2009 BET Awards Review
June 29, 2009 · Print This Article
Wow what an opening to the 2009 BET Awards with New Edition(Bobby Brown included) rendition of “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5 staring Michael Jackson. It was only right a legendary group such as New Edition do a tribute to the Jackson 5 in memory of Michael Jackson. Awards show host Jammie Foxx came out in a great fashion with a rendition of his own of MJ’s “Beat It”. Foxx wore a red leather jacket with all zippers and bells with the glitter glove as well. With Foxx hosting the show it all worked out by design, if anybody can impersonate Mike its is definitely Jamie. Foxx reminded us all why we should take this time and celebrate the life of Michael Jackson.
The first award of he night went to Lebron James who won Best male athlete, Best Male Hip hop went to Lil Wayne. With the first performance of the night Kerri Hilson opened up with her hit single “Turnin Me Out” and progressed into “Knock Me Down” which is her latest hit single. Hilson brought an incredible stage presents with a rock pop chick look, definitely in honor of the King of Pop. Following Kerri’s performance Neyo followed up with “Lady of My Life” in tribute to MJ. Jammie Foxx and T Pain teamed together to perform their smash hit “Blame It”. It wouldn’t be a party if Uncle Snoop didn’t drop in and please believe he did just that adding excitement to the performance. Pain came draped with his platinum diamond chain titled “Big Ass Chain”(complete nergoism).
The Best Male R&B award was won by Neyo. Beyonce blessed the audience with a heartfelt performance with a beautiful stage set decked out with angel wings, the performance brought out a ton of emotion in memory of MJ. Gospel group Mary Mary gave the audience a special treat and a little bit of Jesus by performing “God In Me”. The audience was blessed with a special surprise feature on the song with Queen Latifah making a special appearance. Taraja P. Henson left the night with the best actress award and best female artist went to Kerri Hilson. Jamie Foxx along with Neyo performed “Her Own”, Neyo dressed appropriate with a MJ’ish leather white jacket to go along with red gloves. Jamie Foxx complemented his jacket with a black leather jacket of his own complete with the rhinestones, also featuring in the performance was the rapper Fabolous.
Neyo gave viewers a special treat when he brought out some of his favorite artist which included Keith Sweat who performed a few of his hit classics, the legendary 90’s group Guy, and Bel Biv DeVoe also performed their hit smashes. Ciara performed “A Better Place” in honor of MJ, unfortunately it was terrible song selection. Keyshia came with a solid performance and a pink aura, r&b singer Monica also featured in the performance. These two talented singers make a great combination on mic, they definitely should reward fans with more projects together.The best female r&b artist went to Beyonce. Jay Z performed his new hit drop “Death of Autotune”, this brought a serious hiphop element to the show. The significance of this performance can bring music artist who use Autotune to their knees.
What an appearance by Don Cornelius, the original host of Soul Train struggled over his words. May God Bless him, cocaine is a hell of a drug. Just say no kids. Mr. Cornelius never the less introduced Tevin Campbell, Tyrese, John Gill, and Trey Songs who did a huge tribute to the Ojays who received the BET Lifetime Achievement Award. Listening to these young brothers to a rendition of “Stair Way to Heaven” nearly brought tears to the eye. Eddie Levert of the group did turn my tears into laughter when he slipped and used an explicit word when describing old times with Michael Jackson. A special highlight of the night came when Alicia Keys was presented with the Humanitarian Lifetime Achievement award. Keys has done alot of work to help and improve life for families in need located in Africa. Wyclef received the male Lifetime Achievement award for his work in his homeland of Haiti. These two artist are extraordinary talents and regular people as well. It is good to hear artist of their status giving back to the people.
Overall the 2009 BET Awards show was a well run production. It has definitely improved as far as the quality. I am very pleased and proud to say African Americans as well as others were represented well. Special prayers goes out to the Jackson family. Michael Jackson may you Rest In Peace. You will forever be loved and your legacy will live on.
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P.S: Chris Brown was supposed 2 perform but was pulled at the last minute. His tribute wouldve been HELLA hot. Search for pics, they got em. and from the looks of the pics he was gonna do Thriller as 1 of ‘em. BET f*cked up when they did that…..smh.
Lastly, If you “BET” had the manpower, skills, and talent, to rewrite a show for the circumstances together in less than a week. Stop and think how fast you all could’ve did what I mentioned above, brought the rights to his music, make a theatrical commercial for the “PLANNED” tribute to be shown at the BET awards, and get a proper tribute together in the next 3 months!!! (And even maybe with the help of MTV, VH-1, or whoever), but…no we as Black people couldn’t put the pride to the side.
And one more thing don’t bash the other acts REMEMBER this was the BET AWARDS 09 SHOW FIRST! NOT A MJ TRIBUTE FIRST, people need to understand that before bashing all of the other performances not dealing with MJ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xv83OoZSP0
Nobody ever taught any of these dumb asses if you gonna do it big, don’t do it half-assed. No lil wayne and soulija boy.
With the world watching you got drunk ass Ving Rhames talkinbout BET is guns, Mike Jack is guns… Really?
Dudes rapping/singing bout how they wanna f^ck every girl in the world with little girls dancing around them like that sh1t is cute… This was not the stage to try to act make pedo sh1t is cool.
High ass Bobby Brown waging his tounge while doin ABC??? Really.
That was just ten minutes of the sh1tfest…. No Eddie Levert…
We have a world stage and posthumoulsly honor one of, if not the greatest Black musical talents ever and you got 75% of your entertainment cooning like first prize was the last piece of popeyes in the world…
I used to think it disgusting that the kids today thought this sh1t was cool but now I see why they do and its b/c most adults are cosigning this sh1t while they selling out their kids..
This show got me tight, rambling like Don Cornelius but the point is BET failed last night and so did mainstream Black culture…
Please file a complaint with the FCC regarding the inappropriate nature of this award show. There was obscenity, vulgarity and we were all misguided thinking this was an actual tribute.
Also check out this campaign, apparently they were successful in the past in forcing BET to change the name of a show that was formerly called “Hot Ghetto Mess”????!!!!
http://www.enoughisenoughcampaign.com/
We need to get advertisers involved in this because money is what talks and honestly BET used Michael Jackson’s name to get higher ratings. The succeeded getting the highest ratings since their inception. We can’t let this injustice go on.
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It wasn’t fit for an exceptional humanitarian & GREATEST ARTIST OF ALL TIME….. Anyone who thinks BET did a fine job need to go read on MJ’s life, accomplishments & what he means to world!!! The man was listed in Guinness World Record book in 2000 for contributing charities THE MOST, which is why he went broke….. He outsold Elvis. BET not only did a terrible job but also insulted MJ’s memory, Janet JAckson & MJ family and world fans…..
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