All the performances were great that is except for Usher lol he would have been better off performing Moving Mountains. I was hoping T.I. was going to perform though and perform No Matter What that would have been great. But I guess if I would have to rank them:
T-1. Ne-Yo - "Closer" I got to give it up to Ne-Yo the performance was dynamite and it made me like the song again. The performance might give the song the boost it needed.
T-1 Chris Brown - "With You, Take You Down with Ciara" I got to admit Chris Breezy did his thing. I'm sure 50 and Rihanna are jealous that their soulmates were dancing so sexually together.
3. Alicia Keys featuring SWV (Sisters With Voices), En Vogue and TLC - This performance was great because Ms. Keys paid homage to the great girl groups of the 90s. And those groups gave me that old school feel especially SWV and TLC with the song about being weak in the knees that got me weak in the knees lol and of course Waterfalls. I'm sure after this performance Usher was just standing there stunned maybe having 2nd thoughts that he should have married Chilli
4. F/T-Pain - I've never seen an artist do nearly all of his featured appearances in a performance until now. T-Pain sure brought the energy and I guess he brought an auto tune microphone too unless he can actually sing. There were some bad parts though that made this performance far from perfect: Rick Ross with his chest out
and DJ Khaled keeping on yelling out unnecessary things
5. Young Jeezy featuring Kanye West - "Put On". These guys got everybody jumping out of their seat not just me but Chrishanna as well. Jeezy brought that type of energy that T.I. brought to the BET Awards last year.
6. Keyshia Cole featuring Lil Kim - "Heaven Sent, Let It Go". Keyshia sang good. She had a good medley. And she brought sexyback. No doubt
7. Lil Wayne - "Got Money, Lollipop, A Milli" Lil Wayne brings the energy to his performances and did it once again got all of us saying A Milli A Milli A Milli A Milli A Milli.
8. Nelly featuring JD and Ciara and Fergie - "Stepped On My Js, Party People" The only thing wrong in these performances was the timing was off. Nelly wasn't able to finish her first verse on Stepped On My Js and Fergie wasn't able to finish her verse for Party People and the hook just came in automatically for both songs. Technical difficulties. But they all brought the energy needed though to be a great performance
9. Rihanna - "Take A Bow" Her vocals were on point but maybe she should have performed Don't Stop The Music instead to jump start the crowd.
10. Usher - "Love In This Club". On a bright note the dancing was alright and some things were different. But he lipsynched and we don't normally see Usher do that and when you're opening the BET Awards ur not supposed to do that. Ur supposed to bring it and he did not. I don't think he takes any of his performances seriously anymore the only one he did this year was the Radio 1 performance. He should have performed a medley of LITC/LITC Part II/Moving Mountains and should have danced and sang at the same time instead of lip synching. Now I will say Usher's career is far from over but he needs to get his act together or otherwise his career will be in danger.
Nelly's performance was good too & Lil Wayne <3
Oh god! She's amazingly hot.
