Monday's MNL is done - so we are out of here.

Scroll down to see why Rihanna - like Peter Griffin in Family Guy - has a new rival cartoon chicken, what Morrissey thinks of Nicola Sturgeon and how Drake gave away nearly $1m in a music video.

Guess he was just following God's Plan.

We'll leave you with Radio 1 brekkie show host Camila's thoughts on why Beyonce/Jay-Z's daughter Blue Ivy was telling everyone to calm down during her own speech at The Grammys a few weeks back.

It seems the 6-year-old has got everybody running scared.

The London singer/rapper's comeback collab with grime star Fekky and Diztortion arrived with little fuss on Friday.

It seems fellow rapper Skepta is digging it above and you can find it in all the usual places now.

The Prof has been in the lab mixing up his first new music since 2014 album Growing Up In Public and we can't wait to hear it.

BBC 6 Music

While Three Billboards... may have been the big winner at last night's Baftas, but a little-known late Manchester music star was apparently one of the real heroes.

Cowboy Dave, directed by Colin O'Toole (above, right), won best short film and centres around the real-life story of how his life was changed by a chance meeting with former Durutti Column member Dave Rowbotham changed his life.

The bohemian musician, who was later murdered, was also in an early incarnation of Simply Red and went on to inspire a Happy Mondays tune of the same name, external.

Listen above as Colin talks 6 Music through the film, which was sountracked by Graham Massey from 808 state.

Read more: Seven memorable moments from the Baftas.

That's a full five of your earth years since the singer's Electric Lady album was released.

Since then, Janelle Monae been kind of busy starring in Oscar-nominated films, external and stuff.

Here is the teaser for Dirty Computers, billed in the trailer as an "emotional picture".

The futuristic promo which features hovering cars, police brutality and Janelle herself, alongside Bafta Rising Star nominee Tessa Thompson.

"They drained us of our dirt and all the things that made us special," says Janelle's voiceover.

"And then you were lost, sleeping, and you didn't remember anything at all."

Sounds intriguing. We're sold.

The charity recently found itself embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti.

However, while co-organiser Emily Eavis admitted she was "horrified at the reports", she said the Worthy Farm festival will "continue to support Oxfam's incredible work for many more years to come".

Emily, who recently also underlined her intention to make the festival a plastic free site, pointed to the good work that the charity carries out, in spite of the investigation.

"The good does still far outweigh the appalling behaviour of the few whose actions have caused such harm."

Read her full statement below.

So, just two days to go until this year's Brit awards and it seems the script work may go down to the wire.,

That's if this tweet, below, by host, comedian Jack Whitehall is to be believed.

We hope his answer was "yes, yes I do".

And remember, we will be running a later live page than normal, coming to you from the red carpet from around 17;00 GMT on Wednesday.

In the meantime, check out Jack's tops for hosting a major pop music ceremony.

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BBC Newsbeat

British rapper Little Simzhas revealed she unsuccessfully auditioned for a role in Black the new Marvel movie Panther.

She missed out on the role as Shuri, princess of Wakanda in the Marvel movie, which instead went to British actress Letitia Wright (below).

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"I auditioned for it and obviously I didn't get it. My friend Letita got it, which is still a win for me," said the 23-year-old.

"It all worked out because the time they were shooting I ended up booking the Gorillaz tour."

All good then.

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BBC Radio 1

As far as conspiracy theories in pop music go, this is a wild one - but Radio 1 breakfast host Grimmy thinks he has the case cracked.

This morning was telling the Havana singer all about his theory that Adele and Sam Smith are the same person. Now, by the same sonic logic it follows that Camila herself, could in fact be a certain UK singer.

Have you ever seen them both in the same room?

"If A=B and A=C, then B=C" offers Camila.

"That's like this math thing."

Listen above.

Can you believe it was 22 years ago today that the Pulp frontman stormed the stage to flash his bum at the late singer during his over-wrought performance of Earth Song.

How the time flies.

The Brits come back around on Wednesday night and we'll be running a late Brits special MNL page from around 17:00 GMT.

So join us for that one and we'll hopefully discover the new Jarv v Jacko, for the social media age...

Liam G v Rita Ora, anyone?

Stranger things have happened so stay tuned.

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Drizzy treated shoppers to free groceries, gave toys to kids and donated a college scholarship to one student, as well as wads of cash to several families and a sports car to one lucky chap in the new video to God's Plan.

If only we'd been in Miami that day.

"The budget for this video was 996, 631.90" reads a message at the start of the new music video.

"We gave it all away. Don't tell the label"

OK Drake, we won't tell.

But he does swear in the track so you'll have to go to his Youtube channel to watch this fine piece of philanthropy.

We're just glad it was all caught on camera.

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Little joke there for fans of early 90s video games.

Pharrell and co teamed up with the US's most in-demand rap group to perform a quickfire Justin Timberlake-esque half-time medley at the NBA All-Star Game in LA.

As fans of the above acts will know there is some offensive language in tracks like Lemon, so be warned, but you can find the video over on the NBA Youtube channel now.

Turns out Quavo from the Georgia rapper is equally at home on the b'ball court as he is on stage, as he won MVP (most valuable player) at the All-Star celebrity game too, which also included the likes of previous winner Win Butler of Arcade Fire, Justin Bieber and Jamie Foxx.

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The MC, who was also a member of drum and bass crew SASASAS and N.A.S.T.Y Crew, has died after a battle with skin cancer.

Grime star Skepta posted the above picture, while Rag N Bone Man described it as "very sad news".

BBC Radio 1Xtra, who showcased Stormin's music have also paid their tributes.

So Win Butler had a fun weekend in LA by the looks of it.

As well as playing basketball with celeb all-stars like Quavo (scroll down) the Arcade Fire frontman indulged in a spot of karaoke too.

But what would he go for? Maybe a spot of Elvis... or a Tina Turner number. Maybe even fellow Canadian b'ball enthusiast Bieber?

Nope. He did one of his own tracks; Intervention from his 2007 album Neon Bible.

This is surely the musical equivalent of an electrician re-wiring a pub on a night out.

Have a night off Win.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

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So, we heard nothing from Ride for over 20 years and now two records have come along at once... almost.

The Oxfordshire shoegaze specialists dropped their latest EP Tomorrow's Shore on Friday, ahead of a pre-world tour one-off UK gig at the University of London Union (ULU).

The release comes just seven months after their comeback record Weather Diaries and singer Mark Gardener told us all about the band's Indian summer.

"It's a new wave and we're riding it in a bit - excuse the pun!" said Mark.

"One thing's leading to another, we're just keeping it going.

"There's only one song; Catch you Dreaming, that was around on the time of the last album."

He added: "Anytime you make plans in bands, it never seems to work out.

"If you're on a roll you kind of go with it.

"In my mind with the reunion thing, it had to be about the fact we'd make some great new music and that's what was really driving it for me.

"So it was clever keeping things under wraps and gave us time to knuckle down and get into it.

"It's like new blood to me. I respect and love the old tunes and it's nice to see what they still do for people.

"But some reunion bands have really struggled with that and I think that is the ultimate test; if the chemistry is good again and the creative tension is still there you can come back and make good music.

Backstage at ULU, Mark recalled seeing some "inspirational" gigs himself as an art student back in the day, including My Bloody Valentine and The Pastels but said he would "always be envious" of bandmate Andy Bell for having seen The Smiths perform in the flesh.

After their own uni gig on Friday night, the band were all set to jet off to Japan; a place that once frightened Mark, but now enthralls.

"We we first went to Japan there were hundreds of of people waiting at the airport and hotel and no-one told us it was going to be like that.

"I found it really difficult to deal with at first but I love it now and I really love going over there."

Finally, as well as their own return, Mark remains optimistic about the future of other guitar bands.

"Music is still a magical, sacred thing to me and it's still working as far as I'm concerned.

"Alongside Ride, I do a lot of production work with newer younger bands and it totally vibes me up as you realise there's talent everywhere that's coming through.

"I'm always discovering new bands and people all the time which is great.

"It just works in a totally different way to how it used to - there used to be a lot of filters back in the day and there aren't anymore.

"With that comes a lot of things that aren't so great but loads of great stuff comes through."

The pop queen's record of the most music videos on the network with more than 100m views has apparently been smashed.

And the new record holder is Galinha Pintadinha, which translates from Portguegese as 'Little Dappled Chicken', although she is better known as Lottie Dottie Chicken.

The animated Brazilian children's music videos have been translated into Spanish and English and 30 videos have now hit the 100m benchmark.

Rihanna is in second with 29 and Taylor Swift in third with 27, with Justin Bieber (25) and Katy Perry (20) rounding out the top five.

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Billboard magazine

Black Panther: The Album, debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart over the weekend.

Largely driven by streaming, the soundtrack, curated by the Grammy-winning rapper, earned 154,000 equivalent sales.

It's the biggest week for a soundtrack since Suicide Squad: The Album, in 2016.

The hip-hop weighted album includes a number of songs by Kendrick with contributions from the likes of The Weeknd, SZA, Khalid and Mercury Prize-winner James Blake.

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As history will now remember him.

While Morrissey was once again demonstrated how not to work to a crowd, the US R&B starlet was doing the opposite this weekend.

The 20-year-old paused one of his shows to comfort a crying young fan.

The Georgian singer later tweeted the girl in question was "the cutest in the world", after having left the stage to comfort her.

We assume she was just overwhelmed rather than it being some kind of harsh critique of his music.

The actions of the BBC Sound of 2018 listee has melted the hearts of many fans and given one an idea for next time.

Until they reunite for that mega bucks deal that is...

But for now at least, their show at London's Apollo at the weekend drew a line under Wild Beasts' 12 years together.

Manchester indie band Everything Everything were among those paying tribute to the Mercury-nominated Beasts, who released five albums before announcing they were calling it a day in September last year.

Jimi Hendrix famously made it his own, external at Woodstock and now former Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie joins the illustrious ranks of artists to tackle the Star Spangled Banner.

She performed a sexed-up jazzy version of the US national anthem ahead of the NBA All-stars game at the weekend and, well, the results, speak for themselves.

The singer has been savagely lampooned for the performance and, in fairness, the cameras cutting to players sniggering and Chance the Rapper in the audience having a chuckle make it look as though her singing was not being fully appreciated by those present.

Those watching at home have been almost unanimous in their feeling...

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Some Moz fans reportedly left the SSE Hydro on Saturday night after the Manc miserablist questioned their dedication to the First Minister of Scotland.

The former Smiths frontman, who confessed last year that he has never voted, apparently said: "I am curious. Do any of you actually like Nicola Sturgeon?

The Daily Record, external newspaper wrote that; "Some in the audience on Saturday night booed the SNP leader but others walked out in protest at the 58-year-old star’s remarks."

One fan below pointed out that the majority of Glaswegians voted in favour of Sturgeon's pro Scottish independence campaign and that he's "currently struggling to separate the art from the politics".

Even a Morrissey fan account disproved of his attempts to "stir up discontent".

Others however saw it differently, suggesting that fans agreed with the Moz-father.

In their review of the gig The Guardian, external wrote: "For someone who often seems determined to alienate his fanbase, Morrissey has a knack for intuiting exactly what they want.

Elsewhere, not content with trying to influence the Scottish vote, Morrissey has written to Irish Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed, calling for a ban on fur farming.