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I have a confession to make


October 18, 2007 | Tags: BET, Hip Hop Awards, Not Sucking

                I guess I have to hold off on coming with that new T-shirt design idea I had. Ladies and gentlemen…I have a confession to make. I watched BET…wait, wait, I’m not done. I liked it! Yes…I said, no, I’m not talking about “American Gangster”…I’m talking about the BET Hip Hop Awards. Normally, I don’t fuck with award shows. I don’t care if it’s the Grammy’s, Emmy’s, Oscars, VMA’s, fuck all that shit. Any award shows, definitely on BET, doesn’t get watched by me. However, Phonte was gonna be in the cipher. I had to see that, with the whole “Little Brother’s too intelligent” thing. Ras Kass was gonna be in the cipher, with the whole “Ras Kass is Free” thing (not from jail…he’s been free from there, free from his label), I had to check that and support the west. So…for the first time ever, I watched BET three hours straight. (The Awards for 2 hours, then American Gangster).



                Balance. Back when the east ran shit, nobody was asking for balance. New York emcees, New Yorkers, and people who wish they were from New York but weren’t, were happy, cuz “Son got mad play on the radio and TV” and “Dat Boy from down dere” wasn’t heard from. Nobody cared that Atlanta wasn’t being heard from. Nobody cared that New Orleans wasn’t being represented. However, once the west started to dominate, and then into when the south took over hip hop, backpackers started bitching…”it’s unbalanced…all we hear on radio and TV is them, that’s not right…they don’t show us no love” There you go, you got what you wanted. The BET Hip Hop awards brought balance. Common took the lyricist of the year award, and got a tie on the album of the year with T.I. (I don’t know if T.I. should have got that…but shit, Common still won too) Lil Wayne won MVP (shit, he dropped a million freestyles and songs that got respected by most) You had performances by Kanye and Common, then you had performances from Boosie, Wayne, Souljah Boy. Even Busta Rhymes got to perform (even though, I don’t know what the fuck for…but oh well). The dance of the year award wasn’t televised. (Cuz honestly, if it’s not on some B-Boy shit…who gives a fuck)The ciphers were dope (Wyclef tried to bring it. Stat really brought it. Cassidy kicked some old shit…how can YOU be slacking…what’s wrong, couldn’t write no new punch lines in jail or while you were chilling in the hospital?) Outkast and UGK won for best collabo, Kanye won for best Video (it didn’t matter that the song wasn’t that dope, the video was tight and original) and best performer (I’ve never seen him) Things went how they should have went. Was there Cooning going on? Of course there was, but it was balanced, and if you complained about the lack of balance like I did, you can’t knock that.



                The only thing I REALLY was bothered by were those sluttish ass dancers dancing around Common. That shit was bad. Did you see how ole’ girl bent her leg backwards and then turned around so you could see her ass? Whack. While I’m not a fan of Souljah Boy or Lil Boosie, I was less bothered by them than Common’s dancers. I KNOW Common didn’t ask for that. Oh yea, I also didn’t like those Jena 6 boys coming out thinking there stars. TAKE THEM DAMN GLASSES OFF YOU FUCKING IDIOT, YOU’RE INDOORS…AIN’T NO DAMN SUN INDOORS, AND THERE’S NOT THAT MANY PICTURES BEING TAKEN OF YOU. Did Stephen Hill give them those outfits himself? Sure Nelly was whack and seemed like he shouldn’t have even been there… but it was balanced out by Lil Wayne. I just hope that Wayne didn’t have what I think he had in that cup with his kids there.  They only had one verse from “Wipe Me Down” so they could also let Slightly Cloudy Chris do “Ay Bay Bay”. Cool, “Wipe Me Down” wasn’t that big of a song anyway. They let Souljah Boy close out the awards…cool. You seen how people were going crazy, if there gonna react like that, dude deserves to close the awards, whether I think he’s whack and coonish or not.



                So why were the awards that good? Could it be because of Reginald Hudlin (who I just noticed the other day worked on the Boondocks…I bet he’s not working on them this season…that’s why they’ve sucked) Maybe ?uestlove helped out. (Cuz it looked like he didn’t work on VH1 Hip Hop honors…they sucked) I don’t know, but I just hope they keep doing whatever they’re doing, cuz it’ll give me one award show to watch.


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