Nicki Minaj is the recipient of this year’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards. On Sunday night, as has become customary for honorees of the award, she did a career-spanning medley of some of her hits during the broadcast. Included in the performance were bits of “All Things Go,” &...

A long-running controversy over the authenticity of vocals on a posthumous Michael Jackson album is over, legally speaking. As Billboard reports, Jackson’s estate and Sony settled a class-action lawsuit claiming that three songs on 2010’s Michael were performed by an impostor.

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Over the years, MTV has used its Video Vanguard Award, later rechristened the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, as a lifetime achievement award and a chance to secure an appearance by a legit celebrity on their show. They haven’t always handed out the award — it went dormant for most of the 2000s and, after resuming for most of t...

Check out the duo talking about family ties, world music, the future of Black Eyed Peas, and a Michael Jackson collab that never happenedThe post Will.i.am and James BKS tell us about their collab ‘Jungle Go Dumb’ appeared first on NME.