The performances were good, the awards were well deserved (some of them), and the honors were fantastic.
The performances weren't bad at all, if you could open up your show in the best way possible, who would you use to do it? The answer to that question is Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick set the tone of the show by opening it up with his very jazzy and turnt up TPAB jam "Alright" while dancing on a cop car. Is there any better way to tell people that "we gone be allRIGHT?" Absolutely not. Other key performances were Tyga and Chris Brown, The Weeknd brought along Alicia Keys for a song, Omarion performed "Post To Be" (although it didn't include my girl Jhene Aiko, so I was uninterested), Big Sean did a couple hits and brought out E40, some dude named Jidenna performed (by the way, who the hell is Jidenna?), Nicki and Meek put on a decent show, but the highlight performance of the night had to be the Bad Boy Records 20 year Anniversary performance. Diddy performed huge hits from back in the day and brought out Lil Kim, 112, Faith Evans, and how could you do a Bad Boy Records Anniversary performance without a tribute to the B.I.G(est) artist to ever appear on the label? You know they had to do it right.
The awards given out weren't horrible either, Nicki Minaj took home Best Female Hip Hop Artist, Kendrick Lamar took home Best Male Hip Hop Artist which was no surprise, I mean really, who did you expect (and while we're at it, who did you expect other than Nicki to take Best Female Artist)? Best New Artist went out to Sam Smith which was an interesting win seeing as he is not black, although it didn't matter as the always hilarious Anthony Andersen was there to collect the award for him (because Smith couldn't attend the Awards show), and also said he "accepts Smith as one of their own." Very classy move by Andersen.
Check out a recap and some highlights of Kendrick's opening performance below.
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