Here we have "BET Hip-Hop Awards" edition from the year 2006, so this one will have its 15th anniversary next year and actually this was the very first edition of said awards show that is still going strong today. It ran for slightly under 1.5 hours (without commercials) and the director was the eternal Glenn Weiss, who apparently also back then already directed every awards show on the planet. He had only two Emmys back then, now he has way over ten. The writer is Jesse Collins and he returned regularly for this event. Let me start with the basics. One reason for my really low rating is that it did not feel too much of an awards show, so they somewhat missed the subject. It's okay if they want to include a lot of music, but at no cost it should be included instead of the aards winners (and nominees) gettting their fair share of screen time. This is the case here. Some winners are just quickly rushed in before the commercial breaks to make room for more performers on stage. I cannot approve at all. It totally goes against the concept of awards shows and for me it is a negative dealbreaker. It should be for everybody really, so boo on whoever came up with the specific concept what this show should look like. Another think I do not approve of here is the mention of BET in the title. Not because they are mentioned, but because of what they stand for, what the abbreviation means. It's never a good thing to focus an awards show (if I can call it that) on a specific group of people or ethnicity, people of a certain color, and that is just nothing to be proud of at all. I mean it feels as if there was not a single White person in the room. Or Asians, probably not too many Hispanics either. Tolerance should be for everybody.
Now as for the specific show, it was roughly what I expected. Of course, this is much older than a decade now, so there are many artists in here who are not really known anymore, if they still make music at all. Nonetheless, they are also quite a few that are still famous nowadays in 2020. Grandmaster Flash, Jay-Z. Diddy... just to name a few and the letter already went thtough all kinds of name changes back then it seems. The one star that night, however, was Flavor Flav apparently, even if he did not win big in terms of awards. But everybody seemed to love him and mention him and he kept standing up and enjoying the attention in his very unique outfit, even for the scene he was/is a part of. Okay, I will not mention the names of all the people you could see in front of the camera here as there is a cast list to this non-movie title as well here on imdb, so you can check them out there. Besides, I felt as if there was not too much of a difference in terms of their craft and approach to the music genre they represent for most of the artist and it felt rare that somebody truly stood out. The host as Katt Williams and I gotta say I am not familiar with him either I think. I see though he won an Emmy not too long ago and he is not a musician apparently, but 100% actor, maybe comedian too. I must say his hosting did not really impress me too much. Then again, it wasn't too easy for him either because a host can only be as good as the material given to him and he felt overshadowed a lot of the time here. By elements and people who themselves were not greatly interesting. Okay, maybe I am a bit harsh on this show overall because hip-hop has never been my favorite genre, but it's not as if I hate it either. This event did not sparkle my interest, so in order to appreciate it you must be a huge fan before wwatching already I suppose. As for the awards idea and percpetion, the exact presentation of the awards also felt fairly shoddy with how the nominees were mentioned etc. So all in all, in my opinion this is an awards show that wasn't really necessary and I truly hope they managed to improve things over the course of the last years as, like I already stated, this event still exists today. Perhaps the reason why it turned out this way is because hip-hop musicians mostly care for all kinds of other stuff (yep, there is also an embarrassing mention of what they are smoking and an even more embarrassing round of applause for this statement) and not necessarily recognition from their peers. At least this is what Busta Rhymes was really trying to tell everybody. Perhaps the biggest badass in the room. here has he gone by the way? Haven't heard anything about him in a long time. Anyway, big thumbs-down from me for this show. Highly not recommended.
Now as for the specific show, it was roughly what I expected. Of course, this is much older than a decade now, so there are many artists in here who are not really known anymore, if they still make music at all. Nonetheless, they are also quite a few that are still famous nowadays in 2020. Grandmaster Flash, Jay-Z. Diddy... just to name a few and the letter already went thtough all kinds of name changes back then it seems. The one star that night, however, was Flavor Flav apparently, even if he did not win big in terms of awards. But everybody seemed to love him and mention him and he kept standing up and enjoying the attention in his very unique outfit, even for the scene he was/is a part of. Okay, I will not mention the names of all the people you could see in front of the camera here as there is a cast list to this non-movie title as well here on imdb, so you can check them out there. Besides, I felt as if there was not too much of a difference in terms of their craft and approach to the music genre they represent for most of the artist and it felt rare that somebody truly stood out. The host as Katt Williams and I gotta say I am not familiar with him either I think. I see though he won an Emmy not too long ago and he is not a musician apparently, but 100% actor, maybe comedian too. I must say his hosting did not really impress me too much. Then again, it wasn't too easy for him either because a host can only be as good as the material given to him and he felt overshadowed a lot of the time here. By elements and people who themselves were not greatly interesting. Okay, maybe I am a bit harsh on this show overall because hip-hop has never been my favorite genre, but it's not as if I hate it either. This event did not sparkle my interest, so in order to appreciate it you must be a huge fan before wwatching already I suppose. As for the awards idea and percpetion, the exact presentation of the awards also felt fairly shoddy with how the nominees were mentioned etc. So all in all, in my opinion this is an awards show that wasn't really necessary and I truly hope they managed to improve things over the course of the last years as, like I already stated, this event still exists today. Perhaps the reason why it turned out this way is because hip-hop musicians mostly care for all kinds of other stuff (yep, there is also an embarrassing mention of what they are smoking and an even more embarrassing round of applause for this statement) and not necessarily recognition from their peers. At least this is what Busta Rhymes was really trying to tell everybody. Perhaps the biggest badass in the room. here has he gone by the way? Haven't heard anything about him in a long time. Anyway, big thumbs-down from me for this show. Highly not recommended.