Ciara, Jamie Foxx and other celebrities stopped by the 2009 BET Awards radio remote room. Find out what went down just two days before the show.
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Some of your favorite celebs stopped by the Studio Red Lounge, sponsored by Coke. See who was in the house.
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July 12, 2009
ciara iz a very beautiful young lady i think she did an amazing job at the bet awards.
ciara is not a singer, she's a dance. souljah boy never needs to appear on tv ever again.. where were the stars? i appreciate the effort, but the show was low rated and ghetto. we'll miss mj, barry, luther, marvin. music is leaving the planet how sad. bet u need 2 do better.
July 11, 2009
omg im so glad beyonce won best female and video of the year award she deserved it that is mi idol i love her so much yayyyyyyyy bee!!!!
July 9, 2009
i dont think mia should have got best female hip hop artist... but who cares cause wayne won best male
July 8, 2009
one love to everyone on bet awards.and the jacksons family from england
July 7, 2009
i don't agree with heri hilson winning best new artist,but what can i do?
July 5, 2009
hold up and another thing lil wayne what r u gon do when u get older them tats gon look wringled lol ugh
man one day umma be on dat bet stage jus one day ah really don't want to jock da stars ah jus want to make ppl laugh but i wud jock keyshia cole thats ma future guhfriend but anyways jus one day umma be up thea makin ppl laugh by da way ma name chicago ma email chicagolife18@yahoo.com um on maspace,tagged,and downelink get at me
July 3, 2009
i thought the award show rocks i loved al the performaces and congrates to the winners and i like how they did some of my favorite mj songs
July 1, 2009
in my opinion of this show i thought it was a well waste of time the whole show was ghetto. i didn't like the way ghetto people such as jamie foxx and all his friends made fun of michael jackson, the only person that had kind class on the show was the ceo of the bet awards. i didn't get to watch the show the first day it came on and everybody i know said they watched a little of it and when beyonce came on they cut the tv off or either turned the channel. michael jackson should have had a better tribune. i saw it two days later and went in shock.if this keeps up the whole show is going to the
June 30, 2009
i henceforth will boycott bet because as a person of african descent and woman and advocate for justice, this station fails time and time again to show the complexity of the black diaspora. time and time again, this program chooses to televise to a generally young audience of color images that degrade them (us) and simply do not represent the beauty, diversity, and strength of our community. yet again, i must say, shame on you, bet executives/producers/financiers. shame on you.
rather, where was prince, stevie, smokey, the roots, aretha, common, sade, quincy . . . ? i have no idea whether they wanted to be associated with the show but this is the caliber of artist who should have been on that stage. my low regard for bet sank further upon seeing the reasonably good tribute to the o’jays, making it even more apparent what possibilities existed for a meaningful tribute to michael.
chris brown did not perform, but lil wayne and drake can sing about having sex with various women while children dance seductively behind them (note: in year’s past, bet has ignored the alleged but commonly known indiscretions of r kelly, james brown . . .)? ciara, a talented dancer with much weaker vocal skills, chose to sing a ballad rather than dance? and what did the various references to baby boy have to do with anything?
it is because very few of today’s living artists, at least those who get the record deals and are aired on stations like bet, are talented. none of these artists had in their arsenal a bag of tricks to pull out when called upon to pay homage to this man who supposedly changed their life. chaka khan presented an award, but souljah boy performed a song about nothing?
recognizing that the regularly scheduled awards program transformed into a tribute upon michael’s untimely death, it’s hard to fathom that this was the best bet could do with such short notice. all of these artists who proclaim to have been inspired vocally, through dance and presentation, as well as in fashion, by michael could not sing one of his songs; dance even 8 counts of his choreography; say something unscripted and substantive about his impact upon them.
on the red carpet, diddy, who is not my favorite person in the world for reasons irrelevant to this post, rebuked cnn and other media outlets for not giving due respect to michael’s contribution. unfortunately, bet is no better, no different than other programming, despite the power it could exhibit if it were a network truly by and for black people.
i tuned into the bet awards last sunday because i assumed that bet would do the one thing it does well-pay tribute to artists who have shaped american (and sometimes world) culture. instead, i lost more than three hours of my life watching nationally televised ignorance. i recognize that jamie foxx is a multi-faceted artist (singer, actor, comedian), but he was a horrible host of that awards program. his jokes made a caricature of michael jackson, who undoubtedly was a complex and important human being.
after hearing so many negative comments by the organized media, it was wonderful and refreshing to see michael jackson honored by his people on the bet awards! kudos!!!