BET Cancels 'Uncut' Television Program
By EbenGregory and Remmie Fresh
Date: 7/10/2006 1:20 pm
"BET Uncut," a music video program from Black Entertainment Television, has been canceled after a six year run on the entertainment television network.
The show was discontinued by BET executives, according to sources, and the last episode aired last Friday (July 8) in a finale hosted by rapper/producer Jermaine Dupri.
Infamous for scantily-clad women and sexual themes, "BET Uncut" featured videos from well-known Hip-Hop and R&B artists that were intended for mature
audiences only.
Because of its titillating content, the show was rated TV-MA and had been deemed unsuitable for children under the age of 17.
The show made headlines in 2004 after various African-American women's groups protested because of the portrayal of women when Nelly's "Tip Drill" became a standout video. In the video, Nelly, The St. Lunatics and David Banner indulge in sexual folly with strippers and at the climatic point, Nelly swipes a credit card between a woman's buttocks.
The backlash eventually forced the Nelly to cancel a bone marrow drive on Spelman College, a historically Black women's college in Atlanta.
Fans of "BET Uncut" have already started an online petition to have the show put back on the air.
By EbenGregory and Remmie Fresh
Date: 7/10/2006 1:20 pm
"BET Uncut," a music video program from Black Entertainment Television, has been canceled after a six year run on the entertainment television network.
The show was discontinued by BET executives, according to sources, and the last episode aired last Friday (July 8) in a finale hosted by rapper/producer Jermaine Dupri.
Infamous for scantily-clad women and sexual themes, "BET Uncut" featured videos from well-known Hip-Hop and R&B artists that were intended for mature
audiences only.
Because of its titillating content, the show was rated TV-MA and had been deemed unsuitable for children under the age of 17.
The show made headlines in 2004 after various African-American women's groups protested because of the portrayal of women when Nelly's "Tip Drill" became a standout video. In the video, Nelly, The St. Lunatics and David Banner indulge in sexual folly with strippers and at the climatic point, Nelly swipes a credit card between a woman's buttocks.
The backlash eventually forced the Nelly to cancel a bone marrow drive on Spelman College, a historically Black women's college in Atlanta.
Fans of "BET Uncut" have already started an online petition to have the show put back on the air.
