For all the belly aching and griping about hip hops(mainstream) destructive infulence on youth, BET refuses to play A single by underground hip hop group little Brother "lovin it" because it is too intelligent!? Yes I said too intelligent. Little Brother is probably the best new hip hop group way more A tribe called Quest than G-Unit a group like all of its native tounge forefathers who are bringing soulful hip hop back to the spotlight. So please stick it to BET and buy Little Brother's new Album The minstrel show.





With Little Brother's The Minstrel Show hitting stores next week, SOHH.com has heard BET is refusing to air the album's first video, "Lovin' It" because it is "too intelligent for the BET audience."

The video begins with a delivery truck dropping boxes labeled "gangsta," "backpackers," "earthy" and "icy" onto a street. The rest of the clip mostly sees LB and Joe Scudda, who is also featured on the song, performing in front of a capacity crowd. The clip also pokes fun at the Hip-Hop subgenres by depicting overly exaggerated backpacker and gangsta characters in the audience. "Lovin' It" also jokingly features typical scenes with Big Pooh sitting next to champagne-sipping models in the venue's VIP section while LB's entourage pop bottles. The video concludes with a car running through the boxes dropped on the street earlier.

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The statement of the video being "too intelligent for the BET audiece" was discussed recently on Columbia University's college radio station, 89.9, on the "Squeeze Radio" show. On the show they said the statement was made verbatim by the program director from BET to one of the Atlantic records label reps. This information was obtainmed directly from LB's 9th Wonder.

SOHH.com contacted several officials at BET, including their vice president Stephen Hill, their program director, and publicist, Michael Llewellen who offered this response.

"It's not true, not in that context. BET reserves the right to show or not to show music videos of any type based on the network's own standards and decision-making processes," Llewellyn told SOHH.com.

When questioned further as to whether the words "too intelligent for the BET audience" was used, Llewellen did not respond. Atlantic Records has refused to comment.

The LB incident doesn't mark the first time BET has allegedly banned underground artists from its video rotation. In December 2004, SOHH.com reported that BET snubbed De La Soul's "Shopping Bags" video and The Beatnuts' "Find Us (In the Back of the Club)" clip featuring Akon.

In a meeting with BET heads, De La reportedly said BET told them they "weren't relevant to the BET audience" while The Beatnuts were told that "BET doesn't break new artists." The Beatnuts had previously garnered heavy rotation for videos like "Off The Books" from 1997's Stone Crazy, "Watch Out Now" from 1999's A Musical Massacre and "No Escapin This" off 2001's Take It or Squeeze It.

The network has also been under fire from the black community for cutting its news coverage to make room for more videos in the past few years. Recently, the community has been frustrated with BET for its failure to cover the Hurricane Katrina's crisis.

Little Brother's The Minstrel Show featuring "Lovin' It" hits stores September 13th.

why do they have to play ign'ant artists all day long?

CinisterCee said:

I KNOW!!!!?????

There not even covert with their shit, They come right out and say it. That's too funny, It's hard for Black artists to get on BET

Conspiracy!!

BET: the biggest joke on cable tv today.

Fucked up....Heard about this a month ago, but i didn't know if it was really true....damn...

DAMN!!

The album is hot. pick it up

now can we start our revolution.....


goin' to get my black leather jacket, and put on my


ok..i'm ready....

paisleypark4 said:

because they want their viewers to stay ig'nant.

grabs my afro pick and joins rhonda

I guess you have to be like this to get on BET nowadays!

Soulchild82 said:

Yessuh!

I dumped BET a long time ago.

who is Little Brother?

Soulchild82 said:

I'm not familar with the band but prehaps if it was a true minstrel show, BET would bite.

I guess I won't be seeing Cornel West rapping on BET.
[Edited 9/14/05 21:23pm]

Soulchild82 said:

Like Paul Mooney says:

YAAAHZZUHH!!

wow, this REALLY makes me sad yall. i mean, damn "too intelligent for our audience", what kinda bullshit backwards shit is that!? i swear, bet needs to be gone for good now cuz this is just TOO much. if they only wanna play a certain type of music, than fine. but how dare they insult their viewers, yall we need to start some type of boycott bet email campaign or SOMETHING

DorothyParkerWasCool said:

Funny, i was just thinking today of how i first seen Fishbone and 24-7 Spyz's videos on that channel. i highly doubt that would happen now.

Little Brother is tight and i think they'd do ok on BET, they have the same vibe as Black Star or Tribe, too bad.

k7i2m3 said:

You must go to this website.... this was their first album. They're from our backyard. NC!!!!!

http://www.okayplayer.com.../intro.htm

Are they fucking serious?

Soulchild82 said:

"i's gonna sing a little diddy fo ya na massa...."

It's a little known fact that corporate america's primary function is to keep the general population uneducated, take our money and keep us poor. Remember that movie "Bamboozled" and the clothing line? My goodness. I kinda dig that line in one of the NPGMC Ahdio shows. "If the music you listened to made you think, then your hood would be full of thinkers"

Rhondab said:

"...yessir massa, i'ma sang me a nice lil diddy called "nigga's dont know nan" and when i done with that i do a lil dance fa ya ms 'merica, cuz u sho is nice to me, and i jus luvs ya so much!"

Soulchild82 said:

Not unless you have a platinum grill and a cap or a bandana.

Prospect said:

And don't forget the BBQ Sauce, Ribs, s.

Moonwalkbjrain said:

"I's shows hope ya like my diddy massa sir, and i'mma gets my chiles to dance a little jig fo yeah sir...I's smiles fo ya, I's dancin' really hard fo ya sir...cuz i's luvs, yes sir, I's luvs ya"

It is totally ridiculous. I mean they will play Lil Jon whose side kicks the Eastside boys are named "Big Sam" and "Lil Bo". I did not make that up. But they hesitate to Play Little Brother.