Cinnamon234 said:

OH MY GOODNESS MAXWELL!!!!!

MAXWELL!!!!!

Maxwell!!!

cotdamn....Maxwell is so damn fine.

How appropriate for Maxwell to sing Simply Beautiful.

OMG Maxwell! How awesome was it to see him again???

ROTLF @ Lil' Wayne singing his heart out to "Let's Stay Together"

Something seems a little off with Al Green. The cheese coming off off his appearance is incredible, to the point that it's scaring me...he's either really excited, getter older quicker than I thought, or he's always been that way.

To make matters worse, the audience is matching his output (with Ne-Yo and P. Diddy supplying most of the energy for that).
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Al is showing out.

soul4thought said:

Al has ALWAYS seemed a little off.

PurpleCharm said:

Yes he is!!!

1. Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton, and Maxwell don't even deserve to be scrubbing Al's toilets. These non-singing tools are disgusting.

2. Asswell needs a good strong kick for trying to turn the tribute into his own show.

3. Lil Kim looks surprisingly human.

4. Who were those random people Al hugged?

5. lolz @ AL for saying "BET Awards academy"

6. lolz @ audience for recognizing that and how WACK most of the "artists" in that room are

7. I love Al, but I swear I never noticed how ZESTY he was until tonight. Anyway though, how great is he. To be that amazing and to have that kind of attitude. WHOA.
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Flowerz said:

This is supposed to be the start of his comeback. We all know how reclusive he is. The album is expected in Fall 2008.

Al Green was amazing

I LOVE ME SOME AL! I'M SO GLAD THAT HE DID NOT GET UP THERE AND PREACH THROUGH THE SONGS!

It's just amazing at how Rev. Al can still keep a crowd rocking after four decades. Bravo performance and much-deserved honor!

Oh, and Maxwell please come back now!!!!!
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the question of the night

Where in the hell is Prince?

All these young pieces and he's at home?

Dance said:

Apparently, he's throwing the after party.

debbiedean2 said:

I'm sorry I LOVE Al Green and am happy any chance I can see him honored for the decades of great music he's shared with us, but he DIDN'T SOUND GOOD! He strained throughout and relied heavily upon audience participation to mask the fact that he was struggling and out of breath.

airbak said:

Well that's better than lip-syching! Al's aged voice is what I call rawness and truth. I think he's still got it!

airbak said:

I'll take a "bad" performance from Al any day over ANY kind of performance from any of the crap artists there tonight.

Cut Al some slack. The man is 64 years old.

He sounded better than everybody that performed on the show.

Paris9748430 said:

Yeah, but he can only fit so much ass in the house. And there are so many new chicks he doesn't know about.

Quincy Jones' speech was very excellent!

PurpleCharm said:

I agree that on his worst day, he's better than EVERYBODY else who performed (except for Maxwell!) but I just had to call it like I saw it. I like Al but he didn't sound good. Maybe he had a bad night because I saw him singing not too long ago and he sounded good. So I wouldn't say age has anything to do with it.

I liked Alicia's speech.

Dance said:

Well we all know he has a serious ego problem!

Dawn Robinson! wtf happened?

lawd that show was horrible.

music is dead.