is it just to me..or are none of these singers doing his songs any justice? cringe-worthy...
and BTW Smokey...you too damn old for them dredlocks

when they do these things, it just points out how far we've fallen. i understand that they have to get young, popular performers to perform at these things to get any interest, but seriously. christ.

meltwithu said:

meltwithu said:

You are somewhat correct. The only singers that I felt did his songs any justice was Gerald Levert, India Arie, and Stevie Wonder. As for the rest of them, I felt their performances were pretty shitty and worthless.

looked like smokey had a face lift. when was singing, he couldn't move his eyebrows to show emotion.

GrayKing said:

Agreed. I am in my 30's and grew up with real music. It's said to see the state of music. What's really sad is to see my boy New Edition and Boys 2 Men sounding like crap. Damn. It's a shame.



" What's wrong, wrong with the world today."

heybaby said:

Yeah. His face wasn't looking right at all. I wonder what's up. I do know at one time he was battling a cocaine problem. Perhaps, this puffy face may be a result of it.

He's not too old for locks...locks are ageless!

CherrieMoonKisses said:

I hate to say but he did look old and washed up. Locks are not for everybody.
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Hotlegs said:

huh...he is old


I thought floetry sounded great.... I enjoyed the show for what its worth.... at least ppl sang....oh...i hated India's performance....for some reason...
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CherrieMoonKisses said:

i'll rephrase that statement..Smokey's too damn old to be trying to sport the latest "IN" look...before he had the locks he had the twists when he was appearing in a commercial with (gasp and horror) B2K...if he was sporting them for years, then I'd say go for it...but this is the same man that has gone through the Fro and Jerri Curl. Next week he'll be sporting cornrolls, which should only be worn by males under 25 and wards of the prison system.(you hear me R Kelly?) at some point you need to dress and act your age.

meltwithu said:

Exactly.

heybaby said:

I Second That Emotion!


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Smokey looked fine...the man has to be in his sixties. His suit looked sharp, the locks are different, but hey he doesn't look crazy w/ them. And the drugs that he did were early in his career.

meltwithu said:

yes yes and yes! the only one who did a half way good job was the levert dude..and if he wasn't all over singin his woulda been perfect...and floetry souned aight until she started soundin like she was crying...hell even stevie screwed up the one he was doing...and yes smokey is DEFINATELY too old for those dreds.

meltwithu said:

I know a sixty year old woman with beautiful locs...I guess she should put her hair in bun huh...and btw, before your hair locs, you twist your hair so that it can loc (unless you want freeform locs).....lastly...for some, wearing locs aren't about being "IN".....

nothing wrong with Smokey having locs....
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I didn't bother to watch the shit anyway. Glad to see that I didn't miss a damn!

meltwithu said:

The only two highlights to me was that sexy ass Gerald Levert who never does no wrong and New Edition. Stevie is always great of course. Floetry was pretty good too. But IndiaArie was auhight. She could've done better.

I didn't care for Christina Milian's performance and we don't want to talk about that one dude who I ain't never heard of before who kept hittin' those bad notes. Now on the New Edition tip the only thing that was shaky was Johnny Gill's voice on the one song. Maybe he had a cold or somethin' I don't know, but I ain't never heard him sound like that before, but that's ok.

Hotlegs said:

Oh yeah, I forgot about Boys II Men. They were pretty alright to me. Their voices are still pretty much in tact.

heybaby said:

I know that's not supposed to be funny, but I can't help it. Poor Smokey.

I didn't get to see it last night. When are they gonna re-air it?

meltwithu said:

Y'all are killin' me.

AnckSuNamun said:

More than likely, Bet will re-air the special to the point that you are sick of it.

BlaqueKnight said:

i don't care about the dreads. i just think he looks artifical with a face lift. his skin was so tight he could barely smile. he couldn't even squish his eyebrows together to make a expression. if anything old folks don't need face lifts. they should stay natual and let the wrinkles form-thats not ageism. and the music was okay, but not great, cept for floetry, wonder, and gerald levert.

BlaqueKnight said:

Agreed 100% Nobody on this board is going to write 4,000 songs. Smokey can look anyway he wants to. I wonder if some old no talent white dude would get this kind of shit from people.

laurarichardson said:

probably, if he appeared in a Dr. Pepper commercial with B2K and that hairdo.

GrayKing said:

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No he would not. Elton John who, is talent walks around with a wig on his head and no one makes a comment about it.

laurarichardson said:

you ARE kidding, right? it was the punchline to every Elton John joke in a Leno/Letterman monologue for 10 years.

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