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SOHH Gyant's Randomness: BET'S Spring Bling Travels To My Old Stomping Ground!!!

Posted on March 29, 2007 4:09 AM

If you weren’t aware this year, BET decided to take “Spring Bling” 2007 even further south to the hood and my ole stomping ground-Riviera Beach, FL. There isn’t much difference between West Palm Beach and Riviera. There considered by most to be the same city. The only difference between the two cities is skin color. I aint gonna lie Riviera Beach is the hood. You only go there to get ya dime or nickel bags of weed, or to go get a good ass hair cut.

Anyway, BET touched down there last weekend for their yearly spring event where the likes of Lloyd, Omarion, Rich Boy, Tigga, former America’s Next Top Model contestant Toccarra, Bobby Valentino, Pretty Ricky, and other semi famous celebrities came out to support the fleeting broadcasting station.

(My arch nemesis Bobby Valentino touched down in the sunshine state.)
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I say fleeting because I can’t think of the last time I’ve even watched BET. To call the station that I grew up on “corny” doesn’t quite capture how lame it has actually become. I’d rather eat glass then watch the ridiculous knock off version of MTV’s TRL, and don’t get me started on that bullshit ass “College Hill”.

Gone are the days of Video Soul, and the real Rap City. How I miss Tavis Smiley’s nightly news program, black news coverage period, Ananda Lewis holding down Teen Summit and countless other programs that were the very fabric of black entertainment television. Now all BET has become is a broke down MTV but with a darker skinned audience. Whatever happened to that sexy ass Rachel Stuart who held down Caribbean Rhythms? Man how I miss the good ole days.

At any rate, I was supposed to fly down to Florida and catch up with some my sohh.com family members but as you all know, I caught a case and that completely sidelined my trip (which was just thrown out by the judge due to my fantastic attorney.) And I have to be honest with you, after almost two weeks of the event ending; I haven’t heard anything about it. And that’s never a good thing!

After looking at some of the pictures on various blogs, and websites I can really see why. Check out the pictures and see for yourself. Would attend an event like this if it ever came to Atlanta?

Rich Boy doing his thing.
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Who in the hell is Lil Mama? And what’s up with every other rapper calling themselves “LiL”? I’m sooo over that shit.
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Lloyd was there trying to get his shawty.
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I don’t know what to make of this. All I can say is: “Welcome to Riviera Beach”
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I also found some video:

DJ Unk performs "Walk It Out"

Capitol recording artist Mims performing "This Is Why I'm Hot"

On a personal note, I really would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you guys for supporting SOHH.com, our blogs, and me, as we continue to make a major impact on Hip-Hop and media. I know that I can be a hard pill to swallow at times, but I have a blast posting topics for you all to dissect each and everyday. I enjoy each and every comment good or bad, and find myself logging onto the site 10X a day to see who is saying what about whom.

When I was offered this writing/entertainment opportunity, I was excited and nervous all at the same time. The content that I report on SOHH Atlanta is very different from the content that I put on my urban entertainment site O1LT.com. I will admit that I stumble, and will probably continue to stumble as I try to broaden what SOHH Atlanta is all about. I strongly believe that we are more then what people think we are here in Atlanta. And though, I wasn’t born or raised here. I have a high respect for what this city is all about. I have traveled the world and been a lot of places in my time. But, I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else on the planet other then the good ole ATL.

I just felt like sharing my appreciation, because SOHH Atlanta constantly gets solid numbers and our ranking amongst the other SOHH Blogs are always consistently positive.

I couldn’t do any of it without you guys, and I really appreciate it.

Lots of Luv!

Talk to y’all lata

--SOHH Gyant

Posted by The Mouth Of The South

Comments

  • ChinChecker says...
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  • March 29, 2007 4:18 AM
  • Big Crash says...
  • Are Jacque Reid and her BIG ASS TITTIES still on BET News? Man Jacque is fine as hell and classy with it. As far as I can tell, most brawds freaks anyway.

  • March 29, 2007 7:00 AM
  • NYStateOfMind says...
  • I concur some of them shows look like they're run by interns. and 106 and park is rigged!

  • March 29, 2007 7:49 AM
  • Matt Herbz says...
  • Shit, the White Nigga Movement runs Riviera Beach like we run trains on sorority hoes. If that nigga with the beanstalk busting out his fitted is any representation of the niggaz from Riviera Beach, then y'all niggaz some pussies. Gayant, I thought you said they give good ass haircuts over there. That nigga look like cocksucka with that haircut for real.

    Peace to all my white niggaz on the grind.

  • March 29, 2007 8:12 AM
  • Zone 4 stunna says...
  • @ Big Crash
    I dont think Jacque Reid and those tits come on BET anymore. I used to look forward to seeing those things on a nightly basis

    @ Matt Herbz
    White Boy you are dumb as hell. FLA niggas put it in, for real. Shit goes down In FLA, from Duval to Dade, even the little smalle towns in "FLAWDA" get buck. Trust

    Wasup in to my folks in that Lauderhill down in Broward County.

  • March 29, 2007 8:26 AM
  • ATL RED says...
  • BET is the worst. They make us look like fools every chance we get. That College Hill bullshyt is a slap in the face to every HBCU grad who actually goes to college, puts in work, and comes out a better individual. Embarrass yourself on TV, then expect a mufucka to want to date/hire you. Whatever happen to that chick on College Hill that took all the nude shots and shot soft porn and shyt?

  • March 29, 2007 8:51 AM
  • Big Eme says...
  • @GYANT....Bro you have an ATL blog and all you do is rip G-UNIT...Get off there dick mang. Your whack..You dont talk about ATL...Look at you Riviera, FL..This guy. Your a jealous ass fool. Write about ATL and how corny your music is bro. DAMN!!

  • March 29, 2007 9:11 AM
  • HOODSTAR says...
  • ..yea BET need to step they game up bad. none of the programs have any real substance anymore.

    lol @ BIG CRASH - i thought i was the only cat lookin at Jacque Reids big ass titties. i seen some backstage footage of her somewhere at an award show, she maybe lookin serious when its time to report the news but trust me...she gets loose!

    aye. somebody tell me why the crowd didnt get ampt till Jim Jones came out?

    ..and i couldnt even see MIMS in the video. but shout out to the camera dude that got nice footage of babygirl in the black swimsuit.

    100

  • March 29, 2007 9:15 AM
  • Port_o_Prince says...
  • MAN BET FUCKIN UP THYE SHOULD OF KEPT SPRING BLING IN MIAMI LIKE LAST YEAR THAT SHIT WAS OFF DA CHAIN. DADE COUNTY KNOW HOW TO PARTY. BUT RIVIERA IS GANGSTA THO I'M SURPRISE I AINT HEARD BOUT NIGGAZ GETTIN ROBBED OUT THERE. NEXT YEAR THEY NEED TO BRING THAT SHIT TO MIAMI

  • March 29, 2007 9:36 AM
  • DJ OKTOBA 4 PRESIDENT says...
  • @ SOHH Gyant

    Now I know this for a fact that Frank-Ski had a show last week when Wanda was on vacation discussing the fact that Georgia Governor Sunny Perdue wouldn't apologize to the Black People of Georgia for their role in slavery, and his reasoning was "How can this help people today?? Him apologizing isn't going to help or change anything the past is the past" In so many words or less...

    Now I seen yesterday where the Prime Minister of Britan Tony Blair apologized for his countries role in the slave trade... Now I can see how a good ole boy like Sunny ain't apologizing for what his granddaddy and uncles did 30 - 40 years ago because this didn't end until the 60's or 70's...

    "THATS BULLSHIT" And seeing as how Hip Hop and politics play a connected role in ATL... Now I probably won't get any responses to this from anyone but I had to let it be known that "SHIT AIN'T CHANGED"


    I FEEL LIKE A BLACK MILITANT OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT CAN TURN MY BACK ON THE HOOD I GOT LOVE FOR THEM - Papp "Black Republican Freestyle"

    DJ OKTOBA IM STILL CHILLING

    And they still talking about some stupid a$$ white nigger movement (I put the ER on for y'all wiggaz...)

  • March 29, 2007 9:37 AM
  • caff says...
  • Everything BET attempts to do is a blatant knockoff. Every series that goes to BET is a hand-me-down. Why the hell would they even attempt to show an HBO series, knowing damn well that they can't show 90% of the content.

  • March 29, 2007 9:39 AM
  • Mista 16-5 says...
  • On a personal note, I really would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you guys for supporting SOHH.com, our blogs, and me, as we continue to make a major impact on Hip-Hop and media.

    damn right, this the joke of the day?

  • March 29, 2007 9:44 AM
  • Double R says...
  • Yo playboy....u r dead on right about Riveira Beach and West Palm Beach being a tale of 2 cities. That was my old stommping grounds too, for real, and i was right on the borderline, 45th St. & Australian Ave. and yes it is known for good ass weed, and nice cuts....And you r right about BET going down the drain. They keep in feeding BS to the impressionable youth, who dis legends, but place BS acts up on a pedestal. Any yet people have the nerve to wonder y rap music is becoming more and more BS. And the dude wit that beanstalk coming out of his hat....that is typical south Fl. i wonder when they look in the mirror, they think to themselves, "Yeah i look fresh today"???????

  • March 29, 2007 10:01 AM
  • DJ Lucky Luke says...
  • Herbz was right about one thing.

    Dude with the hair busting out of his hat looks gay as hell. Up here in ATL, I've seen 'em buy that hat a couple sizes larger and just let that shit rock out the sides and the back, but NOT the fucking top. Back to the topic, though: What the fuck does this have to do with Atlanta? Most Georgia boys, myself included, have never met a Floridian they liked. I could give a fuck about a tale of two cities.

  • March 29, 2007 10:06 AM
  • SOHH GYANT says...
  • @ Double R

    Yea I know the area you used to live in. I aint going to even front, I used to stay out in Royal Palm Beach right with the white folks. I had a spot out there off of State Road 7 but I would put hella miles on my whip (that’s a car for those who don’t know) driving around West Palm, Laudy, and Miami.

    Shit is spread out like a muthafucka down there.

  • March 29, 2007 10:11 AM
  • MIAMI NIGGA says...
  • Yeah its fucked up that the Governor of Geogia would make a statement like that. I mean we all know that racism is alive and kicking but at least they try to hide it more these days. When you take a look at how everything is set up it is just modern day slavery now. All of the laws are biased against blacks. Which in turn fills the prisons with blacks and most of them are privately owned now, so they make money off of our incarceration and make you do free labor while you are locked up. On top of that if check in major city in America they are tearing down black neighborhoods and building high price housing so that the people who originally lived there cannot move back. Its just a smart way of segregating the community, gentrification I think is the term.

    On top of that the only network we have for our people makes us look like coons. Viacom took over and now there's no BET nightly news or Tavis Smiley. I guess that those shows had opinions and views that were to strong. Damn we losing all around the board.

  • March 29, 2007 10:18 AM
  • Matt Herbz says...
  • @ OKTOBA, listen brah, i ended my internet beef with you weeks ago and you're still trying to go at me. Shit's realer than real with us white niggaz, i know what you look like and trust we'll meet face to face one of these nights. 32 year old washed up DJ e-beefing? I ended your cred and put bullets in your online persona weeks ago, i'm over that now B. Do something when you see me!. I'm sohh focused on this white nigga movement right now, it's not even funny. It's about uniting niggaz everywhere...except the indian niggaz.
    -Matt Herbz-
    p.s. Gyant, I heard a whole other side of the story about what happened to you during your altercation...

  • March 29, 2007 10:31 AM
  • SOHH GYANT says...
  • Matt

    You haven’t heard nothing about my ordeal, so please don’t even try it! Nice try kidd!

  • March 29, 2007 10:47 AM
  • ATLatino says...
  • First of all give it up Jacque Reid and the village feeders!!Gonna miss them babies but there's always Univision for news and eyecandy.

    Second BET needs to step up their game and that means going back to what made them special and that's thinking outside the box. I don't care if 106 is still on that means Rap City should be playing less commercial music and more of the real shit, and bring back Midnight love and Uncut only suicidal people stay up late watching gospel that's what TBN is for. But what I'm really thinkin is that since the Viacom take over they've been set for failure anyway.

    Third Gyant this is about the Above The Law And Never Taken Alive scene, you can at least tell us about what's goin on out here parties, who got shot, show us a way around traffic anything relevant to Atlanta.


  • March 29, 2007 11:05 AM
  • DJ OKTOBA 4 PRESIDENT says...
  • @ Miami Nigga Bruh these people have made modern day slavery such a real term, these young brothas just don't get it they go out here say "Nah" I can't work at Mickey D's for minimum wages then get locked up for trapping and go to jail, and still work for these crackers but now it's for pennies on the dollar, you can't get no pussy (Ain't that why you trapping) to get gread?? get clothes?? get a nice ride?? You do all that to get hoe's RIGHT??? If not you still doing it to get closer to the cell or hell... Either way you can't win they throw you in the Pen and hide yo a$$ somewhere... I can't be all these young punks father, and I call'em punks because of the recent video I seen proves that a 2 year old can smoke a blunt and pull a trigger what makes you so Gangsta?? Y'all scarred to box 1 on 1, y'all scarred to get a a$$ whooping, y'all can't learn to be a man if you scarred to stand alone... Aiight Let me get off my High horse and stop preaching, but WE GOTTA DO BETTER STOP HATING ON YOUR OWN PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE IS...

    DJ OKTOBA IM STILL CHILLING

    "HEY MY NIGGER!!!" You still thank I give a fuck about you I tell you where im going hoping you will step up and man up an dsay something your bullshit is transparent

    "FUCK Y"ALL WIGGAZ, AND FUCK Y"ALL BITCHES" - Pastor Troy "And I love you"

  • March 29, 2007 11:12 AM
  • PZ says...
  • Much like the current state of hip hop, you will notice that many SOHH NYC bloggers will be migrating down south to the rest in the SOHH Atl blog.


  • March 29, 2007 12:02 PM
  • PZ says...
  • @SOHH Gyant..REAL TALK

    Is it possible for SOHH to grab the IP addresses of the posters, and then find out which usernames are the same people posting under differnet names?

    I wouldn't think that would be too hard is it?

  • March 29, 2007 12:19 PM
  • tellbow says...
  • All Yall Needs to stop Hating on the RAW-Riviea Beach Bitch...
    and weed aint the only thing you can get in the RAW-a free ass woppin
    and for the white boy....SHUT THE HELL UP you wont come down here wit that shit....ya ass a get licked...NOW PLAY WIT THAT...F THE HATERS

  • March 29, 2007 1:07 PM
  • tellbow says...
  • ALL YALL HATERS SUCK SUM
    AND WEED AINT THE ONLY THING YOU CAN GET IN RIVIERA BEACH YOU CAN GET A FREE BEAT DOWN AND FOR THE WHTIE BOY YA RUNS NOTHIN HERE....

  • March 29, 2007 1:10 PM
  • Matt Herbz says...
  • @ PZ:

    You better start explaining to me what set you claim because you coming off real hard like a fake white nigga and that's the worst fucking thing you could be. Don't be that for you own sake. Shit's real serious right now, and if you're frontin, it's yo ass, dude.

    @ tellbow:

    YOU was that nigga in the photo weren't you? You jack-and-the-beanstalk mothafucka sweat-staining your fitted! I can understand one TALKING like they're ignorant, but what the fuck is your problem TYPING like you're ignorant?! About the stupidest shit I've seen on here in a long time. You a bitch nigga and you won't do shit to a white nigga like me. Like my white niggaz said in The Departed: "There are guys you can hit and they are guys you can't." Well, nigga, I'm that white nigga you won't lay a finger on. I'm like God in that bitch when I walk the streets of Riviera Beach. I'd make a trip from Marietta to Riviera in my Escalade, stop it in front of ya mom's house with the motor running, dip in her bedroom slap that bitch for having a stupid son, then walk backwards back out to my ride and drive in reverse all the way back to Marietta and yo bitch ass won't do shit!

    Riviera Beach? Nah, Riviera Bitch.

    --Matt Herbz

  • March 29, 2007 3:16 PM
  • tellbow says...
  • Mr. Herbz/Herpes
    Naw that was ya momma in the pic
    that hoe busted....and ya wish you where black if you gotta attack blacks
    stop hating.... get a life...and a escalade...you are right on one thing RIVIERA BITCH...

  • March 29, 2007 4:45 PM
  • Big Smoov says...
  • Yo, Gyant, I know ain't your favorite poster but I've been asking you to ban this lil' wannabe ever since he disrespected that one girl about a month ago.

    As for BET, when Bob "Get money, fuck ya'll" Johnson sold BET for 3 billion, yes I said billion dollars what did you think was going to happen. Bob sold one of black people's most valuable resources to a corporation that gives us Flava of Love and countless other mind nubbing shows. When we don't control our own resources we can't complain when we get screwed. I tell my people in Harlem that all the time when they start complaining about whitey movin in they hood.

    I believe Jacquie Reid was on the Steve Harvey morning show for a minute until she had an on-air tiff with Stephen A. Smith of ESPN fame, dude is a complete ass btw, that happened on Friday and come Monday she wasn't nowhere to be found. Good for her though cause Steve Harvey is as ignorant as he is funny, he has segments were he's talking like a slave and all other types of coonery, she was too good that show.

  • March 29, 2007 5:04 PM
  • nony says...
  • YO I MISS *AJ N FREE* FRO 106 N PARKE

  • March 29, 2007 8:33 PM
  • Itsmeagain says...
  • Ah! That nigga straight cut a hole in the top of his cap! Comedy!

  • March 30, 2007 3:22 PM
  • Itsmeagain says...
  • And Gyant you childish for calling Bobby Valetino your "arch nemisis". LoL.

  • March 30, 2007 3:25 PM
  • DeepSearch says...
  • BET lost it's Identity when they started cleaning house before it was sold to NBC. With all the rich/wealthy blacks in this country he couldn't find a group to buy BET? Anyway the station is just a place to dumb down the populus and continue to feed false images of Blacks. Does anybody remember when BET ran all the old black and white films during the eighties and early nineties? The first time I saw black people trully acting, not be coons and house N***as and such. SMH i'm very saddend by this. :(

  • April 6, 2007 11:54 AM
  • BLKBARBIE says...
  • I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN PALM BEACH COUNTY - BOYNTON BEACH ACTUALLY AND I NOW LIVE IN PALM BEACH. I RECENTLY MOVED FROM ATL TO FINISH COLLEGE AND I PLAN ON MOVING BACK. FIRST OF ALL WHITE BOY - YOU REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE HELL UP. I AM DAMN NEAR FOR SURE THAT YOUR ASS WON'T BE CAUGHT TALKING THIS SHIT NOWHERE NEAR RIVERA OR PALM BEACH. YOU KNOW YOU'D GET YOUR ASS WHOOPED!!! FOR SURE! BETTER YET - YOU MIGHT GET MERCKED! SO I SUGGEST YOU KEEP THAT SHIT BEHIND THE COMPUTER SCREEN. YOU ARE VERY IGNORANT! MOVING ALONG - TO THE BASTARD WHO HAD SOMETHING SMART TO SAY ABOUT SOUTH FLORIDA AND HOW THEY WEAR THEIR HAIR OR HATS - WHO GIVES A DAMN WHAT YOU THINK. THAT'S HOW THEY DO IT IN THE HOOD (MY HOOD), JUST BECAUSE YOUR SORRY ASS DON'T LIKE IT - WHO GIVES A F***? WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE SOMEBODY? EVERY CITY HAS IT'S OWN STYLE - IT'S STRAIGHT HOOD AND GUTTA IN SOUTH FLORIDA. YOU CAN EITHER HATE IT OR LUV IT.... HONESTLY, YOUR OPINION REALLY DOESN'T MATTER! THESE SAME PEOPLE TALKING SHIT WON'T SAY NONE OF THIS SHIT TO THE PEOPLE THEY TALKING ABOUT FACE 2 FACE! JUST LIKE YOU'VE SEEN CRAZY SHIT IN THE HOODS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY - PLEASE BELIEVE THEY GOT SOME CRAZY SHIT GOING ON IN YOUR HOOD AS WELL! BEFORE YOU TRY TO SAY ANOTHER BAD THING ABOUT PALM BEACH COUNTY YOUR ASS BETTER CHECK THE POST AND READ ABOUT IT - THEY WILL KILL YOUR ASS - DOWN HERE! BY THE WAY - I WAS NEAR THE WEST END A MONTH AGO AND I SAW SOME FUNNY SHIT 2!!!! PLEASE BELIEVE ATL HAS ALOT OF FUNNY SHIT RUNNING AROUND AS WELL!!! YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL I'M TALKING ABOUT! SO EASE UP. NOW SPELL CHECK THAT!

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