Thoughts About The 2010 Centric Soul Train Awards And The Rainbow Is Enuf

Posted on 29 November, 2010 by Panama Jackson

If you were following twitter or know Black people, then you know that the Soul Train Awards were last night (or a few hours ago if you’re reading this at midnight). Now, I’m not here to bash the Blackness. Nope, I’m taking a positive focus. Panama loves the kids.

With that said, I’ve made some observations. Creep with me.

In case you believed that positive focus thing, I lied. But, I don’t think hey were horrid. Just…special.

(Oh, and by the way, f*ck Comcast for having Internet outages up and down the East coast and forcing me to type this post using my iPhones Notes app. I HATE typing on this damn thing.)

1. R. Kelly put his foot all up in that show opening performance. That was the vintage R we always look for. Yay. It’s just too bad all I could think about was the that he was eyeing somebody’s daughter on stage. Wouldn’t have been my child up there. And did that joint ever go to trial??? Where is the honeycomb hideout?

And Chicago is one soulful arse city.

2. That opening f*ckery that Terrence and Taraji “acted out” was the oddest waste of time in award show history. Its like they didn’t realize it would suck until the show started but they couldn’t stop it. Wow was that bad. But I was entertained by the dance-off. That’s not true. I loved Taraji’s outfit. She could have danced a Mexican Mariachi Dougie in that outfit and I’d like it.

3. Has any other song gone from hot-as-hell to forgot-it-existed faster than Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair”?

4. Something about El Debarge bothers me. I’m not sure what it is but I’m pretty sure I’m afraid to smoke with him around him without security and a taser.

5. This award show has featured a lot of booty. Like a lot. This isn’t a bad thing at all. But every performance save for Anita Baker’s tribute featured some voluptuousness. If this is the message that Centric is trying to put out to the masses, I just might be on board with them.

6. Grant Hill stays winning. Period. Grant Hill doesn’t have to win sh*t ever. He married and stayed with Tamia.

7. Is it me or does it seem like there have been like 4 awards actually given out?? And I can’t even remember those. Not that anybody cares but that’s odd for an award show, no?

8. Melanie Fiona seemed real happy to receive that award. I’m happy for her. Even though given those nominees, she shouldn’t have won. But kudos to her.

Sidenote: I recently (and finally) saw For Colored Girls. It wasn’t bad but that was one hard movie to watch. It has like zero replay value. I haven’t read the choreopoem or seen the play, but the woven in monologues were hard to digest and process in context of the movie to me. Then again, it was totally a movie for women. I lost focus about 100 times while watching it. Too bad that For Colored Dudes has already been done in the form of Boyz N The Hood.

9. Somebody needs to do a documentary on famous singers who go to prison. None of these dudes seem in the least bit phased by their time. Hell, Ron Isley seems like he never left.

10. Damn Keyshia Cole looks great. Hood. But great. Well she looks like a mess really. But a good looking mess. Like, potato salad. I like potato salad.

11. This is going to sound odd, but I don’t understand Bilal’s appeal. Short of “Soul Sister” I haven’t like a single song of his. I know folks love him but I don’t get it.

12. The Isley Brothers catalog is f*cking ridiculous. It’s like champagne wishes and thirty white b*tches.

13. Aside from looking prison gay, El Debarge looks like he’d sell you a used Dodge Pacer and swear it was a BMW.

14. Eric Benet looks like he might be a d-bag in real life.

15. Poor Ronald Isley. That brotha looks like he needs a hug. He’s happy and sad and has no idea why. He just wants to make sure he’s not being taxed for this performance.

All right, those were some of my observations. VSB, did you enjoy the awards? Highlights? Low-lights? All of the lights?

Speak on it.

-VSB P aka The ARSONIST aka 21 CUCKAROO GANGSTA GILLIGAN aka GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRL, HE A 3

IsOurChildrenLearning?

I hope this is the last play on the “For Colored Girls…” title that I ever see.
- IsOurChildrenLearning?
  
  also, in reference to “whip my hair” being quickly forgotten, I feel like songs don’t “stick” like they used to. Songs used to stay popular and bang for MONTHS, maybe even a full year. Now a hot song is hot for a few weeks. Am I the only person that’s noticed this?
  - Sasi Quaia
    
    @IsOurChildrenLearning?
    
    ….gotta go back to 90′s R&B, now those songs stuck and are yet sticking! Even 90′s Rap which I didn’t listen to much. Outstanding talent (Calvin Richardson) don’t get heard by mainstream these days.
    - Da Iceman
      
      Just drop ‘Poison’ anywhere on earth right now and see what happens…
      - V.E.G.
        
        So, true.
        Kneegros hear Poison and show their age, busting out the running man and what not.
        
        http://www.yourchildsmother.blogspot.com KMN
        
        Actually grown women gravitate towards each other and perform the drill to Poison that they did 20 years ago for their middle school talent show.
        
        KMN
        
        V.E.G.
        
        Again, very true.
        It’s amazing that the routines to Poison are all the same, no matter where we grew up!
        
        NY2VA
        
        That’s what I’m doing right NOW!
        
        POOOISOOOOOOON!!!!
        
        http://www.thefriendraiser.com jenifer daniels
        
        shyt. i had one. 6th grade!
        
        V Renee
        
        Never trust a big butt and a smile!
        
        I wanna hear that song right.now!
        
        SOUTHERN POISE
        
        Was just talking about that like 2 days ago with a male friend…He says that still holds true today…
      - WIP
        
        I feel like doing the Reebok when I even think of the song Poison. I’m doing it right now in my cube just because you mentioned it.
      - http://www.pinchmycheekie.wordpress.com Cheekie
        
        Exactly. Poison will live on way past every monumental event in the future. Folks will be levitating and dougie-ing to Poison 100 years from now.
        
        Yes, I brought the Dougie into the future.
      - Cris Until I Find a Clever Name
        
        I saw BBD here in NYC this past summer and they bring women out of the audience to do the dance to Poison. The BBD dancers show them the routine and theyre supposed to copy it…but instructions arent really needed, LOL. Either peeps did it perfectly; or they just did the dance THEY USUALLY do when Poison comes on.
        I always say that you can go to a dead party and throw on Poison;Before I Let Go; It Takes Two; The Show; You Called and Told Me;I Found Lovin and its on and poppin
        <—just realized that her song choices tell her age
        
        Eliz927
        
        I’ve never posted on this site before but this one particular comment/thread has forced my hand.
        
        The opening beats of the song alone make my heart skip.
- http://www.pinchmycheekie.wordpress.com Cheekie
  
  It probably won’t be. You know that running “[insert percentage here] gay” joke? STILL going strong ’round these parts. The VSB clan likes to beat dead Mr. Eds, I’m thinkin’…
- lulu
  
  There’s an accompanying book on Amazon; “Good Hair: For colored girls who’ve considered weaves when the chemicals became too ruff.”
- http://verysmartbrothas.com Panama Jackson
  
  this ain’t even close to the last play on that title. hell, i was using that before that movie was in the works. heck…i titled a SONG that i wrote that in 2006. it will never die like cicely tyson!
  - Chelz
    
    “it will never die like cicely tyson!”
    I am done with this site, u and everything that u stand for. U hear me? DONE!
    
    Jesus be a bottle of wrinkle cream and a slave cabin cuz Miss Cicely done been around since the Amistad, u hear me?
    - WIP
      
      Thing is, I can’t recall seeing a film where she looked younger. How long she been out??
      - http://www.pinchmycheekie.wordpress.com Cheekie
        
        lmfao @ “how long she been out?” *cackles and chokes*
        
        But yeah, she always had an “old” face. I remember looking at a screenshot from one of her earlier films (I can’t remember the movie for the life of me), and thinking she looked 87. I mean, she was obviously younger, but her face is wise.
Ashleyg

Literal tears at the Debarge cracks, specfically no. 13! He doesn’t bother me so much as BETs apparent quota requirement to have him on every award show this year :-/
- http://www.shesoflyy.com Muze
  
  but why perform like 5 times at each show, too? wtheezy.
  
  i think he’s going broke and BET saved his house or something. he’s working off his loan in performances.
  - Hawaii
    
    i think he’s going broke and BET saved his house or something. he’s working off his loan in performances.
    
    LOL!
    Why do I feel this may be true tho?
  - V.E.G.
    
    LMAO
  - V Renee
    
    LOL! I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true…..
    
    Either that or BET is his dealer, and they give him a little something something in exchange for his sanging.
    
    You know people love to make crackheads perform before sliding them a few ~~crack rocks~~ dollars.
    - NY2VA
      
      “Do your dance, Gator! Do your dance!”
      
      Yeah… like that.
  - http://www.pinchmycheekie.wordpress.com Cheekie
    
    LOL, it’s funny because it’s (possibly) true.
I’ll give it a try

Maybe I’ve been hiding under the bougie negro rock, but I didn’t even know that Soul Train still even did an awards shows. The last time I watched it Dru Hill won album of the year.

To add, there is just something about Terrence Howard that I can’t get with. Something in his eyes just ain’t right.

And with this
“12. The Isley Brothers catalog is f*cking ridiculous. It’s like champagne wishes and thirty white b*tches.”

I’m done lol.
- http://twitter.com/coltranesnaima thetalentedms.fiasco
  
  Terrence Howard always plays janky characters and he has a pedo mustache. He also beat his wife or some shit. I hate his character in dead presidents…and I felt like he wasn’t really acting, but playing himself.
  - http://testorshia.blogspot.com Tes
    
    A pedo mustache and rape-y eyes. I told my best friend that and she laughed. Then I challenged her to stare into them for a minute without feeling some kinda way. Let’s just say she stopped laughin.
    - Mo-VSS
      
      I know I’m all late and sh*t but I am in my office DYING because I read “rape-y eyes.”
      
      Done!
      
      And yes, he does have rape-y eyes.
      
      And I concur with the thought that Eric Benet is probably a d-bag in everyday life. Something about him (and his inability to keep Halle Berry) seems off to me.
- http://www.nicklodeon.wordpress.com Nick@Nite
  
  My mom LURVES Terence Howard..
  but then again, she voted for Bush…..
  
  I’m with you.. It’s like he knows where they’re hiding my 40 acres and my mule.. and I don’t trust that..
  - http://www.pinchmycheekie.wordpress.com Cheekie
    
    My mama and yo mama got the same taste in men, apparently. She LOVES Terrence. I don’t see it. I mean, I guess his raspy voice is chexy. Other than that…he looks like he’s constantly constipated.
  - Oftenconfused
    
    My aunt used to call Terrance and any other bright man with hazel/green eyes (I.e. Michael ealy, sha-za, etc) DIRTY. I never really asked why, I guess they just looked dirty to her. That’s always humored me. I would pass on Terrence, but Prerty Ricky (aka Michael Ealy) could get it.
- legitimate_soul
  
  Terrence Howard=Silky Fine (I said that before here, that’s my nickname for him). He’s that pimp ninja that went legit. That ninja looks like he works out in dress socks. I must admit I loved him in “The Best Man” and in “Mr. Holland’s Opus”.
  - NY2VA
    
    DEAD @ “works out in dress socks.” The visual is just too much. And does Afro Sheen still sponsor Sool Train because that Knee-grow’s head was full of it last night. His hair was GLISTENING!
    - kingpinenut
      
      lmbaoooo
      
      QP was like “how did he play a pimp??!!!”
      - WIP
        
        I don’t think pimps are traditionally admired for their fashion sense anyway…
- sunshyne84
  
  I have the ’96 awards on VHS. lol Dru Hill had on red velvet (or leather). I loved it!
  - NY2VA
    
    I have a VHS somewhere of the 90 awards. Stephanie Mills and Christopher Williams sang the ISH out of Feel the Fire.
    - http://twitter.com/Phidelity15 Phidelity15
      
      My mother can hold a note or two and I absolutely love Feel the Fire because of her. I don’t remember exactly what she was going through, but she sang that song better than the both of them one day and ever since I stop and listen when I hear it.
  - tgtaggie
    
    Actually, Ron Isley also had a velvet tux on last night. But his was a tad too small
- JessicaL
  
  Lol, I feel my blackness slipping away. Here I thought I was just getting sick, because I didn’t know they were still having Soul Train Awards either.
http://heardhimsay.com Drew-Shane

As hard as it is for me to type it, R. Kelly was the best part of the show. Period. Hands down! I don’t think the show bounced back after that. The tributes were decent, I’m sure that’s the only talent they could get to do it, so yeah.

I didn’t understand the seating either. Seems like everyone was all over the place like common people. I would have felt janky sitting in the back.

I can’t get into El Debarge either!
http://twitter.com/coltranesnaima TheTalentedMs.Fiasco

I stopped watching to watch Onika. I went back and watched the rest and the damn…it was sort of a great hotmess…like it was great, but they had like no budget. No one understood ms.Badu’s set, but she really was trying to expalin the theory of everything…did y’all not see that?

Cee-lo was killing me though. He has like no legs. He is all body! I just wonder…no..no.. I don’t want know how his love gun looks like.

Panama, you will get punked into getting fios. I hate verizon, they’re run by the devil.
- Hawaii
  
  DAMNIT! You just reminded me that I missed Nicki. I wanted to see that joint…. shoots. Maybe they’ll rerun it, yes?
  
  Cee-lo was killing me though. He has like no legs. He is all body!
  
  ROFL!
- WIP
  
  “Cee-lo was killing me though. He has like no legs. He is all body!”
  
  Outrageous (reminds me of the dad from The Oblongs).
- Eddie_Brock
  
  I saw the Anita tribute, the “dance” contest and a snippet of some dude in an El De Barge costume. I kept flipping back/forth between the RHOA repeat and this and when N.Minaj’s show came on I tuned them out altogether. Seems like i didn’t miss much….
http://www.nicklodeon.wordpress.com Nick@Nite

When R. Kelly popped up all I could think was “lemme give ya that poot poot.. lemme give ya that pee pee..” skit from Chapelle…

Why Cee-Lo.. WHY!? He looked like Colonel Mustard from the Clue game.. Like he stays wearing Andre-3000′s rejections…

WHYYYY did El Debarge fudge up “Sweet love?” I wanted to sing along. I wanted it to sound like the song.. Not that ad libbin ish like David from the Real World.. #SkooBeDooWeee

I think Erykah Badi has been drinking some of her own concoction.. you know the one she gives the men that makes them go crazy… deranged… WHAT was her outfit!? That whole ensemble looks like “Art Institute Reject and BP Fail Whale”
sidenote: did comcast fudge up, or was her lip action in the beginning of that song looking like a chinese kung-fu movie? them words don’t match yo lips baby….

Anita Baker goes HARD in the muthaeffin paint!!
Yeah, I know.. but I just LOVE sayin “Hard in the muthaeffin paint!”

And I’m out this muthaf*cka!!!
*drops mic*
- I’ll give it a try
  
  “WHYYYY did El Debarge fudge up “Sweet love?” I wanted to sing along. I wanted it to sound like the song.. Not that ad libbin ish like David from the Real World.. #SkooBeDooWeee”
  
  LLS! I heart you for that reference!
  - http://www.pinchmycheekie.wordpress.com Cheekie
    
    LMAO, Nickerz knows I love her, but yes, extra love for the reference. Comeonbemybabytonight.
  - NY2VA
    
    Come on be my baby, comeon be my baby, come on be my baby tonight…
    
    You have made my entire WEEK with the David reference!
- Mia
  
  Points for referencing David’s song from Real World. That gave me life!
- Hawaii
  
  Oh my goodness, don’t y’all start with that Real World David joint!
  Nothing annoys me more & makes me laugh at the same time- which annoys me, than that damn song.
- WIP
  
  “Why Cee-Lo.. WHY!? He looked like Colonel Mustard from the Clue game.. Like he stays wearing Andre-3000?s rejections…”
  
  You are really trying to get me fired today.
- V Renee
  
  When R. Kelly popped up all I could think was “lemme give ya that poot poot.. lemme give ya that pee pee..” skit from Chapelle… .
  
  Everytime I think about that skit, it brings me joy!
- http://twitter.com/SmartFoxGirl SmartFoxGirl
  
  LMAO THIS:” Not that ad libbin ish like David from the Real World.. #SkooBeDooWeee”
  
  I have to share this. I saw him on South Beach like 4ish years ago. I was with a few friends and i had been a tad bit tipsy. I couldn’t remember his name though, so I went up to him and was like “DooBabooWee guy!”. He just bowed his head in shame and started laughing. He said he gets hell everywhere he goes for that song.
  - Mr SoBo
    
    “He said he gets hell everywhere he goes for that song.”
    
    Thats all he got? He should consider himself lucky.
    Get hell for that song?? That n*gga should BURN in hell for that song.
  - legitimate_soul
    
    Yay for him being a good sport about it, lol!
http://thatdamnafrican.wordpress.com/ That Damn African

No Wolf Blitzer dougie comments? I’m curious to see if they’ll add testimony from Wolf in the next Black In America series.
- tgtaggie
  
  That was HILARIOUS. lol. I said to myself Wolf loves the black people. Bout as funny as the dude doing the dougie and getting hit by the ice cream truck. lamo.
  - tgtaggie
    
    I misspelled hilarious….
jen

I cosign to that eyes thing. They’re killer creepy
http://www.shay-d-lady.com shay-d-lady

I liked the awards.
Black twitter is hard to please! Lol dayum yall ninjas go in! I thought Jazmine sullivan
Looked just fine. she can’t look like no one but herslef. Gotdayum yall!!
Ninjas with falsettos and slick hair aint shyt.
Umm did Ron isleys new baby momma jump up on stage and start singing back up?
And for all yall mad at R kelly. Umm did you notice that 105 year old Ron Isley has a 3 year old by a lady
That looks about 25 now? They should let Angela winbush come out and sang its the real thing for his tribute
I hate Terrance howard
Ceelo.. Gotdayum. Being different for the sake of being different is just as lame as being a mass follower
But I love the album
E.badu is a quintessential hood chick.
- http://www.shesoflyy.com Muze
  
  “Umm did Ron isleys new baby momma jump up on stage and start singing back up?”
  
  LMBO i thought i was the only one who noticed that. like welldamn talk about fraternizing. geesh. i wonder which job came first. lol
- WIP
  
  “And for all yall mad at R kelly. Umm did you notice that 105 year old Ron Isley has a 3 year old by a lady that looks about 25 now?”
  
  Eww, cash rules everything around me
  - tgtaggie
    
    I want to say this particular wife was a backup singer prior to becoming Mrs. Ron Isley. I kept wondering why Ron’s eyebrows looked like Oscar the Grouch….
alana

I don’t have cable because I’m a cheap ninja, however…CHICAGO ROCKS!! That is all!
- http://www.pinchmycheekie.wordpress.com Cheekie
  
  It does, indeed, rock.