“Although rumors have been flying that Chris Brown was shut out of BET’s Awards show – which were a tribute to Michael Jackson – on Sunday, sources for BET and Brown have told MTV News that the rumors are untrue.Despite the controversy that has surrounded Brown since his altercation with Rihanna in February – to which he pleaded guilty earlier this month – many fans wondered why Brown, who has garnered many comparisons to Michael Jackson over his career, did not take part in the ceremony. Brown paid homage to the King of Pop during the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, and many thought the young singer and fellow chart-topper Usher – who has also paid respect to Jackson in dance form over the years – should have been present at the show. Usher’s absence was explained Sunday night when he released a statement saying he was overseas and expressed his regrets for not being able to attend, but there hasn’t been a word from Brown.The rumor mill was churning on Monday morning radio programs with speculation about why Brown was not included in the show, and carried over into blogs and even landed on New York’s Daily News on Tuesday morning (June 30).The rumors, for the most part, claim that BET had booked Brown for the awards show but pulled the plug due to complaints from influential people who were troubled by Brown’s altercation with Rihanna. The Sourceclaimed that Jay-Z demanded that Brown not be on the show.
Other rumors claim Cover Girl, for which Rihanna is a spokesperson, made a similar demand; the Daily News, citing an “insider,” said both Jay and the Reverend Al Sharpton, who has been a spokesperson for the Jackson family in recent days, had a hand in quashing Brown’s appearance (Sharpton told MTV News on Tuesday that the rumors have no validity).Although Brown himself has not commented on the reports, a source close to his camp told MTV News that Brown was never confirmed to be a part of the show and the rumors regarding Brown and BET were untrue; a spokesperson for BET corroborated that information, adding that “the rumors are false.”While Brown was not available for comment, he issued a statement after Jackson’s death that spelled out the influence the legend had on him.”Michael Jackson is the reason why I do music and why I am an entertainer,” Brown said. “I am devastated by this great loss, and I will continue to be humbled and inspired by his legacy. My prayers are with his family. Michael will be deeply missed, but never forgotten. He’s the greatest … the best ever. No one will ever be better.”Brown was among the first to pay homage to Jackson, who passed away last week, in song: He teamed up with Game, Boyz II Men, Diddy and others on a song called “Better on the Other Side,”which hit the Internet the day after Jackson’s death.”
Source:MTV
-Amee
they're lying¨!!!!!!!!!!
don't believe nothing!
BET had on their website that Chris was going to open up the show. They need to stop the foolishness
I KNOW RIGHT
THEY NEED TO QUIT LYING
exactly, they are lying. damn bitches
I kno! This doesn't make BET, Jay-Z or anyone else who was involved look okay! That night should have been about Micheal Jackson and his family not about everyone elses personal issues….This is so immature, I really like Jay-Z but hes really about to loose a fan, this is just ridiculous!
THEY'RE LYING LOOK AT THIS – http://twitpic.com/8t4zs
THEY SAID IT THEMSELVES. CHRIS HAD BEEN PERFORMING FOR 3 DAYS!
JAY-Z IS PROBABLY PAYING THEM TO SAVE HIS REP THE UGLY CAMEL
exactly
this is bullsh** BET just trying to save face and we the fans not buying it..I will only believe otherwise whent Chris says so.. why the hype of him performing ,…why would so many people has it wrong that he was going to perform..BET try another way to get out of this one
exactly, BET is gay and they need to stop lying
Omg! They are lying, but this would be typical for BET and Jay-z to do.
i agree
i dont believe dis crap!!!
poor Chris my Boo
hes probably Very.very SAD
FU bet and Jay Z
yeah F U BET
WOW….LYING NOW ARE WE??? SMH THEY MUST OF GOTTEN A TON A SHIT SENT TO THEM OF PEOPLE BEIN PISSED OFF ABOUT HOW BAD THE SHOW WAS N HOW CHRIS WASN'T THERE SO I GUESS THEY THOUGHT TO LIE……BAAAAAAAAAD MISTAKE.
loooooool WHATEVER! Errrrrrbody and their mama confirmed he was gonna perform. Even BET, his dancers, friggin Mijo! We're not stupid, maybe nothing was put down on paper formally, but we know very well Chris' ass was supposed to be dancin' like there was no tomorrow at the BET Awards.
Some fool who was twitterin' on the main twitter account for the awards wrote a tweet to a fake CB account asking what he had in store <~ LMFAO!
GTFOH MTV.
exactly.
lmaoooooo @ them twitterin a fake account. Don't erbody know by now he ain't got no damn twitter smh.
http://twitpic.com/8t4zs
dat is d link to a twtpic on which u cn see dat bet said on deir twiter dat chris "breezy" will b openin d show. so dey beter stop lyin.
after seein d influence of deir decision, dey now want to say it was a lie. dey shuld keep it up, keep lyin!!!!! dis is pure nonsense.
unless theres another breezy? which i highly doubt. they lyin'
R u kidding me rite now???!!!!! BET should b ashamed. L.A ur rite! On the website Sunday morning they had the pic of Chris from when he performed at the ’06 or ’07 awards show and the caption was “Breezy’s opening up the show! …” then replace him wit New Edition that sounded xtremely bad. They sounded like they smoked 12 packs of ciggaretts b4 the show! My older brother, little twin sisters and I could have done that 12 times better. I bet you they gonna play “Better On The Other Side” on 106 and Park!! And the radio stations in Dallas and news stations all agree it was a bad show and they should have done something seperate. That’s o.k. cuz I kno Breezy ain’t trippin either!
We love u Chris!!!
lol thats true, they are so lying.
The are so concern about domestic violence and so against Chris for that any yet they had a domestic violence abuser at the award on stage( Don Cornelius)of Soul Train was charge with the same thing, so what he could have perform being that he was up there!
And what the f**k the cover spokeperson and Jay Z got to do with anything. Jay Z ain't no saint it was all on the internet some years ago where he hit this lady people standing there looking didn't even stop him so he need toshut the f**k up.
And stop making threats toward Chris Brown and leave him the h*** along.
Jay Z Old A** Need to grown up, Beyonce deserves better than him!!!!
you're exactly right
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BET needs to quit allowing CG, Camel and the Rev to make a fool of them. Everyone knows Chris' performance was suppose to be a surprise, but he indeed was on the bill to perform. SMH at BET's inability to accept their wrongdoing. I don't know what I expected though. STOP LYING BET…YOU A DAY AND A DOLLAR SHORT!
BET F*** you to hell! Jay-z and Rihanna gay a** need to go somewhere. I don't see none of their fans sticking up for them. Everybody knows their all idiots including the producers of BET. Their all going to hell and I don't like how their putting Al Sharpton's good name into the streets like he did something wrong. Be grown about yours and man up. Rihanna needs to stop being a hoe and having people like Jay-z stick up for her. Chris Brown is taking his responsibility for hitting Rihanna, that skank slut is not.
that is some straight up bullshyt! Everybody knows that he was supposed to preform. Everybody confirmed it, BET once again tryna save there ass from more humiliation. Even the people who dont like chris stayed up and waited for him. BET just mad that nobody liked there show so they had to make up this bullshyt excuse for him to not be there. If he wasn't supposed to be there then why he was there rehearsing for 3 days? BET even said he was supposed to open the show. BET is sad and they got some old crusty bald head people working there. Even the censor button guy should be fired. They aint got no fukking excuse for him not being there.. And if the jacksons requested for him to preform then you know he was gonna do it. BET can kiss chris browns azz!!!! For there shitty azz bullshyt awards chow. Chris aint sayin nothin cause he know that show was shyt without him there. He probablly sittin at home laughin. I know i would…but then again i know that he sad cause he aint get to honor his idol… but he does at all his shows
MTV is more mainstream than BET so I hope they let Chris perform. I think the white media played BET so they can have Chris perform the FIRST MJ tribute. Even ppl who are anti Chris had to admit he is the person they want to see do the tribute. This is about to be interesting. I wonder if BET or Jay made Chris' camp go along with the I was never supposed to perform story. SOMEBODY IS LYING!!!
It will be interesting since MTV/VIACOM owns BET for the past few years. OH YEA!
well then i don't get why B-Shaw would post those "tweets"… it doesn't make sense.
i hope either Chris, BET, or Jay's camp come out with a better, clearer statement.
bcuz BShaw was telling the truth & saw the pain BET's decision caused Chris.:(
WELL SOMEBODY LYING THATS ALL I GOT TO SAY ABOUT THAT SITUATION.
KEEP YOUR HEAD UP CHRIS
and "somebodys" BET-they osted his appearance on their official site BET.COM & TWITTER-LOOK http://twitpic.com/8t4zs
I posted on my twitter: BET awards disappointing and a mess, as a tribute. They could have had at least one set of dancers like Micheal"!
Chris hasn't said crap and where's the statement through his official site. They are probably begging him to do it though. His team better cut a better deal than his crap ass lawyer.
BET POSTED THAT "BREEZY IS OPENING THE SHOW" ON THEIR MAIN PAGE. CANT CHANGE THAT SHIT NOW. THEY BETTER PUT TOGETHER AN "ACTUAL" MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE SHOW NOW AND LET CHRIS PERFORM TO SAVE THEIR STUPID ASSES. JAY-Z NEEDED TO RAP TO MJ'S "MAN IN THE MIRROR" BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE HIS ASS NEEDS TO LOOK.
Woaaah thats the truth!
Ok they ass better do something.
BET just f*cked up. They should have seriously put thought into their show before cancelling on Chris. He would made the show. This SHOULD have been about Michael Jackson and they should have left the bullsh*t at the door. What disgrace to Michael Jackson's memory and legacy. Jaimie promoted Jaimie all night. Did no one else want to be a part of the show that him & Neyo had to sing 5 times ? That was A HOT GHETTO MESS.
If its not true why haven't Chris said something about it.?………
Why should he? BET invited him, he prepared himself & was ready 2 go, then they canceled on him, so the balls in their court. They need 2 be honest & i they want, explain why they canceled his appearance when clearly they didn't have a backup plan
Why should he? BET invited him, he prepared himself & was ready 2 go, then they canceled on him, so the balls in their court. They need 2 be honest & explain why they canceled his appearance when clearly they didn't have a backup plan
Yeahp BET's Website specifically stated that Chris would open the The BET awards on Sunday June 28th 2009. and I think this is Such B>S>…. Chris' real fans wouldn't beleive this @ all. I Can't beleive that BET would do something so low. JAY-Z I hope You're happy right now because When Chris comes back everybodys gunna be like…. "JAY-Z WHO????????" lol. Keep your head up Chris, don't even sweat it.. Love You!
BET are straight wrong for lying like that and jay if it is true needs to come
Out and say that did do that Cause one in the first place it’s very childish and and wrong and he is just afraid his spotlight his gonna be snatched by someone better.
Rihanna whoa!!! She really needs to stop playing the innocent roll and come out and tell the truth. I still don’t see how covergirl is still sponsoring her ass!!! she got sued she was accused an she had inappropriate pics all over the world and she still is a covergirl??? Wow very sexist!!! she needs to stop pointing the fingers and blame her own self!!!!
Ohhhh BET caught up in their lie. what? did they think we were blind and wouldn't see their front page saying chris brown was to open? did they think we have alztimer's? Hecks to the NO. i can't believe they are trying to lie their way out of this mess. all i can say is god will take care of this and somebody's going to get karma thrown right back to them.
thats 100! =/
THEY ARE LYING IT WAS ON THEIR SITE.
http://twitpic.com/8t4zs
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i beleive it becuz that same weekend, twtpic was hacked and the hackers targeted over 50 twtpics pages…so it seems ligit…who cares..the bet awards are over…move on
I do not believe sources. Most o the time sources are nothing but fake people.
o-m-g. sooo furious at BET!
they're soo fake.. why in hell did they pull breezy of the show. WHY?!
it is even more embarassing that they now ARE DENYING IT. WTF?!!!!
BET is really pathetic serious. not "proffessional" behaviour, huh ?
not watching it anyway without breezy.. and breezy is too good for it anyways. but it would make MJ sooo proud to see chris performing the tribite!
o-m-g. sooo furious at BET!
they're soo fake.. why in hell did they pull breezy of the show. WHY?!
it is even more embarassing that they now ARE DENYING IT. WTF?!!!!
BET is really pathetic serious. not "proffessional" behaviour, huh ?
not watching it anyway without breezy.. and breezy is too good for it anyways. but it would make MJ sooo proud to see chris performing the tribute!