Saturday night saw the Vibe music awards take place, and we have both good news and bad news for you. Good news: nobody stabbed anybody with a fork like at last year’s ceremony. Bad news: Mariah Carey won a load of stuff.
Mariah Carey won awards for Artist Of The Year, R&B Song, R&B Voice Of The Year and R&B Album. And still the most insightful thing she could manage to say was "Whatever you’re going through in life, don’t ever give up."
Great, thanks for that Mariah.
Last year’s Vibe Awards ceremony was riddled with controversy as it involved
an audience member punching Dr Dre and then getting apparently getting
stabbed by another rapper, Young Buck. The audience member, Jimmy James
Johnson, has been jailed for a year while Young Buck – who denies the
charges – awaits trial.
There was none of this brouhaha at this year’s Vibe Awards, however,
as security was stepped up to epic levels. The closest that the awards
got to full-out nastiness was when The Game pointed to a word shaved
into his hair that was nasty to 50 Cent. Or something.
But with no stabby stabby commotion at the Vibe Awards this year,
everyone could therefore focus on the winners. And the biggest winner
was Mariah Carey (CDs), who seems to be firmly on the comeback trail after
her wibbly 2001 breakdown. Here’s the full rundown of Vibe Award
winners, mostly for awards that we’re not entirely sure actually mean
anything:
Artist Of The Year – Mariah Carey
Album Of The Year – Mariah Carey
R&B Voice Of The Year – Mariah Carey
Best R&B Song – We Belong Together, Mariah Carey
Best Rapper – Kanye West
Next Award – Keyshia Cole
Coolest Collabo – Oh, Ciara feat. Ludacris
Street Anthem – U Don’t Know Me, Ti
Power Broker Of The Year – Kevin Liles
Club Banger – 1 Thing, Amerie
Reelest Video – Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-5), R Kelly
Hottest Hook – Hate It Or Love It, The Game feat 50 Cent
Video Goddess – Esther Baxter in Number One Spot, Ludacris
Boomshot Award – Welcome To Jamrock, Damian ‘Junior Gong’ Marley
Best Group – The Diplomats
VStyle – Baby Phat
Vibe Vixen – Kimora Lee Simons
VLegend – Mary J Blige
Read more:
Carey triumphs at quiet Vibe show – BBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]