Host Jamie Foxx pays tribute to Michael Jackson to open the 2009 BET Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, June 28th in Los Angeles, California.
If you follow Concrete Loop on twitter, then you’ve seen our commentary on this show this year. It has some great moments, but overall is wasn’t up to par.
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every thing was wacked it could have been better when anonthy anderson and keke and that other boy came on i liked it but other than that i baely watched it
@239 Alicia has accomplished so much you act like she hasn’t won her awards and gain a lot of respect and yes I think getting a humanitarian award is more important than a regular BET award it is about caring!!!!!!
alright. let me be straight up and honest.
that sucked… that sucked major nuts.
i waited all freaking show to see chris brown. CHRIS BROWN, YES.
i waited till the end, watched all those shitty performances to NOT see chris brown!?!?
BULLSHIT.
that was horrible and a waste of my time!!
where the HELL was chris brown?
someone please answer me that.
Lol. Monica did great
@ Barbie (?) I agree Beyonce is the better singer, but Keri”’s performance was far more entertaining. Monica can singer better than both of them to me, but her performance didn’t move me that much either. Beyonce is a very good singer (great tone), but she’s nothing great to me. She’s no J.Hud or Christina Aguilera that’s for sure.
NEYO,MAXWELL,MONICA,ALICIA KEYS,BEYONCE,JAYZ,OJAYS AND QUEEN LATIFAH SAVED THE SHOW….THAT IS ALLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was so dissapointed in Bey’s Performance. It was not a tribute to Michael. It was simply another opportunity to be seen in a body suit. The short of it: She made it about her. If it is true that Jay-Z gave BET Awards Producers the ultimatum of he and his wife or Chris Brown, I would have rather seen Chris at this point.
@227 You had me until you said the Wayans Brothers should’ve hosted lol
@230…’Yes Jesus Loves Me in a tube top and thong’…….LOL…LOL…LOL…that was a good one and you made your point very well.
You guys are disrespectful MJ had passed it should be about him, somehow I feel like it’s about Beyonce people sitting here arguing back and forth about her it’s ridiculous! I feel all the fans care about and respect is Beyonce. Everybody was ok, to me Ne-yo was the best he represented MJ so well he did a decent tribute to him he should record “Lady In My Life” “PYT” he reminds me of him! I want to congratulate A.Keys she is well deserved and has a kind side to her you don’t see anymore!!!! MJ I love you, you are the ONE AND ONLY MJ no one can compare then or now!!!! What you did is far beyond what everybody is doing these artist today will never touch you!!!!!! These artist are on another level? You are wayyyy far beyond and better than ANY level!!! I luv u MJ The King Of Pop!!!
#239…I didn’t read your entire post. I stopped when you said something stupid like they received different awards so they would speak differently. …..Silence…..i’m taking a deep breath……WHATEVER AWARD YOU ACCEPT YOU SHOULD SPEAK LIKE YOU ARE COMPETENT. I can see you are right brained. And many ppl including myself spoke on Lil Wayne, CiCi, Keyshia, Neyo but YOU only see Bey. Look at how long your post is defending someone you don’t even know. It shows you are obsessed and goofy as hell.
@231….LOL….I thought it was funny too. TRUE and funny. And believe it or not I am a former DC/Bey fan. Her stans don’t want to believe it but that’s why they are called stans (irrational, unable to tell the truth). I WAS NEVER A STAN.
Pussyano….lol…yeah I said it again. And I still think it’s funny.
To y’all who say Joe Jackson was there for Michael….HELL NAW! that is a heartless, cruel man and I’ll be damned if yall actually believe for one minute that he was there for Michael. He ain’t give a damn about Michael!!!! Joe up there promoting his blu-ray ish when the reporters asked about Michael…smiling and high-fiving people when the cameras were on him in the show!
Janet gets all the love from me, but it’s sad kuz she probably had to go up there to diffuse the crap Joe said.
Eff Joe Jackson….fareal!
LMAO @ ALL THE C. BROWN FANS THAT STAYED UP PAST THEIR BED TIME TO SEE CHRIS!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
YOU MESS WITH RIH YOU GET DEALT WITH!
LMAO @ ALL THE C. BROWN FANS THAT STAYED UP PAST THEIR BED TIME TO SEE CHRIS!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
YOU MESS WITH RIH YOU GET DEALT WITH!
Seeing all of these comments about how stupid and irrelevant Beyonce’s performance was shows how alot of African Americans aren’t exposed to different cultures and music. Just as something that is done outside of the “norm”, it is deemed boring or a horrible performance.
It’s ridiculous how she has more comments than Michael Jackson and his legacy.
BTW, BET isnt the only music channel that depicts minorities in a horrible light. MTV and VH1 does the same thing. Flavor of Love? Gotti’s Way? Making the Band? All of these shows gives a horrible depiction of how black people act. I would even say these channels are worse for the black community than BET because these channels have a steady flow of naive, young viewers, particularly white ones, who actually believe that all black people act the way as the do in these “reality” tv shows. Even if BET changed it’s whole format to a more positive way, these other channels will still be an issue.
I GUESS IT WAS ALRIGHT BEING THAT THEY CHANGED UP THE ENTIRE SHOW FOR MJ, BUT LETTING THE CURSES SLIP WAS THEIR OWN FAULT…REGARDLESS OF THE SHOW CHANGING THAT JOB SHOULD’VE BEEN DONE
AND I FELT IT COULD’VE BEEN REHEARSED A LITTLE MORE, AT POINT THERE WERE AWKWARD SILENCES, BUT I GIVE IT TO THEM FOR PULLING IT OFF
I LOVED THE TREY SONGZ, JOHNNY GIL & TYRESE TRIO…MAINLY LOVED TYRESE & TREYS PERFORMANCE!
CIARA SUNG SURPRISINGLY WELL. I WAS SHOCKED
I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY BEYONCE SANG THOSE SONGS, HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MICHAEL..SHE SHOULD’VE DONE AN MJ SONG AND NOT HAVE WORN THAT HIDEOUS GETUP (ALWAYS ATTRACTING UNNEEDED ATTENTION)
SO HAPPY DRAKE GOT TO PERFORMED BUT MAD HE WAS CONFINED TO THAT CHAIR LOL
NEYO DID GREAT!!! BUT LOOKED WIERD…HIS GIRL IS CUTE TOO..SHE BETTER NOT HURT HIM!!
LOVE YOU MJ, YOU ARE AND WILL FOREVER BE THE KING!! IT’S SO SAD TO SEE YOU GO
OH AND JAMIE DID GREAT HE IS SOO FUNNY! PERFECT FOR THE IMPROVISING TOO..HE KEPT THE SHOW GOING
AND THAT MOVIE TRAILER ..PURE HILARITY!!!!
I hear that Bey has been singing slow songs lately and not dancing as hard at her concerts because she is preggers.
1st of all I am in no way a Michael Jackson fan!!! I’m sad he died but even if he was alive I still wouldn’t have anything 2 do wit him so I was mad dey tributed da whole show 2 him! Dey cudda had a special moment in the show 2 tribute 2 him but not the whole show!
Jamie Foxx – Hated him as a host but he killed every song he sang wit Ne-Yo and “Sheneneh and Wanda” would totally be a gr8 movie!!
Beyonce – For what the performance was she sounded amazing but I’m use 2 see’n Sasha on stage at the BET Awards which is why I’m mad at the tribute cuz guaranteed if Michael didn’t die she wudda did Ego or Single Ladies!!!
Keyshia Cole and Monica – Monica outdid Keyshia point blank!!!!
Keri Hilson – Horrible performer cuz she cant sing when she dances so she sounded horrible!
Drake – Did good by himself on “Best I Ever Had” but it was very wrong to have those lil girls on stage during “Every Girl”
KeKe Palmer – Always could sing, I bought her 2007 album “So Uncool”
Ciara – I loooooove her but not a very good performance. She shudda danced for Michael but surprisingly her vocals were stronger den I expected! LOL!
Ne-Yo – Amazing amazing amazing on every song!
New Edition – All been smoking for years!!!
Guy – Still got da dance’n but voice is gone!!
Keith Sweat – Sang to low!
Bell Biv Devoe – Still lyke dat song!!!!
Johnny Gill, Tyrese, and Trey Songz – All killed it!!!!!
Mary Mary – good performance not da best!
If I can’t think of any more performances but I was totally disappointed with the BET Awards this year and it feels good 2 see dat other ppl agree!!!!!!
LOL, some of your coments are funny as all hell………lmao.
I understand that BET only had three days to re-arrange their entire format because of MJ’s untimely death…….BUT why rush a half-asss tribute? when they could have continued with the lame ass show they were planning and wait a few months until they can gather all the right artists and do a proper tribute and do like a 3 hr special?
THAT BET is what you should have done!
In my opinion that would have been more appropriate then what they actually did, especially since we are talking about THE GREATEST ENTERTAINER OF ALL TME, who brought so much joy and good music to his billions of fans worldwide, endless classic videos, influenced every single solo artist to come out after 1982, and CHANGED PEOPLES LIVES! YOU DID NOT PAY HIM ANY RESPECTS WHEN HE WAS ALIIVE AND GIVE HIM A TRIBUTE DURING THE LAST EIGHT YEARS YOU HAVE BROADCASTED THE SHOW SO WHY DO SOMETHING THAT IS NOT OF COMPLETE EXCELLENCE?
HOWEVER, I did not think the show was great, but it did not suck completely.
Ne-yo was excellent and I am not that much of a fan, he has a few good songs, and i loved his 1st album, Lady In My Life was beautifully done, he should record that on his next album.
Ciara, I do like you, BUT WHY THE HELL WERE YOU SINGING?!?! your strength is DANCING mama, it’s what you are good at so do it!!!! Whomever is in her camp that told her to do Heal The World needs to be fired ASAP!!!!! She is one of he best dancers in the industry and she sings a half ass rendition? What the EFF?
Beyonce………sometimes there are just no words. I was just confused, why was she signing ava maria? Now SHE should have sang Heal The World instead of Ciara, because she has the vocal chops for that song, OR Mary J, or Jennifer Hudson, Jazzmine Sullivan, Alicia Keys………..someone else, damn. I was looking forward to B’s performance and felt so let down, she could have sang Halo or an MJ song there are PLENTY of songs in his catalogue…….My theory is she PURPOSELY did that so that we bloggers could all disect it bit by bit and TALK about her more although we talk about her every damn day anyways, shame on u B.
Side bar: did u all catch when she won, and she starts to walk away from jay and her grabbed her arm and kissed her cheek, I just thought that part was cute, a little PDA will not kill u!
JAYZ I do love him, I love the song, can’t wait for the album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monica and Keyshia Cole………..How do u get out sung on your own song? Lol. Monica killed it. She is very underrated, what the hell happened to her album? she needed to release one yesterday.
Souljaboy………..if you cannot formulate words and sentences WHY THE HELL ARE YOU ON STAGE?!?! go home sit your dumb teenaged assed down and READ A BOOK! -SERIOUSLY, who gave souljaboy a record deal?
Lil Wayne/Drake/Young Money/BirdMan ( and those young girls)…..I am probably one of the few people who thinks Lil Wayne is very overrated, but this performace was inappropriate. My homeboy Drake is the Truth……and believe me HE WILL BE THE NEXT HIP HOP STAR……but his collabo/performance WITH WAYNE was not the best way to showcase that, a performance with Jay, or Kanye would have been sooo dope!!!!! (esp that 6000 bars song he did with ye’s beat on the intro of 808′s sooooooo cold). Don’t even get me started…….and CAN SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me WHY Drake has 3 mixtapes and no deal and some fool let souljaboy get one? it is mind boggling and sad.
Keri Hilson…..It wasn’t the best, even my mons was complaining this girl CANNOT SING….LOL. But it was her first live performance and I have seen wayyyyyyy worse (note to Cassie, yes I am talking about you) I’m also glad she won new artist, I think she deserves it.
New Edition/Guy/Keith Sweat/BBD……..WHOA, these groups take me wayyyyy back, I’m not going to reveal my age but damn, i felt old. Bobby Brown should never I REPEAT NEVER see daylight who let his tired drunk/high ass outside?
Keith Sweat why?
I was a huge BBD fan so that was nice. Where IN THE HELL WAS JODECI? how do u do a tribute to 90′s RanB and leave out JODECI? c’mon BET step it up. I was glad to see Guy although Aaron was REACHING…..lol. I was esp glad when they performed “I like” especially after T-Pain absolutely mutilated that song at The VH1 Honors in 08……..which leads me to………
Jamie Foxx/T-Pain…….I can’t stand T-Pain and his BIGASSCHAIN which I hope someone snatches….note to Young Berg get back ur chain bwoy!
I don’t think Jamie was a bad host i admit some of his jokes were not great but he had his funny moments…….the Martin/Shenneh skit was funny as hell i almost peed my pants. But there were times when I felt like I was watching The Jamie Foxx/Neyo show why did they perform 3 songs? and why was he always plugging his shit, we know you have an album damn. WE GET IT YOU SING, NOW SHUT UP ALREADY!
MIA……(Missing in Action)
Mariah Carey….lol, I know she wasn’t there, but she should have been the one singing “I’ll Be There” because she covered it back in 92, it would have been nice to hear her do it again.
Stevie Wonder…….would have been nice to see him too.
Kanye…..he was there looking all screw faced with that bi-sexual B*&%$#,Amber whatshername, but I would have loved if he had peformed Walking on the Moon with Dream or a duet with Drake or oh my bad IT IS Kanye, just something would have been nice to watch.
Whitney Houston……..where was she? Smokey, Quincy could have spoke about Michael, Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake, Usher, and yes Chris Brown, I know he is not the most respected, but I really wanted to see some dancing damn it!
The Baby Boy Skit…..WTF? absolutely pointless and in poor taste.
The O’Jays Tribute……funny as all hell, who told Don Cornelius to speak? Both He and Tiny need interpreters.lol. Johnny Gill, Tyrese and Trey Songz were good, Tevin Campbell? whoa.
Maxwell…….please father my child. Sooooooooooooooooooo sexy, in a quiet laid back way. Pretty Wings is an amazing song.
Mary Mary……it was good, but Latifah saved that performance. Is it just me or are both sisters looking more chubby?
Wyclef and Alicia……both well deserved recipients. They are examples of two very classy, humble and inspirational artists.
I can’t think of anything else to say………
Janet made me bawl. I would not know how to stand up properly let alone speak if l lost one of my brothers. Her strength speaks volumes. I Idolized Micheal and Janet growing up, to see her like that was sooo soo sad. May god bless the Jackson family. Joe Jackson….well I will keep those comments to myself he DID just lose his son.
But overall, BET not good but not great: better luck next year if i decide to watch.
The awards were amazing!! We as black people need to stop dowing our own people!! This was one of the best awards shows put together by BET in a long time!! And not to mention but it honored one of the greatest performers of all time!! Respect that! God bless!!!
I’VE TRIED OVER AND OVER TO TELL K.COLE SHE CAN’T SANG LIVE AND
FOR HER TO HAVE TO THE NERVE TO SANG WITH MONICA WHO HAS A REAL VOICE..PLEASE….
AND ANOTHER GHETTO FRANKIE AND NEFFEI TO BOOT.
THE BET AWARDS MOST PARTS WERE VERY INTERTAINING
IF YOUR PEEPS DIDN’T WIN AN AWARD ARE WE’NT INVITED STOP HATIN.
CONGRATS KERI ON YOUR WIN!!!!
I KNOW K.COLE PUT MONICA ON THAT TO SELL SOME MORE CD’S
SHE IS STILL AT GOLD AND PROBABLY WANT GO PLATINUM UNTIL
NOW THAT MONICA SINGING….MONICA REPRESENTS ATLANTA AND KERI…………..
MONICA ASK FOR SOME MORE MOOLA’ BABY…..
THANKS FOR THE TRIBUT E BET AND BEY…….
Ne-yo, Alica Keys, and Jamie were the only ones worth watching everything else was blah and they were the only ones who represented MJ well!!!!!! Well Jamie and DEFINATELY Ne-yo were A.Keys gave an amazing speech and I’m sure MJ would have been touched!!!!
I didn’t see the awards show into tuesday night, but I think it was okay for the last minute changes for tribute to MJ….I love Bey and I’m a 1 of her Fans but I wanted her to do an upbeat performance, but that was her tribute to MIKE so I figured do you Bey!! It was her own thing at the moment so it’s okay!! Every1 did okay to me also!!
ALSO TO THE BEY HATERS!! HI HATERS!! SHE KEEPS SERVING Y’ALL HUNGRY H@E’S!! FALL BACK!! MY GYRL GOT 2 AWARDS THAT NIGHT!! CONGRATZ BEY!! SHE’S AIN’T GOING NO WHERE NAPPY WEAVE AND ALL!! WHAT THAT GOT TO DO WITH HER TALENT!! BABY BYE!! LOL
You people are so immature calling people names and excuse me, but I thought it was about Michael not Beyonce anywys great job Ne-yo he was the BEST hands down!!!!! I’m sure Michael would have loved it!!!! MJ is the BEST PERIOD there will NEVER be another!!!!
I’m telling you CL should ban some of you people you know it’s a problem when it susposed to be about Michael and yaw are too busy worried about Beyonce I like her too, but I think it’s ridiculous how these stans and haters go back and forth wanting to have the last word grow up and show respect and stans if some people didn’t like her performance doesn’t mean they are haters o.k. anyways MJ you got so many people who support you and love you your LEGACY WILL FOREVER LIVE ON IN OUR HEARTS!!!! YOU ARE THE BEST, GENIUS, AND VISION OF ALL TIME WE LOVE YOU!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO MISS ALICA KEYS THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVING OTHERS AND CARING FOR THEM!!!!
@ 251, you seriously need to calm the f*ck down…
if Alicia won a humanitarian award, OBVIOUSLY she would thank more people and go deeper with her speech
B on the other hand won awards like Video of the year, blah…so she didnt need to talk that much. the usual, ‘thank my fans’ and sh*t speech was good enough, and she sounded just fine..don’t get why yaw are making so much noise
if your dumbass brain read the whole thing, you’ll have noticed i said i didn’t care for the chick but it’s cause of people like you who always gotta hate, i decided to say something
i commented on the others aswell, so QUIT acting like im one of her delusional fans who turn everything into a Beyonce post….
R.I.P MJ!
I can’t take it anymore. Ave Maria is not in Spanish!! It’s Latin!!! It’s a hail mary in Latin folks. There have been like 4 comments about her singing in Spanish. I can see what she was trying to do but Michael was not Catholic so she missed the mark. It was kinda wierd…I love her that’s my girl but I don’t care for the song on the cd and it was a strange choice for the award show.
i LOVED the way Bey performed Ave Maria!!! aaaaaa she is sooooo gorgeous and she did an amazing job! You could see it in her eyes that she was still really sad by MJ passing away.. I am sure MJ would have loved it as well!!!
LOVE U B <3<3
Regarding Bey’s super boring performance, it was in Latin not Spanish. Get an education people.