Who Cares About Talent?
Posted by Bossip Staff
Well the nominations are in and your boy T-Pain is walking away with 5 nods this year for the prestigious BET Awards. Damn, it’s amazing what singing into a little voice box “vocoder” thing can do for one’s career.
Check out the entire list of nominations for the BET Awards under the hood…
Video of the Year
Ashanti “The Way That I Love You”
Alicia Keys “Like You’ll Never See Me Again”
Mary J. Blige “Just Fine”
UGK feat. OutKast “Int’l Player’s Anthem (I Choose You)”
Kanye West feat. T-Pain “Good Life”
Erykah Badu “Honey”
Best Female R&B Artist
Alicia Keys
Mary J. Blige
Keyshia Cole
Rihanna
Mariah Carey
Best Male R&B Artist
Raheem DeVaughn
Trey Songz
Ne-Yo
Chris Brown
J. Holiday
Best Group
Danity Kane
UGK
Day 26
Playaz Circle
Gnarls Barkley
Best New Artist
Flo Rida
Estelle
Chrisette Michele
Soulja Boy
The-Dream
Best Female Hip-Hop Artist
Kid Sister
Trina
Lil’ Mama
Missy Elliott
Eve
Best Male Hip-Hop Artist
Snoop Dogg
Jay-Z
Lil’ Wayne
Common
Kanye West
Best Collaboration
DJ Khaled feat. Lil’ Wayne, Big Boi, Ludacris, Fat Joe & Young Jeezy-”I’m So Hood (remix)”
Keyshia Cole feat. Lil’ Kim & Missy Elliott-”Let It Go”
Kanye West feat. T-Pain-”Good Life”
Flo Rida feat. T-Pain-”Low”
Chris Brown feat. T-Pain-”Kiss Kiss”
Viewer’s Choice
Chris Brown feat. T-Pain-”Kiss Kiss”
Lil’ Wayne feat. Static Major-”Lollipop”
Keyshia Cole feat. Missy Elliott & Lil’ Kim-”Let It Go”
Alicia Keys-”No One”
Soulja Boy-”Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)”
Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown-”No Air”
Lifetime Achievement
Al Green
You know the music industry is a piece of sh*t these days when Danity Kane, Day 26, and Playaz Circle are nominated for “Best Group”. Damn, we ain’t never even heard of Playaz Circle. SMH.
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He looks like a str8t up CLOWN!
Ewwww, too early for this pic!
Dayum!!!!!!!!!!!
Flo Rida? HELLO WTF IS GOING ON?
I totally agree with Bella Y…he’s whack!
morning
HE ISN’T WACK! T PIZZZZZZAIN IS THE SH*T!
FLORIDA IS NOT THE SH*T, T PIZZZZAIN IS THE SH*T! LOL
I LIKE HIM! RIHANNA, HAS THE LEAST TALENT! T PIZZZIE BE MAKING IT RAIN ON THEM…..
HE MAKE THE SONG HOT!
Danity Kane is actually a good group..their 2 albums are great.. it’s Flo Rida and Trina who are not musically inclined.. Rihanna does R&B? BET, get it together
congrats t-pain
This is exactly why i don’t watch BET…. Thank god for premium channels.
You have to be on something stronger than weed to walk around lookin like that….
The music industry has lowered the bar sooooo much, they’ve made it easy as hell for Bey to be the so called “hottest chick in the game” and Jay and Kanye to be the reigning kings of Hip Hop because people like them have no real/serious competition. If they start giving REAL artists deals…well you already know!
You see, this is exactly why less and less people are watching the BET awards. Wack ass nominations. Some of them deserve to be up there but come on now, EVE? Missy? Flo-Rida? WTF has Eve done in recent time? Or Missy for that matter? SMH. Who in the hell is Day 26?
Morning all!
Hey Bree!….I agree with you Rihanna is soooo POP not R&B!
Nah T-Pain is good. Evey single he produce has been a hit. Voice box or not he knows how to do what he does
I hate I bought Danity Kane’s current CD it is whack! Day 26 CD is the sh*t, though! I like the decision to put them as best group. There are no real successful groups out right now.
@mssugarwalls and bree…hey yall!
I forgot my comment about T-Pain. He looks so nasty and stank! How does his wife lay up with him every night? Now I can’t lie, he does put out some good jams but my goodness. He needs to just stay behind the scenes at all times! NEVER SHOW YOUR FACE AGAIN!!! LOL
What is up with those hats he be wearing?
i heard T-Pain aka Faheem live several times in tallahassee before he got a deal and he does have a nice voice. if you can sound good at a tiny little lounge with a basic sound system, you have talent. he’s not using a voice box all of the time, i promise he sounds just like that.
Playaz Circle did the song “Duffle Bag Boy”…it was Playaz Circle ft. Lil Wayne.
@ Southern Belle and Bree- Goodmorning and T.G.I.F
Lol, given the names listed, Rihanna’s name looks so out of place for “Best Female R&B Artist.”
Mediocre to Untalented people have been making millions for years in the industry: Ciara, Jennifer Lopez, Ashanti, Ne-Yo, T-Pain and the list goes on. I like people who can SANG without studio mixing and those are usually the ok looking people that aren’t marketed as super sexy. I’ll take a real vocalist over a sexy made-up marketing package anyday. Good music rules!!!! (anthony hamilton, jennifer hudson, fantastia, eric roberson, jill scott - those are REAL vocalists!)
Betty B(Check me out!)
Nah T-Pain is good. Evey single he produce has been a hit. Voice box or not he knows how to do what he does
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Exactly.
He looks like Flavor Flav’s love child….EWWW
T-Pain’s music is nice. It sounds better than the rest of the crap on the radio. Although, I do love Lyfe Jennings, his lyrics and vocals are off the chain.
@Re..hey honey!
It’s not that hard to create a “hit” now days…music is horrible…anyone can make a “hit”, hence Soulja Boy’s nomination…and many more so called “hit” makers:-(
whats even more than that is he got everybody else doing it too ..name your favorite song.. i bet it got some artist using that lol
Hey Ms. Southern Belle, how are you this Friday, HAPPY FRIDAY!!!
Hey Lauren! Hello Re!
i really don’t know why FLO RIDA is even invited to the awards show, let alone nominated.. he thinks the name FLO-RI-DA is only 2 syllables.. ahhhh i soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo loathe that guy!
hahahaha bossip your rite..whose playaz circle?
*favorite song from artists currently i mean ..
@Lauren..hey baby girl! Where you been gull?!
Yall just mad this ugly dude thought to use a vocoder before you did and he making cheese STOP HATING!! LOL
Wipe me down Lawd
Why does he look like he smells like an old bag of funions
you know we need new hip hop female artist STAT when those are the choices
@ Southern Belle, Hey ma…I been M.I.A. I know, but I’m back and mad as hell at these posts…LMAO!
LMAO!!! I’m with Bossip who they Hell is Playa Circle?!?! ;p Ugh!!
I ain’t gon Hate T-Pain may be ugly but his talent is crazy!! I really like everything he’s on I can’t lie!
This just let’s you know how bad commercial music has gotten.T Pain?
NOT
Peven Everett
Dwele
Rahsaan Paterson
Lyfe Jennings
The Roots
Anthony Hamilton (who continues to put out good music)
I could go on but what’s the point….
smh
who gives any merit to the BET awards anyway…they will eventually go the way of the soul train awards…hell the grammy doesn’t even mean in the music industry what it used to…these mediocre, sub-standard artists are the norm…and that vocoder thing has been around for years…remember teddy riley used to use it and before him was peter frampton…t-pain is not doing anything new or innovating…
Ah, Flo Rida is an interesting topic. Well, our hip-hop stations here in DC don’t play too much Flo Rida. But Hot 99.5, the “mixed station can’t get enough of this guy. Mind you, the type of hip-hop played on that station are from artists like Nelly….
Ohhhhhhh, btw, wait until ya’ll hear what I did today at work (this pertains to the Bossip threads).
Why is T-Pains wedding ring so dingy!!!
@lady elle
so on point…..
lauren
hey lil sis, how ya doin i was getting worried about you!! i emailed you to.. girl i have got to tell you about m daddy… its like….. i have no words… you have to go back a day or two and read the post from khis and rick ross, our big bro needs some r and r. so whats up
you know what im not tlking about t-pain until his music starts sounding like shit. everyone is going to like him, he bit that roger troutman style and we all know what he did for music in the 70’s and 80’s
PLAYZ CIRCLE IS DUFFLE BAG BOY AND I LIKE DAY 26 NOW DANITY CANE AHHHHH NO
Don’t hate on T-Pain…. he makes the tracks hot real talk. Congrats T-Pain, do you!
B.E.T should just change their names to MTV2. The nominations are BS. This is like back in the day when MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice were winning the best hip hop artist awards on MTV. B.E.T needs to rename some of their category.
1. “My Mama said I can sing - No talent award”
2. “That beat was hot but the vocals were…..award”
3. “The album that talk about the same sh!t in every song award”
4. “The shake that azz award - Who said azz or booty the most in one song award.”
5. “The how did you get a record deal award”
6. “The Get a clue, your career is over award”
7. And last but not least, “Fucking for tracks award”
Well music is trash today…you have a few artist out there who brings it. But T-Pain is straight garbage….Roger was using the voice box thing first and he has classics songs using it remember “Computer Love; I Want To Be Your Man;More Bounce To The Once” and many more…T-Pain does’t have have classics he just makes nice songs for the moment nothing to be remembered like Roger or for that fact Teddy Riley. If you can play any of those two artist songs today and still groove. But today’s music is nothing to be remembered later
Day 26?!? Playaz Circle?!? Really?
BET has reached a new low, set our movement back decades…
Now if you’ll excuse me massa’s callin…gotta get back out in ‘dem cotton fields befo’ I gets a whippin’…
@sick of it-LMFAO!!!!
BET has never been the a proponent of positive soulful, black music. It doesn’t surprise bwcaues coon Bob Johnson and viacom had been running it. But Ashanti for video of the year? I mean come on. Somebody was sniffing a llne when that decision was made. Erykah Badu should have been best female r and b artist instead of Rihanna and Mariah Carey really isn’t r and b these days. At any rate its BET so how much can you really expect?
BET has never been the a proponent of positive soulful, black music. It doesn’t surprise bwcaues coon Bob Johnson and viacom had been running it. But Ashanti for video of the year? I mean come on. Somebody was sniffing a llne when that decision was made. Erykah Badu should have been best female r and b artist instead of Rihanna and Mariah Carey really isn’t r and b these days. At any rate its BET so how much can you really expect?
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Alright, everyone on bossip, I’m going tell ya’ll what happened here on this glorious Friday.
So, I work at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (hospital for military active duty and veterans), and my clinic is the radiology dept. The radiologists are mainly high ranking officers who can be rude at times, and very annoying.
Anyway, I was all up in the Bossip thread yesterday about Rick Ross, Trina, etc., just commenting all willy nilly, pretending to be typing and hard at work.
Moving right along, this morning, I check that same thread to see what other comments were posted (yes, its a very boring job sometimes), and when I wanted to click out to look up my final grades, I accidentally hit print. Now there were soooo many posts you can only imagine how many pages would be printed. And we use one main printer in the whole clinic.
Now, when I realized what I had done, I was calm, cause I thought everyone in the back were busy. I went to the printer and hit the “print stop” button frantically, and it slowly slowed down. Meanwhile I kept looking over my shoulder to make sure no one was watching, and grabbed 20 pages of threads with my face and comment plastered all over it, along with M-Daddy’s, Brooklyns Finest, Bree’s, Rozzas, and all other folks who commented on that thread. I was shredding like crazy, and the printer stopped so I thought it was all good. WRONG
(this story is to be continued).
FUCK BET!!!
Nah T-Pain is good. Evey single he produce has been a hit. Voice box or not he knows how to do what he does
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that’s real…
I remember a few years back on BET’s UNCUT , T-pain was part of some rap group .He was more concious-minded then. I actually dug their sound. I can’t remember the name of the group or song.But he wasn’t bad at all.
(continuation of above story)
So when the printer stopped, I was getting ready to sit back down, and the printer started again. So I’m getting irritated cause I hit the cancel button one million times. At the same time a radiologist- the Chief Radiologist wanted to make copies (this is a mega printer/copier machine), and now my heart is beating fast, I’m hovering all over the printer slot so that I can grab the posts while jabbing cancel and telling him its broken at the same time. So he stands there waiting, and I get so desperate I shut down the printer, hoping all info would be lost. But he’s still standing here waiting.
This is sad. It is a reflection of the black music landscape. There isn’t one person in the famale rap category that deserves an award this year. Mariah Carey is nominated when she didn’t have music out. The R&B Males are all low sellers except two of them. Black music fans need to stept up and start supporting our music or there will come a time when there won’t be enough acts to even have a BET Awards.
STOP SUPPORTING BOOTLEGGERS. LET THEM NIGRAS GET A REAL JOB.
I mean it’s the BET awards…..they don’t matter so they can give them to whomever…even the talentless.
I would have to disagree because I think T-Pain is talented!! He has his own swag and you can tell because now, even lil wayne tries to copy him and everybody tries to do like him! Again, he did not invent the box voice but that was his trademark now! And yes everything he does was a hit and he does not take himself seriously! He doesn’t pretend to be a Franck sinatra or something so its cool! Real club songs!
But i was wondering something : is he senegalese like akon?? I love akon cause he represents a lot for his colors and for Africa and when he comes to senegal, he is really involved in charity and everything!!
Re
**DEAD**
..i’m a bit nervous for the rest of your story
to: sickofit] He sort of pose like Flavor Flav.
@ Bird
i hear you but even our black musicians are doing pop now? So how you define black music??? Because i don’t think there is any big singer out there that is doing black music! The one that sells do POP! REAL BLACK MUSIC would never appeal to the mass! Maybe in the past, black and white use to like the great singerS but now, white want POP and if you want to be a seller, you need to appeal to white folks!
in my opinion rihanna does not deserve even a nomination for best female r&b artist and why is day 26 nominated didn’t they just come out and danity kane is WHACK!!!!!!
Valenne
black music? black people make all kinds of music..music is music
@ SARI,
Real black music would never appeal to mass!
People are ready to cut a bitch if you say something against Bee or rihanna but where are the lovers of REAL BLACKMUSIC! Erykah badu represents her blackness to the fullest so she will never sell 50 MILLION of albums like Mariah! Her sound is innovative and not trendy! She does not work with Timbaland or Neyo so that just how it is!
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Finally, the radiologist leaves, and I start the printer back up, and it seems like everything is okay. But the printer starts again, I go to hit cancel, and it JAMMED! And the doctor comes back to make his copies, and I told him the situation. But he stood there as if I needed help, but unbeknownst to him I can fix anything electrical.
Anyway, I open the printer, and OMG there goes my face and a whole bunch of others jammed in the printer, and the radiologist is looking right at it. I wanted to die.
Bonjour @ Valenne
I meant to ask you this last night — do you like Les Nubians? Are there French artists you can recommend? I would like to explore more global music. If you’ve already been asked this, I apologize.
As for the BET Awards, I haven’t watched BET in ages, and I don’t plan to start now. They nominated Soulja Boy, too?
@ Bree,
not really, i think we can define blackmusic because we have an history that can confirm it!
But yes, black people make all kind of music and white people can do some black music too like Amy winehouse, joss stone!
aint no real nominees on this list…
@Re…dammit girl, I’m nervous too! Girl, please tell us how this thing ends up!
@ Sydney,
Bonjout,
Les nubians are really good!
You can listen to Oxmo Pucino, la rumeur, Passi,Akenhaton, Shuriken etc… which are pure lyricists! so basically the kind of hip hop i like!
If you want some real french variety music, then you should try a guy called Johny Halliday, he is like our Elvis or somethin lol but i hate him but my mom move it!
Re
LMFAO! you poor girl! that is frightening, especially with the colorful comments/pictures here on BOSSIP!..my printer is at my desk & always OFF!
love it*
@Bree- lol, you don’t even know, this seemed unreal.
(continued from above)
So, I don’t know if he’s oblivious or trying not to embarrass me, but I ripped out the paper, and shrededd it.
Needless to say, I told him I’ll restart the printer and call him when its ready. And I waiting until- No lie- 60 pages of all of your faces here on Bossip poured out of the Government owned printer.
I’m ashamed of myself.
@BIRD: Having enough acts or not, there is no need for BET awards now. I wonder if I can ask Time Warner to block it for me…
Valenne
it just so ignorant to read your comment regarding the term ‘black music’
this years bet awards might suck….the best bet awards they had was in 2003….and it was the highest rated for all the years they have been hosting the show. the noms are only whats been out there….music is not what it use to be.
@Re…poor baby! LOL. My printer is in my office so I don’t really have to worry. That is until I want to print color on the big machine! This has happened to me before so I am always TOO careful when I have to use that one. Good Luck gull and keep us posted!
@Valenne
Marci beaucoup! I’ll make note of those. Les Nubians has come to my area before, and I keep missing them. I don’t know about the Elvis guy, lol.
t-pain may not be EXTREMELY talented, but he does make hit after hit. he’s hot right now. lol how in the world did eve get nominated??? and i hope keyshia cole and chrisette michele win. and who is kid sister??????
*shredded*
@Southern Belle and Bree
My face was hot and red, lol. This felt like something on a movie.
Moral of the story to Bossip bloggers, please don’t accidentally hit the print button when you’re on Bossip. LOL
@valene… Are the artist that you speak of speaking French or English? I like different types of music as well so I’m curious.
thanks bree!
I know what i meant by that and i don’t feel like explaning myself! Pop music is not black music to me so now if you don’t agree, then it is ok but why call me ignorant???
whatever!
t-pain and the whole state of florida, Stand Up! They are the best. all the music coming out yahll got it. even nelly furtado did her thing out at the hit factory.
@BET don’t be political when handing out these awards. give it to the talented.
Re
i hope he doesn’t realize it is a gossip blog and maybe you just printed an email..i’d be so nervous i would probably ask to go home..
all music is black music. all. k not that poision shit but u kno it when you hear.
@ southern belle, they speak french but you can still get a traduction on internet. I used to do that for some american songs i love!
i mean translation sorry !!(traduction is french)
Valenne
i was not calling you ignorant..this is truly a ‘lost in translation’ moment
@Bree
Lol, I sure hope so. I’m going to lay low on these Bossip sites. On the flipside, I recieved an A in the spanish class I was attempting to check on.
Negrodamus Believes T-Pain, Lil Wayne and the rest of the talentless Florida flunkies, should run train on the talentless Florida flunky duchess Trina, impregnate her with 10 kids, move to a developing island in Dubai and run it into the ground..
National Song = “Bitch,Nigga,Ho”
National Cuisine = Cherry Dutch, Malt Liquor and the Morning After Pill
National Animal = Khia
National Language = Nigga
National Politics = Code Ethics for Death
National Economy = The rape and pillage of African Music, Language, Food and Tradition.
@Valenne
Also, I’ve noticed that you often discuss issues involving Africans from various countries, and I happened to read a very interesting story today on women entrepreneurs in Rwanda where they are helping rebuild the economy with coffee farms and other businesses. In case you’re interested in reading more, here’s the link, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051504035.html
@ Negrodamus, too funny!
you forget the flag, that should be A GUN pointed at a woman with a southern ass!
National Animal = Khia
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Re
LOL, que bueno!..
Oops, I think I misspelled “merci” up above. Sorry!
“my chevy sits so high from the floor, i feel like an alien in a ufo, i go errrr weeee errr beam me up, i go errrr weee errrr beam me up. dat shit is fyahhh.
the south is doing it, nuf said
Negrodamus Believes the right to question a persons taste who enjoys this music is warranted..
@Da Darkness…man you sound like an uneducated day laborer
“My chevy sit so high, I feel like an extraterrestrial, See so much green, my money must be vegetables, don’t mess with a chick, except for the fellatio, I see that money everyday and I can’t let that go”
Lol I just made that up…And if I wasn’t making fun of how little it takes to intrigue Lil Wayne followers, you’d probably think that was hott!..
Hey day laborers don’t forget your shovel
LOL YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY!!! ESPECIALLY DARKNESS AND NEGRODAMUS!!
NEGRODAMUS STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*****murdered*****
Good morning Cage…… whats good? @ lauren good morning miss!!!!!
Valene
There are acts out there doing R&B, but we don’t support them. Crossoever appeal is not required of everyone. Everyone is not going to sell 5M albums. If we would support our R&B artists they would sell enough to keep their careers going. Raheem and Lyfe don’t sing pop and there are many many others I could name. At least 75% of the people I know buy their music exclusively from bootleggers. So it is not like the R&B artists are not selling. They just aren’t getting credit for the sales and the labels aren’t making any money off of it. Nowadays they are only making money from the cross over artists because white people aren’t accosted by bootleggers in the grocery store parking lot so they actually buy their music from the store. Now we are left with a bunch of pop artists many of whom have no singing ability whatsoever. Who the hell is buying Cassie CDs? Hell we all celebrate Ciara becuase she can dance and appears to be a sweaty pie, but the fact is she can’t sing. If these people keep making money for the labels we will get more of this mediocre crap.
@ negrodamous
dont start today… you been doing good! chill out!!
yeah, who cares about talent?? It will be a hot topic on casualpal.com, lots of people there are seeking for some online fun
Damn looking at that list it looks like BET will be serving fried chicken, watermelon, sizzurp and greens at the awards dinner;
90% of all those artist are bullsh*t!
I predict this years award show will be the lowest rated ever.
3 n**gas will be shot on Sunset in Los Angeles during awards weekend.
Tpain sounds horrible on record, Imagine what its gonna sound like live.
Deep south n**gas are gonna come to Los Angeles and get robbed by crips and bloods.
That hot L.A. sun is gonna dry out those f**ked up gold weaves.
Deep south n**gas may riot when they find out you cant get cough syrup and strawberry soda at the hotel bar.
6am is going to Los Angeles for awards week and will throw watermelon rinds at Gucci mane and every n**ga with “lil or young” in his name.
This is the worse awards line up i have ever seen in my life. Who’s hosting the muthaf**ka, That fat b**ch from “The Parkers” again?