BET Hip-Hop Awards 2007

Did anyone watch the BET Hip-Hop Awards? Katt Williams is one of the funniest comedians in the game right now, so it was well deserved to have him host, and E-40 was a pretty good introducer too, ya smell me?

What’s up with the second coming of Nelly, who performed at this event? Is this cat even relevant today? I’ll give him props for putting St. Louis on the map, but dude is done otherwise. I recently had a friend roll up to me in his Hyundai, and was telling me how he was pimping it out because “no one else in town has done it.” My first thought was, yeah, that’ll be d-o-p-e…uh, N-O-P-E! So, I just nod my head like I too support his dream. Then, right before he drives away, he turns up his stereo and he has Nelly in the deck. Not even newer songs, but Country Grammar. Are you fo’ real? I just shook my head in disbelief and thought, what a dumbass. Might I add, Nelly was also part of the Hip Hop vs. America panel on BET a few week’s ago. Really? He’s one of the leading spokesmen for hip-hop today? If that’s true, then hip-hop’s done gone cray-zay.

Anyway, so Common and Kanye both take 2 awards. I wonder if BET felt obligated to give Mr. West one, in fear of getting bashed like MTV. Granted, he does have a pretty tight album, and probably does deserve something, but it looked a little rigged. And, T.I., although a great rapper, snuck in to TIE with Common for CD of the Year. Did that have anything to do with their compassion for his recent misfortunes? I think so, someone just didn’t want to be the asshole and put one over the other. Weezy takes 1.

I liked the hype performance of "Hurt" with Busta Rhymes and Alfamega, but couldn’t understand a damn thing they said. Too bad T.I. wasn’t there to help with his own song. So, I guess I’m back on the T.I. tip. I do have a little bit of compassion for the brutha, but if he really did what was said, ie. buying illegal firearms, and having been a convicted felon, then it’s his own damn fault and he should get punished like everyone else! Shit, Shyne, Slick Rick, and C-Murder all dropped albums in the joint.

KRS-One received the “I Am Hip-Hop” award. What’s up, South Bronx, South, South, Bronx. Yeah, dude deserves it.

I still wonder why everyone’s on Weezy’s dick. He’s has a few bangin rhymes, but when did he become the premiere rapper? Might I add, it was Gillie the Kid who ghost wrote most of The Carter. Okay, so he’s one of the youngest dudes in the game to hold mad stakes in a record company, does that automatically crown him king-negro? He still has yet to impress me.

Kanye saves face by forfeiting his 2nd award to Outkast and UGK, who he felt had a better video, but they give it back saying he earned it. Aw, a true hip-hop moment, HUGS.

Anyway, the show ends with Soulja Boy doing “his dance.” Yet another awards show that fails to entertain me, and also fails to be a true reflection of hip-hop. Who’s really calling the shots? The labels, the radio stations, the fans? If this is what the game has become (Weezy, Common, and Kanye), then it may have met it’s doom.

Give it up to Bootsy Collins and his date for representing: