They’re contributing to the game’s evolution and destroying records along the way, but there is one particular feat that seems untouchable. On this day in 1962, Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain scored 100 points by himself as his Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks 169-147 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It was a pretty absurd game for Chamberlain, who put up 63 shots (sinking 36 of them) and took another 32 free throws (making 28). Wilt was a dominant player, but as you can see by the score of the game (which was a regulation game — 48 minutes, no overtime), it was during an era where there wasn’t a whole lot of defense being played.

The 100 point game was part of a larger season of insanity for Chamberlin, who scored over 4,000 points over the course of the year, making him the only player to ever cross that barrier. (Consider this: Only one other player has ever scored over 3,000 points in a single season, and that was Michael Jordan.) He also set a record for scoring in an All-Star game (42 points) and played 3,882 of a possible 3,890 total minutes, putting his average at 48.5 minutes per game. (Those eight minutes he didn’t play came all at once, when he was ejected for getting two technical fouls in a game.)

Sadly, Wilt didn’t win a championship that year, as he was surrounded by a weak supporting cast and couldn’t handle the Celtics in the playoffs. (That ‘62 Celtics team — featuring Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, Sam Jones and Tommy Heinsohn — is considered by some to be the best team ever assembled, so Wilt had an uphill battle.) In honor of his 100 point night, here’s Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings with “100 Days, 100 Nights.”

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Lil Wayne

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This is it.

Barring any colossally unforeseen circumstances (or eight more root canals), Lil Wayne will be formally sentenced and finally turn himself in to begin his one-year prison sentence in New York on Tuesday (March 2).

The sentencing was scheduled for last month, but Wayne’s attorney requested a delay due to dental surgery the rapper required. Judge Charles H. Solomon agreed to the last-minute request and rescheduled the proceedings for March 2. The New Orleans MC has had more time than he requested to recover from a reported eight root canals in one day.

“I don’t want this to get pushed back anymore,” Judge Solomon told the rapper’s lawyer during his last appearance. “This is the last adjournment.”

Wayne is set to appear before Solomon on Tuesday afternoon and plead guilty to attempted gun possession. He’s then expected to turn himself in immediately to begin his prison term.

The rapper reached a deal with prosecutors in November to plead out to a lesser deal and in return he is expected to be released from prison as early as October of this year. In 2007, Lil Wayne was arrested for gun possession following his first headlining performance in Manhattan at the Beacon Theater. A gun-possession charge in New York could have landed the Cash Money superstar behind bars for up to 15 years if he was convicted.

New York is among the toughest states in the country when it comes to gun-possession laws.

In other states, Lil Wayne could have reasonably gotten off with a misdemeanor rap and probation. However, in New York, mostly law-enforcement officials and those affiliated with authorities are permitted to carry firearms. The Empire State’s stringent gun laws were originally enacted during former governor George Pataki’s administration.

Ultimately, what Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to amounts to him being able to have access to a gun. Police did not find a weapon on the rapper when his tour bus was searched. Rather, the gun — registered to his manager — was in a bag located near the rapper, hence the attempted charge.

Lil Wayne has been working feverishly in recent weeks to complete a number of videos and songs to stay relevant during his physical absence. That pace he’s gotten accustomed to, however, will come to a screeching halt, according to a New York corrections officer who spoke to MTV News.

Once the rapper lands behind bars, his days will be as regimented as his recording schedule — but will be maintained by the prison warden, not Lil Wayne.

“He’ll be housed with inmates who are classified in his category, and he’ll be able to be a regular inmate,” the guard said. “He’ll be able to watch television, go into the day room and congregate with people of his classification.

“He’ll have no preferable treatment at all. He’ll be treated like a regular inmate,” the guard, who declined to be identified due to the classified information he discussed, added.

Lil Wayne is also still facing charges in Arizona, and his trial is set to begin there March 30.

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French Montana

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The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive

French Montana is in no rush to put out his debut album. One of Akon’s newest signees said he has enough money to continue serving up material through mixtapes, such as his latest, Mac Wit Da Cheese 2. His first album has to be classic, French said.

“My album is set for late summer,” French said last week while shooting a video for his mixtape track “Bad Habits,” with guest Bun B. “It’s called Excuse My French. I’m just working. I wanna come with a masterpiece, man. I’m not no overnight rapper. I’m comfortable with where I’m at. My followers are my real followers. I ain’t no phase. I’m here to stay. [The release] could be late summer, it could come out past then, as long as it’s a masterpiece when we put it out. … You gotta understand, that’s what they gonna remember you for, your first album. Biggie’s Ready to Die, UGK’s first album — you wanna come with the same thing. The title gotta live up to the music.”

Bun and French share a mutual respect for each other’s grinds, Montana said.

“The video is called ‘Bad Habits,’ ” Montana explained. “Everybody got a bad habit. I sent [the track] to Bun. Bun heard it, laid the verse in like five minutes. I sent it to him, he called me back in five minutes. I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ ”

“I was in the lab, I was already in that zone,” Bun added. “It was something that I felt made sense, that I felt represented his movement, repped my movement, and we spoke to people on a real level. That’s one thing about UGK music. We can’t be fabricating sh–. We kept it real with each other.”

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French isn’t the only new guy Akon is looking to put out. The worldwide superstar just signed Southern California’s Ya Boy to his Kon Live company.

“Ya Boy is one of the hardest workers today. … He’s an amazing artist that never got a chance to shine,” Akon said in a statement. “He never gave up, and now he has a chance to shine not only on the West Coast, but internationally.”

Ya Boy’s new LP should be out later this year.

For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines.

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Johnny Cash talks to Kurt Loder in 2003

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The great country legend Johnny Cash passed away in 2003, but his legacy remains alive. This week saw the release of American VI: Ain’t No Grave, which pulls together the last of the songs Cash recorded with superproducer Rick Rubin. And on Wednesday, Cash’s 1958 tune “Guess Things Happen That Way” became the 10 billionth song purchased from the iTunes Store. That milestone earned downloader Louie Sulcer a $10,000 iTunes Store gift card, as well as phone calls from Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Cash’s daughter Rosanne.

Today would have been the Man in Black’s 78th birthday, and in honor of the outlaw icon, we take a look back at MTV News’ conversation with Cash just a few weeks before his death in 2003.

Kurt Loder visited Cash’s sprawling estate in Tennessee and talked openly to the legend about his career, his music and — in very frank terms — about the prospect of death. The conversation would be Cash’s final interview. He never made it to 2003’s Video Music Awards, where he was nominated for six prizes for the clip for his cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt.”

Cash’s remarkable career renaissance was in large part thanks to Rubin, who stripped Cash’s sound down to its core parts and applied his wise, haunting, world-weary voice to a number of traditional standards and covers. The American albums grabbed the attention of stars like Kid Rock and Bono, put Cash back on the radio and introduced him to an entirely new generation of fans.

“I hear from a lot of fans,” Cash told Loder. “I appreciate all that — all the praise and the glory. It doesn’t change the way I feel about anything, though. I just do what I do.”

Johnny Cash released his first recordings for Sun Records in 1955 and was an integral part of both the country scene and the birth of rock and roll. Success came quickly, and he indulged in the rock and roll lifestyle. “There was a package of myself, Jerry Lee [Lewis], Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins,” he said. “We were all young and wild and crazy. As crazy as you can get. We discovered amphetamines — or I did, anyway. Jerry thought he was going to Hell for not preaching.

He went to seminary and wanted to be a preacher, but he turned to rock and roll. He would tell us all we were going to hell. I said, ‘Maybe you’re right, Killer. Maybe you’re right.’ ”

At the time of the interview, Cash was no stranger to death. In May 2003, his longtime wife and performing partner June Carter Cash passed away. But despite his failing health and loss of his life partner, Cash continued recording with Rubin. “She told me to go to work,” Cash told Loder. “Three days after the funeral, I was in the studio. Everybody thought I was crazy, but I was in the studio for two weeks. It was great therapy for me.”

A man of great faith, Cash knew that the end was coming, but he didn’t fear death and was comfortable with the idea of his own mortality. “I expect my life to end pretty soon. I’m 71 years old, but I have unshakeable faith,” he said. “I’ve never turned my back on God. I never thought that God wasn’t there. He’s my counselor, my wisdom — all the good things in my life come from him.”

When Loder asked, “Where do you think we go?” Cash knew right away. “We all hope to go to Heaven,” he told him.

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Juvenile

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Juvenile’s time in the studio was interrupted by a trip to jail on Thursday. The New Orleans rapper was in a house that he uses as a recording studio in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, when police stopped by to investigate an anonymous tip that the smell of marijuana smoke was coming from the house.

Police say that when they arrived, they could smell the smoke from as far as 10 feet away. When Juvenile’s producer Leroy Edwards, 42, opened the door, the authorities say they were greeted with a cloud.

Officers searched Edwards, found marijuana on his person and he was handcuffed immediately. Police detained the other people in the house, including Juvenile, for about two hours while they obtained a search warrant.

Once the warrant was executed, officers found a bag containing half an ounce to one ounce of marijuana in the kitchen area. According to the authorities Juvenile, who was eating at the time of the police’s visit, acknowledged that the bag was his personal property. He was arrested after signing a statement.

Juvenile (born Terius Gray) does not live in the house. St. Bernard Parish is southeast of New Orleans, and the house where Juvenile was arrested is located in the residential neighborhood of Arabi.

Juvenile, who was arrested for marijuana possession in 2008, and Edwards were taken to jail and booked on charges of misdemeanor possession of marijuana at around 6 p.m. Both were released on bond a little before midnight. The case is scheduled to be handed over to the district attorney’s office for prosecution.

Juvenile could not be reached for comment at press time.

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The ‘Remember Me’ Red Carpet

Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin and more talk steamy love scenes and all things “Remember Me.”

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Lil Wayne

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Nino Brown: Road to Rikers, Part Five

Seven more videos in one night — Lil Wayne was handling his business on Saturday. Early Sunday afternoon, while watching the Miami Heat take on the Orlando Magic, Weezy was taking a short break but had already mapped out his night.

The man you can find on Twitter as @liltunechi sent in another clip exclusively to MTV News before he is sentenced to prison for attempted gun possession on Tuesday and begins serving his time. In the new video, Weezy is at his Miami home laying out his Sunday night activities.

“I’m back, fresh out of the surgery,” says Wayne, whose sentencing was postponed last month due to dental surgery. “If I’m talking a little funny, I’m fresh out of the surgery. If I’m talking a little funny, I’m still days from the medicines. My words may slur, but my grill’s back, bi—! Still got two days left [before I go in]. I lost count. We shot seven videos last night. Tonight, we gonna eat, then go to the studio, then we gonna get some verses in and party with Stunna tonight at Liv [nightclub]. I still haven’t got no [sex]. This is becoming an America alert. This is a tragedy.”

In a previous online video, Wayne had addressed how his work schedule was interfering with him having sex: “You can tell I’ve been working hard. Sleeping alone. I’ve been sleeping with my clothes on.”

On Sunday night at Miami’s Liv nightclub, Wayne was supposed to attend yet another birthday party for the Birdman (the Cash Money CEO has been celebrating his b-day since around Valentine’s Day with parties across the country). The shindig turned into a surprise farewell party for the Birdman Jr.

Wayne was presented with a cake that read “Keep Your Head Up Weezy! We Love U.” Besides the Birdman — who debuted four new star tattoos on his head — Young Money artist Shanell also attended as the newest signee to Cash Money Records. Bow Wow, Mack Maine and Amber Rose were also there.

Wayne and DJ Scoob Doo are also filming the reality DVD “The Nino Brown Story Part 3.” The first two installments are available at DJ Scoob Doo’s Web site.

Check back with MTV News for more on Wayne’s “Road to Rikers.”

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Lil Wayne

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Nino Brown: The Road to Rikers, Part 4

In Lil Wayne’s world this past weekend, Saturday was bleeding into Sunday morning and the one constant was that Weezy was excited to be working. Wayne shot seven videos between those hours for himself, Rick Ross, Drake, Young Money artist Shanell, Travis from Gym Class Heroes and Diddy.

In the latest clip to come into MTV News from Wayne and his videographer DJ Scoob Doo, the Cash Money MC takes us on a trip to Miami, where he shot scenes for Diddy-Dirty Money’s new video “Strobe Lights.”

“I’m the hardest-working man in show business,” Wayne said on the way to the set. “Shout-out my n—a James Brown. Young Wayne Carter.

“Look at the attitude, though,” he continues with a buoyant swagger. “This is what you artists need to catch. Look at the attitude. No drugs, no nothing — I ain’t even get no p—-. I go away in two days, I ain’t even get no p—-.”

After Wayne goes in to shoot his video, we see him leave and go back to his Miami estate.

“There you have it. Nino. I don’t know how many videos we did,” he said. “But y’all saw it. Now I’m back where we started. I’m about to get my bottom grills and we party tonight. Nino! @liltunechi.”

Sunday night Wayne held a farewell party at Club Liv with his Cash Money/ Young Money family members such as Shanell, Mack Maine, Bow Wow and the #1 Stunna, Birdman.

Wayne and DJ Scoob Doo are also filming the reality DVD “The Nino Brown Story Part 3.” The first two installments are available at DJ Scoob Doo’s Web site. Check back with MTV News for more of Wayne’s “Road to Rikers.”

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It’s a crazy day in the world of Buzzworthy, as two of our favorite artists, Justin Bieber and Ke$ha, celebrate their birthdays today.

At 16, Justin Bieber is king of the world. He’s friends with people like Diddy, Usher and Asher Roth, he makes great, sugar-coated R&B and drives fans into emotional overdrive. With his new release, My World 2.0 on the way, he’s sure to have a pretty sweet 16th year.

What can you say about Ke$ha? Well, by snagging a number-one song for “TiK ToK” and a No. 1 album with Animal, she’s reclaimed the chart throne for alt-rock queens everywhere. Plus, with her new single, “Blah Blah Blah,” catching fire, this trash-pop diva is making sure her 23rd year is off to a great start.

Instead of dishing out birthday presents, we’d pass along these two amazing fan-made videos. Check out adorable 12-year-old Avery singing and dancing to Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” (found via Buzzfeed) and a special Justin Bieber birthday rap, courtesy of two superfans.

Enjoy and happy birthday, Justin and Ke$ha!

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The group have managed to hone their sound profoundly, and the songs from Humanoid — especially the singles “Automatic” and “World Behind My Wall” — sounded like old favorites next to the rest of the young band’s already deep catalog.

Plenty of people make a big deal out of the fashion choices of Lady Gaga, Ke$ha and Adam Lambert, but Bill Kaulitz’s forward-thinking approach to rock and roll clothes is just as progressive. His outfit in Hamburg was especially fascinating, combining elements of David Bowie, Trent Reznor, “Edward Scissorhands” and Evan Lysacek. It was a fantastically dark and sparkly approach to typical frontman garb.

(Click here for more photos from Tokio Hotel’s concert in Hamburg, Germany!)

Also, has anybody ever pointed out that Bill Kaulitz looks an awful lot like Adam Lambert? Have those two ever been in the same room together?

Tokio Hotel’s stay in their home country won’t be especially long, as they continue to weave their way through Europe over the next six weeks, including stops in Denmark, Norway, France, Italy, Switzerland and Russia. Will they be back in the United States for the summer festival season? Here’s hoping they make another trip back before too long.

What’s your favorite Tokio Hotel song? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

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