With a hit single once again heating up the charts and a new album set for a December release, Ke$ha is back, stripped down and ready to rumble.

When Ke$ha burst onto the scene in 2009-rapping through an Auto-Tune filter about brushing her teeth with whiskey and boys trying to "touch [her] junk" -- the then-22-year-old quickly positioned herself as pop's resident troublemaker and made the charts her home.

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