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Guru wasnt mentioned because he was real hip-hop and bet only cares about pop music. When you got lames like wayne, t.i. soldier boy, jeezy 50 etc gettin plenty of spins while real emcees like Talib Kweli, Mos Def, The Roots etc gettin no play you know they dont give a f**k about hip-hop. They care about pop music.

F!@k BET and its awards shows, they are also contributing to the downfall of hiphop,just like MTV……….

technical glicth, whoever thinks that bs story is true just is wack as the person who said it u right basefunk bet done fell the f**k off i dont watch bet anymore either hip hop is dead and it aint comin back

People you have to understand that BET is not owned by black people. Get it through you thick skulls. We have nothing for ourselves. I never look at BET because it’s a joke and I mean a joke! Black people here in America, we have to start looking out for ourselves and stop worrying about white folks. Let’s move the hell on. Tired of asking for crumbs from his table. Those days are long gone!

I agree with billydanze-2 but at the same time it is what is it’s all about what’s hot now but that’s the industry

Ehh f**k BET (Bad Entertaiment Televison)

I WOULD LIKE TO SAY…GURU WAS MY iDOL..HE HAD ME TO SIT AND CONTEMPLATE DEEP VERSE..HIS SPIRITUAL VIBE..HIS INTELLIGENT WAY ,,A VERY BRILLANT MASTER AT HIS WORK..YES..I DON’T LIKE WHAT HAS HAPPEN TO THIS GENTLEMAN..HE WAS SHAFTED..LEFT COMPLETELY OUT OF THE AWARDS..AS SO MARVIN..NAOMI..THE WHOLE BET INDUSTRY ..AS A WHOLE..CAN’T BE TO BLAME

IT’S UR VIEWERS..THAT MAKES UP..WHO CAN OR CAN’T BUILT AN AUDIENCE OF
WHAT’S TO BE PREFERRED..BET WAS ALWAYS A STATION FOR THE YOUTH..NOT SEEING GOOD TALENT OR GOOD TASTE..OR A CLASS ACT..JUST MONEY IN THE BANK
CREATE..WERE STILL ALIVE..NOT NOT DEAD..PAST OR PRESENT..WE ALL ARE HISTORY IN THE MAKING ..BLACK..BEAUTIFUL..BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN..PEACE..SJ..CREATE

why is this even an issue?

1) BET awards? that’s like sambo giving out awards to aspiring sambos;

2) ‘uproar in the hip hop community’? what the fucc? was there ‘upheaval in the jazz community because BET didn’t name a month after wes montgomery’?

LOL

any other NON ISSUES to report?

They don’t want to honor an artist with real lyrical skill! They want to recognize all this bubble gum “get low, get low” whack crap!

This is a horrible arrticle blog foreal.”Guru”.”Stephen Hill”.”BET”.

BET is a business first and foremost so they will cater to the most popular artist that generate the most revenue. WHen was the last time BET played a Prince, Guru, Teddy Pendergrass video? When was the last time they played a MIchael Jackson video before he had died?

@ niceguyforu1 i agree just like blackplanet is not owned by black people

I don’t know if his excuse is true or not. He might have made that up as he went along.

BULLLLLSSSHHHYYTTTTTT!!!! I am so sick of excuses…..I turned to BET a long time ago to here the voices that I understood…….the originators……..but they have sold out to the mass media…..obliteration of a culture……..I don’t give a damn about the excuses…..even if the tape failed…..so what …..a f**king video shot as thanks to someone that struggled through the begining of hip hop and rap and didn’t sale out…….EVER……I don’t give a dammmnnn whether he was gay or not……….expression of what realy going on and refusal to sale sex and violence as a cartoonized verzion of this new generation…..babies of the 60s……born into a struggle…….no road map………no AMERICAN IDOL………just I am who I am and I got something to say……….I miss you Guru…….your influence will live on……….Peace ……rest know……your work is done………Shug

I guess I didn’t miss anything by not looking at this show.

we beed to wake up boycott america in general,we will never be accepted no matter what we do in this filthy country.bet been sold out black planet is not black owned,we dont own s**t in this country whites and foreigners are making moves in this country.We need to accept it and move on we can do it on our own

@AKW215

That’s the problem, when garbage I mentioned b4 (wayne t.i. etc) is considered “hot” then hip-hop needs to be disbanded as musical genre and started over.

So even though there’s a clear video of the dedication that Stephen Hill is talking about, people here still think that Guru was left out on purpose? How is that possible?

It’s not that he was left out on purpose….it’s that he wasn’t given his dues by incompetent unappeciative ignorance………SALE out and wake up people ….it ain’t all about black and white…..WAKE the f**k up…..it is an easy distraction to block you from action….ignorance is the enemy…..that is what Guru understood……but, enough of blaming BET…… as consumers we share the responsibility……what was the last CD you bought…….what was the last show you went to?…….support those that are working…..telling the truth….,..building you up……quit buying into the bullshytt!!!!……..f**k BET, but then again …….if we demand more…..perhaps they will deliver……….Peace, Shug

There is a simple reason he was not on. One low level exec asked a high level exec should we do a tribute to the recently passed rapper Guru. The higher level exec asked will the 12-20 year old and female demographics who think lil wayne is the best rapper around know who Guru is?? The lower level exec says “I highly doubt it”. The higher level exec says “don’t bother with it then”.

It’s really simple. BET is not black-owned anymore, and 99% of the executive management staff don’t have a phucking clue as to “who” Guru was nor the contribution he made to the hip-hop culture as one of its innovators…(Thanx, Mr. Johnson!…)

Second, you got all of these fake-@zz, apologetic people like SHUG8 who help defeat the purpose of honoring his significance with that mumbo-jumbo bullshyt about what Black ought to do…get this: you wouldn’t have hip-hop today if it wasn’t for creative artists like Guru, who emerged during the golden age of hip-hop…

OMG all u people do is complain about little things… it was an accident, technical glitch, move on dang STFU get mad about something else like THE ECONOMY!

BET is G H E T T O as all hell!!! Shady, tacky, and don’t give a fcuk. All they know Gangster Hip Hop, and exploiting black people!!! Do Not Watch that bullshyt!!!

Easy_one65,
Yep, You’re right everything You said is true and most people do not know who Gangstarr was or is. I remember when Gangstarr first came out and how much he contributed to Rap music so far.

fuk bet they show support to these boule muthuphukas because they are boule orientated and they could give a less fuk about real hip hop artist ihope i live the day to see all these muthuphukas burn. You can make all the excuses u want they had no intentions on honoring the GURU and GANGSTARR. Trust me they know the creditentials this great rap group brought out they did it intentionally. So they can keep supporting these wack nicca’s all day long the truth is the truth and u can’t fool the ones who know the facts. Again rip GURU your legacy will always be honored by me. SHOUTS TO ALL REAL HIP HOP ARTIST AND ALL BLACK MILITANT ORGANIZATIONS.

bet aint hiphop if y ask me there on americas side of the debate

I would have rather looked at a blank screen than looking at gary coleman’s ugly ass.

Why won’t Blackplanet honor Guru?
What’s with the anti BET speak everyday here? It’s really getting old. Watch BET or don’t (like myself) but don’t talk it, live it.

It would be nice if they would do a one hour show on Gangstar and Guru, sort of like UNSUNG and have his friends, family, music label mates, discuss him, his music legacy, his start in music , so that the fans who enjoy his music can see this, and those unfamiliar with it, can get to know what he was about. BET became too one deimensional. They need to step it up some more notches. I realize that they want to focus on what sells m,but don’t totally alienate your original fan base that helped you toget to where you are.

Bet never really played much gangstarr on their station over the years that had some of the most underated albums in the history of rap music..i cant even watch too many videos now, and i dont even watch BET anymore, the artist that get air time on that station are wack as hell..They better do it big for my man Guru on the hiphop awards he was ahead of his time as a artist…This is off the subject, but to some of you record lables i hope you read this..what the f**k are some of you guys on , some of these artist sound like s**t im sorry, it sucks ,the beat’s sound like s**t and the artist rap about the same stuff all the time…Even the r&B artist sound like garbage it seems like alot of artist is watering down their music and selling out, i cant even listen to new music any more i gotta pull out my old music, but im getting tired of listening to my old music when you mutha f**kas are gonna get it together and make some good music again…anything i buy new is from mix tapes for rap music,Let’s get it right people, let’s start making good music again…

Easy one 65……………BBUllllshyttt!!….apologetic…..another dumb ass that finds it easier to hate than debate…..I didn’t say what black people should do….I said what all people should do……..all people should back real artists by supporting real artists…….isn’t it ironic that I never mentioned race…….yet you assume mine……..you don’t know who the hell I am nor what my background is……but in the end it doesn’t matter……..none of us get to choose…..we all come in the world the same and go out the same………

FORGIVEN~

BET is not for Black people only for their destruction. BLACK EVIL TELEVISION…..just kidding. not really

I don’t know if I’m buying that bull… Real hip-hop lives forever, while the labels, media, and scandalous snakes and leeches play in the dirt… that’s ok though, the Underground is bout to rise up…You will soon see underground at it’s finest… “A Touch of the Past” in your e-stores in the Fall! Old to the New School hip-hop

Easy One-65 (Your post was really honest, white folk don’t know hip hop)

It’s really simple. BET is not black-owned anymore, and 99% of the executive management staff don’t have a phucking clue as to “who” Guru was nor the contribution he made to the hip-hop culture as one of its innovators…(Thanx, Mr. Johnson!…)

Second, you got all of these fake-@zz, apologetic people like SHUG8 who help defeat the purpose of honoring his significance with that mumbo-jumbo bullshyt about what Black ought to do…get this: you wouldn’t have hip-hop today if it wasn’t for creative artists like Guru, who emerged during the golden age of hip-hop…

THATS KINDA FOUL…I THINK IT WAS GOOD FOR THEM TO LET CHRIS BROWN DO HIS THING…HE DESERVED THAT. FAR AS BEYONCE, RIHANNA & JAY Z IT WAS GOOD FOR A CHANGE NOT TO HAVE THEM THERE. THEY SHOULD HAVE DID A BETTER JOB AT PAYING RESPECTS TO ALL THE BLACK ENTERTAINERS THAT HAVE PASSED…THE SAME WAY WHITE PPL WOULD HAVE PAID HOMAGE TO THEIR OWN.

Chris Brown can perform I feel theres nothing we can do to stop him from performing as fans other then not paying to see him or buying his music. AS 4 BET dat excuse 4 not showing Guru and the others dat was lame dey should have show them some love. If it was LilWayne or Soulja Boy BET would show the Hell out of them. NO BET 4 ME.

http://swaggtalk100.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/throwback-tuesdays-guru-dies-at-43-r-i-p-gangstarr/

@stylemaker2020

I’d say most BLACK people today don’t know hip hop. I’d say 99% of people on BP had no idea who Gangstarr is. Let call it what it is females and the bet target demographic (tennages very early 20s) don’t know what hip hop is.

Young kids and females have the nerve to call wayne, jeezy and 50 hip-hop and got enough balls to call people like minaj emcees. Sorry to break this to you but its black folks who don’t know hip hop. Mainly its females who are guilty.

I’d bet you be hard pressed to find any females on here who know one Gangstarr song that has not been mentioned in an article somewhere. Chicks might know some of the singles the group made but dare one of em to name an album cut without looking it up.

I bet not one of the dudes on here under 26-27 can name the side project that Guru was involved in when Gangstarr was havin problems WITHOUT lookin it up. I bet they didnt even know Guru had side projects to begin wit.

To say whites don’t know hip hop is probably true but blacks know less about hip hop. As I said females especially. They know commercial packaged rap though, but they dont know hip-hop

@stylemaker2020

A further showing that females don’t know what hip-hop is. I have so many females I chat with on here ask me what my name means. Anybody who REALLY knows hip-hop will know what/who billy danze is. The fact that so many females ask me what it means shows just how little females know about hip-hop. If i’d used some nickname or phrase that wayne used i bet 98% of people on bp would have caught it).

billy-danze2, I’m sure there as many males; if not more as females who don’t know who Billy Danze is you naive, closed-minded idiot.

billy-danze2, music isn’t everything and if the media actually kept the music real a lot of people and not just females like the ones you’re singling out would know who these people are. I know who they are so where is your proof and where the hell are these percentages coming from, the crack of your ass? You should just shut your ill-mannered, sexist, shallow a.ss up.

A lot of people such as myself don’t even listen to these coon tunes for that simple fact. I stick to what was good and its not even close to Lil’ Wayne. I’ve never been so offended in my life, I’ll never let an idiot piss me off in such a manner again. You are one retarded son of a b.itch. Its not the message in its entity that’s pissed me off it’s your f.ucked up percentage. What makes you so smart or so better than someone else because you think what you’re listening to makes you more significant than anyone else? Music is music and if you let it define you, then you’re destine to fail.

You’re about as smart as a bag of s**t on fire.

@ Billy youre right, but wrong for jackin my mans name from M.O.P lolololololol!!!!

I honestly thought they were gonna wait for the HIP HOP Awards. But my mistake.

he wasn’t honored because he’s a hip hop artist… bet has a hip hop award show… sheesh you all are like kids sometimes

Riiight.

lol…..and Gary Coleman is…..enough excuses……..ain’t no thing……..Guru was realy underground………..no suprise that he wouldn’t be recognized…….all I can hope for is that some of the people seeing these messages will be curious enough to check his work out…..he deserves recognition…..not just from BET , but from all music outlets……..till then …..he has and always will be on my playlist……peace and Blessings

billy-danze2, you’re a clown in here. So females got to have a badge of honor to prove they know what Hip Hop is? I’m not going to sit here and type up every artist of Hip Hop I have ever enjoyed, but I will say that I’m he11 on not supporting these wack newcomers such as Drake, Nicki Minaj, waka flocka… Maybe the caliber of females you associate with are hoodrats that credit Trina, Wayne, Baby, t.i., Nicki Minaj, Jeezy, Gucci Mane as Hip Hop and may not know about underground acts such as Jean Grae, Pharoahe Monch, Chase Infinite, Edgar Allen Floe nor about the known Hip Hop acts such as Lupe Fiasco, Black Thought (The Roots), Talib Kweli (Hi-Tek & Black Star w/Mos Def), Slum Village, Wale, 9th Wonder (Little Brother), Rah Digga, Q-Tip…. Maybe you should divorce those lame females and get acquainted with some true Hip Hop Headed Females such as myself. Death to commercial Rap, lets Revive Hip Hop while to clings to life support!

Let’s face it. Even the founder of BET is not supportive of BET. Go figure!

Frankly as much as I do like black television, I don;t care about the views of anyone station anyhow. Guru was the Jam from the first to the last album. I still support his music in every was since he was for nothing but the positive.

@Asilee

As the old saying goes you protest too much. Nobody would be gettin offended unless the comments applied to them directy. You gettin all upset and resorting to name callin obviously indicates you’re one of the chicks who doesn’t know hip hop because if it didn’t apply to you directly then the response would have been something like “i disagree” but the response you gave shows that it hit home.

@Jordan

Do they need a badge of honor? No, but they should know the difference between rap and hip-hop. You can name call and blame this on the media if you want but the want is they provide what people buy and the lion share of album purchases across all genres of music are made by women. Give me a few days and I’ll reply with the soundscan and RIAA data that shows the male to females breakdown of album purchases.

If women are the majority purchasers, then they are also account for most of the purchases of the waynes and drakes of the world. Based on this, the reason the jeezys and the t.i of the world are selling as much as they are is mainly because of women. Of course men buy albums too but data shows that men do not buy music as much as women (again give me a few days to find the data).

As far as attacking the type of women I know how about doing a random sample of about 25 women and note down the music they have on their page and see if i’m making this up. It would be simple on a day when you on and not busy just look at 25 pages, (ignoring the ones with no music at all)note how many got wayne, drake etc, and divide that by 25. I’m almost certain the percentage would be 85%+. This way you won’t have to take my word for it and you’ll be able to see it yourself.

billy-danze2, I understand where you’re coming from. I just don’t want you to classify all women in one lump sum. I, for one, refuse to buy commercial rap and I am a underground Hip Hop fanatic. It’s like once an underground act goes commercial (i.e. Jay Z, Nas, Busta Rhymes-post Leaders of the new skool, QTip-post Tribe Called Qwest) I just lose interest in them because they’re no longer making music for the art,but for the hype at the music exec’s request for monetary gain. Before I go on, I still consider Q-Tip real Hip Hop though because he’s from a generation of real Hip Hop, I just think at one point he sold out so did Nas with that Oochie Wally blasphemous trash.

Have you ever considered the fact that the ratio of females buying trash rap (i.e Gucci Mane, Nicki Minaj…) is possibly 80 % teen females and 20% adult females? From what I’ve witnessed, a lot of young girls (15-18) is the higher ratio of fans of these wack rappers. You really can’t fault these little teeny boppers because of course they are not in the know of the real art of Hip Hop. This is the loss generation we’re talking about and that’s our 80%, they need some Hip Hop education. Now the 20% adult females support trash rap need more than Hip Hop counseling, they need to be taught some morals altogether because any grown woman in support of Lil Wayne and the likes who call them b%tches and h0es are loss causes.

umm really I can tell they were have technical problems, did you notice how people’s mics were messing up, couldn’t hardly hear Monica when she was singing and Em”s mic kept going in and out, BET makes me sick,like seriously after 10 years they still can’t get their s**t together

THIS IS NOT A PERFECT WORLD… SO MIS-STAKES WILL ALWAYS HAPPEN… TOO MUCH COMPLAINTING AND NOT ENOUGH LOVE… IT’S THE PAST SO KEEP IT MOVING…

what an excuse ,bet still should had honored guru,despite any technical difficuties that occurred there.pictures on screens are good ,but verbal honoraries are better.

Why everybody throw teen girls under the bus for liking trash and nothaving real hiphop knowledge or how to decipher art from trash I myself am 20 and even when I was 13 I never listened to the garbage on the radio cause eerybody know he real s**t they dont play on the radio, im a 90′s baby but but rock the f**k out of some KRS-ONE and all my friends are the same so please dont assume that age automatically makes you real hiphop illiterate cause that is far from the truth

aint no glitch, they didnt want to put this s**t up and waste value sponsership and money to african american entertainers that cannot increase publicity. little kids dont know who these legends are anyway so why waste time on them when you can market out the current entertainers?

this tape was prepared in case they were called out why they didnt have a tribute to the recent legends who passed away.

BET need to get back to where we were! They showed all this booty shakin and dissin females and ignorant crap but you can’t represent someone as nice as GURU. I’d see him all the time in the A&P in Valley stream and he was always humble. We’d talk about the songs they put out and move on. Simple. Can’t believe they didn’t do anything for our man. What a great person, what a great hip-hop group!

BULL S TO THA H I TO THE YOU KNOW………..

A TECH GlitChhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh MY BACK I MEAN BLACKC DANG I MEAN BLACK “DONKEY”

THEY DID NOT NEED NO SCREEN THEY COULD OF BROUGHT OUT SOME PEPS CLOSE TO HIM AND LET THEM TALK FROM THE HEART, NO SCRIPT, TURN OFF THE TELE PROMPTER, AND JUST SPEAK, PLAY SOME OF HIS BIGGEST HITS, BEATS………..

YOU FORGOT / YOU DID NOT WANT TO…………….ADMIT IT BET, YOU FORGOT.

PETTY PABLO, mR. THIS IS WHY I’M HOT, GUCCI MANE / MAN WHAT EVER HIS NAME IS, MIKE JONE, MC HAMMER, AFRO MAN ARE ALL LEGENDS IN HIP HOP NO GGURU, IS SOMETHING MANY PEOPLE DO NOT NOTICE…….IS 100% BULL $#!T.

NOT ONE OF THEM ARE ON HIS LEVEL GURU WAS HOT AND NOT REALLY INTO ALL THIS, SHAKE IT AND DROP IT, MAYBE NEVER MADE NUMBER ONE ON 106&PARK BUT HE WAS OLD SCHOOL. AND REAL SHAME ON YOU BET

YOU COULD OF SPOKE HIS NAME

YOU COULD OF PLAYED HIS TRACKS EVEN ON A RADIO ON BLAST

HAVE SOMEBODY DRIVE THEIR WHIP ON STAGE BLASTING HIS TUNES

GLITCH, YOU FULL OF IT THEN YOU F UP SOME PEPS MICS TO “PROVE YOU HAD GLITHCES”

OLD SCHOOL FOR EVEN MS. LIGHT SKIN TALK LIKE A HIGH PICTH ANIMAL SHOULD BE FIRED

HE DID HIS PART HAVING VIDEOS ON BET AND GIVING BEATS TO SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN THE GAME AND WHAT DOES HE GET A LAME TAPE THAT WAS IN TENDED NOT TO BE SHOWN AND HIS NAME NOT EVEN MENTIONED

DEBRA I THINK YOUR NAME IS QUIT YOU DISRESPECTFUL B Y T (YOU KNOW THE REST)

I agree with you all bet should have done something for guru or have someone come out and mention his name. r.i.p to one of the best in history who fused hip hop and jazz. we will never forget you guru.

guru was nasty as hell and one of my fav. bet should have had something for him. take take it personal.

Since You Went There>>Old School Rapper Queen Latifah Should of Made Sure Guru name was Metioned!! If You Can mention Ron Artest by Name 4Nothing Guru Could of Got a Shout-Out! Whats Up with Drake Beating Jay-Z for Best Rapper! Lil Wayne Not Nominated?? I Think Lil Wayne Gave His Award 2His Homeboy Drake, BET Agreed?? Whats Ur Answer?

Ok I understand technical difficulties however there can be PSA’s with that particular video feed giving honr to whom honor is due…I’m just sayin’
LastMoor

I HAD THE HONOR OF MEETING AND EXPERIENCING GURU UP CLOSE & PERSONAL DOING HIS JAZZMATAZZ VOLUME I…IT WAS A VERY MEMORABLE AND BEAUTIFUL TIME. I ATTENDED ALL THREE SHOWS. HE WAS JUST THAT GOOD!!! REST IN THE KINGS PARADISE “GIFTED UNLIMITED RHYMES UNIVERSAL” A TRUE PIONEER OF THE INDUSTRY.

thats unfortunate…someone should have created a better, more reliable memorial…

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