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What’s up guys. Throughout the night, we’ll be live blogging the 2013 GRAMMY Awards! Stay tuned, and make sure to follow us on Twitter!

Following last year’s annual award show, Black Entertainment Television introduced The BET Experience, a first of it’s kind event in downtown Los Angeles. Now more details have been revealed for what is sure to be the next level of event programming for the network. Rivaling the big festivals of the… Read More →

I think it’s safe to say that most of the viewing public (based on my very unscientific survey of my Twitter timeline) only watches the BET Hip Hop Awards (which should really be called the BET Rap Awards) for the cyphers. That being said, if you didn’t catch Tuesday’s broadcast,… Read More →

In news we all knew: Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose are expecting their first child together. They made the announcement last night on the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet (after months of denying,) and collectively, the world said “awww”. If you remember, Beyonce also used this same award show… Read More →

Rihanna is no stranger to pushing the envelope… so you can imagine why she chose to perform one of the more risque tracks from her latest album on the VMAs. She opened up her performance with a choreography heavy rendition of the “Cockiness” remix (she even forgot to sing a… Read More →

Frank Ocean made his MTV Video Music Awards performance debut last night… but it definitely won’t be his last. The New Orleans-born, Cali living singer/songwriter has had a break out year with the release of his debut major label album “Channel Orange”, and was even nominated for a couple of… Read More →

Let me preface this post by saying that I like Alicia Keys. Unfortunately, this performance was a little, “meh”, for me. Part of it could be the fact that while I know that this song, “Girl On Fire”, is new, I feel like I’ve heard it from her before. That… Read More →

Kevin Hart continues to have the best year ever. He’s hosting this year’s MTV Video Music Awards and has released several promos in support of it. In this one, he’s inserted himself as the third party in Kanye West & Kim Kardashian‘s relationship, and as you can imagine, awkward situations… Read More →

It’s been a while since Jay-Z and Beyonce have actually been physically present at the BET Awards, and this year they brought along their good friend Kanye West, and his new boo, reality maven Kim Kardashian. Of course, as the foursome were seated prominently in the front row together, there… Read More →