Video: Lil Wayne and Eminem Take Over 'SNL'

Saturday Night Live recruited Eminem and Lil Wayne for their last show of 2010, with the two MCs dueting on their vindictive, Haddaway-sampling single "No Love." The sample of the   hit "What Is Love" (enshrined on SNL in Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan's Roxbury skits) was still intact during Saturday's performance, although a live band also accompanied the duo.

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Later in the show, Lil Wayne -- making his second TV appearance since his release from prison in early November -- took the stage solo to perform his just-released single "Six Foot Seven Foot." The Bangladesh-produced track debuted online last Tuesday and is currently the Number One song on the iTunes Store's singles chart.

The joke-rap duo Lonely Island also debuted a new song, the Akon-assisted "I Just Had Sex," during Saturday's broadcast. The boast-filled track is something of a successor to the duo's similarly overexcited "Jizz In My Pants"; the video stars Gossip Girl's Blake Lively and Little Fockers' Jessica Alba as Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone's less-than-impressed paramours.

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Song Stories

“Tonight's the Night”

The Shirelles | 1960

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."

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