Chris Brown & Ciara

Nigel D.’s recap of the show is below, feel free to leave your comments on this year’s BET Awards.

Lil Wayne

Usher

Keyshia Cole & Lil Kim

NeYo

Young Jeezy & Kanye West Perform, “Put On”

Alicia Keys

T-Pain

Poppin:

Lets first take a look at what was poppin at this year’s BET Awards. Al Green had an amazing tribute with Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton, Maxwell(damn where they found him) singing some of his hits. Al had a short acceptance speech and proceeded to have the entire audience standing and singing along to, “Let’s Stay Together,” & “Love & Happiness.” It was good to see R&B bridge the gap and see everyone in the crowd know the lyrics of his hits. It goes to show classic music is timeless.

Speaking about bridging the gap, Alicia Keys brought some of the biggest R&B groups of the 90s with TLC, En Vogue & SWV making cameos. Each group sang one of their biggest hits along with Alicia Keys. Great idea and performance even though T-Boz did sound off. Damn Alicia Key’s hips were calling me…

Chris Brown is know for killing award show performances, unfortunately he started with the boring, “With You.” But he switched it up and brought a sexy Ciara to perform, “Take You Down.” The water falls making shapes an spelling names was crazy. The crotch shot of Chris Brown, WAS NOT NEEDED! Damn Ciara I will take you down anytime baby. The dance moves between Chris Brown & Ciara were the best of the night.

Usher had the special effect heavy intro for the show with, “Love In This Club.” He gave the Usher performance you are use to over the last few years. The dancing and setup was on point. People may knock him for not actually singing, but it is what it is.

Ne-Yo did his damn thing an kinda re-enacted the video for, “Closer.” The man is a true performer, he can do his dance moves without being out of breath. He made things interesting by working the stage, the audience and even brining out the Jabbawockeez.

Nelly’s performance with Ciara & J.D. was lively with Nelly & J.D. starting from the crowd and people in the background playing basketball. Ciara’s thighs got my attention as soon as they hit the screen. Nelly then brought out Fergie for,”Party People,” which was ok even know the song isn’t that poppin.

Floppin:

The most hyped and anticipated performance of the night was Mr. A Milli, Lil Wayne. He was joined by T-Pain who was rocking a T-Wayne shirt. Lil Wayne decides to start things off with, “Got Money,” instead of the obvious, “Lollipop.” Audience wasn’t too live during, “Got Money,” but got hype for, “Lollipop.” But the audience died down after a while and Lil Wayne was out of breath. But He managed to kill, “A Milli,” which drove everyone crazy. I was expecting more since he was the closing act and most anticipated performance.

Rihanna was signing on point, but, “Take A Bow,” just got boring after a while. She should of switched up the song after a verse.

Young Jeezy brought out Kanye West to perform his new single, “Put On.” Jeezy was pretty boring during his verse with a pretty straightforward performance. Maybe he should of had some cats on stage with him to get things hype. Kanye West comes out and first messes up, then proceeds to perform with an annoying auto-tune effect for his entire performance. This was definitely a disappointment from Jeezy Hamilton & Kanye.

Keyshia Cole came out looking on point. Not sure why she started on some platform but she did her thing. For some reason they decided to do, “Let It Go,” and Keyshia looked awkward trying to bust out some dance moves and ended up out of breath. Lil Kim lil thick ass came out but things still were off.

T-Pain has a creative circus setup for his performance. He then brought out Flo-Rida for, “Get Low,” and Rick Ross(where your under shirt) for, “Boss.” Then DJ Khaled, Big Boi & Ludacris for the, “I’m So Hood,” remix. Pretty much a bunch of songs everyone is tired of.

 

Best Video: UGK – International Player’s Anthem
Best Male Hip Hop – Kanye West
Best Female Hip Hop – Missy Elliot
Best Male R&B – Chris Brown
Best Female R&B – Alicia Keys
Best New Artist -The Dream
Best Group – UGK
Best Collabo – Kanye West & T-Pain – Good Life

Tags: Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Ciara, Kanye West, Keyshia Cole, Lil Kim, Lil Wayne, Nelly, Rihanna, T Pain, Usher, Young Jeezy

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