It's fucked up, but I'd be lying if I said I was outraged. That would imply I expected better. Sadly, VH1's Hip Hop Honors only confirmed what I'd suspected all along.

Before the awards show, they were airing an episode of "Flava of Love." That alone was enough to make me flip the channel and not come back. I always been skeptical about VH1 anyway, didn't they first start out as the "adult contemporary alternative" to MTV? Please.

VH1 is nothing more than a suburban yuppie going thru a midlife crisis desperately trying to reclaim youth. The Hip Hop Honors just another botched facelift.

I can't wait for 15 years from now when they honor the hiphop bloggers, so I can stand outside complaining as Tara henley accepts her award.

Lmao at the article. The show is always starts out interesting but ultimately is a dud when you look back. Shame about the disrespect.

But Kami, dont hate on Flavor Of Love. Thats a good show.

>>dont hate on Flavor Of Love. Thats a good show

you can't be serious

It used to be the VH1 Rock Honors until they had problems getting legends to attend. I wonder if this is the reason.

I'm going to side with "Eat My Shorts" on this. I'm pretty sick of this whole 1950s/1960s every Black person is an ambassador to the White community so be on your best behavior thing.

I find it offensive as provides implicit consent to any prejudiced person who wants to use one person to sterotype an entire group. It implies that its a reasonable conclusion to draw that black people are like that. Meanwhile, no one implies that it's reasonable to think that all white people are like Janice Dickinson, Tawny Kitaen, or Danny Bonaduce (three other vh1 reality train wrecks).

Racists are racists and a barrel full of Poitiers isn't going to change that. So I'm refusing to reverse shuck and jive (juck and shive?) as if a racist would change their mind if we all just worked hard enough.

Janine,
I don't think anyone's concerned about "being on your best behavior for the whitefolks," I just genuinely don't like the show. Having to watch Black (and one or two "wannabe Black" white) women scratch each others' eyes out for the benefit of an on-again off-again crackhead and deadbeat dad is just not fun for me, and the fact that I'd have to sit through that shit in order to catch a red-carpet interview with one of the Hip Hop Honorees before the actual show is exploitative and unfair. I'm sure a lot of people would be similarly pissed if they had to sit through "So I Married a Brady Axe-Murderer With Children" or whatever the fuck before the Acadamy Awards.

I hear you, but the VH1 Honors isn't quite the Academy Awards and Joan and Melissa Rivers are on for two hours, scaring the children before the Oscars.

^ROTFLMAO! Good point.

Maybe I just have a problem with all these stupid awards shows. Phife said it best, "Don't need to let a statue tell me how nice I am."