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BET has expressed remorse over a performance by Lil Wayne, Drake and Young Money[CLICK TO WATCH] Records that involved underage girls during songs “Best I Ever Had” and “Every Girl.”

The songs, which have overt sexual references, were performed during the Sunday BET Awards ’09 show as a bevy of young girls danced on stage. The group of girls consisted of Lil Wayne’s daughters and her friends.

In an exclusive statement, BET has responded to the criticism and the public outcry over the segment.

“BET Networks deeply regrets the performance by Young Money at the BET AWARDS ’09 (featuring Lil Wayne, Drake, Gudda Gudda and Mack Maine),” a BET representative told AllHipHop.com exclusively. “Elements of the performance were unplanned and should not have happened.”

In the aftermath of the show, many have expressed outrage over the outing by Young Money, which was set amid a show dedicated to the late Michael Jackson.

See our list of Most Awkward BET Awards Moments

Activist and filmmaker Byron Hurt lambasted the network earlier in the week in an open letter to Debra Lee, the President and Chief Executive Officer of BET Holdings, Inc.

“In a culture where one out of four girls and women are either raped or sexually assaulted – and where manipulative men routinely traffic vulnerable women into the sex industry – it is not okay that BET allowed this to happen,” Hurt said. “BET owes its entire audience – particularly girls and women around the world – an apology for its failure to intervene.” [Read His Full Statement HERE]

A representative said generally the company has found such opinions useful.

“We value and appreciate the feedback from our viewers and have edited Young Money’s performance for all BET Awards ’09 encore presentations.”

Drake has apologized and taken responsibility for the performance, admitting it was in poor taste.

“That…was a terrible idea that I’ll never do to myself again. But I was being pressed from different areas to perform, and I think what really happened at the BET Awards is with the passing of Mike, the climate really changed, as far as the award show goes,” he told Complex. “I don’t think it called for us to perform “Every Girl” and “Always Strapped,”…it was just timed very poorly and it definitely wasn’t planned like that…To anyone who was offended, my personal apologies, it wasn’t intended to offend anybody.”

Drake followed up that performance by releasing the video to “Best I Ever Had” that has many of his female fans crying foul for some over-the-top sexuality. Drake responded to that criticism as well {click to read].

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheHaloChamp/ TheHaloChamp

    Oh now they regret it? Too late, its out there now and already happened.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lettimetell/ lettimetell

    What should you expect any better from BET they would not let Chris Brown perform , they should allow a special performance in Honor of MJ from Chris Brown to makeup for the bad performance of the rap group to do justice serviced….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    LMFAOOO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LadyInRed96/ LadyInRed96

    Thought it was Just me who thought that was a bit ODD!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mrbluntforce2/ mrbluntforce2

    wake up black people!!!! new school buffoons

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/misshawaiian352/ misshawaiian352

    I found the show very distasteful, it was not to honor MJ, Jamie Foxx did more to poke fun at then show respect. I feel that BET should have waited and put on a real show and not rush to put anything on the air. It is very sad in America when the first “Black tribute” to MJ was done in 3 days when this man gave us his life, I feel we would have waited for BET to put on an all out tribute. BET try again and maybe you will hit a homerun with the next one when you really sit down and put your minds to it correctly.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Illy-Sase/ Illy-Sase

    I see i wasnt the only one that thought that performance was bogus…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sharonhulse/ sharonhulse

    BET NEEDS TO DO ANOTHER TRIBUTE WITH SOME TOP NOTCH PERFORMERS FROM OUR HUGE SOURCE OF QUALITY ENTERTAINERS NOT JUST THE FLAVOR OF THE DAY PERFORMERS.I GIVE PROPS TO NEYO, THE TRIBUTE TO THE O’JAYS THAT REPRESENTED THAT THE YOUNGBLOODS CAN PULL TOGETHER AND REPRESENT A “MUSICAL AND POSITIVE SHOWCASE” OF TALENT. BET NEEDS TO RAISE AND MAINTAIN IT’S STANDARDS OF COMPROMISE. STOP GIVING ACCOLADES TO ARTIST THAT DEGRADE ANY SECTOR OF OUR COMMUNITY SO THEY WILL RECORD WITH A CONSCIENCE TOWARDS THEMSELVES,THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR COMMUNITY..LIL WAYNE ISN’T THE ONLY ONE BUT THE PERFORMANCE CHOICE WAS INAPPROPIATE. THE AUDIENCE TUNED IN TO SEE THE TRIBUTE TO MJ- WHAT A ROOK! YOU SUCKERED US IN! NO ONE NEGATES JAY-Z & BEYONCE TALENTS BUT COME ON NOW,WHERE WAS THE MJ TRIBUTE OR ROCKING PERFORMANCE THAT WAS REMINESENT TO THE ENERGY MIKE WAS ABOUT.WHAT DID A WEDDING ENSEMBLE(WHATEVER IT WAS) HAVE TO DO TO WITH THE SHOW’S THEME? COME ON “B” YOU COULD’VE BROUGHT IT ESPECIALLY AFTER WINNING BEST ENTERTAINER AWARD.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ebonyexperience-ent/ ebonyexperience-ent

    Well, this is what happens when you try to do things on the fly. BET should’ve just done the BET Awards as it was, THEN due a seperate MJ tribute. That way, you could invite those with @ least a little class & dignity to perform and/or comment on MJ’s life & influence on their music, and you wouldn’t have to worry about it turning into a circus.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    No statement from Lil Wayne?????? these clowns should have known better…it didn’t take a genius to figure out this would end up in bad taste…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chuga1/ chuga1

    NO BET IS GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE FOR NOT REPERSENTING MIKE RIGHT THEY SHOULD DID A WHOLE TRIBUTE TO MIKE AND DID THAT OTHER CRAP LATER WITH SOULJAH TRASH LAME WAYNE AND NO TALENT FOXX ALL HE CARED ABOUT WAS MENTIONING HIS TOUR.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KEVIKEV45/ KEVIKEV45

    you can’t complain about BET REVAMPING there show to show some type of tribute to THE KING OF POP. 3 days..come on! If you had something all planned out at that large of a scale, and within 3 days have to change everything..You know better. BTW, Jamie Foxx is a comedian..he celebrated MJ by doing his giving talent. New Orleans celebrates the life of the death by partying. SO, people morn in different ways. But the Lil Wayne mess…straight garbage!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/vkdsexy25/ vkdsexy25

    I love wayne and drake but little girls what the f**k were they thinking. I was watching it like what the hell are kids on stage with grown ass men and the song. C’mon we all know the lyrics. Bad choice but I was crunk until that s**t happen.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MzShawtyCrunk/ MzShawtyCrunk

    its too late to denounce the performance now. they already got up there and disrespected MJ and themselves…… Should have let Chris Brown perform

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2live2laugh2love/ 2live2laugh2love

    Drake is a very intelligent and respectable young man and I truly believe that his apology is sincere. He is truly not on the level of Lil Wayne and shouldn’t be apart entourage! Lil Wayne is truly immature and didn’t have respect for children watching the BET Awards. I pray that Lil Wayne will never perform on BET again.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chuga1/ chuga1

    NO IT`S NEVEVERY RACE OF PEOPLE WHO IS A FAN SHOULD BOYCOTT BET AND WHO CARES IF IT WAS THREE DAYS THEY COULD HAVE AIRED IT ON MONDAY GIVE THEM FOUR DAYS IF THEY NEEDED IT THAT WAS JUST WRONG.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/butterswirl502/ butterswirl502

    when i seen that shyt i was like hell naw ….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BreakitDown69/ BreakitDown69

    First of all, Jay was wrong for punking BET to not let Chris perform. I know it was only three days left to revamp the awards, but it was still a tribute to the King of Pop. Drake and Wayne are talented artists, but they should’ve had women close to their age groups instead of some little girls young enough to be my niece’s age. BET doesn’t do right often, but they did the right thing not re-showing this embarrassment called a performance. You’re supposed to pay a tribute to the King of Pop, not disrespect in any form. Hopefully, BET will learn from this mistake and see this as a wake-up call.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PRETTYBOI_LLOYD/ PRETTYBOI_LLOYD

    BET and the way they do things are very un-professional. You beep out s**t in songs like dive deep but you play the words birthday sex. How f**king backward is that. As for Wayne you should have more respect for your own child than anyone. Last but not least why the f**k is Jay Z calling shots for BET. Does he have money vested in it? If you are letting him call the shots you should have told him to remove his wife from the show. Also auto tune is alive and well as long as T Pain keep it that way. How you going knock another nigga hustle. B***h Please

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/atxman08/ atxman08

    for the record: drake is a puppet for lil wayne. he had no control over the performance during the awards. wayne had the final say. whats disappointing is lil wayne is talented enough to have put together a rap tribute to mj. but no….just another song about sex and drugs.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/princess378/ princess378

    Where were the parents of those little girls and I do mean LITTLE they should have never been up on the stage and with Lil Wayne running around have sex with one that will set still for 2 sec I would NEVER have let any child I know anywhere within a 110 miles of him. That hold part of the show was just sad.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheGoodness/ TheGoodness

    BET is coonery at it’s best.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/1sxycrml1/ 1sxycrml1

    OMG PEOPLE. FIRST OF ALL BET DID NOT HAVE TIME TO PROPERLY REVAMP THE SHOW INTO A TRIBUTE. MJ DIED TO CLOSE FOR A PROPER JOB TO BE DONE. SECONDLY NO YOUNG WOMEN WERE EXPLOITED, READ THE ARTICLE IT WAS MERELY WAYNE’S DAUGHTERS AND THEIR FRIENDS. IF WAYNE FELT IT WAS OK FOR HIS KIDS TO BE UP THERE AND THE PARENTS OF THE OTHER GIRLS THOUGHT IT WAS OK THEN FINE. I PERSONALLY SAW NOTHING VULGAR ABOUT IT. THEY HAD ON MORE CLOTHES THAN BEYONCE THEY JUST DIDNT SING AVE MARIA. YOUNG GIRLS THEIR AGE LISTEN AND DANCE TO MUSIC MUCH WORSE THAN THAT. AT LEAST THESE YOUNG LADIES HAD PARENTAL SUPERVISION VIA WEEZY. AS FOR JAY Z’S OPPOSITION TO CHRIS BROWN HE WS DEAD WRONG. IF ANYONE COULD HAVE DONE A PROPER TRIBUTE NUMBER BOTH IN SONG AND DANCE TO MJ IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CHRIS BROWN. JAY NEEDS TO REMEMBER WE ALL HAVE MADE MISTAKES BEFORE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mdiva67/ mdiva67

    Well if you take the words of the song Every Girl and you have kids on stage dancing to that song. It was sending a bad signal to the public. You have sick people already prey on children so it was extremely terrible. I was disgusted by it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NiNi_LV/ NiNi_LV

    i understand that BET doesn’t have as much money as some of the other awards show but I thought it was kinda tacky that they had so much advertising on the set…Ninentdo, etc…but I guess they had to do what they had to do to get the show on the air.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/davistarkid/ davistarkid

    I think that part of the show was very horrible and everyone is to blame. Incuding BET. Michael died, ok, two days to plan ok, but there was no reason for that performance to have taken place that night first of all. Secondly BET has majority of the responsibility for the content that it allows to be shown on its program, they should have been aware of who does what when they peform. Especially with the type of artist that wayne and this group is, that should have raised a red flag amoung the producers that questions should have asked before he was allowed to perform. Finally, weather it was his daughters or not, why would you have girls underage on the stage wearing hooker clothes to a song like that. If your gonna blast drake and wayne for that performance, than BET SHOULD TAKE THE HEAT AS WELL!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AlL_DoLl_D_Up/ AlL_DoLl_D_Up

    have yall noticed for the reruns of the bet awards they cut scenes out lol….why cut them now many already seen the actual recording live

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slice_8706/ slice_8706

    Its not Drake nor Waynes fault it BET’s… They chose the song “every girl” they could of told them to do “Succesful” or “tied my hands” if MJ would not of died then no one would of had a problem… his death changed the mood of the Awards it when from hype to sad

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HandsomeNegro2/ HandsomeNegro2

    Hmmm…using underage girls as bait.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CassinovaBlack/ CassinovaBlack

    Man I haven’t actually turned the tv to BET in sooo long and now I know why. This channel has turned into a laughing stock of cornyness and bafoonery. This station is 24/7 cannon fodder for those who wish to lump us all in the same category as ignorant, childish, crabs in a barrel.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Razco/ Razco

    Come on now, the girls were Lil Wayne daughter and friends!!! They were out there having fun! Who the hell wants to be all sad and mellow at the awards. Mike died two days before, so it wasnt like folks got the news while at the awards. The awards was a time to get your mind off of his death and for the guy Byron Hurt, he probably has some personal issues with younger black men who are more successful than he is…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DONT_EAT_PUCCY_CREW_/ DONT_EAT_PUCCY_CREW_

    MAN WHY THE FUUCK WOULD U HAVE YO DAUGHTER AND HER FRIENDS ON STAGE SINGIN A SONG ABOUT FUUCKIN HOES? THATS DONT MAKE SENSE LIL WAYNE NEED HIS ASSS KICKED HE MAKIN HIS DAUGHTER AND HER FRIENDS LOOK LIKE HOES…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ALCOHOLIC/ ALCOHOLIC

    all i can say is what more could u espect from a guy thats always high, a wanna-be blood that weres his red bandanna in the wrong pocket and kisses his so-called daddy in the mouth.he’s been with cash money since he was about the same age as the little girls he brought on stage….and we thought micheal jackson had a messed up childhood….now thats a red flag of whats to come in da future

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Wolfi_G/ Wolfi_G

    Lol. Thats what I was talking about!

    These new rap cats ain’t doin it right.
    What happened to the days when the worse thing you could ever do was cuss on stage?
    Hell, and that made you even cooler! Lol.

    And why is Drake apologizing? Wayne’s
    dumbass should be out there too.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jlynnd/ Jlynnd

    Remember this:
    “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN; And wisdom to know the difference.”

    Instead of COMPLAINING about BETs lack of class, tact, and integrity, etc. how about we DO something about it! At the end of the day, BET will continue to do what they have been doing when their bottom line isn’t being impacted (viewership AND profits).

    I haven’t watched BET in YEARS because it became very apparent to me that they were doing nothing more than promoting stereotypes and insulting my intelligence.

    So if you’re really disgusted by BET’s tactless display of black people, go on a BET strike. Stop watching it. Don’t allow your children to watch it. Do whatever, but stop them from making money, getting ratings, etc.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Pinnacl3/ Pinnacl3

    If people want to denounce the performance on behalf of the little girls on the stage, then maybe someone should take a look at how and why the hell the video is on 106 and Park, a video show catered to that VERY SAME Young audience.!! If you wanna be meticulous and get into it….get ALL the WAY into it. That may lead to some positive changes.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jeffrey1975/ Jeffrey1975

    I am one of the lmany that do not watch BET. I have not done so in years. Maybe because I am getting older or maybe it just sucks. Probably the fact that it is many more lame wannabe rappers. I was raised on hip hop and rap and the quality is not where it once was. Am I wrong to think this way when many are just trying to be creative?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CamuiMS/ CamuiMS

    BET isn’t sorry about s**t. Only apologizing b/c people are PO’ed. And a fake apology is worthless. If no one said a thing they’d have thought it to be a success. I don;t even watch BET but apparently the performance consisted of nasty ass grown men surrounded by gyrating pubescent girls? Isn’t that a sexy, pre-child molester look, I regret having missed that. I’ll assume they lack both the formal education and common sense to have known something like that is NOT socially acceptable (at least not in America).

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SWANKness/ SWANKness

    BET should’ve known better, instead of letting the show go on, they should of went to commerical. This is the image we’re showing to America, while the world watched little girls parade around to a song about f**kin every female that walks by. BET execs need to go on 106 & park or some s**t and apologize, a REAL apology. BET has lost all it’s class in these few years, point and reason why I don’t watch it. Just ignorant.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Blackbabybell/ Blackbabybell

    “THIS IS TRIPLE “OG” BABY BELL.I WATCHED THE PERFORMANCE AND COULDN’T BELIEVE THE “LACK OF POLISH” FROM THESE YOUNG CATS. THERES A “TIME AND A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING”. BUT THAT WASN’T THE PLACE, NOR WAS IT THE TIME OR IN THAT MANNER TO DO IT. “LIL WAYNE” IS A “WANGTA” ANY WAY A “MEDIA CREATION” I DID 18 YEARS STRAIGHT IN THE PEN IN OHIO, AND THESE WEAK SNITCHING WANT TO BE BABYS COME INSIDE THE WALLS AND FIND OUT THAT THE REAL GANGSTAS ARE LOCKED UP, RETIRED, OR DEAD.
    SINCERELY,
    WAYNE C. BELL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slit_lcka005/ slit_lcka005

    I could care less about the song, video, little girls, the Blackface and bufoonery awards, or anyof that crap! Society is on a downward spiral, and has been since the70′s! Most of you complaining see worse in your own nighborhoods and don’t do shyt! Worry about N. Korea shooting those nukes at yer ass!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dtownrepresenta214/ Dtownrepresenta214

    beyonce is hot

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/papoose6/ papoose6

    bet must not of heard the lyrics. cause they can/t be that stupid to have wayne perform song like that. as black male i fell disrespected that they call this music hot. what worst is that girls sing along to it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/damassager/ damassager

    Thank goodness someone apologized for a disgusting and degrading performance on TV, they should have switched their lyrics to do a clean version…thats it or let them off the show once they realized they were doing a MJ tribute

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    watch the Drake fans come in here and curse ALL of you out

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/YOUMustNotNoBoutMe/ YOUMustNotNoBoutMe

    yea that was not coo he should have known to do a beta song for his daughter as well as m.j!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fantasydelight/ fantasydelight

    I LOVE LIL WAYNE. AND I THINK THAT HE IS THE BEST RAPPER AT ALL TIME. LEAVE HIM ALONE CAUSE THE MAN IS DOING THE DAM THING

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Rightousmind/ Rightousmind

    And if you’ll ever wonder why women get disrespected just go back and look at all the women that didn’t find anything wrong with 11 an 12 yr old girls on stage why grown men sing about the best they ever had!!! Just think what are they teaching there daughters!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/poetic_sister/ poetic_sister

    The songs and performances don’t get approved by someone beforehand? Maybe if they did this wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MsBhavn75/ MsBhavn75

    I saw young money perform in Oklahoma City, when they were here Mack Mane tried to take one of our friends back to his room and intended to hold her against her will. At that point the police got involed and I was suprised to see that DRAKE which was the oldest of the young money crew that was in attendance at that time refused to cooperate with the police and even urged the younger children that were with him not to cooperate either. So this is not suprising to me. They are just as the lable states young money and dont know how to act. All that bs about his mom inspiring him, he is so full of bs. A lot of poor taste, decisions and the new c.d. is full of wack beats and unlistenable music.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MoRe_DaN_A_DyMe/ MoRe_DaN_A_DyMe

    i agree that they never should have had the underage girls on the stage… but to re-do a whole award show to make it in memory of somebody at the last minute?…come on now they didnt do that for anybody else that passed away, M.J shouldnt have gotten special treatment

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/peepsva757/ peepsva757

    I was looking forward to their performance but was pretty surprised to see what i saw. Why the hell would you have your own daughter and her friends on stage with you while performing a song like “every girl”? And if you hear the album or unedited version you would really understand what i”m talking bout. As must respect i have for Wayne and his progession as a artist i think thats was just f**ked up parenting on his behalf and what the hell was toya doin besides trying to advertise her and tiny”s show when this was going on? people should be mad at both even though to her defense maybe she didnt know that wayne was gonna have their daughter onstage with them. But got damn that wasnt pleasant site to see at all!!! Poor taste by them all!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TNdaRoni/ TNdaRoni

    YEA DAT SHYT WAT PATHETIC…NIGGA HOW U GO HAVE UR CHILD NAD OTHER CHILDREN ON STAGE WITH U N U RAPIN BOUT F**KIN EVERY GIRL N THE WORLD…R U ANUTHA R. KELLY? NIGGA NO…U WRONG 4 DAT SHYT N DRAKE U JUST NOW C**IN OUT WITH UR OWN SHYT N U F**KIN UP ALREADY…BET SHOULDVE KNOWN WAT SONGS THEY WERE GOIN TO PERFORM N THE PERFORMANCE TOO…HIW U NOT GO KNOW WATS GOIN ON DURING A LIVE SHOW…N IN THE REHEARSALS TOO? DATS BULLSHYT IF YA ASK ME

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sunt97/ sunt97

    BET does a poor job in everything they because they are trying to please the masses which is impossible to do. Unfortunately you have fools running the shows that let anything go especially when it is on BET because they expect black people to be ok with it. The awards were a mess. They could have a n appropriate tribute to MJ with the already scheduled performances. They let it get out of hand and it turned into a mess. I am sure Janet was mortified before she walked out onto that stage. Just another dissappointment that should have been a strong moment for BET. I never watch the BET awards for this simple reason, it’s always trashy, but I wanted to see how were they going pay tribute to MJ.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chris_poet/ chris_poet

    That was just terrible. it is horrible and very distrubing. To have his own child up there for a song like that. A very poor descision on BET for allowing to let this happen. It just goes to show you how screwed up this world is becoming….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kingof74/ kingof74

    What the hell! those girls hear those songs on the radio everyday!Hell Lil Wayne daughter probably was in the studio when he recorded the damn song.Who do you think the target audience for the song is? And um sure Drake dosen’t have a fan over 17.Don’t blame BET.Blame society as a whole because the people are who they cater to.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackMiss62/ BlackMiss62

    The problem is…it’s the UNDER aged girls who know all the words to these deplorable songs and gyrate to them! These are the same girls we used to term “fast assed” back in the day and usually the one’s who end up either pregnant (w/several kids), drinking or drugging heavily and is generally of low self esteem because she thought sex equaled love.

    Forget anger over a performance. There needs to be anger expressed at these record companies who purposely expose our youngster’s to this type of music…with permission. THAT’s where the power really lies!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackMiss62/ BlackMiss62

    Where were all the checks and balances for the shows’ content? SOMEBODY approved and signed off on it! They’re making the artist a scapegoat since the show’s producer had to be the one to select and okay it with the artist’s management team. Drake has no power over what he records. He’s simply the guinea pig being pimped and paid to play you–the listener and music buying public!

    Also, look at the even more sinister picture–the subliminal message contained within a heavy and catchy beat! AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases won’t go away…because it’s not supposed to! SEX SELLS and the sad casualty are our children and naive, young and quite misinformed adults…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Thunder_Rose/ Thunder_Rose

    The BET awards were flat out terrible…But they didn’t let me down…I mean seriously why are ppl so surprised by the lack of moral structure and celebrities…So, Lil’ Wayne performed a explicit crappie song and every word had to bleeped out…BIG DEAL…he is the hottest rapper out right now…BET would be fools not to showcase him…Nothing is going to change when it seems like its getting worse…The name of the game is ratings and BET scored…Not even a well written letter can change that…But hey what do I know I’m just a small city nobody from Nebraska

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EarthlyVision/ EarthlyVision

    Uhm, lets see. The white dude brought BET. This is what happens when we sell our TV network to a greedy white man. He doesn’t care. He just makes money off the “Hip Hop Buffoonery”. Wake up Black People.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/giftedchild10/ giftedchild10

    Black Miss just said a mouthful

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Duvlek_Ahlleek/ Duvlek_Ahlleek

    erry1 dat complain’d bout diz are no better if dey aint change da channel but watched for shyt to bish at. ..way to go complainerz.. .next time urse ya free choice to change da channel. .and ionno y ppl though it was gone be off da chain. ..lmfao. .smart azzes. .dey trick’d yall.. .and quit bish’n to BET and bish to Viacom. ..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ceedre/ ceedre

    Everbody knows bewt has been sucking every since that girl started datina lisa raye’s ol man and A.j. left.They sholdv’e known that some trife ish was bound to happen.Get STARZ.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/anji_marie/ anji_marie

    Damn some of ya’ll need to be readin a dictionary. Commentin, using words you cant even spell. Smh

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SLCMARA/ SLCMARA

    Ok wats da talk about 1/2 the people that watch the show have lil girls & put $ on it that they kno the lyrics & was dancing…get real kids listen to wat they talk about no grown woman really play lil wayne (they r out there) but fa real I dnt see the difference between playing on radio & dancing on stage wit the artist & they were is kids! Whoa!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HandsomeNegro2/ HandsomeNegro2

    Lil Wayne is laughing all the way to the bank because consumers pay him for this kind of garbage.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Strong_Mind34/ Strong_Mind34

    This performance was done in Poor taste. BET should have known, and I am sure it was not a surprise to this dwindling network. At least Drake stepped up, all others are just fools.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DaintyJen/ DaintyJen

    what people fail to realize is that BET is also owned my MTV and all of them lol so yea its going to suck….but anyways you spend money on a concert (leisure), s**t is either going to go ur way or it isn’t…I’m not understanding the big fuss I dont understand the need to spend money to go see this person perform the same song on the radio, ur tv, ur cd, dvd, etc lol (concerts and ish like this are pointless) but if u want to spend your money then thats your fault….as far as drakes music video i am very mad that kanye would do this s**t, 1 of the only people in the game now that has his own style and everything, people messing up his first video! poor drake, but w/e i still support him

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/feebee16/ feebee16

    if elements of the performance were unplanned then BET has a long way to go on controlling their network. i dont buy that they hadn’t planned it. I dont think drake should have been the one to apologize… more so Lil Wayne… thinking he’s immortal and crap. Dont get me wrong i believe he’s a very successful artist but his morals and values are but a distant memory lost behind all the drugs, liquor, money and sex.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Rinibeme/ Rinibeme

    Funny how the condemned, tries to condemn other. BET or Black EVIL Entertainment can go to hell. BET mmakes u stupid, Im doing fine enteratining myself with no cable.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NeW_2Da_ArEa/ NeW_2Da_ArEa

    I feel bad for BET i know that performance was last minute but AS far as his videos they are not n i hope BET does not play his videos thanx to the love of dance videos have gotten a lil cleaner n this new comer DRAKE doesnt need to start up the freak nasty videos i mean who does he think he is uncle luke?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sincere_A1/ Sincere_A1

    I honestly feel that since QJ left BET is going down.I understand that change is good but I think there needs to be another one and fast…

    I blame no one but the owner due to them being the top of the chain.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hank2470/ hank2470

    I was wondering why the kids on stage dancing like video girls. that is not an image that BET should not be showing. I am not a lil wayne fan but he should have had better judgement than that. It looked rediculous and classless considering the subject of the show. I used to atch BET but now i just can’t it still shows the same materialistic antics of rap and R&B. Well he is the biggest rapper out there so he can do what he wants.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bammb/ bammb

    get over it they were not out there as part of the act they were out there as family and no doubt they listened to their songs. b.e.t. needs to get off their high horse hell they barely play a rap video. and i don’t hear them complaining on 106 and park when them lil girls be singing and dancing in their audience and swooning over every actor singer that comes out there…some people who don’t listen to rap or even watch bet need to go back to their opera or country and let b.e.t. do what it stands for entertain the black community

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/yellowpumas/ yellowpumas

    I can’t beleive BET is still even around, ass backwards channel that promotes the water melon fried chicken syndrome!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ebonyexperience-ent/ ebonyexperience-ent

    When I was younger (I’m a late 70s baby) BET was once a highly respected outlet for the African American community as a whole; they had a lot of up-to-date programming that was informative, creative & true to the game, while at the same time having a measure of not putting us in a bad light. (Read: Not having us looking like n*****s.) But now?! Hell, BET has fallen off so badly that I don’t even bother watching it anymore. It’s almost embarassing. Black Entertainment Television is more like Ignorance 101 these days. (And no, I’m not just talking about what College Hill’s ACTUAL SHOW TITLE should be.) With all the trash on the network now – I’m talking about the trash programming, the trash shows, the way the BET Awards have become trash, AND some of the pieces of TRASH that’s getting their own shows on BET (I’ll let y’all fill in those blanks) – I can’t tell if I’m watching BET or Bravo.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2daTopnonStop/ 2daTopnonStop

    LMAO @ watermelon-friedchicken syndrome~ (adding to that “Big ass chain gold plated spinners”)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lilmemphisbaby901/ lilmemphisbaby901

    mane wasnt s**t wrong wit it. it was just the atmosphere was off cuz of the tradgic death. if that situation wasnt going on then Young Money wouldnt got criticized for there performance. i hate when the media and others say dumb s**t and try to tear ppl down. that was his daughter and friends and they were having fun ok. SO LEAVE PPL THE F**K ALONE!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lilmemphisbaby901/ lilmemphisbaby901

    EVERYONE READ THIS CUZ THIS DONT MAKE NO SENSE HOW PPL MAKE A BIG DEAL!!! Drake you didnt have to apologize but u did the right thing though. and if the show was normal they would have said yall rocked it

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LAILA08/ LAILA08

    OMG, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PPL. HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT IT WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH WHAT WAS SONG ON STAGE. HAD IT BEEN YOUR LITTLE GIRL UP ON STAGE DANCING TO A RACY SONG LIKE THAT, YOU WOULD BE UPSET. IT JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW IMMATURE YOU ALL ARE, IT IS A SHAME HOW AFTER ALL THE GREAT ARTIST LEAVES THIS EARTH, ONES THAT SANG GOOD, CLEAN SONGS, THIS NASTY MUSIC AND THE ARTIST THAT CREATED THEM WILL BE THE ONLY ONES THE THE YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE IN THIS TIME,THAT IS SCARY.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SEXY_SMILE_21/ SEXY_SMILE_21

    DID WAYNE APOLOGIZED ALSO OR WAS IT ALL DRAKE??? CUZ HE’S THE ONE ON STAGE WITH HIS CHILD SINGING BEST I EVER AND EVERY GIRL, OR MAYBE HE DIDN’T NOTED CUZ HE WAS TOO BUSY LOOKING FOR HIS NEXT BABY MAMA IN THE CROWD

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The-Chocolate-Man/ The-Chocolate-Man

    Drake is trying too hard to be ghetto. Lil Wayne need to check himself.

    By the way! Have you-all seen the Reggae Buss-MJ tribute video on youtube? a work of art.

    http://www.youtube.com/bsharp2

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MzTara88/ MzTara88

    I wouldn’t have apologized either if I was him.They are just songs and a performance it’s never that serious. Come on it’s Lil Wayne you are suppose to expect the unexpected from him. The little girls were cute. The just wanted to get their couple of minutes of fame and they got it. It’s all said and done so why say something about it now. Get over it. It was harmless.You don’t see his daughter or her friends on stage pregnant then it would have been a problem. You see little girls their age now-a-days havin kids.They was just havin fun.

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