I don't really support BET due to their recent actions, but the BET Hip Hop awards kind of suprised me. First of all, BET and Katt Williams had a falling out, so T-Pain ended up hosting it (I almost tuned out at that point). I continued to watch it anyway. The highlight of the night was probably Russel Simmons getting the "I am Hip Hop" award. His speech was moving and talked about voting, McCain/Palin, and the VMA. They had to censor a lot of his VMA topic 'cause he said, "Nothing really got much of my attention except T.I.'s shirt (an Obama shirt). Well, that and that guy (Russell Brandt, they censored Simmons when he said Brandt's name) talking 'bout Palin." Every artist there had a McCain/Palin diss. A few of them:
Lil Wayne: "Doesn't McCain's heart look like it's about to fail him?"
Juelz Santana: "When I ask them questions they play Sarah Palin."
Russel Simmons: read first paragraph
They censored the VMA stuff, but they didn't censor McCain/Palin disses? That's very brave and I commend them for standing up. Every 5 minutes they reminded you to vote. That was a brave presentation, because:
1. McCain might try to play the victim
2. We all know Fox news (I use the term "news" very loosely) will be all over this. Before the awards even aired, they made one of their racial/biased lies and said that T.I. got arrested and didn't make it that night when we all so clearly saw him perform that night.
anyway, I think BET is finally on the road to recovery, and in a few monthss or maybe a year, we can once again call it Black Entertainment Television.