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SOHH Gyant Randomness - What Did You Think Of The MTV Awards?

Written by Gyant

Posted on September 8, 2008 10:05 AM

Written By SOHH Gyant

Tiriri

Last night MTV's annual award show aired. And you already know that I want to know what you guys thought.

The idea that the cable network continues to dish out silver moon men for an array of videos is laughable to me seeing that they never play videos anymore. The once pioneering music station has, in my opinion, sold its musical soul for the reality TV machine. And it seems that many celebrities must have the same sentiments because year after year the star turnout seems to get smaller and smaller.

But I digress.

T.I., Rihanna, Lil' Wayne, LL Cool J, Lupe Fiasco, and bunch of other performers touched the many MTV stages this year. But who killed it? Did Wayne do his thing, or did Rihanna do it better? What did you think about Kanye West?

                                 

I think Kanye West could have finally gone to a place that some artists go who take themselves too seriously. I couldn't make out the song too well and it seemed like the Louis Vuitton Don was a little off with the beat. But maybe it was just me.

T.I. definitely did his thing the best he could. The beginning of the performance kind of drew me in, but once he hit the stage with RiRi I was over it. Call me a hater, but the bar has to have been lowered to a point of no return when "singers" like Rhianna are killing it in the game. And I'm just keeping it real.

Lil' Wayne touched down on the MTV stage this year. And it's no surprise that his performance wasn't very original. Remember when stars back in the day used to blow you away with their live performances? Well those times are long gone.

Truth be told, this year I spent most of my time on the phone, cleaning my room and packing up clothes rather than sitting still and taking in the entire award show. For some reason I just couldn't get into it.

Talk to y'all lata,

--SOHH Gyant

Email: sohhgyant@gmail.com

19 Comments

What I wanna know is...
every since T-pain made it cool,why all rappers thank they can sang now?? I aint got a problem wit it,I guess I just got 2 get used 2 the new thing...

PEOPLE STILL WATCH THIS SHIT??...THEY DONT EVEN PLAY VIDEOS ANYMORE SO I REFUSE TO WATCH THAT BULLSHIT JUST FOR THEM TO HAVE RATINGS...THAT VMA GARBAGE IS 4 STRAIGHT UP WANKSTA FAGETS AND WHORE BITCHES LOOKING 2 GET RAPED AND TRYING TO SEE WHAT THE NEW FAD IS...LIL WAYNE N T-LAMES WAS COON SHIT...FUCK POP CULTURE...GET CHA MONEY UP NIGGAS

For some reason I hate the fact that everyone says it's T-Pain's voice that everyone is taking, but T-Pain got it from the guy in 2Pac's California Love song. Anyways, the VMAs suck & refuse to watch it again. It's kind of sad when you could say the BET awards are better than MTVs. BET shows more music videos then MTV or VH1. But I'm not gonna hate, I do watch some of the reality shows on MTV though.

The VMA's this year was more political than anything else. "Britney's comeback?" After a year or more of nothing but fuck ups and tabloid spectacles, she walks away with more awards than artists who have been putting in their work? MTV used this award show to build artists that have been born and bred to make money for MTV. Anyone flip to VH1 anytime that night? Notice how even VH1 (under Viacom w/ MTV) had canceled programs to push the MTV awards? MTV is looking to make money in this saggy economy, even if they have to fake an award show.
(Shouts go to Jive Records though...)

Gyant I couldn't agree more. I usually don't agree with alot of the things you say, but yeah the awards were whack as hell. I didn't watch anyone's performance. Rihanna is okay, but she is barely a better singer than Ciarra or Janet. She sings off pitch alot, she just sexy as hell. The real singers don't have albums out right now so we are forced to listen to Ri Ri and Ashanti, and Solange.

I caught a little bit of the performances while switching back and forth between that and the Colts game. But yeah, that VMA's have gotten so lame over the past 5 years. The last VMA's that I can honestly say was worth watching was the 2002 VMA's where Diddy, Busta, Pharrell, and Usher did their performance on "Pass the Courvasier" Since then, the VMA's has been going down the drain. Luckily my fiance was watching the entire show in her room and was telling me when all "ya know" the black performers where going to be performing. Saw Waynes performance, it was average. Kanye's was average. But I liked TI's performance the best cause RiRi was looking fucking spectacular. Jaime Foxx won't lying when he said Chris Brown a lucky dude cause she fucking killed that all black biker outfit "OMG"!!! Beyonce you surely got some competition girl. Hey, I think Ciara is a better singer than RiRi too, but ya'll stop hating so much, ain't like RiRi can't sing. Ya'll act like she sound awful, but then will damn sure bump and sing along to her songs thats getting all the airplay. But all in all. The VMA's are corny as shit now. The BET awards are the thing to watch now. And the VMA's are taking notice. And the funniest joke of the night goes too, "Drum Roll please".....Jaime Foxx for saying "What up TI, I see you got that bail money"!!! Dat nigga still funny!

Awards were FIXED (not that i really care) but Brit won 3 awards and I have yet to see this "Video of the Year" or hear the song. Good way to try and boost her career MTV, it may have worked.

This award was really horrible this year. Everything looked horrible even the set looked cheap. I knew it was going to be bad from the horrible start.

Wayne was horrible, dude grabbed himself 31 times! And I do not want to see his ass fallin out of his pants. I haven't watched the VMA's in a long time, and I wish i didn't watch it last night. Kanye was alright, t.i. was nothing new, t-wayne sucked ass. Leona sounded good. RiRi performances was good, but her voice wasn't that great. I don't understand how wayne did so good this year, or at all. He looked like a retard on stage. Hip-hop is really dying. Some ol school Rakim would be great right about now.

im not into the awards too much.... but i just needed to point this out... cause everyone seems to be missing one key thing... from SOHH Gyant to the people replying.. you say MTV dont really play videos anymore....but thats just 1 station.. MTV has multiple other music channels... MTVJ, MTVH, MTVU, etc... and these are "non-stop" music video channels...

so before you start speaking about something.. make sure all avenues are covered.. now let me get back to watchin music videos on MTVJ....

they still got a mtv awards? i caught some of it last night but it wasn't even worth the watch. i saw NOTHING.

ayo NYAsshole, most of these mufuckas got bootleg cable....and bootleg internet..they can't use it in the evening, too much traffic..lol...this was a setup for a Brit(whit)ney comeback...but all of her fans have grown up...and fuck what ya'll talkin, Kanye killed that shit...simple, but effective...

Rhianna aint killin shit. She sucks.

I just want to say I'm not a huge fan of pop music but I'm glad to see brittney trying to get her life back on track....I'm happy for her really..And as for jordan sparks..I don't know why I dislike her so much...You telling me that out of all the talented people that stood out in the hot and cold for days to audition for american idol she was the best??She is a fat miss piggy looking bitch and it really pisses me off when I think about people like jenifer hudson who are way more talented than her....And lol at the lil jonas brothers wearing promise rings saying the vow to wait until marriage to have sex...You running around singing all these loves songs to these lil white girl whores and got them jumping all over you but you waiting until marriage...They'll be fucking on each other in a minute...

B.Thomas:

MTV VMAS:

-B.Spears didnt deserve 3 moon men (im not a hater at all but come on)

-Can somebody tell me who in the world are the jonas brothers and what they did to become so talked about and famous? (apparently their virgins)

-Were all starting to see the i dont care about what my black fans think anymore rihanna

-lil'wayne.......is lil'wayne

-did the host know that he had no poke in the pants in front of millions(no homo) im sorry but if your gunna talk about sex tha whole show at least look like you have the tools to perform it.i suggest bigger pants next time

-i wonder what t.i was really thinking when jamie foxx said that comment about "bail money" and "dont shoot me"

-i support anything that comes outta kanyes mouth.im just one of those fans

-2009 vmas better blow me out my sockets next year cus this was trash

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i miss beyonce and ciara. rihanna is a stiff boring tranny looking lame

Niggaz is all singing now? I mean Kanyes my boy but for him to go the T-Paint role is just of IMO.Um not saying he should not sing at all, but damn(BTW T.I ripped )

Gyant, you da biggest hater on da internet but anyway, Rihanna IS startin to transform into a pop artist now, and I aint even see it but I'm TIP and Kanye did aight, you can tell who really love by how they perform, and for the at da first commenter, Kanye was singin on his first album back in '04(before T-Pain came out)and who in here heard Pain rap before you heard him sing? I have never considered him a rapper, I dont care what his album was called.

Didn't watch the show and apparently didn't miss anything. Rihanna is a cutie, but her singing(sigh..)is a whole different matter.

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