RECAP!!! : BET Awards 2014

 The real place where black people meet.
 

 Every summer #blacktwitter gathers together over a Pizza Hut dinner box armed with their phones to participate in a nationwide roast session of our favorite celebrities. From the demolishment of Bow Wow’s (excuse me, Shad Moss -__-) name change during the pre-show to the nationwide curve by the Carter’s with a prerecorded performance to end the show. In between the luke warm performances, the show hosted by the semi-funny Chris Rock, managed to  fit in a moving tribute to the late Maya Angelou and Ruby Dee as well as a few other good surprises. Check out a few of my favs:

 

Chris Brown is BACK!!

 In exchange for a temporary hosting job for his ride or die Karrueche (well played Che’) ,BET dusted the jailhouse rust off of Chris Brown with a performance of his sleeper hit Loyal.  A tad bit winded, Breezy gave his diehard fans some reassurance that his highly anticipated return was soon among us.  Despite his dizzying plaid dress/shirt and a little body fluffiness, Chris managed to pump out a couple of dance moves while sounding pretty decent. Armed with a dance break and a Travis Barker drum solo, Breezy gave a pretty decent performance. The fact that Chris can break the law numerous of times and still manage to dance his way back into our hearts every year says a lot about his talent and how desperate we are to make him the Michael Jackson of our generation.  Depending  on Chris staying out of jail , his  highly anticipated album, X  is expected to his stores in August.

Light Skinned Overload

Yas!!

The only one left off this roster was Drake.  After a year of drama, the industry’s new asshole; August Alsina and Trey Songz appeared to have kissed and made up enough for Trey to come out and save August’s declining performance.  And just to moisten panties even more, Chris Brown came out to join the performance of I Love This Remix.  While August’s hit is annoyingly catchy at best, just seeing all three of this generation’s R&B saviors on one stage was great to look at. No, but really. My hormones couldn't take it.

Throwback!!!!

 

It's like watching your drunk uncle and his friends singing Freak Me Baby..kinda awkward.

 

Speaking of feeling some kind of way: The BET awards are known for being completely random with the performances, but when 90’s throwback groups , Troop, Color Me Bad and Silk took the stage,  a generation of people who were not old enough to know what the lyrics to  Freak Me Baby  really meant, let out a nationwide scream. While we were all excited to hear the music and probably too busy singing along to hear them, Silk sounded like they missed a few rehearsals. Not to mention, watching the age- stricken members of our  favorite groups from the baby making era bump and grind like it was 1998, made the audience feel some kind of way. And not a good kind of way. On top of that, the tribute was way too short and unfinished. Where was Boys II Men? Jodcei?, Tyreese?  The possibilities for that segment were endless. Great concept BET, but could have been executed a little better.

The "Curve" of the Year

Its much better in person.. trust me

No awards ceremony is complete without the Carter’s right? Considering that Beyonce and Jay Z only make an appearance at the BET Awards every 4 years or so, nobody should have been surprised that the two were not in attendance. Even though people knew that Queen Bey and King Jay were on tour. Even though people knew they were on the other side of the country. Even though people knew that that even with the fastest of jets planes, it would have been physically impossible for Bey and Jay to make it to LA from the east coast in time for the show.  BET still got people to watch the entire 3 hour show, with the possibility that the Carter’s would be there. And just as expected, BET aired the prerecorded performance of Partition from the Cincinnati, Ohio show the night before.  Despite the disappointment, even people who were in attendance at the concert the night prior sat and watched Bey shake her ass.  Bey and Jay  curved the world last night

 

 

BET rounded up the usual suspects ( John Legend, Ledisi, Yolanda Adams) to pay tribute to Lionel Richie for the Lifetime Achievement Award

 

Just when people thought BET had forgotten about the passing of our icons this year, the beautiful Phylicia Rashad gave a chillingly, inspiring tribute to the late Ruby Dee and Maya Angelou. The beautiful monologue was followed by a Bobby Womack tribute performance by Tyrese that BET didn’t feel was important enough to air more than 45 seconds of. -_-

 

Allegedly Tyrese bodied "If You're Lonely Now" by Bobby Womack but we will never find out because BET cut it off in mid high note -_-

 

Tay’s Best Dressed:

Paris Hilton- Michael Costello

 Let's ignore the "B" in BET  and appreciate the white hotness of this dress

Tay's Worst Dressed

Zendaya

 Even after dropping form the Aaliyah bio pic, young Zendaya still found the need to adorn herself in this “urban” inspired number especially for the BET awards. -__- . I don’t know, but I don’t even think Aaliyah could have pulled this off.