Full clip premieres Thursday at 12:01 a.m. ET on MTV.com.
By James Montgomery

My Chemical Romance on the set of their video for “Na Na Na”

Photo: Warner Bros.

Every card-carrying member of the MCRmy knows that My Chemical Romance‘s “Na Na Na” video doesn’t premiere until (very early) Thursday morning — 12:01 a.m. early, to be exact — on MTV.com. But they might not be aware that the band also shot a whole lot of behind-the-scenes footage while they were making the video, and because they know how hard waiting is, My Chem decided to send us over a little snippet. What can we say? They’re nice guys.

So, in this exclusive 30-second clip, we see MCR in all their Killjoy glory, gearing up at their secret hideout and then hitting the desert, where they duel with some villainous vampires. There are also cameos by Dr. Death Defying, a radio-clutching kid (who sort of looks like mini Ray Toro) and a Spandex-clad roller bandit, plus nods to the nefarious Korse — the leader of those evil vamps — and the mysterious Better Living Industries. So, yeah, they pack a lot into one video.

Last week, our friends over at the Buzzworthy blog brought you four photos from the set of the “Na Na Na” clip, which was co-directed by Roboshobo and MCR frontman Gerard Way. The song is the first single from the band’s upcoming, much-anticipated Dangers Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, which is due November 22.

But why are you still reading this? Check out some behind-the-scenes footage right now! The full “Na Na Na” video will premiere Thursday at 12:01 a.m. ET on MTV.com, and then will air later than night — following a new episode of “The Jersey Shore” — at 11 p.m. ET on MTV, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Hits and MTV Tr3s.

Is all this behind-the-scenes action getting you pumped for the “Na Na Na” video? Let us know in the comments!

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‘I’m thinking I had a dope year. I’m gonna keep it real,’ Ross says.
By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Shaheem Reid

Rick Ross

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To hear Rick Ross tell it, he deserves to be heading to Hawaii this year, and not just to work on Kanye West’s forthcoming album. The Miami rapper likened being tapped one of the Hottest MCs in the Game to Peyton Manning earning All-Pro honors.

And with arguably the best song of the year (“B.M.F. [Blowin' Money Fast]“), the album of the year (Teflon Don) and the mixtape of the year (The Albert Anastasia EP), Ross expects to make the cut later this month.

“I’m thinking I had a dope year,” he told MTV News. “I’m gonna keep it real.

“I Iove it, it’s like the Pro Bowl to the NFL, everybody wants to get to Hawaii,” Ross continued. “It’s a roundtable that I could truly say I respect the integrity of the roundtable and the dudes that are actually out there. Because these are dudes that are at the tours, they’re at the shows, they’re at the awards, they feel what’s happening on the streets and they can really gauge the temperature of what’s going on for everybody that’s at home.”

Ross is coming off of back-to-back top five Hottest MC finishes. He landed at #5 last year and in 2008 he was voted #4.

When the Hottest MCs debate debuted in 2007, however, Ross didn’t make the list. He recalled sitting at home watching that show and the fire it lit in him once he saw the final tally.

“Of course, a lot of times when you’re not in the top 10, you’re gonna be sour,” he explained. “I was one of the main ones sitting at home like, man, I’m better than that dude at #8, I got him. But everything is about timing. It’s about putting up those statistics, putting up those numbers and giving people a reason to argue. Give them points to argue on. I smile a lot of times at the other artists coming up and I reflect, yeah, he did put his groundwork in.”

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Gaga appeared on season three of the hit HBO show in an episode called ‘The Telltale Moozadell.’
By Eric Ditzian

Lady Gaga on “The Sopranos”

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The sunken treasure that is Lady Gaga’s pop culture past continues to reap Internet gold. In January, we hauled out a clip from the pop star’s nearly forgotten appearance on “The Hills,” when she popped up in a vinyl bodysuit and required some zipper assistance from Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port.

Now, further proving the point that the Internet never forgets, Gaga’s 2001 appearance on “The Sopranos” has shown up online. The episode, called “The Telltale Moozadell,” is from the third season of the hit HBO show.

Mob boss Tony Soprano’s son, A.J., is acting out while at the school pool with friends. Wearing a black top and jeans, Gaga is one of three girls hanging out, smoking cigarettes and watching the boys swim. One of A.J.’s friends then gets the idea to chuck a desk into the water. From there it’s a free-for-all, as Gaga and her pals toss equipment and sports trophies into the pool. A.J. ends up getting probation. Gaga, alas, is never heard from again. The episode aired when the future superstar was just 15 years old.

Her gig as an extra on “The Sopranos,” though, was not the only time Gaga ended up on TV before she took on her famous moniker. As previously revealed, she once appeared on an episode of MTV’s “Boiling Points,” a hidden-camera show in which unwitting contestants had to keep their cool as various undercover actors tried to annoy them. Gaga didn’t do so well, unleashing a bleep-worthy word after a waitress brought her a soiled salad.

“Who puts that in their mouth? Would you put that in your mouth?” she said. “It has sh– all over it!”

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Sewage dive and pudding diaper among the cast’s picks.
By Mawuse Ziegbe, with reporting by Kara Warner

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The upcoming “Jackass 3D” movie caps off ten years of cringe-inducing, did-they-just-really-do-that? stunts that have both entertained and freaked out fans. When the cast looks back on some of their favorite moments, many feats of foolishness come to mind, including BMX jousting, fast-food football and “every time that [Johnny Knoxville] gets on a skateboard or into a bull ring,” as Steve-O said.

However, there is one stunt in particular that still blows the guys’ minds after all of these years: Ryan Dunn’s jump into a pool of raw sewage. Although plunging into a vat of waste has some fairly obvious drawbacks, many of the castmembers agree that what made the experience truly unforgettable were the things that didn’t make the screen.

“I love it when … Ryan Dunn jumped into the sewage plant with just a snorkel and then he found out later there was just like, crazy rotating blades just underneath his feet,” Dave England recalled. “I guess six feet down, if he had went a little farther it would have just sucked him in and ripped him to shreds and we wouldn’t be having the 10-year anniversary right now.”

Jeff Tremaine agreed that Dunn’s dive was memorable not only for the craziness of the stunt but because it also gave the cast a look at the daredevil’s equally nutty ink.

“I loved when you [referencing Bam Margera] made Ryan jump into the poo factory, the ‘Poo Dive’ I think we called it,” Tremaine said. ” ‘Cause that was horrible, but the best part was … revealing his tattoos that we didn’t know about. That was the first time we ever met Ryan.”

Margera explained that his high-school pal Dunn came up with the idea to plummet into gallons of raw sewage and when he showed up he immediately made an impression with his scrappy tats.

“He takes his pants off [and] he’s has all these … homemade tattoos,” Margera remembered. “It’s like a Red Hot Chili Pepper sign, a noose and then a Blair Witch [Project] thing. It’s just total ridiculous nonsense.”

“I think there’s just a little … piece of barbed wire,” Tremaine added. “I think he was intending it to go all the way around his thigh but … I guess, maybe it hurt too bad so he’s just got a little half inch of barbed wire.”

“It’s just a whole bunch of terribleness,” Margera added.

Other fondly-remembered moments include Jason “Wee Man” Acuña’s romp as a skateboarding Oompa Loompa and England’s turn as vagabond with a questionable diet.

“I liked it when Dave did the chocolate pudding in the diaper and then threw it in the trash in the park and then came and pulled it out and was like, ‘I’m so hungry, I’m so hungry,’ and this guy was like, ‘Yo, homeboy that’s a diaper,’ ” Preston Lacy laughed.

For those wondering how the prankster crew can top their decade of debauchery in “Jackass 3D,” which hits theaters on Friday, Knoxville said one of his personal favorite stunts is in the forthcoming flick.

“Steve-O’s Port-O-Potty bungee in this one is pretty epic,” Knoxville teased.

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The stars are reportedly divorcing after five years of marriage.
By Mawuse Ziegbe

Laura Dern and Ben Harper

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Actress Laura Dern and singer Ben Harper are reportedly ending their five-year union. The folk-rock singer served the “Jurassic Park” actress divorce papers on Friday afternoon, according to TMZ.

The Grammy-winning artist has cited irreconcilable differences, and the website reports that although Harper and Dern have been living together recently, the singer claims the pair separated in January. Harper is looking to split custody of their two children. Harper and Dern got hitched in a Los Angeles mansion in 2005 surrounded by 150 guests.

Although Harper will be heading back into the singles scene, the musician told MTV News in 2006 that he would love for future couples to use his music as the soundtrack to their nuptials.

“I hope in the long term, a hundred years from now, someone might be walking down the aisle to it. That would mean a lot to me,” the rocker admitted of the track, “Happy Ever After in Your Eyes,” from his seventh LP, Both Sides of the Gun. Harper dropped the album months after he walked down the aisle with Dern.

In addition to the changes in his personal life, Harper has some new projects bubbling on the professional front as well. The musician just released the album As I Call You Down as a member of the group Fistful of Mercy, alongside musicians Joseph Arthur and, son of the Beatles’ George Harrison, Dhani Harrison. The trio will also kick off a tour in November, which includes sold-out stops in Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The group is also slated to play New York’s famed Apollo Theater, a venue that Harper is familiar with from a 2004 gig with the Blind Boys of Alabama.

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