Amanda Bynes, former Nickelodeon cutie, "inventor" of LOL, Twitter monster, and childish celebrity disser, can add aspiring rap star to her list of titles as of this week. Already, Chinga Chang Records roped this controversial, and some might say crazed, retired actress to their label.

Oddly enough, becoming a hip-hop artist is one of the least insane things Bynes has done lately. Based on her bad behavior and manic tweets, here are five songs we imagine Amanda Bynes writing for herself and rapping the shit out of.

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You need to chill. No doubt about it. Look at those bitten fingernails, bloodshot eyes. You're worried about your dog's teeth, Syrian refugees, the Ogallala Aquifer. There is no end to the things worth stressing.

Instead of worrying your way through yoga this week, head to Young Circle this Sunday for a global mediation for world peace. World Meditation Hour -- during which you meditate on world peace -- launched in 1978, but Hollywood got in on the action in May. You'll spend an hour on Father's Day along with mediators in over 90 countries, reflecting on "collective inner worlds" they say.

To get you pumped, or deflated or whatever, for the event, we put together 10 of the most peaceful songs we could for one of the most calming playlists of all time. Namaste.

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It's been over a month since the tragic passing of Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman. The fact that we will never again see what is undoubtedly the nastiest group to come from the Big Four of thrash return to the stage with its original lineup intact has settled in. We have even come to grips with the fact that Slayer will more than likely never truly return to the bludgeoning grace of its golden era output without the fallen guitarist's punk-infused thrash riffing and manic whammy bar abuse fueling the madness.

Slayer has continued to function without Hanneman's involvement for an extended period due to the guitarist allegedly contracting a flesh-eating bacteria (other reports claim the alcoholism that killed him had also affected his ability to tour). But we had always hoped that Slayer might one day ride again with the original lineup, and maybe at some point make another record as hard as Reign in Blood.

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Russell Brand in Get Him to the Greek.

Brit comedian and actor Russell Brand is known for rib-tickling, zany mock rock. He's a former heroin-lovin' wild man, so there's no wondering where his crazy comes from.

Brand's channeled his nuttiness in a rollicking discography of tracks featured on the silver screen and on television; some say the bloke even recorded a euphonic ditty for an ex-girlfriend on YouTube (Katy P?!).

Before the madcap wag embarks on his first ever world stand-up tour, and makes a pit-stop at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts on Sept. 22, County Grind is highlighting the jester's most memorable musical bits.

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Let's face it, you don't know how to properly twerk. It's an art form perfected by few and envied by many.

But, you never know, maybe your booty's just waiting on the the right tune to provoke some real twerkage. That being said, here are five non rap songs we think are very twerkable.

Play them loud as you watch that YouTube twerk tutorial in front of the mirror. We know you will.

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With Iron Man 3 already in the theaters and new editions of Superman and Wolverine soon to be released, it can seem like every movie coming out this summer stars a superhero. But our colorfully costumed characters also make appearances in a multitude of rap songs.

Here's a list of the ten best lyrics starring a superhero and, try as I might, Vanilla Ice's Ninja Rap from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 couldn't make the cut. Parents, be warned: If the Comic Code Authority still existed, they would not allow these superheroes to appear in the vicinity of such foul language.

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The nineties were packed with meaningful and defining moments. Walls were torn down, dresses were stained, our economy was the healthiest it's ever been -- but most of all, the music industry thrived in ways it could never thrive again. Not to say music doesn't currently thrive, but the idea of coming home from school, chucking your backpack by the stairs, and zoning out to music videos on MTV isn't really an option for kids today.

Music videos have become completely reliant on mediums like YouTube or music news websites to gain exposure. It's now up to the viewer to seek out these visual expressions of sound, and good luck finding a video that's going to leave much of an impression.

That's where the nineties really succeeded: Prematurely exposing impressionable minds to graphic and otherwise questionable imagery that could never make it to the screen today. What follows is a list of the ten strangest videos of the nineties as we see it -- the ones that left us saying, "What the hell?" -- along with a sense of solidarity in realizing those vivid scenes freaked other people out, too.

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The term "hipster" is one that has evolved from a benign adjective used by grandmas and square folk to describe those with an inclination toward the arts and the off-kilter to a derogatory term of implied arrogance.

Although we all know at least one individual who is guilty of the modern hipster's self-importance (perhaps a music journalist?), the negative connotation of "hipster" -- at least in our experience -- is generally used by people with a predisposition toward feeling inferior. Somewhere in the gray of it are young people who hop trends with little rhyme or reason and strive to completely embody whatever specific artistic existence they've appropriated for the moment. Some examples include the posthardcore folky, the post-death-metal-noise "musician," the person who graduates from twinkling indie-pop to Sigur Rós records -- the paths are many, and the hip are legion.

Generally speaking, of course, one thing these people all share is a lack of reverence for the classics or anything that could be considered even moderately plebeian. A few artists, however, appear to transcend this phenomenon, and Fleetwood Mac is one of them.

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Not only did Harmony Korine's new movie Spring Breakers give us the unholy image of James Franco in cornrows, it also inspired one of modern music's strangest team-ups, a song called "Fancy Bitch" composed by Gucci Mane and Marilyn Manson. Says Mr. Mane in a Fader magazine interview, "We got the dopest record in the world, me and Marilyn. Me and him got one of the craziest records ever made. We made it whatever day Spring Breakers came out in Cali. He came to the sneak premiere, and after we did the red carpet and watched the movie, me and him went to the studio and made us a record."

In the spirit of these strange bedfellows we bring to you in descending order of strangeness, ten of the weirdest musical collaborations.

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Plenty of bands don't only make funky jams, they also get some funkin' done in the bedroom, and possibly tour bus with each other. Bands like Fleetwood Mac whose members did a whole lot of incestuous mackin' and bumping uglies over the years.

In honor of this famously horny act coming to town to play at the BB&T Center on June 8, we're taking a look at ten bands who confused the music business with monkey business. Since it is often said the only act that is more intimate than sex is performing music with someone, we will explore the musical acts that put that theory to the test.

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