10 Things I Liked About The 2010 BET Awards

Aight, so… a year ago, I dissed BET for puttin’ on a half-assed show that was advertised as “a tribute to Michael Jackson“. I’ve prob’ly referred to BET in a shitty light a number of times on other occasions too. But as much as I dis them for their wack shows and their overall lack of givin’-a-shit, I can also admit that they came correct this year. I wasn’t gonna watch the BET Awards, because I usually don’t, but Twitter fukked around and pulled me in. I figured “ay, what the hell- at least if it sucks, me and my Twitter fam will provide quality jokes and observations”. Lo and behold, these niggas put on the best one I’ve seen since ’03. Well I’ll be damned.

1- Chris Brown’s MJ Tribute: Speakin’ of people redeeming themselves… I can’t front on the boy CB. His three-minute tribute to Mike was better than the whole three hours last year. After all the whinin’ and complainin’ he did over the last year, he did the only thing he had to do in the first place to get his props again… went out there and gave a great performance. He also cried, so sympathy was in full effect. But even without the tear-shedding, dude deserved the standing O. Michael approves.

2- Trey Songz’ moms: Bruh, I thought that was your girl. Hope you didn’t let her come to the afterparty with you. Ms. Songz gonna play around and get smashed by one of the homies like LeBron‘s mama did. YUUUUUUP!

3- El DeBarge… my nigga: Hate to say it, but when some of them older artists make appearances on award shows, they sound like they ain’t been on stage since their last hit. But nah, not the homie Eldra. M’man went through “All This Love”, “I Like It”, “Time Will Reveal”, and “Rhythm of the Night” like it was ’85 out this muhfukka.

4- Prince Gettin’ His Props: One of my favorite artists got a Lifetime Achievement tribute, with a lot more of those to come for sure. Game… blouses.

5- Watchin’ it while on Twitter: Straight entertainment. Best comment was a 3-way tie between “Monica looks like the Wu-Tang symbol” (B.Dot from RapRadar), “Y’all gonna stop callin’ Prince gay. He will take your woman. Then wear her shoes” (Katchin05), and “Kirk Franklin got a laptop behind his piano watchin’ Jada Fire scenes” (some nigga named DANJ!)

6- John Legend’s zeeked hairline: not to mention, his emo-tional neck-rolling, finger-snappin’ Twitter response to ey’body jokin’ him. You soft, duke… you soft.

7- Alicia Keys: Months pregnant with her Swizz baby, still lookin’ more gooder than a muhfukka on stage, for both her solo spot AND her portion of the Prince tribute. Climbin’ on top of a piano, singin’ “Adore” >>>>>>> ey’thing.

8- “Hatin’ is for suckas… and you know who I’m talkin’ to, you hatin’ ass crab!”: Ya man Diddy on the post-show, pumped-up off that Ciroc, in response to recent shots fired by Fiddy. Of course when they smooth out their differences, he’s gonna deny it was aimed at him, but it’s always good to hear Puff channel his “My Downfall” voice. Jealousy’s a muthafukka, you weak jealous muthafukkas.

9- Kanye’s performance of “Power”: Leave it to that character to do nothin’ but stand on a mountain with a big goofy-ass chain, fake snow, smoke, and a background screen with all kinds of atmospheric shit goin’ on… and make it a memorable performance.

10- Knowin’ that when the smoke clears… there’ll still be plenty more occasions to joke the shit outta BET, but at least they were on their A+ game this time out. Some stuff was better than others, but nothin’ particularly offensive. This is what it looks like when it’s well done. Props.

-D!