I’m back with the hottest pictures from the red carpet of the 2008 BET awards.

Above we have one of the most recognizable female MC’s in hip hop, Lil Kim. I can see that Lil Kim’s purse matches her shoes and that’s just great. Now why don’t her shoes and her bag match her dress? I think she missed the point. It is a recent occurrence that Lil Kim has appeared in public so covered up. This dress looks awesome. She should have held out for more awesome shoes.

This is rapper/ singer Lil Mama. Lil Mama has a ton of talent in the areas of dance and rapping. Will someone please tell her she doesn’t have to keep running her “I’m so Lil” gimmick into the ground. Every time an awards show rolls around she is there  dressed in something  childish and borderline candy raver. For someone who sings about her “lip-gloss” and “getting loose” she is dressed  way too young. I wish she would just  stop trying to make the same silly statement with her clothing and go for something a little refined, at least at awards time.

Here we have Nelly and Tyrese wasting a perfectly good chance to dress up by wearing regular every day clothes. Would it kill these two to put on a suit or a nice blazer and act like they care? Yes I know the BET awards are a little more relaxed than your average awards show but if the ladies are showing out why shouldn’t you? I’m disappointed.

Is that Keyshia Cole? Oh no its it’s just the real Rhianna. Sorry I got confused, they must have the same stylist they look so similar. I really like this chartreuse tiered dress and I bet it looks really cute when it bounces around when Rhianna walks. I’m glad to see Rhianna wearing no bracelets at all instead of mixing too many accessories at once. This look is clean and effortless chic.

Last but not least we have rapper Rick Ross.  Ross looks really relaxed in his head to toe white track suit. Though truth be told I feel like this is the only way we ever see Rick Ross, in a track suit. How can you tell me a man from Miami with as much money as he says he has would want to be seen in a track suit on such an important occasion? Time for Rick Ross to step his game up just like Nelly and Tyrese.

Well the 2008 BET red carpet has come and gone. We saw lots of great looks on the likes of Alicia Keys and Rhianna. Everyone else was just ok, no big deal. I can only hope for next year some of these celebrities (Lil Mama) will put a little more effort forth next year.  I can hardly wait for more awards show to come on TV!