While working on new material for her forthcoming album, Rihanna is reported to be drawing from some very public real-life experiences for her lyrics.

The finished version of Kanye West's music video for 808s and Heartbreak single "Paranoid" has been released -- and it's like a sexy Sin City with Rihanna as the star!

This week Eminem scored the year's best-selling album, the Beastie Boys visited Jimmy Fallon, Chris Brown broke his silence, and former Wilco member Jay Bennett passed away unexpectedly. All these stories, plus the week's best editor's blogs, photo galleries, audio/video, news, and reviews, below:

She may have cancelled her return to the stage, but in Kanye West's new video, pop icon Rihanna is back in the limelight -- at least in a preliminary cut of the video that leaked online earlier today, but has since been removed at Kanye's request.

R&B singer Chris Brown has taken to YouTube to make his first public comments since his alleged assault of pop star Rihanna in February.

The message of the video blog: Brown is not a monster, but rather, is someone who is friends with Shaq and Bow Wow, enjoys bowling, and has a new album to promote.

SPIN cover stars No Doubt played their first concert in five years this week, kicking off a massive summer reunion tour.