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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Deliberately Untitled Because I am Still Speechless
This post will be updated once J-Smooth gets into the conversation. I imagine he is still speechless too.
Damn Kis! Tell us how you really feel.
I'd be happy to once the memory of 12 year old girls dancing on stage while Lil Wayne talks about how many girls he wants to fuck that night in front of a billboard ad for the Army/McDonalds/Insurance company stops burning my eyeballs.
Miss Janet, you shouldn't even have sullied your shoes with that stage.
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I'm sitting here with my fingers on the keys.. but what can I really say?
I feel all of the BET hate. I think it is well deserved. However, I have to ask how much of this (the poor "tribute" at the awards show) is due to the quality of today's artists and music in general (and who's really controlling BET and our images). I don't watch BET regularly but I look at my cable guide enough to know that they play ridiculous reality shows, horrible movies, and when they are actually playing music it is soulja boy, lil wayne, etc. So I don't think anything different should have been expected at the awards show. Now should they have turned it into a tribute in such short notice? Should they not have checked IDs before allowing girls on stage? Should they have even allowed a performance of "I Wish I Could Fuck Every Girl in the World" with or without the tribute? Eh.
(Is anyone else thinking of the Black Anthology about WET.)
I'm wondering if people would have felt any differently about the show if it had taken place a week before. I'm also wondering if next to the quality of MJ's music, videos, and performances, today's artists just look and sound like utter (vulgar, inappropriate, untalented, manufactured) crap on BET, MTV, and your local radio station.
I can't wait to hear what J-Smooth has to say.
ANDDDDDDD ANNNND ANNNDDDDDDD!!!!
insult to injury
BLACK MUSIC IS ACTUALLY DOING really, really, really interesting damn things.
J*Davey
Janelle Monae
Santogold
Melanie Fiona
Algebra
Kid Cudi
Holly Weerd
Jazmine Sullivan
Chrisette Michelle (new album is BANGIN! "Blame it on Me"? Hotnees)
Charles Hamilton (his word flow IS nice)
The Cool Kids
Tyler Woods (new artist with 9th, peep him on YouTube)
Drake (when he isn't onstage with 12 year olds, he is new so im going to give him ONE more chance. Don't be a Dummy Drake)
Erykah Badu (love all day)
Leela James
9th Wonder
88-keys
Foreign Exchange (and really anything Phonte does)
Q-Tip has a new album
Mos Def has a new album out (conspicuously absent from the awards, no?)
Rihanna has new stuff out
Jay-Z has new stuff out
Beyonce
Ciara (I mess with the music man, I really do)
Black Eyed Peas has a new album
Akon has stuff that I think is problematic but at least interesting. The song Beautiful really grew on me.
And if we go international we've got
Omar Sosa
Fanny
Ayo
BET has no lock on black creativity. If anything, that they recycled the same 5 tired artists over and over (Jaime Foxx being the king of that) when there is so much creativity out there shows that they are either deliberately acting a fool or just ignorant and out of touch.
Because i am TOTALLY OUT OF TOUCH but i just named 25+ artists and producers who are gettin it just from the top of my head and iTunes. I didn't even start googling for stuff. yet.
Fuck them.
u know i am just now able to talk about the BET awards. Actually I dont think will ever be "ready".
I find it so comforting that I can say that I agree with every word that all of you have said. But that comfort also made me think about the fact that you are all coming from similiar positions... (ALL of you who have commented thus far have MULTIPLE DEGREES) :)
So I have been racking my brain trying to come up with reasons why someone may have thought that the BET awards were... Great???
So one could... meaning that there is an ever so slight possibilty that someone on this earth watched the BET awards appreciated the "talent" on the stage and felt that the show represented Black people in a sufficient light...
And the reality is... it did portray some Black people. As much as I would like to. I am not sure if the answer is to pretend as if the 5 foot coon (LW) and his dog (SB) dont exist... They do... And they are a huge part of the music industry and they should have the opportunity to perform. But they shouldnt be the only ones performing.
Where is the Diversity?
Where is the Cencorship?
AS a TV network it is BET's responsibility to set the standords.
BET can and should set regulations on performances, language, attire, ect. BET undertands the power and the use of Mediums and for everyone in a position of power at BET (Cause its a LOT of black people who made the final call) should be ashamed at their ability to make the right descision...
And by right i mean a socially responsible descision that maintains and promotes the DNA of the Brand that is being sold.
Found out on another blog that the four little girls were Lil' Wayne's daughter, Reginae, Tiny's daughter (don't know her name) and three of their friends. They have a group. I don't know what kind of group it is. A playdoh group, a girl's empowerment group, a "our mommies are famous" group, a "we want to be video hoes" group.
I don't damn know.
What I do know is that the problem is with perception and accountability. Wayne went on national television and said that he thinks he's a good role model for his kids. He scared pour Katie Couric half to death.
He talks just like he raps, low, grimy, like a gremlin, so I was scared too, but the point is he doesn't even see anything wrong with having teenagers on the stage while singing I wish I could %T^$ every girl in the world.
So how do we make him see the fault in that. We could start with his parents... womp.
How about their parents? DJ Vince Adams had a great article on the awards and was saying he blames the parents b/c Souljah Boy has probably heard 50 Cent, but not NWA. And Jeremih has heard R. Kelly, but probably not Guy.
I agree with that. I also blame the parents for these dumb ass spellings of names (not that I'm one to talk), but young is not spelled yung, soldier is not spelled souljah and jeremiah is not spelled jeremih. Damn dummies!
I'm gonna go get that link from Vince Adams.
http://djvinceadams.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/problem-with-bet-awards/
Here's the link and for the record I shake my butt to Souljah Boy and Wayne often, but I'm grown. I know the difference between good music and shake my butt songs. These kids need more than that.
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