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2008 BET Awards: A Recap
written by 4bars

First off, I know K Billy AKA Public Hater #1 is gonna comment on how bad the BET Awards were and usually I’d cosign because of the general feelings I have towards BET and their questionable programming. But the other night I watched an awards show that I was actually proud of…for most of it, haha. You get enough black people with money in one place and SOMEBODY is gonna act an ass (thank you Cuba and Al Green) but even with that, I could laugh comfortably because of the collective success that was present. With that said, the recap commences:

First off, the glaring theme that dominated the night was the RIDICULOUS amount of BEAUTIFUL, TALENTED, SUCCESSFUL, SEXY ASS BLACK WOMEN that were in attendance, performing, and just making every male viewer drool. Deserving honorees are as follows: Ms. A-Pleeeease, Sexy Spice, Ciara, the chick poppin it during the Chris Breezy performance, BAD ASS Nia Long, and EN VOGUE IS STILL BAD!!, hell, even Debra Lee could’ve gotten it on this night. As you could tell, I was seriously overwhelmed by the amount of beauty that was constantly on stage, big ups to black women, DAMN, ya’ll holding it down.

The Jokes/Scripted Stuff: D.L. Hughley is a funny man, especially when he says the same stuff as I do about the Lakers losing cause they had too many Euros. I thought the banter between Gabrielle Union and Derek Luke was clever, the montage of speakers that included David Banner and Soulja Boy were entertaining and also spoke a positive message, and Kevin Hart giving Kobe’s award to “Mel B’s got damn ass…” since Kobe wasn’t there to accept it made my f’n night cause, again, she was BAD! Its an awards show, so naturally the jokes aren’t gonna be of stand up quality, but I was entertained and besides Cuba Gooding Jr. acting like he does in the Hanes commercials, I was happy with what I saw.

The Performances: I couldn’t believe what I saw: Usher and Kanye among the worst performers (!!!), it was downright shocking although Usher’s was relative whereas Ye’s was just bad. Usher started the show off sans Jeezy and did his usual good job dancing and entertaining but after watching Chris Brown (after years of hating I must give that mf props, lookin like a young 4Bars out there) ripped it with a nice medley and Ne-Yo did his thing to a song that I CANT STAND, I was like “damn, Usher was good, but these two young mf’s outdid him…”. Now, in the case of Ye, I don’t know wtf happened. “Put On” is one of my favorite songs out right now, mainly because of Kanye even though he’s channeling T-Pain but he rips it regardless, but the gift turned into a curse on this night. Something happened with the tech guys or sound or something because Ye sounded TERRIBLE and was even off key and beat. After seeing dude in concert I was sure he was one of the greatest performers of our day but I guess even Jordan had bad games. Ms Keys’ (or “A-Please” as my barber calls her) performance was awesome. I enjoyed Al Green, Maxwell let us know he was still alive, T-Pain has SO MANY HIT SONGS that he’s apart of and did them all very well. Another note about T-Pain was the fact that he actually sounded good with no voicecoder thing while singin the hook to Lollipop. Lastly, I must reiterate, Lil Wayne is the hottest mf in hip hop right now (no homo) I gotta give the mf his props, f’n A Millie will get any crowd on the globe going once that bassline drops, great way to end the show.

I’ve written entirely too much but I will say this, I enjoyed the BET Awards a lot and even though I was bombarded with niggerdom (read: Baldwin Hills Season 2 ads at EVERY COMMERCIAL BREAK!) I was very proud of what was shown and I hope that the show will continue to improve in quality and class; aaannndd that the rest of the programming will follow suit.