BET Awards ‘09 Live Blog & Recap!

Alright, ya’ll know the deal. Tha Feedback is relishing that award show season is starting back up, and first up to bat was the BET Awards ‘09. We liveblogged for your pleasure on Twitter and of course for the blog, so it’s about that time.

As the show ran for about 3.5+ hours, you can imagine how long this is after the jump. But trust me, if you missed it, just read this recap and you will be A-ok.

Overall, it was an evening of foolishness and misplaced “tributes”. BET tried their best, but still, it was not very cohesive. Best moments went to Maxwell, Tyrese, the O’Jays and “dancing and shit”, and that’s about it in my book.

Hit the jump!

BET Awards ‘09 Recap!

Sooo, New Edition is opening the show with a Jackson 5 tribute! Complete with outfits and everything. Ralph Tresvant and Ricky Bell are REALLY trying their best to hit them notes ROFL. They got the dance down but the vocals are another story.

LOOK AT BOBBY BROWN TRYING TO GET A SOLO DEAL FROM THIS ONE PERFORMANCE THOUGH!? He putting his work in. He can keep that tongue in his mouth though.

Who dresses Drake? Kanye’s stylist’s intern? LOL no originality.

Jamie got the red MJ jacket w/ sparkles, moves and everything. HIS PANTS…HIS PANTS. Can that nukka breathe? I don’t think he can because I can see his lungs in his thighs! He got the look down though…OMG…I can’t…he looks like a tall Emmanuel Lewis from back in the day when he was friends with MJ.

Who cut Jamie’s hair though!? Does that nukka got a bowl cut!? LOLOLOL how everything else on point but he rocking that jacked up fade?

The BET censors are trying desperately to keep up…are they not doing a 3 sec. delay for this show? His monologue is slightly a bit underwhelming as he is just reminiscing but OMG he just told them to zoom in on his crotch. Jamie ROFL…

He is moonwalking all the way across the stage and he almost bit it…now THAT would have been worth the 10 minute dialogue/remembrance we had to sit through LOL.

Tyra Banks up to bat, looking like a extra fine schoolteacher…hello. They got a LONG walk to the other side of the stage…

Best Athlete – LeBron James. Umm, they coulda did this during the pre-show, wamp! Save time, move on. LOL.

Oh they are skipping all the nominees ROFL, going straight to the awards! I ain’t mad!

Best Male Hip-Hop – Lil’ Wayne. Why does Baby have on that ole Swap Meet Special flannel looking button up looking like he’s going/coming to a cookout? LOL Wayne roasting ribs from the sun bouncing off all that bling?

Did ya’ll see Ving Rhames in the audience with his best Uncle Domino outfit? You know, he’s the drunk uncle that always walks around yelling “DOMINO!” even though it’s 3-legged race time? ROFL.

And Ginuwine was rocking his best Easter suit/baby hair combo. I wanted to see him do his easter speech!

I love Keri, I do. But her performance is gonna be a run through of all her failed singles? I hope not LOL. She looked like Rihanna when the lights were off on the stage with that hair…and ain’t that Ciara’s motorcycle from the “Go Girl” video ?

OK Keri Hilson also was rocking the stylist tribute to MJ with her white socks and sparkly v-neck…but she shoulda sat down with that “impromptu” crowd participation sounded a HOT MESS. LOL she should have quit when the going was GONE.

Ne-Yo is singing an MJ song, but all I can do is pay attention to the glow from his Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome bald head. “Lady In My Life” is a great MJ song, but I just can’t stand Ne-Yo singing anything for the most part. He’s on key though, and after that Keri out-of-breath performance, I am not mad. I just can’t believe he didn’t sing any of his own MJ biting singles – they are all tributes to Michael’s greatness HAHA!

Matter of fact, that’s pretty much EVERYONE LOL. ALL of their songs are tributes to MJ.

KeKe Palmer is such a FLY young lady! I wish her much success! Her lil impromptu performance was nice. Is Lil Mama gonna do another eye-piercing solo version too on this show?

Jamie Foxx doing “Blame It” with his autotune LOL. I don’t really care about this though, or his all-white before Labor Day get up. He brought out to Snoop to basically be a backup dancer/entourage member as they worked in strains of “Drop It Like It’s Hot” – and then TRAVIS BARKER CAME OUT drumming and they did a rock remix of “Blame It” mixed in w/ David Bowie’s “Fame” but said “Blame”!! That was hot! Random, but hot. Jamie’s band killed that.

Umm…no more awards? LOL! It’s been straight performances…just noticed that.

Jamie’s calvacade of jackets is KILLING me.

Is BET taping this for a special or something? Why they switch to hi-def for Soulja Boy’s performance? He got all extra HD all of a sudden. He is performing “Turn My Swag On” and everyone in the audience is acting like this is their favorite song – SING THE VERSES THEN IF YOU LIKE IT SO MUCH! His performance was painful, but I see why they gave him a slot.

Chaka, Estelle and LeToya presenting for best collaboration – I love Chaka but she is stuffed in that getup like a can of biscuits bout to blow on the Billboard charts! Estelle’s new haircut is cute, and LeToya can always get it!

Best collaboration – Jamie Foxx & T-Pain for “Blame It”. That was a great collabo, but since they aren’t showing the nominees….I don’t know who he was up against LOL!

Best Make R&B by the same ladies above (they ran back out on stage to do present this one too randomly ROFL) – Ne-Yo won that.

T-Pain shouted out Sophia Fresh – wamp. They should have been presenting trophies or at least holding up the “applause” sign LOL. No one cares really now T-Pain.

Ne-Yo kissed that chick sitting next to him…awww. PDA is ALWAYS a great way to kill the rumors…right? *beard kiss* LOL ok I am kidding.

They keep doing these small tribute bumpers before commercials and Ginuwine went first, now Trey Songz – Trey look like the Ghost of International Male Catalog Present with his get up.

TIME FOR DA CREOLE MAGIC TO BEGIN. Beyonce’ is up.

Just because MJ is dead doesn’t make your awful cover of “Ave Maria” any better OR OK to perform! SHAKE YOUR DERRIERE BEYONCE! And why is she wearing her nightclothes? I mean, that looks like a fancy swimsuit/lingerie meets sexy time dress up trenchcoat meets nightgown. I can’t.

SHE CHANGED. She now looks like she is auditioning for Peter Pan. A Creole Tinkerbell – wait till ya’ll see that mess HAHAHA.

Aww, I love Sarah Mclachlan’s “Arms of an Angel” – though I can’t hear it without thinking of that sad pet commercial. Beyonce’ has switched BACK to “Ave Maria” complete with befuddling ballerina moves and her inane attempt at Italian (I think). Aretha is the only one I’ve yet to see successfully complete that transition between classical and R&B. See “Nessun Dorma” and the Oscars on Youtube. I think the world collectively was like “WTF” at Beyonce’s performance though. It was just…wamp. Confusing and not what ANYONE was expecting.

Jamie Foxx is doing a “trailer” for something that looks like a Madea spinoff…not sure what is going on though. IS THIS SHENANAY!? I KNEW IT! ROFL!! Something told in my spirit 2 seconds into it that it was her. OMG Shenehneh and Wanda AKA Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx in a spoof trailer for a movie called “Skank Robbers” ROFL omg. Please God, that’d be so funny.

Time for some Jesus – Mary Mary. WOW the one with the red hair (Tina I think) gained a bunch of weight. And the vocals they are doing aren’t very good, I hate to say it. I expected more. OMG they brought out Queen Latifah…rapping BTW. LOL. LOL this is a Gospel verse, wow…. That was random, but Queen look better than them. She rocked it. But that performance – no one got the Holy Ghost or got saved tonight cause that was kinda wamp. She is probably pregnant though, cause ole girl stay pregnant.

OK I love Zoe Saldana. Seriously. And I love Nichelle Nichols. So this is ROCKING my geek world RIGHT NOW. They are presenting Best Female Actress.

Best Female Actress – Taraji P. Henson. YES! She wearing that dress…though that hair is looking kinda like a helmet & a mullet had a baby.

Best New Artist – Keri Hilson! Is she the best? I really don’t like that hair of hers but Keri is fine as all outdoors! That fashion macramé dress she got on has me giving her the side-eye though!

Ne-Yo & Jamie Foxx performing the “She Got Her Own” joint – I don’t care. OMG is this chick all up on Ne-Yo in a tuu-tuu doing a praise dancer to this song!? I can’t. She had the spirit fingers and everything. And then Ne-Yo and Jamie start competing vocally – this quickly became the BET version of Vh1’s “Divas” show LOL. Let me stop. That was underwhelming.

Keith Sweat just came out – WHY? ROFL. SHOW THEM HOW IT’S DONE KEEF! He was the original non-singing nikka!

OMG they just brought out Guy!! GUY!! I don’t know if that’s Aaron or Damian looking/sounding like Seal but WOW.

Now they brought out BBD – wow all these New Edition and it’s spin-off gonna get to have a FANCY dinner tonight! Everyone working ROFL LOL. FOOD IN THE HOUSEHOLD.

Everyone in that lineup needed some throat coat, vocal rest for a week and a session in the humidifier before trying this again though…wamp.

OK so this was basically Ne-Yo’s attempt at what Alicia did last year w/ all the old female groups – FAIL. All we needed was Jodeci and H-Town…but we’d have to have a time machine for that. Hell we needed it for Aaron Hall, sounding like warmed over Eddie Ruffin leftovers! FAIL.

The Housewives of ATL and Ray J introducing Ciara singing “Heal the World” – I CAN’T! She looks like a hotel busboy and sounds like a chihuahua. If she cared enough for the living she’d spare my ears and go present some trophies!

Mike Epps and Paula Patton presenting Monica & Keyshia Cole – Paula Patton is SO FINE.

Keyshia & Monica performing “Trust” – 30 seconds in and she already FLAT. LOL Keyshia gets no love. Monica is going to mop the floor with her on her OWN SONG. Keyshia…I can’t. No Keyshia didn’t say “SING IT MO!” YEAH KEYSH, she is. BETTER THAN YOU. And it’s your song. LOL wamp to the wamp. Monica just gave a master class too. Keyshia needs another season of “Just Like You” and vocal lessons with Betty Wright and her magic drumsticks to get them vocals right, I swear. The only key KEYshia (how ironic) knows is the key of A-mess!

All this DEAD AIR – so unprofessional! You never see this mess on the American Music Awards ROFL.

Marlon Wayans & Jeremy Piven presenting Best Female R&B Artist. Wayans Family are the Jackson’s of movies, almost. Not quite! LOL

Best Female R&B Artist – Beyonce’. Surprised much? LOL, but how they run the list of nominees for this category but none of the other ones. I bet you Beyonce’ was like “run my credits hoes I need this tricks to see me coming when I beat them!” ROFL

Jay-Z performing “D.O.A.” and they went back to the HD cam for his performance like they did for Soulja Boy. Jay-Z got a haircut too LOL. He has a live band that is killing but why did they letterbox the screen like Hype Williams just got on the camera? This song is not that epic I am sorry. It’s cool and all but I’m going for a bathroom break. This song really isn’t great. Even Diddy wasn’t dancing!! THAT’S HOW YOU KNOW IT SUCKS. He didn’t even bother to throw up the “CIROC!” face like he’d been doing all night.

Day26 presenting Don Cornelius doing the O’Jays presentation. They look like like ghetto hood prom dates for Danity Kane (RIP), I can’t. All out of shape and sweating from walking on stage!? Really!?

Look! It’s Chris Brown’s mentor Don Cornelius! Don Cornelius just said “props” ROFL, I can’t.

TEVIN CAMPBELL! TEVIN CAMPBELL! *faints* Now that he is wearing makeup and is grown…I see it. LOL Tyrese, Johnny Gill and Trey Songz doing this tribute to the O’Jays.

Trey Songz trying to “croon” “Backstabbers” by the O’Jays, nah, you got to go in on this homeboy! Like Johnny did – get into that ish! LOL Tyrese, who dragged him off the set of his next movie to come back to singing? He sounds good though. Johnny sound like he is channeling Anita Baker and Toni Braxton LOL. Trey SOngz hit a mad warble and reminded me why I don’t like his voice sometimes when they sung “Stairway to Heaven”. TYRESE IS SMASHING EVERYONE VOCALLY for this whole awards show. He’s killing it. What happened to TGT!? Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank would have MURKED that mess! Trey, good night goodbye and go be a Duke hairbox model!

Tyrese had the best male R&B vocal all night – wamp to everyone that said Ne-Yo killed that mess earlier.

OK Don Cornelius spoke slower than a nikka to pay child support on the 1^st. I can’t. Don Cornelius…by the time he finishes another Jackson is gonna pass…Joe Jackson better be careful, ain’t he in the audience?!

OK Eddie Levert just said “dancing and shit” ROFL the censor missed it! Yo, for real, best moment of the whole show. I just woke up. OMG I am gonna be saying that all week.

The O’Jays are killing it though, these nikkas moving better than the nikkas that was doing the tribute to them LOL. Keep it tight, keep it right LOL. “Money Money Money” FTW. They don’t make it like this no more…though we always end up saying stuff like that. I think one of the O’Jays, not Eddie, the other old one – he has a chain on his earring? I am so lost LOL.

The O’Jays is killing it!! Up there “dancing and sh*t!” HAHAHAHAHAHA

Another MJ story, this time by Johnny Gill saying that MJ told him one time when he was younger that MJ came up to him and said he liked what he was wearing. I’m sure Eddie Murphy tells you that every night too! LOL!! /sorry Johnny made it SO EASY THOUGH. I mean, for real?

The sound from this event has been TRAGIC. Seriously.

Long humanitarian stuff by Debra Lee honoring Wyclef and Alicia.

Taraji Henson is presenting BET Viewer’s Choice Award and Tyrese comes out and they do a “Baby Boy” skit…it’s time to go. But it was slightly funny.

BET Viewer’s Choice Award – T.I. & Rihanna for “Live Your Life” – oh the irony that neither one is there. LOL. Tiny accepts. No one cares.

More terrible “Baby Boy” reenactment and Ving Rhames actually cussed – and they missed it. LORD.

Video of the Year Award – Beyonce’ for “Single Ladies” – of course though, this video been everywhere! That’s a fair win.

If Jamie plug his tour one more time!!! And his shoutouts! Lord. This is getting to be too much now.

MAXWELL! Sang nukka! Did ya’ll hear him mess up his own song? Almost went to the bridge a couple of bars early LOL. He is killing it though. I love this song and the album is great. ROFL @ these feathers falling from the ceiling though. I think they are recycling Beyonce’s earlier tuu-tuu/angel ballerina outfit because WE IN A RECESSION! And they had a girl floating like they did in the video – I hope BET’s rigging is better than their sound has been…wamp!

Drake performing “Best I Ever Had”….*yawn* I am SO mad at his cardigan church girl sweater with the hearts. Seriously. And he is sitting, cause he hurt himself? This performance is so wack and it makes me not like this song anymore…nope. LOL @ them zooming in on Don Magic Juan during “Every Girl”. This is ridiculous. And they had all these little young girls on stage…R. Kelly fail. Cause Mack Maine already was suspect with that “Miley Cyrus holla @ me in a few years” line…wowwwwww.

WAIT Did Baby just come out and they performed “Always Strapped”!? Oh no I can’t! And since everyone sat down on them, they screamed out “PUT YOUR HAND IN THE AIR FOR MICHAEL JACKSON!” OK nooooooo, terrible.

This is so sad. SO SAD. SO many things wrong with that performance.

Janet Jackson just came out to do a tribute to her brother on behalf of her family. Now Jamie is singing “I’ll Be There” – yes, shoulda done this hours ago. UGHHHH NO NE-YO JUST CAME OUT! Why are they chasing Jamie with Ne-Yo! I mean, why does this ninja get like, 50-11 performance slots, Ne-Yo is not that great. I am sorry.

OMG I am so over this show. The lint under my toes has been more interesting than the last 2 hours of this show almost…and they added another hour for what!? Janet coming out? I mean, OK. Wow.

BET had us all thinking this was going to be a GREAT show, and it wasn’t. It wanted to be, but they wouldn’t let it be. And using MJ as an excuse to get more bodies in the chair was VERY WAMP WORTHY.

WAIT THAT WAS THE FINALE!? OK, wamp, I AM GONNA WRITE A LETTER!

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