VH1 Hip Hop Honors 2008
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The usually disorganized chaos that is a VH1 show rang true on Monday night television with the VH1’s Hip Hop Honors 2008. I guess they were trying to say that they knew the time since they didn’t get played on prime time, airing at 10pm Eastern, but with Flavor Flav announcing the honoree who had just been on stage, at least twice, it became quite clear that they really didn’t know what time it was, let alone what time it is.
But really, who cares about post production when you have a list as long on legends like HHH has.
The Honorees
Cypress Hill
De La Soul
Naughty By Nature
Slick Rick
Too $hort
Performers
Wyclef Jean
Kid Rock
Lil Jon
Big Boi
Ghostface Killah
MC Lyte
Bun B
Biz Markie
Q-Tip
Scarface
Busta Rhymes
Cee-Lo
PE in almost full effect aka Public Enemy - “Mista Chuck” D & Flavor Flav
Estelle
EPMD
Fat Joe
Gym Class Heroes
Jim Jones
Juelz Santana
Mack 10
and…
Luther “Luke” Campbell
“The Queen” Latifah
Eve
Joy Bryant
Hosted by “$2 gets you to all the Boroughs” Tracey Morgan
There is no greater honor than being sent up by your peers. If having Fat Joe and Busta coming out in full Cypress and Ricky D. styles wasn’t enough, there was a full on tribute to Isaac Hayes, in true hip hop form. With a list like the one that Hip Hop Honors delivers, it’s tough to separate the best from the best, but I have to say that Fat Joe’s send up of Cypress Hill in particular stole the show, and Lyte’s flow is always unstoppable. It was also great to see PE and EPMD… ah hell, it was great to see hip hop on TV period.
It’s really too bad that any cats outside the US are blocked from watching the video clips on VH1, I mean really. Just who do the corporate legal suits think they’re kidding… the cool kids know proxies.
Oh and, why did VH1 make De La rap Me Myself & I?
Plug 1… Plug 2… Don’t they know that they hate that song??? I mean, they really do hate performing it, and it shows. I feel for them everytime they struggle through it. I mean, if they are being honored, then let them choose a damn song that they love and want to do. You corporate types better lay off the “remember when” crack pipe. Hip Hop needs to breathe. The only thing that lives in a vacuum is dust. and mites. and Aunt Beatrice’s nose pickins.
