BET Awards Show: Facts and Feelings
 

Hello All GCers:

There is a website that announces the nominees and categories for the BET AWARDS show that airs TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2001 @ 9:00pm EST.
http://www.bet.com/awards

THEN after the awards show we will be hosting THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY III featuring a new category WHAT THE!?!?.

I'd rather not comment right now. I can only imagine what I will see. But I know there will be plenty of the WHAT THE !?!? GOING ON category!!


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Holla - 2001
KL

YA'LL MY GIRL JILL BETTA WIN A AWARD OR I'M GON' BE REALLY UPSET UP IN HERE!!!

I thought the group Blaque had broken up to pursue acting careers? I mean I saw them in Bring It On, but come on now, don't quit your day job. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

C&C, I'm DEFINITELY in agreement. They need to STOP! They just need to stick with their day jobs!

Here are my choices/predictions for winners in each category:

BEST MALE GROUP:Outkast or Jagged Edge

BEST FEMALE GROUP: Destiny's Child will win although my pick is Mary Mary

BEST MALE R&B ARTIST: JOE (will probably go to R. Kelly) What has Maxwell put out since Fortunate back in 99?

BEST FEMALE R&B ARTIST: JILL SCOTT!!!!!!! If she does not win, then http://www.plauder-smilies.de/rough/fal.gif to BET

BEST NEW ARTIST:I want Jill or India but I am afraid they will choose Lil Bow Wow or Nelly.

BEST MALE HIP HOP ARTIST: Jay Z

BEST FEMALE HIP HOP ARTIST: EVE

BEST GOSPEL ARTIST: YOLANDA ADAMS

VIDEO of the YEAR: Don't watch videos but I did see Destiny's Child so my pick/prediction is DC

MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: I really don't care but my pick is either Tiger or Kobe. I will always vote for Michael Jordan http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Tough one, I say Marion Jones

BEST ACTOR IN A FILM: Denzel Washington

BEST ACTRESS IN A FILM SANAA LATHAN, that's my giiiiiirl http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

They are missing some categories.

somebody tell me how they are going to nominate the now defunct 702 for ANYTHING?

for the best video of the year, they really nominated some sucky ones. independent women was not a good video, neither was next episode. i didn't understand the ms. jackson video and the stan video is disturbing.

and, they don't have a lot of categories, so i'm hoping they are going to fill in the time with GOOD acts, not folks coming out there singing a piece of every song they ever recorded.

I liked the Stan video. It was disurbing but it reflected the song and the tone very well. It was a better rap song and video than MANY that you hear out there now- certainly better than any in that category! It IS BET though, so my pick in that category is Next Episode. Since we know BET is all about T&A they might as well be honest about it. I mean, Ididn't hear Eminem say Kristal or ice once in that whole song! Shocking I know.

You gotta give the guy props on a song that had an actual point, even if he has a number of screws loose....

You got a point there. The video definitely reflected what he was talking about. Seeing a video like that is so rare these days w/ rap artists. And yes Eminem needs to calm down and talk about something more, um, shall we say happier? I mean yea, he's got issues (who doesn't!?) but dang! We don't need or want to hear about them all the time. Geez!

I think that is definitely the plan. BET is becoming MTV with black people. They have to compete so much more. If you notice that BET had a spring bling...MTV has had the Spring Break for almost 10 years now. BET has that show Testimony...MTV has had the Diary show...that chronicles the lives of such stars as Jay Z, etc. They need to step it up b/c (although she says she loves BET and acknowledges that BET is her root) Ananda Lewis made it painfully clear that her TRUE success came after she left BET for MTV. Now she's doing commercials and what not...go head...too bad BET couldn't do that for her.

I agree. Eminem is a lyricist. He doesn't need to say Kristal or Ice or any of that. He has skillz to make millz (CT4, you remember that??? LOL). Now, his issues, I don't know what to say about those, lol, but I do like his music. That Stan song and video were on point!

Okay.

This always confuses me.

If something comes on 9:00 p.m. EST, what time is that Los Angeles time? Is it 9:00 my time too (i.e. it airs at the same time (9:00 p.m.) for everyone) or is that 6:00 (3 hours earlier) pacific standard time?

BET can not afford to become MTV for black people, if only because a lot of black folks watch MTV too! Am I the only one who has noticed that MTV has put a LOT more black music- not just rap, but r&b too- on their station? I can't turn to MTV without hearing that Alicia Keys song "Fallin" or Craig David "Fill Me In" or "Hit Em Upo Style" by Blu something. BET has got to shape up!

I'm sayin! Can we go a day without hearing about him pulling a gun on someone or about how he's divorcing his wife! THe media is going to drive that young man mad.

But seriously, his refusal to buy into any of the standard crappy hip-hop trappings (money, hos, kristal and ice) have really endeared him to me. I still think his cd is messed up, lol, but at least it's original!

Hip-hop has got to change. It's becoming what rock and roll used to be- a bloated, old art form with little creativity involved and all eyes on the dollar signs.

Why is this so soulful?