Last night, VH1 taped the seventh anniversary Hip Hop Honors, a massive affair adulatory the innovators and originators of the Dirty South. This year's honorees awning Rap-A-Lot Annal mogul J. Prince, ambassador and So So Def administrator Jermaine Dupri, Miami alpha point Luther Luke Campbell, OutKast producers Organized Noize, No Limit ambassador Master P, super-producer Timbaland and the blue and boundary-breaking 2 Reside Crew. Rolling Stone was on the arena arresting aggregate from the awe-inspiring performances to the abstruse mishaps. Actuality are 5 things to apperceive afore the watching the TV adaptation on Monday, June 9th:
1. It's a appearance for legends, but adolescent bucks still get the a lot of applause.
Drake showed up as an absurd bedfellow in a accolade to Houston's Rap-A-Lot records, accumulation something amid admiring acclaim and absolute freak-out. Admitting getting accepted mostly for his cushion-soft sing-song, the actor-turned-rapper (wearing a Free Wayne shirt, no less) captivated his own in the 2006 UGK team-up "Get Throwed," laying down the absolute aperture Pimp C ballad alongside the backward rapper's partner, the boss Bun B. The almost out-of-jail Gucci Mane got the additional bigger acclaim of the night, arising in a apostolic white clothing to huge acclaim and proceeding to reverently awning Master P's 1997 homesickness "I Miss My Homies." Also, T.I. didn't accomplish but his accession into the architecture acquired a abrupt anniversary and his addition to a accolade to Atlanta seemed beyond than a lot of performances.
2. Old accompany fabricated the bigger impressions.
Despite luminaries like Diddy, Nelly, Flo Rida, Rick Ross, Mystikal and Juvenile all demography their turns at the mike, one of the bigger responses of the night came from Atlanta's Cartilage Crusher, who lurched out to accomplish a section of his speaker-rattling 2003 hit "Never Scared." Huge acclaim and anchor pumping connected as he roared the choir and aerial up his polo to appearance his ample belly, still blind about even afterwards a division on Celebrity Fit Club. Missy Elliott showed up in a bedazzled Adidas clue clothing and hair down to her aback for a Timbaland accolade and absolutely blanket the night. A two-drummer, two-synthesizer, two-guitarist calendar was appropriate to almost the Timbaland sound, and Missy and a aggregation of hyperkinetic dancers did backflips all over it for a headbanging "Get Ur Freak On" and a active "Work It."
3. You ability wish to cartilage up on your history.
Despite Pitbull endlessly by for "I Apperceive You Wish Me (Calle Ocho)," not every song performed was a chart-storming megahit. If you're beneath 25, you ability wish to get accustomed to "Po Pimp" by Chicago rappers Do Or Die, one of the bigger hits in the Rap-A-Lot catalog, back A.K.-47 from the accumulation stops by for a quick verse. Also, the No Limit accolade begins in the era afore their "Make Em' Say Uhh!" ubiquity, with Romeo arrest Tru's 1995 archetypal "I'm Bout It, Bout It."
4. Some absences were acquainted hard.
While it was abundant to apprehend the booming articulation of Geto Boys rapper Willie D on the seminal "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" with superfan the Game, it would accept absolutely been bigger with his bandmates Scarface and Bushwick Bill. Scarface boycotted the accident altogether, claiming it was authoritative a apology of the South, cogent Ozone, "They're gonna try to put us with some beasts and just accomplish us attending fucked up, man, like we don't apperceive what the fuck we doin' down here." And while the accolade to Atlanta assembly aggregation Organized Noize was absolutely lively, it absolutely acquainted a bit defective afterwards the advice of Andre 3000 and Big Boi of OutKast; Cee-Lo Green, Big Gipp and T-Mo of Goodie Mob; Killer Mike or even Bubba Sparxxx. Having Asher Roth in shorts and atramentous socks accoutrement Ludacris' "Saturday (Ooh Ooh)" doesn't absolutely cut it.
5. The best getting absolutely will not accomplish TV.
Kid Rock already afresh accepted to be America's coolest hip-hop nerd, cutting the iconic "Censorship Is Unamerican" T-shirt that Luke wore on the awning of 2 Reside Crew's 1990 anthology Banned In The U.S.A. and agreeable the choir to their "We Wish Some Pussy" in a live, unbleepable room. But what you will not see on TV is Kid Rock's amusing answer with the assembly aggregation afterwards a abstruse snafu appropriate a additional yield from the singer. "We're accomplishing retakes? What affectionate of bits is that?" Rock said into the microphone with a huge smirk. "You owe me money, motherfucker!" Later, if 2 Reside Crew's turntable bureaucracy banned to work, Brother Marquis approved to advance the army in an a cappella adaptation of their Kinks-biting, XXX-rated 1988 anthology clue "One and One" - the a lot of absolute and affectionate allotment of the black admitting getting loaded with swears.
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