BET has much in store for this years BET Music Awards. BET isn’t scared to pull the plug on music vi

BET has much in store for this years BET Music Awards. BET isn’t scared to pull the plug on music videos. I love music videos that tell stories, and this one is very well done. Despite the role BET has played in deeming some rap music videos inappropriate for television, the network has not been saved from criticism.
DVD loaded with his BET highlights, experience his 2006 BET Awards performance and acceptance speech, his exclusive 18th birthday celebration, four videos and an up-close and personal interview that's BET Official! He credits underground videos like his “Luke’s Freak Fest,” a popular video series featuring nude women, and Snoop Dogg’s foray into hosting porn videos with injecting soft porn into videos. BET has a track record of banning videos that it finds transgresses the network’s norms of respectability.
Explicit videos aren’t exclusive to rap. But as the rap group Whodini once rhymed, “the freaks come out at night.” And on BET — already criticized for showing videos with a high T&A quotient — the videos become even more graphic during the wee morning hours on “BET Uncut.” Singer Ciara is notoriously known and loved by many for her seductive, sexy music videos.
These five hip hop music video directors were nominated to receive this year’s BET Music Awards ‘Video Director of the Year’ trophy. BET is holding back Rick Ross’ “Hold Me Back” music video. Every kid grows up with an idea of what they want to do when they grow up. Besides being a star-southpaw for the Cubs, I always wanted to make music videos.
Lloyd Banks of G-Unit, fronted by 50 Cent, says uncensored videos allow the artists to make videos that mirror the content of their lyrics, which typically carry a parental advisory. It’s almost like the other videos are like foreplay and the uncut videos are the act themselves,” says video director Nzingha Stewart, a woman who has directed clips for artists ranging from ODB to Common to Joss Stone. Unlike the paparazzi, fans will find interacting with Kanye a positive experience that aims to change the paradigm of music videos.
There you have it. The way technology is changing, it is going to be easier and easier for our favorite artists to make brilliant music videos. We spoke with a rep for BET who wouldn’t specify exactly why the network has banned the video — simply saying BET will not be broadcasting it. We spoke with a rep for BET who wouldn’t specify exactly why the network has banned the video — simply saying BET will not be broadcasting it.
In a meeting with BET heads, De La reportedly said BET told them they "weren't relevant to the BET audience" while The Beatnuts were told that "BET doesn't break new artists." The Beatnuts had previously garnered heavy rotation for videos like "Off The Books" from 1997's Stone Crazy, "Watch Out Now" from 1999's A Musical Ma##acre and "No Escapin This" off 2001's Take It or Squeeze It. Hold Me Back” does not stray far at all from the ‘hood narratives that have permeated rap videos for a while now. We all want to see videos uncut,” says music producer Jermaine Dupri, who makes a cameo appearance in Nelly’s “Tip Drill.” “We hate making clean versions — I do. So 'Uncut,’ they don’t let us play the lyrics, but they let us do videos however we want to do it, so, it’s another outlet for us.”
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