Why did BET cancel Rap City?

[MartyMcFly]

i wish there was a certain thing as super dap, lol. this says it all right here...

 

[Shadowapocalypse]

lol!

 

[MartyMcFly]

I'm saying, who honestly gives a fukk about that channel anymore? The second they came out insulting their audience with that bull, . But of course, people I know who still watched it after that said "well, they weren't talking about me" and yes they were, as you are a part of their audience. I'd rather watch TV1 over that shyt station any day of the week and twice on Sundays. BET is lowest common denominator television, plain and simple. I give them props for the Gospel programming they do but that's where it stops

 

[Shadowapocalypse]

man I was sick to my stomach when I read that asinine garbage they said about little brother. them and MTV can go play on the curb. embarrassing that they don't play music until you turning over sleep at the crack of dawn. there was no reason at all to cancel rap city

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

I'm saying, who honestly gives a fukk about that channel anymore? The second they came out insulting their audience with that bull, . But of course, people I know who still watched it after that said "well, they weren't talking about me" and yes they were, as you are a part of their audience. I'd rather watch TV1 over that shyt station any day of the week and twice on Sundays. BET is lowest common denominator television, plain and simple. I give them props for the Gospel programming they do but that's where it stops

meh.

unless you were just watching the channel for music purposes, chances are you still watch. it was never meant to be just a music channel in the first place, correct me if im wrong.

tv-one is better tho. yes.

 

[MartyMcFly]

meh.

unless you were just watching the channel for music purposes, chances are you still watch. it was never meant to be just a music channel in the first place, correct me if im wrong.

tv-one is better tho. yes.

Of course it was never meant to be just a music channel but I'm talking programming overall they're in the dumps and to make it worse they thew that diss years ago

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Of course it was never meant to be just a music channel but I'm talking programming overall they're in the dumps and to make it worse they thew that diss years ago

what you dont like about their current programming?

what diss did they throw? i missed it.

 

[MartyMcFly]

what you dont like about their current programming?

what diss did they throw? i missed it.

Back in 04 or 05 when the minstrel show came out and little brother was promoting it, they wouldn't play the video because they said it was too intelligent for their audience so at that point I said fukk em. That was the diss


http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.3516/title.little-brother-too-intelligent-for-bet

http://mobile.thegrio.com/thegrio/#...ncing-smart-hiphop,511619e7d7fc7b5670220f11/3

Now of course, their official response said it wasn't true in that context (the story actually ran on back in the day) but it also dug deeper and found that Debra Lee said that Little Brother wasn't relevant to their audience and to that I say "well make them relevant by playing the video" because at that point in time, mainstream exposure is how artists became relevant to an audience. So if you're saying they're too intelligent then that's a diss to your audience but if you're saying they're not relevant to your audience then you're being lazy, that's how I see it. Rap City, at least when it was The Basement and previous incarnations, put me on to artists that I'd never heard of and wouldn't have heard otherwise because radio wasn't playing them and this was before anyone could just google any artists or put on pandora. Never would've heard of Talib Kweli had it not been for Rap City hell or Little Brother

As far as current programming it's nothing but movies and reruns of old sitcoms and I feel like for us as a people it would be nice if the channel was more all encompassing like tv1. Now obviously tv1 has Cathy Hughes behind it so she's of a different mindset than Debra lee but I'd like more than reality shows, family matters reruns and the bet awards.

 

[NormanConnors]

It's fukked up how they cancelled rap city...I used to rush home frm school in middle school (2002-2005) to watch the show...

rap city was already trash by then

and yeah i'm

 

[MartyMcFly]

rap city was already trash by then

and yeah i'm

Whoa breh, I'm going to disagree. Rap City didn't become trash until Tigger left so that's 04 I think. Ease up on us lol

 

[NormanConnors]

Whoa breh, I'm going to disagree. Rap City didn't become trash until Tigger left so that's 04 I think. Ease up on us lol

trash may have been harsh, but no where near the best years though, Joe Clair era was the best imo

 

[MartyMcFly]

trash may have been harsh, but no where near the best years though, Joe Clair era was the best imo

Ight I'll give you that one can't even begin to argue with you

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Back in 04 or 05 when the minstrel show came out and little brother was promoting it, they wouldn't play the video because they said it was too intelligent for their audience so at that point I said fukk em. That was the diss


http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.3516/title.little-brother-too-intelligent-for-bet

http://mobile.thegrio.com/thegrio/#...ncing-smart-hiphop,511619e7d7fc7b5670220f11/3

Now of course, their official response said it wasn't true in that context (the story actually ran on back in the day) but it also dug deeper and found that Debra Lee said that Little Brother wasn't relevant to their audience and to that I say "well make them relevant by playing the video" because at that point in time, mainstream exposure is how artists became relevant to an audience. So if you're saying they're too intelligent then that's a diss to your audience but if you're saying they're not relevant to your audience then you're being lazy, that's how I see it. Rap City, at least when it was The Basement and previous incarnations, put me on to artists that I'd never heard of and wouldn't have heard otherwise because radio wasn't playing them and this was before anyone could just google any artists or put on pandora. Never would've heard of Talib Kweli had it not been for Rap City hell or Little Brother

As far as current programming it's nothing but movies and reruns of old sitcoms and I feel like for us as a people it would be nice if the channel was more all encompassing like tv1. Now obviously tv1 has Cathy Hughes behind it so she's of a different mindset than Debra lee but I'd like more than reality shows, family matters reruns and the bet awards.

lol. i mentioned the little brother thing already. i thought "the diss" was some chit that was said on-air or something. lol. what a letdown. i was sitting here waiting like

eh, BET has original shows too. and TV-ONE half-way follows the same blueprint. they show a gang of syndicated sitcoms and old movies as well, cuz thats what people want to see. and i dont know why that would be considered a knock for BET. white stations do this ALL THE TIME as well. its STANDARD CABLE TELEVISION. why doesnt anybody ever criticize TBS, TNT, FX, etc etc?

but yea, tv-one is better. but im just saying. only problem i have with BET right now is all the c00ning that they do, whereas TV-ONE is one the opposite end of the spectrum and provides that content that BET been lackin since the buyout.

 

[MartyMcFly]

lol. i mentioned the little brother thing already. i thought "the diss" was some chit that was said on-air or something. lol. what a letdown. i was sitting here waiting like

eh, BET has original shows too. and TV-ONE half-way follows the same blueprint. they show a gang of syndicated sitcoms and old movies as well, cuz thats what people want to see. and i dont know why that would be considered a knock for BET. white stations do this ALL THE TIME as well. its STANDARD CABLE TELEVISION. why doesnt anybody ever criticize TBS, TNT, FX, etc etc?

but yea, tv-one is better. but im just saying. only problem i have with BET right now is all the c00ning that they do, whereas TV-ONE is one the opposite end of the spectrum and provides that content that BET been lackin since the buyout.

My bad breh didn't peep we were on the same page with the little brother shyt. That's my b

Anyway I'm with you on that. I can't take the shucking and jiving. TV1 has reruns of stuff like living single and martin but they also have the roland martin show, unsung, the show they had about unsolved mysteries involving black kids, etc. I guess for me being a political junkie, I'm going to gravitate toward anything that is trying to give some news and insights to us rather than just tell us everything is all good so lets dance to the latest ratchet shyt

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Whoa breh, I'm going to disagree. Rap City didn't become trash until Tigger left so that's 04 I think. Ease up on us lol

it was dwindling tho.

mostly because the playlists started getting weaker & weaker.

trash may have been harsh, but no where near the best years though, Joe Clair era was the best imo

dont forget big lez.

tigger was in the cut back then too. yall remember when he did the hip-hop news every friday? and iirc, wasnt he the voice of the countdown on saturdays?