I love the MTV Movie Awards. My first onscreen debut for MTV in the States was hosting the 2007 Movie Awards pre-show, so it kind of marks my anniversary here, and I'm thrilled to be back in Los Angeles for this year's show.

But before everything got started at the Gibson Amphitheatre, I took advantage of my first Memorial Day Weekend in America and hit the road (big shout to my good friend Michael Artone at Aston Martin Beverly Hills for the truly incredible Aston Martin DB9 Vantage) to the party capital of the world, Las Vegas.

Vegas was the busiest I have ever seen it, packed with people from all over America and beyond including MTV favourites Asher Roth and Soulja Boy Tell'em, who both performed there over the weekend. And although he has the hottest anthem in the world right now with "Turn My Swag On" Soulja Boy's still not of age to hit the casino floor, so he had to take his party back to the room after his monster performance. (Something tells me he still had fun, though!)

I stuck to my three-day Vegas rule, and as soon as the big weekend was over, I headed back to L.A.

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FROM BUZZWORTHY.MTV.COM: You asked, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em answered! Watch Soulja Boy Tell 'Em answer your Buzzworthy fan questions from the infamous MTV Studios green room, where he covered everything from the lines in his eyebrows (good question!!) to Barack Obama and Kanye West, the hater who inspired his "Yahhh!" single (thanks, dude, and no, it wasn't a pirate), his acting rising career, and even Tay Zonday of "Chocolate Rain" fame. (You forgot about Tay for a second there, didn’t you? Shame on you!)

Continue reading at Soulja Boy's answers to your questions at buzzworthy.mtv.com ...

FROM BUZZWORTHY.MTV.COM: Have you ever wanted to ask Soulja Boy Tell 'Em a question?

Come on, sure you have. Don't lie. You have tons of ideas burning inside you, waiting to escape and be hurled at the iced out rapper when Buzzworthy blog's Tamar Anitai interviews him.

So get those inquisitive minds working. But please, people, be nice!

Submit your question for Soulja Boy at Buzzworthy.MTV.com now....

I love my "Class of 3000" lunch box. And I loved the show, because frankly, Outkast's Andre 3000 is already pretty much a living cartoon, with a voice and beats that sound like a DayGlo rubber ball being tossed into a giant vat of neon Silly Putty.

Which brings me to the Soulja Boy Tell'em cartoon, which debuted Tuesday. Now, if you ask my pal James Montgomery, SJB is engaged in an elaborate, subversive, multilayered art project meant to undermine our traditional bias against seemingly vapid, self-aggrandizing ringtone rap. But if you ask me, Soulja Boy is about as three-dimensional as his cartoon doppelgänger. Read more...

By Brendan Kennedy

If, as Perez Hilton says, Tokio Hotel are the new Milli Vanilli, then I'd like to propose that Soulja Boy Tell'em is the new MC Hammer.

When Hammer came on the scene back in 1987, critics said he was bad for rap, and 20 years later, Soulja Boy faced the same charges when he dropped "Crank That." (Ironically, Ice-T came to Hammer's defense and said haters were just jealous, but this year, Ice-T called Soulja Boy's music "garbage" on a mixtape, sparking a hilarious YouTube battle.)

But the real parallels come out in Soulja's newest album, iSouljaBoyTellem, due out next week.

Top five things that make one a "Hammer":

1) Have your own dance.

CHECK! I mean, even I learned how to "Crank That." (Well, really, really badly.)
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By Jordan Upmalis

Ever since Soulja Boy Tell'em entered the hip-hop realm, his place there has been questioned and his creativity scrutinized. But it looks like he's finally had enough. Soulja Boy is hitting back, in a vlog battle with Ice-T.

It all started last week, when DJ Cisco's Urban Legend mixtape was released and contained some pretty harsh words from Ice-T directed toward Soulja Boy, at one point telling him to "eat a di--" and blaming him for "singlehandedly killing hip-hop." Ouch.

Two days later, the gloves were officially off when Soulja Boy posted his own response video, in which he laughs throughout and constantly refers to Ice-T's age, repeatedly calling him an "old-ass n---a" (six times, we counted). Although he seems to be joking for most of the video's seven-and-a-half minutes, Soulja Boy does have some serious moments in which he acknowledges Ice-T's influence on hip-hop (calling him a legend), but also says that times have changed, and he's doing what he has to in order to support his family. Soulja Boy, tell him!

Another two days went by, and another response video surfaced. On June 22, Ice-T posted a video apologizing to Soulja Boy for telling him to "eat a di--," but still making it a point to say that his music is "garbage." Ice-T says this isn't an old-school vs. new-school or East Coast vs. West Coast war, though he warns that there will be ramifications for Soulja Boy from the West.

Not surprisingly, other artists have begun to add their two cents to the debate, and one of them is the most influential in the game right now. Mr. Kanye West himself decided to weigh in on the debate on his blog, siding with Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy hasn't killed hip-hop, Kanye says, but instead he represents the true meaning of what hip-hop should be. "He came from the 'hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song."

The debate comes as no surprise to us, since Soulja Boy was the most controversial name at the table when our Hip-Hop Brain Trust got together recently to name the Hottest MCs in the Game. Seriously, we thought the battle would never end. Check it out below.

Whose side are you on? Should Ice-T retire and quit whining like a cranky old man? Or are Soulja Boy and his fellow ringtone rappers the death of hip-hop?