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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: On The Edge of Insanity on December 12, 2004, 11:25:42 AM
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BET snubs De La and Beatnuts
Though they've both released albums in recent months, De La Soul and The Beatnuts' lead videos have yet to be seen on BET and the streets are buzzing that the black network isn't showing love to these veteran acts. Instead, heads caught a glimpse of De La's "Shopping Bags" video in a promotional spot for the album's release. And despite featuring Akon, The Beatnuts' "Find Us (In the Back of the Club)" also got reduced to 'commercial' spins.
Now sources say De La and The Beatnuts recently met with BET heads and got dissed. Word is BET told De La they won't play their video because the legendary group isn't relevant to their audience. Meanwhile, The Beatnuts were told that BET doesn't break new artists and that their clip won't be added to the network's programming. Interestingly, the duo's "Off The Books," "Watch Out Now" and "No Escapin This" were all heavy spinners on the channel previously.
This is truly some stupid shit, its no wonder the mass media has such a bad view of hiphop, when stations such as BET who should be supporting what hiphop really stands for totally blank legends in the game, just to play the latest "hot shit" from some microwave popcorn ass rapper.
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can't have been enough booty in their videos.
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lol, damn, sad shit.. how is REAL hip hop ever gonna get big, if FUCKIN BET, doesnt even wana support it, cuase they care more about the $$$$... im sure mtv2 might play it
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fuck that monkey channell ive noticed its gone to hell anyways
no racism intended its just free and AJ look like monkeys and thats all i ever see on that channel...
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This is truly some stupid shit
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dont have BET in holland anyways. but its stupid though.
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What's the source for this?
This sounds too stupid to be true.
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this is absolutly rediculous, peace.
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BET is Viacom owned so what do you expect now.
And wtf do they mean they don't break new artists? They were playing Usher, Xzibit, Nelly, Lil Jon, and Destiny's Child way before any of those acts hit the mainstream.
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Word.. BET needs to check themselves... they even tried to front on Lil Romeo's new video "My Cinderella" saying that it wasn't relevant.
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this is absolutly rediculous, peace.
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What's the source for this?
This sounds too stupid to be true.
yea
but i dont have BET so i dont know if this is true
fuck BET ;D
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Like Sikotic said, BET is Viacom now, which basically means that a company owns it, and can do whatever they want. Not a surprise, if their videos didn't downgrade Hip-Hop culture like all the other videos on BET now, I guess they can't be played.
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That's straight disrespecting Hiphop legends (and still hot acts).
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dont have BET in holland anyways. but its stupid though.
trust me, you're not missing out on anything ;)
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both sad and ridiculous, yet i've been watching shit like that going on for so long i'm pretty far from surprised
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lets be honest though, they shit aint gonna get no votes to stay on anway, so you would barley see it anyway
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Well they need to cut actual hip hop videos so they can free up more room to defend MJ against Em, and bash Em for disrespecting the black culture.
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Well they need to cut actual hip hop videos so they can free up more room to defend MJ against Em, and bash Em for disrespecting the black culture.
actually you're right. That excuses anything fully
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wow thats gay
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wow thats gay
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wow thats gay
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i was never a big fan of de la soul or the beatnuts anyway so it doesnt bother me
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peple dont give a shit about reall hip hop any more so dats y they dont wanna play it cuz if they play that shit on air their ratings wont be up as muchg and dats bad for them like it was said before its alll about the $$$$$$$
plus hip hop is dead
ets be honest though, they shit aint gonna get no votes to stay on anway, so you would barley see it anyway
i agree soo much
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If BET is owned by Viacom, why do they show this video on MTV2 & MTVU & MTV hits....Shopping Bags is on heavy rotation on MTVU & MTV hits, i always see it when im eating lunch in the campus center. I wouldnt get why they would ban a video from one of their stations and not the ones that really make a bigger inpact, really doesnt matter anyways, but yea, this still sucks
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its all about money nowadays...blame viacom for this