Last night, I decided to attempt to watch the BET awards anticipating a MJ tribute. *sigh*
Let me share the highlights with you.
Neo, the Ojays, Jay Z, Tevin Campbell (I love me some Tevin Campbell…..), Tyrese, Trey Songz and Johnny Gil and their Ojay tribute and Maxwell (who looked fine as hell and was FAR too classy for that damn show). Jamie Foxx had a few funny moments. Alicia Keys and Wyclef winning the Humanitarian awards, great. Alicia Keys looked fabulous and her speech was lovely.
And erra…..that was it for me.
How do I even begin to chronicle the coonery?
Jamie Foxx performed Blame It with a 30 ft bottle of champagne onstage as the prop.
T-Pain….big azz chain…..performing while holding a bottle of Nuvo and then accepting his award at the podium with a red cup in his hand full of his drank. WHY?
Frankie and Neffe show? WHY GOD WHY????!?!?!?!?!
TI’s baby mama and Lil Wayne’s ex-wife have a show together? Of course. It’s only natural. Quality programming at BET.
I need all of these younger artists to start taking their craft seriously. When you can’t even make it through one song without running out of breath? NOT GOOD. When the Mighty OJays can still get up and dance, sing, and HIT ALL OF THEIR NOTES as Grandfathers? That should tell you something. Keith Sweat, New Edition, Guy, BBD….all a hot mess. Should be ashamed of how they all sound now.
Beyonce. Now I love me some Bey but how do you sing Ave Maria while wearing a corset and no pants? Not to mention, she sang the Ave Maria remix. Can’t stop, Won’t stop Eh Eh.
Keri Hilson. You were doing fine till you sang the acapella part at the end. Um no. And the “real bad Joe Jackson” part should not be sung with Joe sitting there.
Zoe Saldana (the dress was smoking) is out there presenting an award and Lt. Uhura is in the bathroom. Who is producing this mess? Did they even rehearse? *sigh* BOOTLEG.
And the absolute low point of the night? Lil Wayne and Drake performing Best I Ever Had while young pre-teen girls (I am assuming theye were Lil Wayne’s daughter and her friends) tried to grind on Drake onstage as Weezy cursed all through the song. That shyt was so innapropriate it made my head hurt. Who at BET allowed that? *sigh*
I am back to boycotting and I am going to need Debra Lee to step her game up and make some quality programming we can be proud of.
Black Entertainment my azz.
THE SHIP HAS LONG SAILED AWAY ON BET!
I couldn’t even watch that mess. That haphazzardly throw together crap was a mess. Whatever they were GOING TO DO before Michael died, they should have stuck to. There is absolutely no reason to rerun that show.
The O’Jays had to show those yougin’s how to still perform after 40 years in the business. Alicia and Wyclef were classic. Jay-Z was cool, Maxwell was fine as always, Neo was good, and Tyrese, Trey Songz and Johnny Gil looked and performed well. SCRAP THE REST OF THE SHOW!
I know there are many Beyonce fans but WTF (why the fu**) was she looking like Balerina Barbie singing Ave Maria?????????????????????
That coon fest was atrocious! Debra “Leevil” should be stoned that crap. I haven’t seen the BET Awards in years! Michael said as we watched, “I just remembered why we don’t watch anymore.”
And I used to like that Drake song THE BEST I Ever Had….until last night…………….
Lil Wayne should be deported for that performance.
I only watched because last year I missed Maxwell and Al Green and the girl group tribute so I thought the show might be worth something even without the thrown together MJ tributes.
Pay it off??? Tiny & toya?? who is watching this???
I thought Jamie was horrible and performed too much. How do you host and perform 3 times?
Debra Lee…I don’t agree with people protesting in front of her house, but what kind of bubble does she live in? And has anyone ever noticed that she is never dressed quite right? needs a stylist or something.
WOW! You beat me too it! L’il Weasel and the whole group should be arrested for child abuse. God how I wish I had a switch and a jet to get me to L.A. I woulld started first with L’il Wayne and beat his behind to the ground…then on to the little girls…this was atrocious…and someone should have had the balls to yank those little girls off stage…
Not a switch AND a jet, lol!!!
I had it on in the background while I studied. The only good performance I saw was the O’Jays! The rest – particularly whatever weirdness Ving Rhames was trying to communicate – was pure, awful, drivel. Why I was expecting better, I don’t know. My bad. I’m just glad I didn’t give it my full attention.
“When you can’t even make it through one song without running out of breath? ”
AMEN. AMEN. AMEN.
I’m sick of these young studio-only, technology dependent voices artists. SICK OF IT. How the hell do the o’jays perform and still sound good even with all that dancing, and they can’t even sing right after doing the one-two step? I am AFRAID. Real music and real artists are long gone. That damn soulja boy. SMH. I was pissed the hell off yesterday. Where was the MJ tribute? And oh, don’t even get me started on Joe Jackson being AT the awards. People don’t grieve anymore?????????
*stepping off my soapbox*
I forgot to mention “Soulja Boy Tell Dat” which is his new stage name. *sigh*
And how mad was I that Keri Hilson and Taraji Henson were both singing that song lyric for lyric? WE MUST DO BETTER!!!!
I know I am biased due to my NYC roots but can anyone really compare Jay-Z’s performance to Lil Wayne or Soulja Boy? Real rap is HARD. Real rap has LYRICS WITH SUBSTANCE.
Waking up, jumping out of bed and putting on your swag in the mirror is some bullshyt. Thos eare the entire lyrics of your song? Really?
You forgot to mention the Baby Boy skit that went horrbly awry when VIng Rhames stated that Michael Jackson is guns. I died a little inside and various points in the show and am determined to give up my negro membership.
I am still trying to block out the Michael Jackson is guns……say it with me “Michael Jackson is guns” from my memory.
I felt like I was on punishment.
That’s what you get for being bad.
Sixty,
You didnt think the Jamie Foxx/Martin Lawrence skit “Skank Robbers” was funny? I thought that was the funniest part of the show IMO.
That was funny. Wanda is soooo ugly, I am still traumatized by the part where they slo-mo’ed her. LOL
I loved Ne-yo’s rendition of “The Lady In My Life”, Maxwell and the OJay’s tribute (minus the looong introduction from Don Cornelius).
I didn’t like seeing Joe Jackson walk the red carpet and sitting in the front row (every time I see him I want to boo), Drake’s performance (I know him from my cousin making me watch DeGrassi Junior High and his name is Aubrey, I don’t know where Drake came from). My mom, who is old school school catholic and thinks mass should still be said in latin, was offended by Beyonce’s outfit (“how disrespectful” were her exact words). BET has a long way to go.
You nailed it 69. I couldnt agree more!
This is why I don’t fool with BET… We allow ourselves to watch this train wreck every year, and it gets worse and worse.
Hold out for a real MJ tribute when the Grammys come on…
i agree with that….wait for the Grammys!!!
I watched it while cackling at everyone’s live FB status updates. Quote of the night… “I wish BET died and MJ gave them a tribute.” Lawwwwd! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Funny how they bleeped out every word for Lil Wayne’s performance, but couldn’t manage to censor some of the pre-recorded music they played as artists went on stage to accept awards. Maybe if we’re lucky, their blatant disregard for young viewers’ ears last night will have them so heavily fined by the FCC that they’ll be shut down. Then maybe someone will design a channel that doesn’t embarrass the hell out of us. No? Well, a girl can dream, can’t she?
wow…was it that bad?? I only wanted to see the MJ tribute, probably a good thing i didnt watch BET last night.
I decided to watch BET for the first time in a loooong time last night too to see what they would do…Boooooo. That’s all I can say about it. Boo.
I liked a few performances a lot (Ne-Yo, some of Jamie, Keisha/Monica, and of course MAXWELL) You’re right, 1969, Maxwell was out of place…WAY TOO CLASSY for that show!
But mostly, I was embarrassed, for whomever is supposed to be BET’s “people”. (Who is that, anyway? Reading this blog, I’m finding out who it ISN’T….)
Debra Lee should be ashamed of herself. She should resign. Someone said Michelle and Barack were probably not watching…. Gawd, I hope that’s true.
And those kids rapping such disgusting lyrics? I’m no prude, but that was just vulgar. Nothing entertaining about the exploitation of children. Sad.
I didn’t even attempt to watch…seems that was the smart move.
The BET award show was a low class piece of crap. This is what happens when we allow and support d-list musicians like Jay-z and all the other rappers who really are putting out nothing short of suicide on our airwaves. It is time to bring this minstrel show to a end once and for all. The show was embarrassing to the president and his family and it was embarrassing to the Black community as a whole. I can’t believe that grown A** men and women allowed such trash to be presented as a tribute to the greatest performer in our lifetime. I will never support BET again.
This is why I don’t watch that mess.
Thought the awards show could have done a lot better…like where was “Usher” who would have done a much better tribute to MJ then Jamie Foxx or Neo!! considering that this was the first time that the show has gotten national coverage (CNN was there for GODS sake) you would think tat BET would have brought out the top top guns…But I will give them some credit since they did have to throw things together at the last minute…Not to mention I was embarrased by the actions of Papa Jackson…
Oh yeah…I was stunned that Janet came out, so clearly distraught, saying the family was too devastated to attend… While Papa Joe, who was clearly NOT too distressed, was in the audience smiling, participating in the music, and generally acting like it was “his night”. That made me sick.
This commentary needs to be posted far and wide. Or for starters on BET’s blog. Does one exist?