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VH1's Hip Hop Honors - The West Coast Version

Posted on October 18, 2006 10:25 PM

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Alright, I gave everybody a day to catch up, whether it be through Youtube or Tivo or OnDemand or whatever, and now it’s time to talk about the VH1 Hip Hop Honors show. Yeah, it was in NY. Yeah, there were more NY artists honored, but Ice-T is from South Central. There was an Eazy E tribute, Cube was up in there, and my man Ron Mexico hasn’t written up on it as of right now (although that might be different by the time this posts) so we’re takin’ it. Or at least the West Coast-related portion of it.

First off, what the fuck is up with VH1? Does anybody remember like five years ago when all they played was adult contemporary and boyband bullshit? Now all of the sudden somebody gave them the TV version of a ghetto pass and they’re all over the hip hop shit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for it -- even though BET’s still going strong, god knows MTV has been on some garbage for years now (do we really need 4-hour marathons of "Parental Control" or "Two A Days"?) so someone needed to pick up the slack. Plus, they gave us "Flavor Of Love"... End of story.

Ice-T eats charisma for breakfast and shits it out at the end of the day (as you’ll see in the interview I’m posting next week) so he was a logical pick as far as hosts go, and he did a good job with the show. But Iceberg Finn had a couple of bad looks during the... um... “ceremony.” One, that SVU skit was awful. Two, watching him take credit for the hook from “99 Problems” and then follow it up with “but here’s one woman who’s definitely no bitch... MC Lyte!” made me squirm in my seat.

First off, the Cube tribute.

I don’t know if anybody else noticed, but when he was performing Xzibit looked like he was on steroids or some shit... He looked like he was mad frustrated that there was nothing on stage for him to punch. Shit reminded me of the video for “Slam” with cockeyed Sticky Fingaz looking like he just chain smoked a whole pack of sherm cigarettes. X yelled (in monotone) the entire verse of “Check Ya Self” that he performed, and then gave the audience a tough guy stinkeye like he was about to go all Mike Tyson’s Punchout on every one of those muhfuckas, but that’s live rap for you 9 times outta 10. He also did the radio (i.e. clean) version. But it’s VH1, so I guess there’’s no foul.

I know it’s a touchy subject, so I’m not gonna talk about the new shit that Cube performed (although I must admit that I’m starting to come around on that “Why We Thugs” joint... just a little bit, though). BUT... him and Lil’ Crusty Teeth Jon yelling “If you a scared mother mother” was another classic moment courtesy of the censors at VH1.

Up second, we have the Eazy-E tribute. Shit was a little touching, long overdue... and way too short. They had Ren, Yella, and Lil’ Eazy on there talking about the man. Shit, they even got Cube to say nice things about Eazy. But WHERE THE FUCK was Dre?

Speaking of Lil’ E, I’m as excited as anyone to hear the album -- he’s got flows, and he’s got his pops’ voice, both of which give him an early upper-hand. But man, somebody please give dude a lesson on stage presence. And next time you’re performing on TV, maybe you can make it down the stairs in less than 10 minutes if you’re clothes aren’t size Quadruple Extra Medium.

I know I said I’d keep it related to West Coast shit from the show, but I’m gonna squeeze in two quick comments. One: That whole mind-fucking trainwreck revisit of “Planet Rock” with Joey Crack, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Black Thought (making his 29th appearance of the evening) and crazy-ass Erykah Badu... don’t EVER do that again. I had food poisoning so bad once that I was hallucinating (OK, so it was shrooms) for 5 hours and it was EXACTLY like that 7 minutes of television... except for that the 7 minutes felt longer.

Annnnd... WHERE THE FUCK WAS GHOST-DINI DURING THE WU PERFORMANCE? AGGGGHHHHH...

Posted by SOHH Leftist

Comments

  • wizzlejizzle says...
  • I was able to catch everything up to the Eazy- E tribute, but had to go to work after that. It was nice to see MC Lyte out there and the homeboy icecube, and lil easy does sound like his dad.

  • October 18, 2006 11:49 PM
  • sexxy says...
  • second assholes! lol i saw it mclite was definently doing her thing on stage and so was other rappers ...it was aight.

  • October 19, 2006 12:24 AM
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  • October 19, 2006 6:15 AM
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  • October 19, 2006 7:59 AM
  • Genieda1 says...
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  • October 19, 2006 8:11 AM
  • Live Nigga Prophecy says...
  • Man, i don't even read the West coast posts but man that shit was funny.

    Making references ot Mike Tyson's Punchout on the NES...is pure fucking gold. Ice T is on one of the best shows on T.V. Law & Order: SVU, give this guy an Emmy.

  • October 19, 2006 8:18 AM
  • The Mayor says...
  • It's was a aight performance from the west coast, but allot of people who talk shit all the time, like GAME, wasn't even their. How you rep the west and not perform 2 someone you look up to. Lil eazy wuz aight, and jeezy didn't rap much. Ice Cube didn't even play none of his good songs except "Good Day". Snoop wasn't their for that Ice Cube song "Go To Church". DAMN, NOT EVEN DOCTER DRE WUZ THEIR. All I know is that New York killed. From Beastie Boyz, to MC Lyte, Rakim, and then Wu-tang. Shiiiiiiiiiit.

  • October 19, 2006 8:37 AM
  • Cam'ron says...
  • I thinkGhost is the one who left after that big thing backstage. They said someone left on their own...I guess it was him.

    Blows,I know.I was really looking forward to that.

  • October 19, 2006 12:17 PM
  • Bird says...
  • Maybe Eazy's wife didn't want Dre to be involved. Remember they didn't part amicably at all. Dre may have made peace with him just prior to his death, but had he hired Suge Knight to shake down my man I wouldn't have him involved in a tribute either. I also like the Law and Order skit. I thought it was cool that his castmates showed him the love like that when they are not hip hop people.

  • October 19, 2006 12:17 PM
  • Dont even argue with me! says...
  • Nas - Best Eastcoast rapper

    Snoop - Best Westcoast rapper

    Ludacris - Best Southern rapper

    M&M - Best Northern rapper

  • October 19, 2006 12:53 PM
  • Enlightened says...
  • GET OFF RON MEXICO DICK!
    I thought I was reading Talking Videos or something. Do you! Just do you!

  • October 19, 2006 1:03 PM
  • M.FREEMZ.ILLA says...
  • DAAANG I WAS OUT IN THE STREETZ THAT NIGHT AND MISSED IT! AS FAR AS I HEARD IT WAS ALRIGHT.. THATZ DOPE THAT LIL EAZY WAS THERE.. AS FAR AS TOMICA WRIGHT -SHE SHOULDA STAYED HOME!! I HAVE ZERO RESPECT FOE HER-SHE FUKCED OFF RUTHLESS.. AS FAR AS DRE NOT BEING THERE- FUKC DRE! HES A DOPE AZZ PRODUCER- BUT HE'z ALWAYS BEEN A WIMP. DAMN I GOTTA STAY TUNED FOR THE RE RUN- I WANNA SEE CUBE- I DONT CARE FOR "WHY WE THUGZ" BUT I LIKE GO TO CHURCH- AND I THINK HE SOUND RAW OVER THAT LIL JON PRODUCTION.. I EVEN HEARD DUB C WAS ON THERE . . I GOTTA CATCH THE RE RUN! I BLEW IT!

  • October 19, 2006 1:38 PM
  • cristina says...
  • MAN BUT DID U SEE LIL KIM THOUGH SHE RIPPED IT SHE MADE REMY MA LOOK LIKE A BIGGER CLOWN THAN WHAT SHE IS "WHEN IS REMY GONNA STEP HER FASHION GAME UP THAT HAIR GROSS I MEAN DAMN" KIM GETS ALOT OF FLACK FOR HER SURGERY CHOICES BUT SHE BE LOOKIN FRESH SOME TIMES MAYBE SOME OF THESE OTHER CHICKS AUGHT TO GET CLIPPED

  • October 19, 2006 1:41 PM
  • superfly says...
  • All I wanna know is "WHY" did VH1 have all those current songs playning during the intermission!!! I would have thought since it is basically old hip hop, why not play some old school material!! Just wanna throw that out there. Oh and the Wu, still rocks!!! But I wish they would have showed the whole thing instead of cutting it to show the credits!!

  • October 19, 2006 1:50 PM
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  • October 19, 2006 2:56 PM
  • PARTYMUSIC says...
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    SHOW ME WHAT U GOT PRETTY LADY
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    NOW JUST WAVE - WAVE - WAVE - WAVE

    LOL: SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER DANCE SONG/CLUB SONG/ A SONG FOR THE LADIES - TO ME.

    I GUESS I CANT BE MAD AT ATLANTA.

  • October 19, 2006 3:08 PM
  • Gotdayumhouston says...
  • Maaaan! The VH1 Hip-Hop Honors was the shiz-nit. The Easy Tribute was cool. Lil Eazy be stunnin like his daddy during that performance. They should've let Bone Thugs finish their set and WHERE THE HELL WAS BIZZY BONE?! Mc Lyte tribute was cool. I'd rather see Yo-yo (damn she fine) spit instead of Lil Kim (the black version of Rosanne Barr). The Afrika Bambaataa tribue was cool, altough mediocre, but great. Badu was lookin right with that phat ass. Funkadelic was ight but George needed to cool it wit that damn bird yell and shyt. lol The Beasties totally rocked it on stage. Eventhough the crowd was comatose. The Russell Simmons tribue was a peice of hip-hop history right there. The Wu-Tang tribute left me with a question. Where was Ghostface at? Ice Cube's joint was tight. It would've been better though is they just inducted all of NWA in the joint anyway. It would've made more sense to me. Rakim rocked and shocked it. All in all a great show. Now let's see if BET can top that with their Hip-Hop Awards this year. lolololol!

  • October 19, 2006 3:14 PM
  • iforgotmyname says...
  • anyone listen to the xzibit album yet. I bought it and i think its pretty damn good.

  • October 19, 2006 3:30 PM
  • SCARTOWN says...
  • I think the reason why Ghostface wasn't there is because there was supposedly a fight backstage between Wu Tang and security over credentials.One of the members had to leave over the bullshit.It was never said who but Ghost wasn't there.

  • October 19, 2006 4:09 PM
  • BigDickJohnson says...
  • They should've did a tribute to my BIG BLACK HAIRY DICK! BDJ up in this bitch!!
    Oh yeah, fuck you Gienieda1, u just mad cuz I would'nt let'cha herpes infested mouth around my dick bitch!!

  • October 19, 2006 5:55 PM
  • mike Love says...
  • what do u mean??? Ice T SHOULD take credit for the hook to 99 Problems because he wrote that line like 18 years ago...what the fuck???

  • October 19, 2006 6:24 PM
  • MuchBiggerThanBigDickJohnson says...
  • ...Hilarious review! Ya'll know what time it is!

  • October 19, 2006 7:03 PM
  • MuchBiggerThanBigDickJohnson says...
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  • October 19, 2006 7:06 PM
  • SOHH EIGHTY says...
  • "what do u mean??? Ice T SHOULD take credit for the hook to 99 Problems because he wrote that line like 18 years ago...what the fuck???"
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    @ Mike Love

    Yeah, I know that. What I was refering to was how he tied it in to what he said to MC Lyte.

    -80

  • October 19, 2006 7:09 PM
  • texas_swang_harder says...
  • Ya'll are crazy man. That show was the shit. Cube and Wu-Tang killed it for me. Rakim gets honorable mention.

  • October 19, 2006 8:10 PM
  • texas_swang_harder says...
  • And another thing i could care less about VH-1 the channel really. I just give them props cause no other channel even has anything like this. It should be mandatory for kids who are like 14 to 19 who are into hip-hop to watch this show. So they can understand that Lil Wayne is not the best rapper alive. Sorry to Wayne but that just aint true. LOL!

  • October 19, 2006 8:24 PM
  • truf says...
  • Do a post on Kid Frost....

  • October 19, 2006 11:36 PM
  • Gusto says...
  • Bizzy Bone wasn`t there because he left the group. But where was Dresta, dr.dre, rhymD, Dirty Red, Menajatwa, Steffon, Jerry Heller and Kokane. Eazy did a lot with this people. In the show ice-T makes a Compliment to Tomika. That She keeps Ruthless alive? (Ruthless is dead??????????). Lil-E is a dope guy. His Live prefomence is great...Eazy-E RIP 11523

  • October 31, 2006 2:49 PM
  • Killa Cali G says...
  • The VH1 Hip Hop Honors were good but why was Eazy-E's performance so fuckin short. Honorees like Beastie Boys, Rakim, MC Lyte,Afrika Bambataa and others tributes were so fuckin long but why was Eazy's only 4 minutes 41 seconds that's too fuckin short and his honoree and tribute should have been longer like everyone else's and his honoree into the Hip Hop Honors was long fuckin overdue. VH1 never honor West Coast legends in hip hop they should honor more.I'm glad artists like Beastie Boys, Rakim and Ice Cube were honored but VH1 are pure biased as they honor more acts from New York rather than acts from Killa Cali or Da Dirty South(GA,TX,TN etc)Lil Eazy did a good performance with Jeezy and Bone Thugs but were was The Game he should have honored The Godfather Of Gangsta Rap as well. Rest In Peace- Eric 'Eazy-E' Wright 1963-1995 (The Hip Hop Thugsta, The Little Big Man) 11523

  • November 2, 2006 9:26 AM
  • Killa Cali G says...
  • The VH1 Hip Hop Honors were good but why was Eazy-E's performance so fuckin short. Honorees like Beastie Boys, Rakim, MC Lyte,Afrika Bambataa and others tributes were so fuckin long but why was Eazy's only 4 minutes 41 seconds that's too fuckin short and his honoree and tribute should have been longer like everyone else's and his honoree into the Hip Hop Honors was long fuckin overdue. VH1 never honor West Coast legends in hip hop they should honor more.I'm glad artists like Beastie Boys, Rakim and Ice Cube were honored but VH1 are pure biased as they honor more acts from New York rather than acts from Killa Cali or Da Dirty South(GA,TX,TN etc)Lil Eazy did a good performance with Jeezy and Bone Thugs but were was The Game he should have honored The Godfather Of Gangsta Rap as well. Rest In Peace- Eric 'Eazy-E' Wright 1963-1995 (The Hip Hop Thugsta, The Little Big Man) 11523

  • November 2, 2006 9:27 AM
  • Killa Cali G says...
  • The VH1 Hip Hop Honors were good but why was Eazy-E's performance so fuckin short. Honorees like Beastie Boys, Rakim, MC Lyte,Afrika Bambataa and others tributes were so fuckin long but why was Eazy's only 4 minutes 41 seconds that's too fuckin short and his honoree and tribute should have been longer like everyone else's and his honoree into the Hip Hop Honors was long fuckin overdue. VH1 never honor West Coast legends in hip hop they should honor more.I'm glad artists like Beastie Boys, Rakim and Ice Cube were honored but VH1 are pure biased as they honor more acts from New York rather than acts from Killa Cali or Da Dirty South(GA,TX,TN etc)Lil Eazy did a good performance with Jeezy and Bone Thugs but were was The Game he should have honored The Godfather Of Gangsta Rap as well. Rest In Peace- Eric 'Eazy-E' Wright 1963-1995 (The Hip Hop Thugsta, The Little Big Man) 11523

  • November 2, 2006 9:27 AM
  • Zew says...
  • The Game couldn't be in Eazy's tribute because he HAD a beef with Lil Eazy back then. And I wonder why wasn't Dr.Dre there? He wasn't in Eazy's funeral and now this????? I hope he had a good reason.

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