Now, I know a lot of folks weren’t too happy with BET Award’s dramatic shift in focus on Sunday night, as they tried to honor the life of Michael Jackson, with many claiming the lack of prep time resulted in shoddy performances and very little reflection on Jackson’s countless contributions to pop music. I was just hoping for a minimum of intentional bufoonery, and just as I was telling big sis how proud I was that BET hadn’t resorted to said intentional bufoonery, goddamn Soulja Boy performs!! Okay, fine, whatever. My potent concotion of lemonade and Absolut was putting me in a real “I don’t give a rat’s ass” kind of state, and I figured it was a minor lapse on BET’s part. Sad to think an artist so sorely lacking in talent could still be relevant thanks to holding the crown of “Most Popular Ringtone Rapper”.

But it was Drake and Lil’ Wayne’s performance of “Every Girl”, that had me positively dumbstruck. Between the cardigan Drake was rocking, and sitting on a stool through the whole performance, he looked more like someone’s grandpa than the next new young rapper to dominate the rap scene (can Naledge from Kidz in the Hall get some love, please!). Later, we’d all come to discover that the poor kid had a torn ACL, so we’ll give him a pass on that one. But one has to wonder, when performing a song about your desire to engage in coitus with every female on the planet, why the fuck haven’t your “back-up dancers” reached puberty yet?!?! And why is one of ‘em your labelmates’ daughter?!?!

There’s been a lot of talk about Drake, and I’ve stayed out of it for the most part. When he was still on Degrassi, he had always talked about doing music, and I honestly didn’t think he get that far with it (Actors talking about doing music is always gonna be suspect to most). To think, fellow Canuck Kardinall Offishall has struggled for the longest time to break onto the American mainstream hip-hop scene, and still isn’t anywhere near the level Drake has managed to reach in the last two years.

And believe me, as someone born of America’s hat as well, I can’t help but be a little proud. But if this is the fuckery he’s gonna be carrying on with, especially now that he’s on Young Money Records with Lil’ Wayne, I just don’t know. I’m not religious, but I’d say he’s heading down a path of someone who’s gonna need Jesus in a couple years!