up for the queen."

At a party later that night, Knowles called Turner her "ultimate icon."

Still, Franklin ended her brief criticism on a gracious note, thanking the Grammys and the voting academy and saying, "love to Beyonce anyway."

It's this sort of behavior that causes people to lose R-E-S-P-E-C-T for aging icons. [AP]

The Grammys. Nine times out of ten, one of the major category award winners leaves me scratching my head — as in Herbie Hancock's Album of the Year win over Kanye and Amy Winehouse, but whatever. They still won big, those two. And as for the Grammys, at least a few of the performances are usually pretty good. Beyonce and Tina! Loved it, and not just because I'm biased. It was really good, and Tina Turner's energy was endlessly impressive. Kanye's tribute to his mother was a tearjerker — I think I saw Carrie Underwood looking a little misty-eyed in the audience — and the aforementioned Morris Day/Rihanna collaboration entertaining. There were a lot of other good performances, but those were the standouts to me. Oh, and Amy Winehouse's satellite performance from London? She wasn't all there, in more ways than one.

After the jump, more pictures and a list of winners.

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Beyonce, who has never (see amazing video above — ignore G.W. Bush) made a secret of her adoration of Tina Turner, will perform on stage with the legend at this year's Grammys. That's the buzz, anyway. No wonder she was so willing to cross a potential WGA picket line.

Ike Turner — the man, the myth, the legend — died today at the age of 76. We all know the gory details, both past and present, don't we? Instead of rehashing all the messiness, let's celebrate his music with a nice Ike & Tina medley.

In honor of Ike Turner's brief, but lovely, visit to the world of celebrity from his everyday world of obscurity, here's a 1969 Ike and Tina Turner performance of "Come Together" and "Proud Mary." Tina Turner's unforgettable performance of the latter has been often imitated, sometimes rather poorly and sometimes suberbly (in my humble opinion), but no one can ever duplicate Ms. Turner's raw energy.

Oh, and Ike is bobbing around somewhere in the background.

Out of all of the stars and pseudo-celebrities who have run afoul of the law in recent weeks, I've got to say I'm the least surprised by Ike Turner's arrest. I mean, this is Ike Turner we're talking about. I would have been surprised if we didn't hear about him getting arrested sometime soon. According to TMZ, the 75-year-old who is best known for being an abusive husband to his far more famous ex-wife, Tina, was pulled over for speeding when cops discovered an outstanding narcotics warrant. In the slammer he went. Karma continues to catch up with him.

[TMZ]