I swear, yall black folks act like BET the ones that promised yall the 40 acres and a mule....
Of course, I'm talking about yall's high expectations, BET's low-standard deliverance, and nigga's subsequent disappointment with The 2009 BET Awards...
I, myself, spent the whole night trashing and smashing those who should have known better and glorifying those that were praise-worthy via Twitter and Facebook, so I was there with yall and I experienced the highs and lows of the Hoodrat Grammy's as well. Now my first reaction was filled with resounding chagrin and distress because of course I felt, just as everyone else did, that the show should have been more about The King of Pop Michael Jackson. But I let things marinate for a while, I read the absolutely hate-filled things that others had to say, and thought about how I really felt in regards to the BET Awards and I came up with some responses that Imma give to yall in a couple different parts....
Part 1: Historically Speaking....
Lets put aside our tear-stained Bedazzled white gloves and tight leather pants for a minute, forget that MJ left us and just concnetrate on the main issue at hand. The BET Awards has NEVER been great from beginning to end. Since its conception, each year the ratio of good moments to bad moments has ebbed and swelled depending on a number of different things from the actor/comedian/performer BET would get to host, to the people they had lined up to perform. Every year there are things we like about it and things we don't, and it goes without saying that this year was no different.
Part 2: Time Management
Yall know Michael died on a Thursday right?? Thursday evening is when we found out, to be exact. So that left Friday & Saturday for BET to pull an epic tribute out of there asses for The King of Pop and yall expected it to be mind-blowing?!?!? Lets look at this logically; first and foremost, when have yall EVER heard of black folks being productive on a Friday?!?!? Not never, thats when, so don't yall start trippin now. They prolly made hella phone calls on Saturday morning tryna orchestrate something decent for yall, but of course nothing is ever good enough for the likes of us.
Part 3: Who yall supposed to be, the queen of England or something?!?
Now I know they coulda done better than 3 songs and a bunch of niggas runnin around with 1 glove and some high-waters on, but all this outta line shit yall were expecting was ridiculous!!! "... I heard Chris Brown and Ciara was gon dance together." "... Beyonce gon sing some songs" "... I heard Usher gon be there" GTFOH!!! They had 2 days to pull together what they did.. 2 DAYS!! Yall lucky they got Bobby Brown's crazy ass and the rest of New Edition off the streets long enough to perform, but NOOOOOO yall want BET to COMPLETELY re-arrange a show they been workin on since LAST YEAR in a matter of 48 hours... Chris Brown is a felon now, so he can't go to far without the legal system jockin his every move. And yall know Usher is divorcing his man-wife Tameka Foster, but they just supposed to drop all that shit and break their backs for some last minute shit that yall niggas was prolly gon spit at no matter what?!? Yall so trifling....
Part 3: Its called optimism people...
Nobody ever stopped to think that maybe BET'nem was gon give yall a little taste of something at the Awards show and put together a nice little special when they get some more time?? They might get the rest of the Jacksons together and do something big later on but yall not even gon try to give BET the chance to be great and I'm hurt... They know better than we do that MJ is a superstar who deserves huge things and I'm sure that they're hurting just as bad as we are that they couldn't do more for MJ within the alloted time, but for some reason I have hope that they're planning big things for our Tragic Mulatto poster-boy and I need yall to have faith too..
... Now yall can call me a hypocrite if you want cuz I know I hated on they asses just as much, if not more, than almost everybody else, but I got to feelin bad cuz I looked at things differently. Nobody from BET, not an executive or a secretary or that nigga from the mail-room, came on tv and promised us anything in the way of a spectacular tribute to MJ, but thats what we came to expect, and it was unfair. Thats like going to a family reunion and expecting your 90 year old great aunt Pearl to still be makin her famous apple pies.
And let me tell yall something else, right here and now, if MTV comes with a wonderful tribute performance to MJ, then take it for what it is. Don't yall get to comparing what BET did to what MTV will do in the future cuz them muthafuckas got months to prepare what they're gonna do, where as BET had days. I feel a big ass plate of Benedict Auja comin soon, a.k.a me turnin my back on black people, and not for the hate that yall was servin BET, but for the ass-kissin that yall gon hand out to MTV when their time for homage comes around. My heart is heavy and my head hangs in shame...
