Check out the Arrivals, backstage, and performance photos from the 2nd Annual BET Hip-Hop Awards. Since there is so much photography, I wanted to make sure to shout out each photographer here: Frank Mullen, Arnold Turner, and Ben Rose. Make sure to catch the award show when it airs on October 17th.


Hey I have that t-shirt that Ashanti’s wearing!
Everyone looks nice!
Nelly know what he doing those the ones you after
Today was the wrong day for Ciara’s hairdresser to be off!! Yikes.. she could have borrowed a wig or something..
Keyshia leave the bleach alone before you bald as potato.. ask Mary about those years of bleach!!
Ashanti..ease up on the brow pencil..k?
I love Ciara’s hair! I wonder where 50 cent is at since the couple is always kickin it in Atlanta.
Ashanti looks ghetto as hell
TRINA is absolutely georgeous and im feeling that Barack the Vote tshirt that hill harper has on
and Kanye pant looks suspect
J.D. looks like a gangster fourth grader again!
ciara does NOT need to wear her hair like that…other than that..everyone looks nice..i guess ashanti thought she was bein “hip hop” with that outfit
Ciara Looks Bald….But i like what she wearin, Somethin about Ashanti…….
Ok.. page 2.. WTF @Mr and Mrs Bootsy Collins!! They look worse than Ashford and Simpson and I didn’t think that was possible!!
Tocarra, PLEASE stop trying to squeezing those 40ZZZ and your big ass into size 10!! You are not fabulous or model material.. just big as hell!!
Lil Mama, Keri Hilson( still waiting for explanation on her hype) and Polo.. Geez!! Get a stylist.. STAT!!
Yo-Yo dressed like she just came from a bake sale or soccer game
MC LYTE LOOKS THE BEST OUT OF ALL THESE CLOWNS!!
I love Ashanti’s shirt. Girls do you know where I can get one? I’m happy Common won an award.”Good” for him.
Ashanti and Nelly look alike! Tocarra looks tacky (sorry),
JD standing next to Ciara is not good,lol makes his looks shorter than he probably is. I don’t like Ciara’s hair, the color is close to her skin and makes her look bald.
Mike Jones looks corny as hell!
Can’t wait to see Lil Wayne and Common’s performances. I see MF getting around to all the stars…lol. Line up that next video, gyrl!
MY BABY LAUREN LONDON!!!
everybody looks good jermain dupri still looks like a kid
cassidy still looks good
ashanti and nelly are a hot couple
polow da don and keri hilson look hot
big boi and cee-lo are lookin flyy
lil mama???? i didnt know she was still alive when is she gonna have a second single!
Lord knows, I LOVE Ciara, But that hair-do……… iz not wutssup.
eww why was it at the Civic Center?!
I just wanna know who told Keyshia Cole to wear that color hair! It does absolutely nothing for her! Damn! These people need to learn the proper colors to suit their skin tones. She was stuck on the burnt orange, not the platinum…..um, boo, that ain’t working! Try again!
# 1 where’d u get that shirt Ashanti got I think it’s soo cute!?! I think Ashanti looks cute I I love seein some of these women like Ashanti & Beyonce wearin t-shirts & jeans instead of bein all glamed up lookin uncomfortable all the time!
Beyonce had on and outfit similar to Trina’s at the MTV awards a while back. It was like a glitter inspired outfit sort of like that, i think. Speaking of her, Trina looks a bit like Micheal J. in that photo.
Polow & Keri look Tight….
I actually like ciara’s hair like that I just think she needs to go back to the color black it’s just more natural. SHe looks beautiful though.
Im lovin Ciara’s fit, not to sure about the hair. Im sorry but that color is to close to her skin color for her to rock it straight back. Altho Im probably the only one that liked her reddish blonde color when she first came out, I think she needs to improve this version. Maybe add some black low lights or just darken it all together.
Nelly has officially rubbed off on Ashanti! LOL
So many pics so little time to comment on them all. Our people you got to love them!
I’m not feeling Ciara’s hair like that. She almost looks bald. Maybe it’s just the angle… I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt.
Why Trina look like the “light skinned friend lthat ook like Michael Jackson…”?????????????????????????????????
Ciara looks cute
Ashanti and Nelly are a cute couple…i love her shirt she looks normal
Ashanti looks so cute!
*correction* “the light skinned friend that look like Michael Jackson…..”
I like ciara’s hair although it’s kinda different and her outfit!!
#27..Your hair is fab!!
I think Lauren London is so pretty…..
Yo Yo, your whole look is a No No! (sorry i couldn’t resist that pun! )lol
Ciara, looks nice even if she looks like a boy named Butch.
Jermaine Dupri looks like a midget, Cee-Lo, looks like a friget ( fat-midget )
Common, is the only Rapper with Common sense.
Is that Buster Rhymes or Biz Markie.????
Why is Ciara constantly trying to look feminine at big events??? I know she is a woman, but she looks like a damn drag queen and the whole look is off….NEXT!
I like Ashanti’s tee. I’m So Gangsta….
I’m loving that pic of Ne-Yo n Alicia Keys. He’s cute as hell
Ashanti n Nelly are so cute together
Ciara looks a mess she looks like a bald headed turtle
Melyssa Ford is so irrelevant y does she even show up at these events. She aint nobody but a video skeezer
Everybody else looks nice tho
Go CiCi, she’s cute.
I love seeing Ashanti and Nelly together, I hope they keep it together.
JD is so short
Luda is my baby fo Life. Damn, baby is all that.
Some of my other black folks are lookin good and some I just can’t find the words. Ughhh.
Ne-Yo and Melyssa look like they’re melted together.
Ashanti and Nelly make such a nice, cute, compatible couple to me! (From what I can tell from the outside looking in.)
It’s too bad that Tiny had to get arrested. Any respectable man would keep himself clean so that any loved ones won’t be involved in his mess!
LOVIN’ me some Lil Wayne!
Busta looks like he would break the bed on that azz! lol
I didn’t even recognized Ciara. I had to move my mouse over the pic to see the name.
J.D. look like he’s about 3 foot 3.
ciara looks different with her hair like that, but i like that she’s not rocking a weave for once, probably if her hair was a little darker, it wouldn’t look as off.
Every1 looks decent except Bootsie nd his wife!
NELLY AND ASHANTI LOOK CUTE
LAUREN LONDON IS PRETTY
LIL MAMA LOOKS OLDER THAN 17 18
TRINA HAS A NICE SHAPE,
MC Lyte looks fab, her hair is cute and she doesn’t look like she aged at all—-no as for Yo-Yo, I barely recognized her. She know she’s wrong for those open-toed witchy poo shoes.
Chingy must be down to his last dime b/c he looks broke down, He needs to ask Luda for an immediate advance. Busta got huge!! He looks like he swallowed 18 bookbags. I’m no Nelly fan, but he looks nice, even with the Mr. T chain.
I see Big Boi and Cee-lo have the same styliist. I just want to do the “twist” on Cee-lo’s checker jacket. I wonder if Mims is shorter than Bobby Valentino? Who is Hurricane Chris and did he miss the memo that beads went out of style in 1991?
I love Kat Williams!! I don’t know why I find that small man sexy, but I know he”s super hilarious. I’m gonna have to watch him on the Boondocks as “A Pimp Named Slickback”:
My Girl Lauren London aka[[ New New]] Is Looking To Damn Fresh She Go….She Is So Pretty…..
Ciara Need To Step Her Game Up Da Fullest Because That Hair Aint Workin She Look Like A Like A Man…..
I Have To Say Lil Mama Looks Pretty For Once…
Cant Wait To See My Baby Lil Wayne Perform He Is So Sexy
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Lil Mama head looks 30 but her body looks 13.
Yoyo this is 2007 girl stop playing.
Rich Boy, Yung Joc, Hurricane Chris, Mims, Palow Da Don, Mike Jones (who) Mike Jones…..none of these fools will be invited back next year….IMO.
Bootsie Collins and wife……send in the clowns.
ashanti and nelly looked too cute. i like it. despite the fact its an award show she still looked cute
JAZZE PHA LOOKS LIKE A BIG BUTTERBALL
Everyone looks really nice. Ashanti played the laid back look which i loves. Tocarra to me, looks fab. Why everybody hatin on her cuz she lost all that weight? her hair could go.. but her outfit, face, and body is a1….. And Keri Hilson looks BEAUTIFUL as always….. she’s MODEL MATERIAL..
I absolutely LOVE Tocarra! She lost that weight and looks really good. Her shoes look like elf shoes though.
I’d never seen J.D’s daughter. She a cute little girl.
Gipp looks little. I thought he was bigger/taller than that.
Polow Da Don is a handsome fella, even with those gigantic glasses on.
Who the HELL styled YoYo for this event? And why did she let them?
I’m done commenting y’all. I didn’t see the 2nd page of pics when I sent my first message.
I have dat Ashanti t-shit !!!!
Lil’mama looks MUCH better then she did at the MTV awards
I HATE Ciara’s contraption that she calls a dress
ciara look ugly as hell i dont who told her that was cute cause its not
trina look so pretty i think i seen bee wear a dress like that
i cant wait to watch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I swear lil momma looks about 40 years old….is it just me..please tell me no?!
And I agree with the post about toccara how the hell did she squeeze those thangs in that dress. As a woman with boobs she knows better *smh* I think everyone looks tacky besides Ci-Ci, Trina, and Melissa. Why does Lauren look like she dont want to be there?
Thank You.
lauren london is pretty =]
Ciara and Jermaine is just havn a gud ol time n one of them pictures, whateva tha hell it was it must of been hella funny, cus she hit me wit one of the ashanti laughs with the mouth wide open and al.
I have that shirt Ashanti’s wearing too
#21 I hsve the same shirt as I stated earlier and I got mine from a store called Dahlia’s
Lauren London (*sighs*) I’M IN LOVE