[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Three_Love


I thought my eyes were deceiving me when I saw Roberta Flack at that piano... I was like, OH NO, they do NOT have the LEGENDARY Roberta Flack singing "A Woman's Worth"!! What in the heck is Roberta doing serenading a potential one-hit-album wonder like Alicia Keys??? Okay, "Fallin", and "A Woman's Worth" - I ain't gonna count "How Come You Don't Call Me", cuz THAT'S PRINCE'S HIT, NOT HERS (I ain't givin' Stephanie Mills credit for it either). Yeah, she got a stack of Grammys, but India.Arie deserved one or two of those awards anyway, so I ain't givin' her all that credit. AND SHE COULD HAVE AT LEAST SHOWN SOME RESPECT TO ESSENCE BY PUTTING ON A DRESS FOR THE OCCASION!!!

I thought the same thing, if not a dress then a jazzy snazzy business suit. I don't know when it became okay for folks to wear any old thing to an awards show.

INDIA.ARIE didn't deserve to be honored either. Video is cool, but shoot, if that were the case, JILL SCOTT WOULD HAVE RECEIVED THE AWARD when her album blew up. I'll put "He Loves Me" up against "Video" any day, for inspiration and such. Has Lauryn Hill ever received an Essence Award??? How are Alicia and India gon' get an award when Jill Scott ain't got one? Who's next...Ashanti? Trina?


I think it was DISRESPECTFUL TO JANET JACKSON, who has put in work for YEARS to be honored the same time as two chicks who haven't even come CLOSE to releasing their sophomore albums.

RIDICULOUS.

The "Stevie/Steve" duet was really cute, the highlight of the show to me.

Ditto to what CT4 said about Terry McMillan. Long overdue. And she still got her groove I see, that young husband of hers was sitting there beaming.

WHAT I WANT to know is why was Terry sitting so far back and all of the other honorees were on the front row?? I love Terry's dreads and I am not a dread lover.

Where was my man Eric Benet? Awww Halle, I want her to have a healthy relationship with no drama...what's going on???

I read/heard on a list that they are separated.

I promise when I get rich one day I am going to have my own awards that truly recognize class acts.