Live & Unfiltered: The 2010 BET Awards

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Live & Unfiltered: The 2010 BET Awards

Posted at 06/27/2010 by Staff 4 Comments

betlogo We’re back!!!! Yup, yup!!! We are covering the BET Awards again this year. We have Tommere Ingram working the Red Carpet taking pics as all of the celebrities arrive and Nicole is in the BET Social Media Lounge live at the awards. She will be bringing you all the behind the scenes news and (hopefully) some interviews with celebrity attendees…

Stay tuned… Show starts soon.

5:00pm Pacific Crowd is going crazy over Kanye West’s performance to open the show… we are not sure about that backdrop…

5:05 We would recognize that voice anywhere.. It’s MC Lyte returning as announcer of the show for the 4th time…

5:06 Mc Lyte just announced that Todd Bridges will be here tonight…. record scratch….

5:08 Queen Latifah comes out wearing a black sparkly dress… now she’s doing some kind of sing songy shout out to attendees and a shout to Weezy who’s not…. let’s start a count of how many people shout out Weezy who is serving time in Rikers… hmmm.

5:10 Now the Queen is singing along to Drake’s “Say Something” beat…

5:12 the moment we have been waiting for… someone just brought her her “rap” jacket and she’s droppin rhymes…. Are we the only ones who miss Queen Latifah’s rapping???

5:15 Jada Pinkett Smith… how u been?

5:16 Alicia Keys wins award. her and her baby bump are headed up to accept award for Best Female R&B Award…. dedicates to “Superwomen” fellow nominees…

5:21 Queen Latifah just came out wearing a blonde wig causing an audible gasp among the journalists in the social media lounge

5:23 usher coming out to perform in all white everything! smoke filled stage and his usual MJ inspired moves…

5:26 Mike Epps and Taraji… it’s funny skit time everyone…

5:28 Best Female rap artist… If nicki minaj wins, will they show Lil Kim’s face and vice versa????

5:29 Nicki wins!!! Here comes Nicki Minaj rocking a bright orange wig… Barbie love… who will she thank… she professes her love to Jada… oops… 2nd shout out to Weezy…. saying he predicted her win a year ago…. sigh…

5:31 Shout outs to the cast of THE GAME… who are onstage and letting us know they are back with a new season of The Game on BET…

5:34 Here comes Queen Latifah in a New Jersey Nets jersey bouncing a basketball. Promoting her no longer new movie, ‘Just Wright’… and here comes TI… king of swagger! he killed it

5:37 It’s Jade and Willow and Willow is rocking out!!!!

5:40 skit time again… nia and mr. tate recreating Love Jones…

5:42 Drake wins BET Award for best hip hop artist… thanks God and his mom… we’re holding tight for the Weezy shout… wait for it… wait for it… Weezy!!!!

5:50 Here comes the Queen… rocking a new wig for a new intro…

5:57 Alicia Keys performs… sounds and looks wonderful!

558 Keri Hilson gives speech…

6:03 Queen Latifah in her “set it off” drag… in a skit with TI… zzzz….

6:07 Keyshia Cole singing… here comes Eminem… Keyshia almost missed that note… she caught it just in time… we love her anyway..

6:09 Keyshia Cole’s hair… we haven’t seen a hairdo like that since Superhead was on Oprah

6:12 This feels like the longest performance of the night… but Eminem is officially back… his flow is SICK right now!!!!

6:15 Deniece Williams jumps on stage with Monica… stellar duet…

6:17 Jay-Z and Alicia Keys win for duet… for “Empire State of Mind”…

6:18 Queen Latifah still thugged out… in a slightly different outfit… introducing Diddy Dirty Money… BAD BOY!!!!! Here comes Rick Ross joining Diddy..

6:31 Jermaine Jackson thanks everyone for their support, gives shout out to Michael…. and introduces the MJ tribute… looks like it’s Chris Brown… yup. rumors confirmed… Chris Brown… As you will remember, Chris wasn’t allowed to perform last year after he caught a case after beating up Rihanna…

6:32 Crowd is going crazy… some of us here in the Social Media Lounge are having an R Kelly moment… we love the artist but are conflicted about the choices he has made in his personal life…

636 Chris Brown is having a breakdown moment… he’s cry singing… and can’t finish… he is on his hands and knees now crying.. and BET very wisely turned up the music … there’s your headline ladies and gentleman…. folks in social media lounge are clapping and crying and carrying on….

646 Queen Latifah is back rocking her “Ladies First” outfit to introduce Drake…. Drizzy.

649 Lose My Mind… Young Jeezy takes the stage…

659 Trey Songz wins for Best Male R&B artist…

700 Uh Oh.. is that debarge? yup… wow….. he doesn’t seem to have the same range he used to but big props to BET for bringing him back…

710 Todd Bridges takes to the stage and gives shout out to Gary Coleman… folks in social media lounge are predictably joking about Bridges’ sordid history with drugs and alcohol.

726 John Legend wins award for his humanitarian work… gotta love him… speak on it John Legend…

733 Trey Songz has folks swooning in here since everybody has been waiting on the Prince tribute and getting kind of restless and tired. Trey is killing his rendition of Purple Rain…

737 Here comes Neicy Nash and Anthony Anderson…

739 Beyonce and Lady Gaga win for Best video but Beyonce is not here despite having been seen here in rehearsal…

740 Ciara…

7:46 Prince doesn’t look all that pleased with his tribute!!!! Alicia Keys is up next… she can’t seem to hit Prince’s high notes!!!

7:56 Here comes Ms. Patti LaBelle… we know she’s gonna kill it no matter what… there she goes… will she roll around on the stage? kick off her shoes? we can only wish, hope, and pray for it.. come on patti.. don’t disappoint us!

7:58 There she goes… Ms. Patti kicked off the shoes as we predicted… and Prince caught them.. something we didn’t predict… lol Prince seemed to only love Patti’s performance.

8:05 Chris Brown wins fan award!!!

817 here goes Luda… “My Chick Bad”… will Nicki Minaj come back out????

818 There she is… Nicki Minaj… is she lip rapping I mean lip synching… we thinks so…

821 DJ Khaled tearing it down… everyone’s bobbing their heads here in the social media room. Is busta rhymes actually rapping or is he just making noises?

825 Queen Latifah ends in a dress…

that’s it for us for tonight…we will see you next year.. in the meantime, look for more video and more from our BET Awards coverage tomorrow…