Kanye Bringing the Theo Shag Back
One GIANT scribe shares his post-Grammy thoughts. For more Grammys coverage, click here to check out our live Grammy blog.
1. Chris Brown and Rihanna are the new Ike and Tina? Never thought I’d see the day. Did he really manhandle Rihanna right before the damn Grammys? For some reason, the first thing that came to my my mind when I heard Chris allegedly put hands on a chick was Chris Tucker’s comedy bit about Michael Jackson being a pimp.
2. Jay-Z didn’t know what to do with his hands when he was performing with Coldplay but he looked old and stiff trying to stay in rhythm with the piano. It looks like he was either trying to do a geriatric dance or translating song lyrics in sign language while Chris Martin was going on those keys.
3. Even though she’s a bit of an eye sore, Adele is dope.
M.I.A., polka dots, and impending child
4. Not mad at MIA for performing preggers on her due date but did she really have to go out there 9 months pregnant in polka dot spandex? I wonder what would have happened if her water broke in the middle of Weezy’s verse on the “Swagger Like Us” performance?
5. Kanye and Estelle looked like an old Soul Train flashback. All that’s missing is Don Cornelius and that scrambled letters board. Kanye has officially lost it with this damn afro-mullet…if I’m not mistaken, he swaggerjacked that shag from Theo Huxtable.
6. The great Stevie Wonder…and the fuckin Jonas Brothers? One of them has a pompadour and is singing into Stevie’s mic! There is no singing into Stevie’s mic!!! I know Mr. Wonder is unable to see just how retardedly uncool these boys are but his manager can. He should be posting his resume on Monster.com right now and applying for new employment. How did this get signed off?
7. Old-time rocker Robert Plant (left) keeps winning. He looks like Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. I like that movie. Therefore, I might like Robert Plant’s record.
8. A lot of this is due to her recent situation but Jennifer Hudson is the new black Barbara Streisand. I don’t know if there was an old one but all she has to do now is just show up somewhere and she gets standing ovations any time, every time…for any reason.
9. Outside of Lil Wayne, black performers didn’t win shit.
10. Travis Barker is still injured from surviving a plane crash and has one arm…and he’s standing on stage with the other two members of Blink 182, who’s also presenting and still has the use of both of their arms, yet Travis is appointed to open the envelope? Poor dude was struggling! He had to use his broke arm to help open it! I’m sure he’s still a beast on the drum set with that one arm though.
- Pharoh Martin
