SPOTLIGHT: NEW BOYZ

YOU'RE A JERK has been banging out of the west coast speakers for awhile, but recently hit the mainstream with the support of the internet and 106& Park. Ben J and Legacy, New Boyz ,have the whole world jerkin'. Their youthful, fun, and uniqueness has everyone feeling their swagg. They've taken their hit song to another level with a hot performance during BET Awards live pre-show. Now, I hear "You're A Jerk" and see people jerkin' everywhere.

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APOLOGIES: DRAKE & TOYA

In a previous post, I stated that Lil' Wayne's performance at the BET Awards was inappropriate. Well, rapper Drake ( who also performed with Lil' Wayne)and Toya (mother of Lil' Wayne's daughter) released public apologies for the performance.

Part of Toya's Statement: "I Antonia ” Toya” Carter have been disturbed but silent about the recent performance that took place at the BET awards, which including my only child Reginae Carter and her friends joining her father Lil Wayne on stage while he performed his new single “Every Girl”...Once again, I do not of any degree think it was a wise decision and I truly do apologize to all that this may offended and most importantly the children that watched this performance. I feel we all have learned a lot from this situation and pray that the viewers will allow these children to move forward with their lives and not held accountable because they are innocent."

For Toya's full statement check out http://www.necolebitchie.com/.

Toya, Reginae, and Lil' Wayne

Drake offered his apologies through an interview with www.complex.com. "Yeah, it was just timed very poorly and it definitely wasn’t planned like that, but with that being said, it is what is. I believe in Wayne and myself and it’s nothing we can’t bounce back from. To anyone who was offended, my personal apologies, it wasn’t intended to offend anybody.

Drake

I'm waiting for Lil' Wayne to apologize. He's messing up left and right.

BET AWARDS: GOOD & BAD

Over 13 million tuned into the first big award show since the death of Michael Jackson, and it had to be the BET Awards. Here's the GOOD & BAD of the night.

New Edition including Bobby Brown opened the show. Vocally horrible, but they had the moves.


Jamie Foxx started off great with the recreation of MJ's Bad video, but he opened his mouth...profanity and bad jokes. I give him credit because everything was rearranged for MJ's tribute, but he was a lot better at the VMA's years back.


The O'Jay's Tribute was awesome except for Trey Songz's vocals and Don Cornelius long-windedness. Tevin Campbell looked GREAT and sounded GREAT!

The Guys of New Jack Swing... GUY, Keith Sweat and BBD. They did GOOD.

Beyonce did too much while trying to be simple. I was distracted and bored by the performance. Her hubby, Jay-Z, held it down for the rappers.


The title of worst performace of the night goes toooooooo Lil'Wayne. Did BET tell him this was televised? Too much profanity. While explaining to us about Loving Every Girl in the World, he brings out 4 underage girls, OMG GURLZ, which is his daughter's group. It was inappropriate and a horrible way to introduce them to the world. They were just there dancing to an adult song.


The BEST performance goes to NE-YO's tribute performance. Vocally he was on point.

Taraji P. Henson & Tyrese did Baby Boy skit. Hiliariouly Great, until Ving Rhames got on stage. Something was in the kool aid

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