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Beyonce and Jay Z’s wonderchild was delivered on Saturday via C-section. The famous pair welcomed newborn Blue Ivy Carter to the world at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, according to E! News.

The songstress’ sister Solange Knowles told the world on Twitter that Blue Ivy is “The most beautiful girl in the world.”  Solange was one of many celebs to congratulate the pair and welcome the new addition to he family.  Rihanna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Russell Simmons, Diddy and Young Jeezy also tweeted their congrats.

“Congratulations to Jay-Z & Beyonce on baby Ivy Blue being born,” Young Jeezy tweeted. (NOTE:  Some news outlets have reported the name to be Ivy Blue, according to MTV.com).

Taylor Swift, winner of Artist of the Year, Favorite Country Album and Favorite Country Female Artist Awards, poses in the press room at the 2011 American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on November 20 (Jason Merritt/Getty Images via WireImage)

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Favorite Male Artist:

• Winner: Bruno Mars
• Nominees: Justin Bieber, Pitbull

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Beyonce announced that she is pregnant to photographers at the MTV Video Music Awards tonight, according to Rolling Stone.

She showed up on the red carpet proudly holding a baby bump underneath her flowing red dress.

Queen B revealed desires to be pregnant at age 30 when she was on Piers Morgan Tonight on June 27th.  Her 30th birthday is next week.

The singer has been married to rap superstar Jay-Z for three years, and has always talked about motherhood once she reaches an appropriate point in her career.

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Joining the all-star lineup at tonight’s MTV Video Music Awards will be Kanye West and Jay Z’s new duo, The Throne.

The rappers, who just released the number one album “Watch The Throne,” will join Lady Gaga, Adele, Lil Wayne and many more at the awards.

Their performance is supposed to be a surprise, so few know when they will actually go on.  Billboard.com speculates that they may join Beyonce’s performance, as one of their songs features her on the chorus.

Both Jay Z and Kanye performed at past VMAs.  Kanye debuted a track from his most recent album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” and Jay collaborated with Alicia Keys on “Empire State of Mind.”

Rapper Jay-Z is planning to produce a remake of the 1977 classic Broadway musical “Annie,” featuring Willow Smith, 10, who is signed to the rapper’s record label, Roc Nation. It was officially announced by Overbrook Entertainment.

“The Overbrook Entertainment family and I have a unified vision. We’ve already produced a Tony Award winning play and we’re developing a true superstar in Willow,” Jay-Z said in a statement.

Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, James Lassiter and Jay-Z will co-invest in the project. They were also teamed up as co-producers of the Broadway production “Fela!” which earned 11 Tony Award nominations in 2010.

Kanye West and Jay-Z are dropping the first single “H.A.M.” tomorrow from their joint album “Watch the Throne.”

West revealed its artwork on Twitter Thursday.

The highly-anticipated album, which was recorded secretly in France last year, is going to be released in March.

Music has not been available yet, but, speaking of West’s tweets, here is something that we can enjoy watching. Singer Josh Groban sang Kanye West’s tweets on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on January 3.

Tickets to this year’s Bonnaroo Festival, which will be in Manchester, TN on June 10-13, went on sale Monday, with a four-day pass costing $234.50. According to a spokesperson for the event, the full lineup will swell to some 125 acts and over 20 comedians, performing on 13 different stages. The official lineup has been announced and is listed below:

Jay-Z
Dave Matthews Band
Kings of Leon
Stevie Wonder
Phoenix
Weezer
Flaming Lips covering Dark Side of the Moon
The Dead Weather
Tenacious D
OK Go
Jeff Beck
John Fogerty
Zac Brown Band
Damian Marley & Nas
Norah Jones
The National
Medeski Martin & Wood
She & Him
Chromeo w/ guest Daryl Hall
The Avett Brothers
Regina Spektor
Blitzen Trapper
She & Him
Rise Against
Punch Brothers
Dropkick Murphys
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Isis
311
John Prine
Baroness
Blues Traveler
Bassnectar
The xx
Mayer Hawthorne and the County
Japandroids
The Gaslight Anthem
Tokyo Police Club
Manchester Orchestra
Kid Cudi
Neon Indian
Black Keys
Jimmy Cliff
Tori Amos
Thievery Corporation
The Constellations
Dr. Dog
Ingrid Michaelson
Wale
Jay Electronica
Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers
Monte Montgomery
Disco Biscuits
They Might Be Giants
Baaba Maal
The Melvins
GWAR
Dave Rawlings Machine
Local Natives
The Postelles
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Rebelution
NeedToBreathe
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Jamey Johnson
The Entrance Band
Clutch
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Lotus
The Dodos
Deadmau5
Martin Sexton

Beyonce was the big winner at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards, taking home the big prize of Video of the Year for “Single Ladies”. It seemed to be lady’s night at MTV because Lady Gaga took home the honors for “Best New Artist” while Britney Spears took “Best Pop Video”. Green Day beat out Kings of Leon and Fall Out Boy for Best Rock Video, but the awards were ironically a very insignificant part of last night’s show.

Just in case you have been in a coma for the past 24 hours, the first thing you need to know about last night’s awards is that Kanye West should no longer be allowed on the premises. By Blast calculations, this is the third year that Kanye has publicly displayed his outrage at the MTV selection for an award. This year’s victim was America’s country sweetheart Taylor Swift, who won the first award of the night “Best Female Video.” In outrage that Beyonce didn’t win for “one of the best videos of all time” Kanye rushed the stage, took Taylor’s microphone during her acceptance speech, and proclaimed Beyonce should have been the winner leaving Miss Swift in horrified silence. Twitter explosions and blog frenzies after report that Swift was to be seen sobbing backstage after the debacle.

Outside of the dramatics, the VMAs this year contained a lot of W-t-fness, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Every cut to Lady Gaga gave viewers a peak at outrageous outfit after outrageous outfit. Apparently being able to see was not a major concern when making fashion decisions. Equally as twisted was her live performance. Gaga performed her latest mega hit “Paparazzi” on the VMA stage. She lived up to her reputation of a fantastic live performance, but the crowd and viewers alike were a little disturbed by Gaga’s literal perception of the paparazzi killing her when she poured blood over her and then pseudo hung herself from the VMA ceiling.

R&B badass Pink also used a harness for her VMA performance, which may have been the most impressive of the night. Pink performed the entire sang, hanging about 50 feet off the ground, flipping around and somersaulting with her trapeze partner. The most amazing part of the stunt was that she was continuing to sing live “" no lip syncing “" as she continuously flipped head over heels.

In fact there wasn’t a bad musical performance the entire night. Taylor Swift was impressive with her take over of the 42nd street subway station and subsequent Times Square performance. Beyonce amazed audiences not only with her fancy leg work but the fact that she didn’t have a wardrobe malfunction visa Janet Jackson at the Superbowl. Jay-Z and Alicia Keys topped off the night with their new duet, but it was the opening of the show that stole most of the attention.

This year’s VMAs kicked off with a Janet Jackson led tribute to her late brother, King of Pop, Michael Jackson. It was touching and very fitting that this year’s awards were dedicated to a man who took music videos to a new height. Dancers recreated moves from the iconic “Thriller” before Janet arose on stage and re-created the moves from “Scream” while Michael’s mirroring performance played on the screen behind. Intermittently throughout the show, props were given to Michael as well as a full trailer of “This Is It”, the film compiled of all the rehearsal footage before his death, which will appear in theatres nationwide on October 28.

Performances really took precedence at the awards. Only five trophies were given out during the actual aired show. Equally as insignificant was host Russell Brand. While admittedly hilarious in his own right, British stand-up comic Brand fell flat as returning host of the awards. While MTV was probably banking on Brand’s gained notoriety over the past year, his brash humor didn’t translate well to the stage. It seemed that producers spent more time cutting to commercial after Brand’s crude punchlines than letting him speak, and that’s when he was brought on stage to introduce anyone at all. Though Brand has conquered television hosting, movies and even the New York Time’s bestseller’s list with his autobiography “My Booky Wook”, hosting just may not be his thing.

Overall, the show was surprisingly entertaining, especially considering the disappointing past couple of years. There wasn’t a boring moment during the entire two and a half hour runtime. Last night’s show was so well put together that it might have actually succeeded in distracting people from the fact that the ceremony is completely irrelevant. Seriously, when was the last time MTV even played a video?

Foreign policy would make more sense to such a large group of people if we could reliably often discuss it using rap feuds as examples. Tongue could be firmly planted in cheek here, but Marc Lynch makes a couple of really good points.

About foreign policy. And also Jay-Z. To wit:

But the limits on his ability to use this power recalls the debates about U.S. primacy. Should he use this power to its fullest extent, as neo-conservatives would advise, imposing his will to reshape the world, forcing others to adapt to his values and leadership? Or should he fear a backlash against the unilateral use of power, as realists such as my colleague Steve Walt or liberals such as John Ikenberry would warn, and instead exercise self-restraint?

Is Marc Lynch the Kai Ryssdal of FPM?

The Michael Jackson tribute during the BET awards last weekend was supposed to include Chris Brown, but according to Page 6, Jay-Z nipped the comeback in the bud.

Brown has been flying mostly under the radar since beating Rihanna, a friend of Jay-Z and his artist, but was supposed to take the stage in honor of the King of Pop. A source told Page 6 that “Jay-Z wasn’t having it. He threatened to pull out of the show if Chris was involved, so BET dropped Chris.”

However, a rep for Brown told Page 6, “That’s not true — he was never confirmed to perform.”

Either way, Brown must be hurt. He was friends with Jackson and performed “Thriller” at the World Music Awards in 2006. This is likely just one of the major blows to his career he’ll suffer in the wake of beating Rihanna.

You can watch the whole CES keynote address here. Also Gizmodo has a better quality video than most.

Bill Gates put together a funny, fitting farewell video starring Matthew McConaughey, Brian Williams, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Jay-Z, Bono, George Clooney, Al Gore and more.

In one scene, Gates cell phones Bono during a show and tries to get in the band. Bono says to Gates,”Yeah, I know, I know, but I can’t just replace The Edge because you got a high score in Guitar Hero.

The video and keynote were given in front of 4,000 people Sunday night at the Venetian Hotel’s Palazzo Ballroom in Las Vegas.

Not a bad start to CES this year.