BET Uncut... IS BACK

[q-ball2220]

I was bout to say when was somebody gon bring up Lacs n Prices LOL

 

[onslaught23]

Might as well bring back Caribbean Rhythms back, i bet Rachel still fine.

MAAANNNNN WAS SHEEE!!!!!

 

[dchozn1]

Classics. CLASSICS.

This one too.....

 

[motivated-minds]

Nothing and i mean nothing will ever rival the genius of this masterpiece

. Damn i cant even find anything higher than 240 for this joint. 

 

 

[snaggykicks]

Pointless in 2015..

 

[JRaW’d]

**** gone be weak.

don't get ya hopes up...

 

[Magic33]

I realized I have no clue what's on BET since 106 left.

Pointless in 2015..

They don't show videos now, but you're bringing this back? And with the internet?

I never thought it should have been canceled back then. If your concern are kids up at 3am watching videos, then what he's watching isn't the concern.

 

[nom de guerre]

EBT needs to go away. I need to know the clowns who will watch this when we all got internet now.

This ain't 2002 fam

 

[ice shattered]

This one too.....

P Troy

I was bout to say when was somebody gon bring up Lacs n Prices LOL

Man it was already a classic then T.I killed that verse at the end too.

 

[301216baller]

 
This one too.....

the first dude killed it...this is my first time hearing this..I gotta download this joint

 

[$tacy]

Smh they punkd us. They started playing tip drill then the welvin got emmm. It was a promotional thing for punkd coming back.

 

[stunnaman]

Smh they punkd us. They started playing tip drill then the welvin got emmm. It was a promotional thing for punkd coming back.

 

[Nike Still Sux]

I ran out of reps on the first page. BET uncut was the end of an era for BET

 

[sooperhooper]

Why would bet advertise an mtv show.

 

[$tacy]

I'm guessing its coming on bet now idk. It was a blk guy hosting and all blk people getting punkd in the previews [emoji]128514[/emoji][emoji]128514[/emoji]. Also MTV owns bet or some **** right.

 

[tr1ll]

Actually, ‘Uncut’ isn’t back. Thanks to BET, we’ve all been ‘Punk’d.’

We saw the #ArchThatBackChallenge and thought what better time to let ya'll know #BETUncut is coming back than NOW! pic.twitter.com/XLAlkNFxYr

— BET (@BET) August 6, 2015

Leave it to BET to usher in the resurrection of the celebrity practical joke show “Punk’d” by making its audience its biggest mark.

That’s right, if you were one of many either celebrating or scratching your heads upon last week’s announcement that BET would be reviving “BET Uncut,” which was basically BET’s after-hours music video equivalent of Skinemax, well, congratulations. You’ve been punked.

BET doesn't care about black people *Kanye West voice* #BETUncut pic.twitter.com/tYVnwcrhSz

— Tha One & Only [emoji]174[/emoji] (@RGreen_94) August 12, 2015

Once a staple of the MTV lineup from 2003 to 2007, “Punk’d” was the show that made Ashton Kutcher a household name and trucker hats a years-long regrettable trend. It what made us laugh with glee as poor Justin Timberlake wondered why the Internal Revenue Service was repossessing his entire life.


Andrew Bachelor, a guest host of “Punk’d” on BET. (Elton Anderson)
BET chose to mark its debut with host DeStorm Power and special guest host Andrew Bachelor by telling viewers that “Uncut” would begin airing Tuesday at 11 p.m. That probably should have set off some alarms, because “Uncut’s” previous witching hour start time of 3 a.m. was what fed its mystique. BET even teased “Uncut’s” return during its lead-in, “Nellyville,” with clips from Nelly’s controversial “Tip Drill” video.

Sure enough, Tuesday, the familiar opening of “Uncut” appeared, before it was rudely — some would say thankfully — interrupted by Bachelor and Power.

It began with a disclaimer from BET superimposed over the image of three scantily clad women with their backs to the camera.

This program is for mature audiences only. It contains material which some viewers may find objectionable or inappropriate for viewing by children under the age of 17.

Viewer discretion is advised.

A few scenes from “Tip Drill” began, interspersed with static interference, before the camera cut to Bachelor and Power sitting in a couple of director’s chairs.

“So ya’ll thought you were going to see ‘BET Uncut?'” Bachelor asked. He and Power pointed at the camera and laughed. “Got ’em!”

“Well, we’re here to tell you that you just got punked,” Power finished.

But, in what may have proven to be the biggest “Punk’d” moment of all, the show that proceeded wasn’t one of new clips, but old ones from when MTV brought the show and Kutcher back in 2012. The first clip Power and Bachelor introduced was one of Drake getting caught in a fake earthquake as he rode in what he thought was part of Vice President Joe Biden’s security detail.




When BET announced last week that it was resurrecting “BET Uncut,” the most notorious show in the network’s history, many wondered what BET executives were thinking. The network eventually pulled the show as it became branded as a cesspool of sexualized misogynoir.

“People might have been complaining about the ‘Tip Drill’ that you saw in regular time programming, but once you saw the ‘Uncut’ version, that was a different conversation,” said hip-hop feminist Joan Morgan, author of ‘When the Chickenheads Come Home to Roost.’ “It was a really strong way, visually — it teetered much too close to pornography.”

For BET to bring back “Uncut,” especially after becoming the home of the annual “Black Girls Rock” awards show, which most recently counted even first lady Michelle Obama as a guest, seemed as Morgan put it, like “one step forward, two steps backward.”

“‘Uncut’ feels like a disappointing step backward for a station that has been really struggling to define itself against decades of pretty legit criticism,” Morgan said Thursday morning.

Using “Uncut” as false bait for “Punk’d” was a risky choice. There was a chance that rather than tuning in out of curiosity, or simply to hate-watch the first new episode, at least part of BET’s audience, namely black women, would purposefully choose to ignore it. That’s probably why BET elected to make a big splash with the announcement, but use the first episode to replay clips from the “Punk’d” of old.

When BET tweeted the “Uncut” news last week, Morgan said her phone began to blow up with texts from friends curious and indignant about just what it was doing, especially since no one watches music videos on regular cable television anymore. That’s what YouTube is for — it totally circumvents the need to show your skin flick video on television at an hour when most normal humans are deep into their R.E.M. cycles.

But, it turned out, the whole thing was just a ruse.

It’s hard to pinpoint who at the network came up with the idea to punk its audience. Was it Power and Bachelor?


“Well, we take all the credit ’cause we’re the hosts, so yeah, let’s just stick with that,” Bachelor said with a laugh.

After a fleeting attempt to revive the “Punk’d” from the era of Murakami Louis Vuittons and Juicy Couture velour track suits in 2012, MTV abandoned its efforts and earlier this year its Viacom partner BET announced it would be retooling the show for the network’s primarily black audience.


DeStorm Power is the host of BET’s “Punk’d.” (Melly Lee)
The decision to tap Power and Bachelor says a lot about whom BET is hoping to reach. Both men have enormous, young followings on their various social media accounts. It’s not just unique to BET. MTV has been heavily promoting “Todrick,” a new show that follows YouTube star Todrick Hall which debuts Aug. 31. It’s also started airing “Uncommon Sense with Charlamagne,” which features appearances by Kid Fury and Crissle of “The Read.”

Bachelor is a hugely popular Vine star who has parlayed his success there into roles on “Black Jesus” and “The Mindy Project.”



Power, who is supported by one of YouTube’s biggest talent networks, Big Frame, is one of the most recognizable black faces on YouTube, perhaps best known for his rap song that explains how to solve a Rubik’s Cube.

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I think BET wants to get shut down...

 

[Magic33]

Ummmm yeah

So now people are going to tune in for Punk'd

 

[htg designs]

uhm, no

 

[goledensilence]

It's as if they want BET to be shut down. Why on earth would you bring back Punk'd? Nobody wants to watch that boring crap.

Bring back BET Uncut

Bring back HBCU football games

Bring back College Hill

bring back The Student Center

bring back Rap City

bring back BET Spring Bling

Like Wale said on the last episode of 106 n park before it got shut down "They want to get rid of the show so they can get rid of our culture". BET is one of the only black channels out there for us to enjoy watching our culture and they've destroyed the channel.

 

[mr marcus]

College Hill fell off when hbcu started banning them from campus 

rumors they were suppose to come to A&T in 05-06 but they wouldn't allow it....was ready to audition 

 

[301216baller]

Wait so there's no Uncut ??????????

 

[Peep Game]

It's as if they want BET to be shut down. Why on earth would you bring back Punk'd? Nobody wants to watch that boring crap.

Bring back BET Uncut
Bring back HBCU football games
Bring back College Hill
bring back The Student Center
bring back Rap City
bring back BET Spring Bling

Like Wale said on the last episode of 106 n park before it got shut down "They want to get rid of the show so they can get rid of our culture". BET is one of the only black channels out there for us to enjoy watching our culture and they've destroyed the channel.

Definitely agree with that. Sure, it's very easy to go on Netflix or hit YouTube up, but I feel like there should always be straight up readily available show like that as standard programming. I mean, it's damn sure better what they have now - constant reruns of Daddy's Little Girls, Why Do I Get Married, and Precious.

 

[illzona]

It don't matter if it even did come back, they aint hangin with WSHH.

 

[the qbz]

we thought we was getting chocolate chip cookies






got oatmeal






decipticons

 

[coldcity]

foul