Blog: Crib Notes

2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards: Atlanta's albatross

Gucci Mane, Mario & Plies BET Hip Hop Awards 2009
Which came first, the BET Hip-Hop Awards or Atlanta's steady flow of garbage-ass rap music? The chicken-or-the-egg question occurred to me as I watched last night's broadcast of the awards show, which should've been renamed the Gucci Mane Awards for the number of performances (3?) featuring the East Atlanta-bred MC. It typified a night in which the [...]