BET refuses to play new De La or Beatnuts videos

[On The Edge of Insanity]

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.

[Don Seer]

can't have been enough booty in their videos.

[white Boy]

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

[DAYUM]

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...

[Bramsterdam (see ya)]

This is truly some stupid shit

[Throwback]

dont have BET in holland anyways. but its stupid though.

[Ras Kass' Toothpick]

What's the source for this?
This sounds too stupid to be true.

[AlerG]

this is absolutly rediculous, peace.

[Sikotic™]

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.

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

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.

[Smooth]

this is absolutly rediculous, peace.

[eS El Duque]

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 

[M Dogg™]

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.

[Danté Williams]

That's straight disrespecting Hiphop legends (and still hot acts).

[mauzip]

dont have BET in holland anyways. but its stupid though.

trust me, you're not missing out on anything