I AM TRYING THIS VIA MY TWITTER.

6:05:34 PM: is this ryan leslie character some sort of a space pirate?

6:08:47 PM: i am ready for the provolone beat down.

6:16:18 PM: between the beer i forgot & this pic of danny glover kissing harry belafonte i found googling ‘bet awards’ this live tweet just got fun.

6:17:28 PM: oh man ARSENIO is in the building.

6:18:55 PM: all the conversations about michael are shifting from present to past tense. nobody can admit to themselves that he’s actually gone.

6:20:36 PM: simultaneous tweeting with the @betawards meta blog explosion.

6:21:52 PM: it would be a really original idea if current day artists were to wear mj inspired outfits to the bet awards too bad nobody thought of that

6:24:01 PM: RT @sashafrerejones [untitled] http://twitpic.com/8pk1y

6:26:24 PM: i went to the bathroom and missed some sort of a fashion battle between the mohawked love children of ne-yo and mj?

6:29:39 PM: pleasure p sounds like an otc urological drug.

6:29:58 PM: his music does.

6:34:00 PM: stupid people should mourn michael jackson silently.

6:37:14 PM: RT @a_plus BET has really come a long way…I remember when they used to look like all their shows were taped in a basement in Southeast D.C

6:41:34 PM: centric award? artist located in or at a center? or most relating to, or resembling an order (Centrales) of radially symmetrical diatoms?

6:50:29 PM: i am going to need more beer. at least i can write it off on my taxes as research.

6:55:35 PM: nominees are day 26, gs boyz, the roots, three 6 mafia. how are those four acts in a category together?

6:57:43 PM: i’m not drinking alone, i’m drinking with bet.

7:02:20 PM: even lil wayne is baffled by this piss poor rendition of ‘abc’

7:05:59 PM: is gucci mane going to be here or what? he is this generation’s ralph ellison after all.

7:07:18 PM: i think the best direction this show could go in would be to just let jamie foxx do mj vamps for three hours.

7:09:03 PM: jamie is adding a little too much unecessary sass to his mj moves.

7:12:30 PM: soulja boy is the only person in the room laughing at the soulja boy tell ‘em joke.

7:13:35 PM: pleasure p and new boyz are trending. twitter is decidedly URBAN.

7:13:41 PM: and URBANE.

7:15:33 PM: wait no nominees? they’re just gonna give it to cry baby bron? maybe they saw his tears welling up and cut to the chase?

7:17:25 PM: seriously how are you going to have an award show without nominees? just tyra yelling names frantically.

7:17:53 PM: okay beer run. let me know if i miss anything impotent.

7:24:25 PM: Live Blogging the BET Awards:
I AM TRYING THIS VIA MY TWITTER.
6:05:34 PM: is this ryan leslie character some s.. http://tinyurl.com/mu562l

7:29:04 PM: is it a drinking problem if you go to buy beer and the asian lady just says “tomorrow start all over again”?

7:33:17 PM: man BET should have just given arsenio a new late night show instead of mo’nique and wendy williams.

7:35:22 PM: Bobb’e J = greatest entertainer alive.

7:35:22 PM: Bobb’e J = greatest entertainer alive.

7:39:29 PM: “big ass chain” in action!

7:41:00 PM: wtf they just dropped a magic “down 4 my” beat!?! http://bit.ly/iock3

7:41:12 PM: into some weird bowie “fame” mash up?

7:42:31 PM: the great thing about living in dc is that “down 4 my” is big tig’s personal anthem so i hear vintage no limit in rush hour and at wiz games

7:48:42 PM: “turn my swag on” is the best rap hit of 2009 thus far. soulja boy got a bed on stage for no reason. like he’s madonna.

7:51:10 PM: is soulja the first performance to not feature some transparent concession to mj? i sort of respect that.

7:52:18 PM: damn chaka is in the building and feeling herself.

7:53:41 PM: new rule: no more thanking of haters.

7:55:11 PM: i never knew that “she got her own thing” joint was a ne-yo song. i am learning so much about music tonight!

8:08:04 PM: RT I call bullshit. @fennrock Earlier today there was some chatter that Beyoncé is now undisputed inheritor of greatest pop royalty tag.

8:08:20 PM: B does not have that worldwide appeal.

8:13:21 PM: im surprised we made it this far without crossdressing. throwback crossdressing at that.

8:17:04 PM: countdown to full scale latifah rap comeback…

8:17:17 PM: get her a drake collab and she’s IN.

8:30:35 PM: its so weird that fabolous is still this go to guy for r&b cameos even though nobody cares about his actual music anymore.

8:31:04 PM: mase probably hates god everytime he hears loso on a ne-yo record.

8:32:56 PM: keith sweats been chilling in a cryogenic freezer with new edition since the vh1 new jack swing tribute. how is this relevant?

8:33:14 PM: no way guy too! how timely!

8:34:28 PM: RT @cthagod My mama said what makes Keith Sweat and Bobby Brown? I said what? She said the SUN…..

8:37:27 PM: bbd is killing with poison. read the labels, sucker.

8:39:18 PM: i want al harrington shoes. and they are in my budget.

8:45:50 PM: paula patton is starting to look a little skeletorish.

8:50:24 PM: there is hardly any rap at this show. you know things have gotten bad when i am anticipating drake. black music what happened to you?

8:58:14 PM: when did jeremy piven attain only-white-man-at-the-bet-awards status? jon b is rolling over in his career’s grave.

9:01:04 PM: I totally forgot “DOA” existed until right now.

9:01:04 PM: I totally forgot “DOA” existed until right now.

9:10:04 PM: how tacky is jamie foxx for pushing his tour?

9:11:03 PM: don cornelius might be the best for no reason guest of the night.

9:17:04 PM: again how is this timely? as much as i love the o’jays, i would be more interested in tevin campell covering the oj da juice man.

9:17:31 PM: or vice versa.

9:29:15 PM: “i smell like wd40 and my fingers are blistered and im eight beers deep and i have been watching day 26 forever i cannot go out”

9:31:50 PM: joe jackson looks like the cryptkeeper. he should hide his face forever.

9:37:42 PM: bet awards became background. attention spans are overrated.

9:47:34 PM: “she’s a host ON the view and he provides the ladies with a nice view” come on, lyte’s writer!

9:47:34 PM: “she’s a host ON the view and he provides the ladies with a nice view” come on, lyte’s writer!

9:51:38 PM: all jokes aside it must have been a programming coup to orchestrate an mj tribute of this magnitude in just three days.

10:01:17 PM: sorry i am done with this. live blogging was a terrible idea. never trust a magic 8 ball unless it is the fat mack who runs with mjg.

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