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Performances Steal BET Awards Spotlight
(AP) - Stevie Wonder showed off
his dance moves. Will Smith arrived in
a horse-drawn carriage and The Fugees
got together again. Extravagant perfor
mances and on-stage antics largely stole
the spotlight from the winners at Tues
day night’s BET Awards - it the win
ners showed up at all, that is.
Among the eight no-shows was top
honoree Kanye West, who earned tro
phies for male hip-hop artist and video
of the year for "Jesus Walks."
W est’s discovery, piano man John
Legend, picked up his trophy for new
artist and performed "Ordinary People”
and “My Cherie Amour” with Wonder,
who later danced while singing his new
single, "So What The Fuss.’
Soul diva Alicia Keys hoisted her
award for female R&B artist toward the Stevie Wonder, right, performs with an unidentified
audience and declared: "This is for all vocalist during the 5th annual BET Awards on Tuesday,
my people who are really try i ng to dream June 28 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
big dreams.”
The show kicked off with a surprise
reunion o f The Fugees, who haven’t
recorded an album together since 1996’s
"The Score” and haven’t even been on
speaking terms in recent years.
Hosts Mr. and Mrs. Smith - that’s
Will and Jada Pinkett - arrived on-stage
at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre in a
horse-drawn carriage with spinning
custom rims.
Denzel W ashington’s wife Pauletta
accep ted an aw ard h o noring the
couple’s charitable endeavors, and
Keys presented R&B and gospel leg
end Gladys Knight with a lifetime
achievement trophy.
Knight then performed three songs
including the tune that got her and the
Pips their first Grammy, “Neither One
O f Us (Wants To Be The First To Say
Goodbye).”
Missy Elliot Changes Creative Tune
(A P) - R apper, sin g e r and
su p e rp ro d u c e r M issy E llio t has
kept her p latin u m statu s fo r a l
m ost a decade by g iv in g fans
the u n p re d ic ta b le , the unheard,
the unfathom able each tim e out.
W ith surreal, sci-fi sounding
gro o v es, o u t-th e re ly ric s and
trippy videos, E lliott has throw n
liste n e rs fo r a loop so m any
tim e s th a t w h e n so m e th in g
in to x ic a tin g ly w eird m akes its
w ay to the rad io , you can a l
m ost guess it’s E lliott.
“ She’s totally creative - she’s
ju st pushed the envelope o f hip-
hop and music period a lot farther
than ever before,” says A licia
Keys, who toured with Elliott and
Beyonce last year.
But as “T he C ookbook,” is re
leased soon, E lliott is giving her
fans the unexpected once again
by - gasp! - sounding a little more
Still, for those looking for that
“ w h e r e - d id - th a t- c o m e - f r o m ”
groove that defies categorization,
E lliott has gone and tinkered with
the recipe. W hile right-hand man
T im baland is still providing hyp
notic beats, for the first time Elliott
has branched out, tapping the
N eptunes and other producers to
stretch her sound.
T im baland also “w anted to try
other people to see how w ould it
so u n d .”
So w ith “ T he C o o k b o o k ,”
w hich boasts collaborations with
M ary J. Blige, Slick Rick, Ciara,
Fantasia and Mike Jones, E lliott
m ade sure she took the tim e to get
Missy Elliott performs during the 5th annual BET Awards on
it right.
As she strokes her new “baby,”
Tuesday, June 28, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
worked for its time - the gimmicky, a Y orkie puppy nam ed Poncho
conventional.
“ It’s more to the center,” says character ’M issy ,’ but now , it’s sleeping in her lap, she also cites
E lliott, flashing a grin as she de like with music changing so much, “different experiences in your life
that you w ant to talk about.”
scribes her latest change-up. “ It it’s more in that center lane.
Will Smith Urges Rapper Role Models
(AP) - W ill Smith made a big
introduction at last w eek’s BET
Awards: G angster rappers, meet
the rest o f the world. Smith told
The Associated Press he hopes to
impress the global significance of
U.S. black culture on the show ’s
audience and artists.
Smith, co-host o f the show with
wife Jada Pinkett-Smith, won the
first rap Grammy in 1988 for his
squeaky-clean “Parents J ust Don ’ t
Understand." He said he wants
hip-hop artists to recognize their
importance and shift away from
Smith maintains on his latest album
“Lost And Found” that his nice
guy image has worked against him.
“Black radio, they won’t play me
though,” he raps in one song.
“Guess they think that Will ain’t
hard enough. Maybe I should just
have a shootout ... just ignorant,
attacking, acting rough. I mean then,
will 1 be black enough?”
thuggish themes.
“ It’s real important to have bal
ance o f the imagery. Yes, there are
people who fire guns in the street,
but there’s also doctors who go to
work in those areas to feed their
children,” Smith said.
He picks out Common and Mos
Def as other artists “that real ly have
something to say that don’, neces
sarily fit on the ’ 106th & Park' top
10.”
Now more well-known as a movie
star (“Men in Black,” “Bad Boys,”
“Independence Day” ) than rapper,
th e 3 6 -y e a r-o ld
Will Smith performs his hit
single “Switch ” before the
start o f game one o f the NBA
finals in San Antonio, June 9.
(AP Photo)
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Shields said. "Sometimes the best
effect you can have there is to tap
on the brakes and I was able to do
that.”
Some o f his best inspiration
d o e sn 't com e from his office,
though. Shields said he was at
G eneva’s to get a haircut earlier
this year and was reading House
Bill 2313, w hich w ould increase
sen tencing for crim inal street
gang m em bers.
“ It d o e sn ’t take a genius to
figure out the ethnicity o f who
this w ould affect,” Shields said.
He explained the bill to others
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He recently introduced a “Home
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gress to pass a resolution stating a
definite timeline for withdrawal from
Iraq. He believes it will send a mes
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need to be altered to halt further
bloodshed of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi
citizens.
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picable dictator. They have ush
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have secured a victory. And now,
w e 're here to say that the H om e
ward Bound Act is a way to bring
our troops hom e,” Shields said.
Back in north and northeast
Portland, his main hopes for the
future aren’t grandiose, ju st rea
sonable and fair. He sim ply wants
those who grew up in the area to
be able to afford to stay here, that
everyone has a fair shot at local
living wage jobs, for im proved
school and health care funding
and more fairness in crim inal ju s
tice issues.
And he's working on it.