Kendrick Lamar was a guest on BET’s Don’t Sleep! last night with T.J. Holmes.
BET has big hopes for its late night offering, Don’t Sleep, and it doesn’t look like things are panning out as planned. The nightly show has been moved to a weekly installment, and bumped up from 30-minutes to a full hour.
2 Chainz Explains Why Felons Should Be Allowed To Vote On BET’s Don’t Sleep With T.J. Holmes [VIDEO]
2 Chainz visited BET’s Don’t Sleep and sat down for an interview with show host T.J. Holmes to discuss voting, voter suppression and why he feels its important to use his celebrity to influence and inform the community, particularly felons. Holmes candidly asked the “Riot” rapper why anyone who once hurt the community, should be […]
BET is currently running an ad sponsored by the Pivot Point PAC that is clearly against President Barack Obama. The spot is currently running in Cleveland, Ohio and Seattle, Washington, and alleges that despite initial excitement at the prospect of having the nation’s first African-American president, Obama has passed measures that are not in the best interest of […]
Look, whether you see Bow Wow’s new position at BET as host of their flagship program, 106 & Park as an attempt to stay relevant or you’re in the belief that the Atlanta rapper needs a job to support his kids, then you are very well entitled to that opinion.
Fresh off his seldom talked about performance at this years BET Hip-Hop Awards, Busta Rhymes continues to push his latest release ‘Year Of The Dragon”, which he let go for the freeskie provided by Google Play, go get that.
Sheila Johnson may have co-founded BET, but that doesn’t mean that she’s immune from criticizing the cable network. Johnson, ex-wife of founder Bob Johnson, gave her critique of the changes the network has gone through since being sold to Viacom. During a speech for the Conversations and Encounters program at the Carmel Art and Film […]
According to polls, President Barack Obama and GOP hopeful Mitt Romney are in a tight contest with either side just besting the other by mere points depending on the survey. Both men have catered their campaign talks to a variety of audiences, including the African-American community. Just how critical is the Black vote to this race? […]
Sometimes promotional stunts work, and other times they fail miserably. BET learned this lesson the hard way when their plan to publicize their new show, Don’t Sleep With TJ Holmes, ended in a bomb scare.
106 & Park will soon be a thing of the past. The BET daily countdown show has been a go-to spot for just about every big name in Hip-Hop and R&B, but has decided to throw in the towel after 12 years on the air. With the departure of Rocsi Diaz, and Terrece “J” Jenkins, […]
T.I. took a visit to BET’s 106 And Park yesterday. He’s laid relatively low since he’s been working on his new album Troubleman, and honestly, probably been trying to stay out of trouble as well. In this interview, T.I. talks to Rocsi about coming full circle since the last BET Hip-Hop Awards where he famously got knocked for having […]
A$AP Rocky stepped into 106 & Park’s infamous Backroom, dropping a freestyle for the latest installment of the video countdown show’s popular segment. Joining the list with Curren$y, Prodigy, Kendrick Lamar, and more, the Harlem native spit a solid, but not earth shattering, freestyle for just over 30 seconds.
