BET AWARDS AND WHATNOT....

Yesterday I watched the BET Awards and they were alright. One thing that tripped me out on the show was the performance by that non rappin' Soulja Boy.

Soulja Boy is the typical punching bag for bloggers who like real hip hop, so Im not going to diss him, but I want to briefly analyze his performance.

First, the thing about hip hop, and I mean real hip hop, is that you rhyme. I didnt hear Soulja Boy rhyme. What he did was I think yell the same line over and over. I swear, I couldnt tell whether he was trying to rap a couple lines, or if he was doing the hook!

It also tripped me out that everybody in the audience was all acting like it was good! Then, he be thinking, "Oh they like me, Im HOT!"

That performance was just the utter opposite of what hip hop is. It strips away everything that makes hip hop complex. Its like, give a kid a hot beat and a couple of words to yell over and over, and hey, you got hip hop!

However, I don't think what Soulja Boy did was hip hop. It was something else. It couldn't be hip hop, could it?