Rap awards shows have to follow four criteria.
1. Punctuality is NOT a must. They never start on time.
2. The crowd and presenters must act as uneducated and obnoxious as possible.
3. Most of the categories for the awards are too ambiguous or meaningless to honor
4. A fight or brawl must happen either onstage or backstage.
If you’ve never heard of the Ozone Awards, it’s the annual Southern rap awards show thrown by Ozone Magazine- the heralded Southern hip hop-based magazine.
At this past week’s Ozone Awards, Houston rap star Mike Jones was punched in the face by fellow Houston rapper Trae.
The incident left Jones with a bloody nose and t-shirt to help clean himself up. In this clip, you see Mike complaining about being sucker punched and how brothers are supposed to get along. That should hold truth, but then again it's a shame he had to be the brunt of #4 on the list I guess. I bet Trae went straight to the studio after the incident to clown Mike's nasal-sounding signature chant of “MIKE JOOOOoones” as “MY NOOOoose."
If this were early to mid-90s, the Khalid Muhammad (R.I.P.) and the Nation of Islam would have gave both Trae and Mike Jones some bean pies, a Final Call to read, and made them hug in a downtown Houston conference room. Peep the video, fellow heads.