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Back from early 2002 comes the controversial tune "Hey Mister" from the band Custom. The latest installment of TBT: Timmy's Basement Tracks (Throw Back Thursday).

Rapper joins band for renditions of “Dream On” and “Toys in the Attic” at awards ceremony.

In the early days, they were always just a little too dangerous for prime time.

When MTV launched, the music industry’s concept of artist promotion completely changed. How would Tom Petty's defiantly gimmick-free, rugged Americana fit in?

On Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. the way we listened to and consumed rock music changed forever.

On April 18, 1987, Headbangers Ball premiered on MTV.

Everyone at the 1996 Video Music Awards went crazy when host Dennis Miller brought out the long-estranged bandmates.

Fans of MTV’s Scream adaptation got some good news this past weekend in the form of an early Season 2 premiere, and now first footage should make the wait even less arduous. A killer was caught, but everyone’s under suspicion in the first Scream Season 2 trailer.

We may have to wait until Christmas to see James Franco and Seth Rogen in 'The Interview,' but the pair are already hard at work making sure that audiences are extremely, perhaps uncomfortably familiar with their characters through a 'Very Special VMA Special.'

Man that was the day! I will never forget watching it come on for the first time August 1st 1981! I was just little but what a concept! Watching the music! And I wanted to be Nina so bad! Love it!

Just over a week ago brought the tragic news that 21-year-old 'Buckwild' star Shain Gandee died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, along with his uncle and a friend in rural West Virginia. Following the tragedy, MTV postponed a decision on 'Buckwild's' second season, but now it seems the network has officially decided to halt production on the Appalachian reality series.

Clearly hoping to cash in on the hype surrounding TLC's 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,' MTV has given its 'Jersey Shore' time-slot to a new show about a bunch of rowdy, under-educated backwoods teenagers from West Virginia. Watch the promo right here!