The Soulcialista: This is how we celebrate the King of Pop?

After the surprising passing of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, last week, everyone knew that the 2009 BET Awards would pay tribute to him in every way possible. But we did not think it would be this bad!

"The only thing missing tonight was fried chicken and watermelon" someone commented through their status on facebook.

Where do I begin with the cultural embarrassment that was the BET Awards?

How about I start at the end.

Li'l Wayne and his random entourage jumping around stage singing their single "Every Girl in the World". A song about how they would like to...um... "experience every girl in the world". Can Someone PLEASE explain to me why they 12 year old girls on stage?! Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

But what about the fact that someone should be losing their job right about .... now. Doesn't the FCC have a rule about an 8-second delay. Shouldn't you be able to handle bleeping out the explicit language during a live show? They do it on ANY OTHER network ALL THE TIME! Please let me know who I need to send my resume to.

And Ving Rhames? Did I really just witness the end of your career? Yes, we all know that BET LOVES airing Baby Boy when ever they can and it was funny seeing Tarji Henson and Tyrese do the whole little "I HATE YOU JODY!" spoof, but Jamie Foxx made a great point - you really couldn't tell if Ving Rhames was acting or he was serious. It was kind of scary.

Oh, and clearly he didn't get the memo that it was just the BET Awards. Not the BET VIDEO awards. That's something you might want to check out before you start acting loud and belligerent on national television.

Beyonce' - I know that everyone seems to love you when you perform on stage but I'm not everyone and that performance last night was boring. And that outfit? What was that?

I was surprised to see that Ne-Yo was brave enough to take off his hat last night. The "Malcolm X glasses" kind of took away from the enormity of his head. But since when was everyone crazy about Ne-Yo? Now, I'm not going to fake like I don't like some of the guy's music, but he was EVERYWHERE last night. Did I miss the memo that he was co-hosting with Jamie Foxx?

T.I.'s ummm.... woman? Tiny? He couldn't have picked a better spokeswoman on his behalf? And why is she and Toya [who i guess had Li'l Wayne's baby] getting their own show? Don't get me started on Frankie and Neffe getting their show [no I did not watch Keisha Cole's show so I don't know or care how funny or drama packed they are!] Did I miss the day that BET said that they were handing out shows to just anybody?! And is there a second go-round because I personally believe that my day-to-day would make an EXCELLENT show! Shaking my head [smh]

Oh and I hope, I really, really, REALLY hope that Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx aren't really doing that movie. What was it called? Skank movie? Smh...

Ok there were some good parts on the night like, Janet Jackson coming out and speaking on behalf of her family. "I shed a thug tear" commented one of my Twitter friends.

And Ne-Yo and Jamie Foxx performed "I'll be There" as the last performance. Well done guys.

And the tribute to the O'Jays was nice, but the "Soul Train guy" did talk forever...But they did not have to get up on the mic and point that out!

In all honesty, if that was the show that was suppose to be a dedicated to Michael Jackson and his achievements for black music.... I'm sorry, Mike. I really, really am.

Eventually, there were some awards given out. Although we only saw about half of them....

Video of the Year: Beyonce Knowles - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"

Best Male R&B Artist: Ne-Yo

Best Female R&B Artist: Beyonce Knowles

Best Male Hip-Hop Artist: Lil Wayne

Best Female Hip-Hop Artist: M.I.A.

Best Group: DAY26

Best New Artist: Keri Hilson

Viewer's Choice: T.I. feat. Rihanna - "Live Your Life"

Best Collaboration: Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain - "Blame It"

Video Director of the Year: Benny Boom

Centric Award: Jazmine Sullivan