Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Mary J. Blige Team for "SOS" Haiti Special

Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Diddy and Pharrell Williams are teaming up for the "SOS Save OurSelves â€" Help For Haiti" special, which airs live this Friday, February 5th on BET, MTV and VH1. Wyclef Jean, Mary J. Blige, Justin Bieber and Monica will also take part in the Miami concert, which will raise money for CARE, Project Medishare, Yele Haiti and Children's Safe Drinking Water, the BBC reports. Queen Latifah will host the event, the second major telethon to help raise money for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The concert may mark the final performance from Lil Wayne for quite a while — the rapper is scheduled to be sentenced on gun charges in New York on February 9th.

Check out photos of Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna and more stars at Hope for Haiti Now.

As Rolling Stone previously reported, the Hope for Haiti Now special helped raise over $61 million, and its digital album brought in an additional $3 million and topped last week's Billboard 200 chart.

The Hope for Haiti Now concert also featured performances by Blige and Jean, with both took part in the Grammys' own tribute to Haiti at last night's ceremony.

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“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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