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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Good, The Bad And The Atlantans At The BET Awards
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As expected, Atlantans were everywhere you looked at the BET Awards last night.
They opened the live show from Los Angeles (Usher - above; and see the rest of our photo gallery HERE ), they were at the podium accepting awards (T-Pain, The Dream, OutKast, Bryan Barber) and they made surprise appearances (TLC).
Not to mention there was some Atlanta-related news that wasn’t announced to the Shrine Auditorium audience. Notice that ring on R&B singer Jill Scott’s left hand when she performed her tribute to soul pioneer Al Green? Well, her drummer Lil John Roberts — a staple on the Atlanta music scene from the Yin Yang and FunkJazz Kafe days as the lead of the Chronicle, to the Tuesday Jam happening weekly at Sugar Hill — gave it to her.
As Peach Buzz reported last month, they were walking hand-in-hand at the Fox Theatre when Scott (above; see other pictures from the BET pre-party HERE ) made a surprise appearance during the Roots/Erykah Badu show. And her reps confirmed to us that he has popped the question, and the fairly recently-divorced Scott is engaged again.
What did you notice, like or shudder at during the BET Awards? Lil Kim’s “transformation”? Maxwell’s reappearance? Lil Wayne not getting best male hip-hop artist? Kanye West deeming T-Pain a genius? Or how great it was for Alicia Keys to bring out SWV, En Vogue and TLC (above; see other photos from the red carpet HERE )?
