50 Cent, Diddy Added to MTV's Program Schedule

Yesterday T.I. and Pete Wentz joined MTV's broadcast schedule, and today it's 50 Cent and Diddy who will bring shows to the music channel. Fiddy's untitled show is almost a rap offshoot of Donald Trump's Apprentice, with 50 recruiting sixteen contestants from the streets to help teach them how to navigate through corporate America. Every week, 50 will get to mutter "Yo fired" until there's only one winner, who will receive a scholarship. MTV stalwart Diddy will also deliver the fifth installment of his Making the Band series after the successes of Danity Kane and Day26. This time, Mr. Combs will put together a rock band.

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Song Stories

“Let My Love Open the Door”

Pete Townshend | 1980

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."

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