Man I gotta hand it to BET, I was skeptical as hell about this years awards. I expected BET to coon it up as usual. But Debra Luciferina Lee and Stephen Hill put on a very entertaining and commendable show. Then again I did help to choose a lot of the winners who were announced on the live telecast so WOOT to me and all the other BET Awards Academy. Shout out to the pre-show and commercial break performers (they really played J.Cole hard). They never get any true recognition so hey let's give them some shine over here. FUMP Souljah Boy for performing that travesty known as 'Pretty Boy Swag' aka the Capper Anthem. I know every Capper was in their living room shimmying in their pannies...-runs-. Overall BET made up for last year's lackluster and highly embarrassing show.
HERE GOES!!
THE GOOD!
Chris Brown's Tribute to MJ - This shit right here, THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE. Chris Breezy redeemed himself in the eyes of many who had written him off as a has been, woman-beater. I had already forgiven C. Brown for his misdeeds but some people are holding on to grudges like he beat them personally. Think of all the family members or other close loved ones we know who may have been in Chris Brown's shoes at some point and we've FORGIVEN. Anyway I won't lecture at this time. Michael Jackson would've been proud to see Chris Brown. Oh and he better be happy Rihanna and Beyonce and Hov declined their invites this year or else he wouldn't have seen any parts of that stage.
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Tribute to Prince - Man between Patti Labelle making sure every up and coming singer took notes, to Esperanza Spalding (hmmm might need a new artist spotlight) killing it with her guicello (guitar and cello hybrid), Alicia Keys belting that Prince song then climbing on the piano (I know I wasn't the only one turned on) and Prince catching Patti's shoes with a ton of facial expressions that made everyone laugh. There left little room to even remember Janelle Monae's awesome cover. Prince really confuses the shit out of me though. How you gonna be prettier than your girl but still pulling CERTIFIED BAD BISHES like Applelonia and May Thai??
Kanye West - Man the show opened with KANYE WEST!! Yeezy's back and he gave a roaring rendition of his new single Power. I don't care what anyone says. The game has missed Kanye Omari West!
Drake and Jeezy - Drake killed it with the opening song being Fireworks (I was hoping A Keys would come out) then he did Over and Jeezy came out and KILLED IT with Lose My Mind!!!
Facebook and Twitter Status Parties - Man how were award shows before we discovered the beauty of live updates of statuses and tweets during major events? I won't lie man the shit is addictive as hell but always entertaining so shout out to all my FB friends and Twitter followers and people I follow. Yall always bring the funny and insightful oh and shout out to the HATERS. You guys make the world go around.
Nia Long - Did yall see Nia MUFFUCKING Long? I bet every chick who saw her wished they could be her and every dude wanted to bang her. -drops mic-
El Debarge - Medley : Somewhere across North America there were collective fist pumps from my light-skinned brothers and sisters as they made a resurgence last night at the BET Awards chairmaned by their lead spokesman EL DEBARGE. There were also collective groans from the Dark Skinned Contingent. Man I was happy to see the light skinned folks doing it big. TAKE THAT, TAKE THAT!!
Tyrese's Tribute to Teddy Pendergrass - Black Ty killed it and had the ladies waving their pannies in the air and held it down for the dark skinned fellas. WOOT!
The Bad
TI's and his veneers - TI performed his single Yeah Ya Know and it was lackluster at best. I know the King of the South has more than that.
Tameka 'Tiny' Cottle - I am drafting an open letter to all camera men to please refrain from panning close up on to Tiny's face. She's a BUTTA HEAD if ever there was one. Tiny looks like a platypus that survived an abortion. STOP WITH THE CLOSE UPS HOMEY!
Trey Songz - Yo Side of the Bed/ Purple Rain - Another lackluster performance from studio singer Trey Songz. He needs to step his performance game up and work on that ugly face when he sings mayne. I got props for Trey cuz he makes some good love making jams but dude lost a lot of his Bandwagoners who are now riding pretty on the LV Express straight to Cloud 10! WOOOOOOOOOOOOT
Jermaine Jackson's Hair - In case you were ever curious as to how to achieve the Jermaine Jackson hair do here is the recipe sent over by his barber Thelonius Kincaide. Add 16 parts BP Oil spill oil collected from a beach in Biloxi, then add a couple generous pinches of blacker than black charcoal and 2 teaspoons of brown gel and KABOOM. You have a lard head.
The Pause
B.O.B and Keyshia Cole performing Airplanes followed by Eminem - This made it to the Pause because there should've been a resounding HELL NAW to when they could not get Hayley Williams to sing her part in Airplanes. Keyshia Cole tries to prove herself every time she sings man and its crazy how she can kill a song dead..Eminem made a good transition though.
Dirty Money - Oh Let's Do It, Hello Good Morning Remix Melody: Man I really wanna ride with Dirty Money but the fact that Dawn and the No-Name girl are glorified backup singers when Diddy tries to LIE all the time and say that they're a GROUP. Makes this whole performance get a pause.
Nicki Minaj - Yall know I rides with Nicki Minaj, she's captured our attention and put female rappers back on the map so yall keep on hating. My pause is due to the fact that Nicki lip-synced all three of her performances. When she did My Chick Bad, All I Do is Win and the Hello, Good Morning Remix. Was she sick or something? She was talking fine when she directed those subliminal SHOTS at Lil Kim though hahaha. Shout out to Nicki for keep the folks talking though.
Monica and Denice Williams - Man Mo killed that song but at the same time she looked like a real life Bat Symbol..I expected her to fly away at any moment or get hoisted into the air. Mo and Denice killed it though.
Todd 'Willis' Bridges - That nukka looks like he been through some things man, lip all crunchy black. SAY NO TO DRUGS KIDS!! RIP Gary Coleman.
