Top 10 BET Shows You Probably Forgot About

If you grew up as a teen in the early 2000s you know BET had some of the best music entertainment shows. From coming home from school and rushing to watch “106 & Park”, to spending Saturday mornings watching “Cita’s World” and staying up late until early Sunday morning to catch a glimpse of “BET Uncut” before your parents caught you. BET had some great guilty pleasures, so let’s take a look back at some of their best shows that you probably forgot about.

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10. Blowing Up: Fatty Koo (2005)

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“Fatty Koo” was a reality show about young musical artists discovered on John Lennon’s Educational Tour Bus in Ohio. The reality show made their talents appear more to main stream audiences, promoting their hit single “Bounce” while creating minimal house drama for entertainment purposes.

9. Access Granted (2001-2009)

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“Access Granted” was a “Making the Video” style show that followed R&B or Hip Hop Artists around, behind the scenes of making their music videos. Some artists featured on it were Aaliyah and Raven-Symone’.

7.Rap City: Tha Basement (1999-2005)

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“Rap City: Tha Basement” was a show set in the basement of Big Tigger’s Mom’s house. Big Tigger would host a rap show in the basement where hip hop guests, DJs, and music videos were the focus.

8. Hits From the Streets (1999-2001)

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“Hits from the Streets” was a comedic music video show where the host “Hits” (Al Shearer) creates silly characters to interact with people in public in between music videos.

6. Baldwin Hills (2007-2009)

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“Baldwin Hills” was a BET Original Reality TV Show about rich African American Teenagers living in the Baldwin Hills area in Los Angeles, CA.

5. College Hill (2004-2009)

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“College Hill” was a BET Original Reality Show about College Students living together that all attend HBCU’s

4. Comic View (1998-2002)

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“ComicView” was a stand-up comedy show where popular or new comics would showcase their talents on BET. Hosts included D.L. Hugely, Gary Owen, Kevin Hart, Bruce Bruce, Rickey Smiley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Sommore who later returned to host the reboot that is currently on the air.

3. Hell Date (2007-2008)

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“Hell Date” was a prank show where an unsuspecting dater who was looking for love went on a date with an Actor pretending to be looking for love as well. The Actor was actually there to make the worst date scenario happen until the dater can’t take anymore. Once the dater seems to want out of the bad date a little person dressed in a devil costume would appear and say “you on hell date!” Revealing the prank.

2. BET Uncut (2001-2006)

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“BET Uncut” was one of their most controversial shows ever. Many people including celebrity BET fans and supporters thought the content was distasteful and soft core porn worthy. Despite all of the drama the show lasted for six years. It was a night time block of uncensored rap videos, many by popular rappers and some by very low budget no names. One of the most famous videos from the series’ is “Tip Drill” by Nelly featuring the St. Lunatics. Recently BET pranked fans by saying the show was coming back in an attempt to promote the revival of “Punk’d” then saying the show most likely will never return to air.

1. 106 & Park (2000-2014)

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“106 & Park” was BET’s most successful show, succeeding over 2,0000 episodes in its fourteen year run. The show was a top 10 music video countdown series that had variety of popular hosts throughout its time. The original hosts were AJ and Free, followed by Julissa and Big Tigger, Terrance J and Rocsi, and finally Shad Moss A.K.A. Bow Wow with various hosts in between.

Cita’s World (1999-2003)

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Cita’s World was a music countdown show starring a comical no nonsense virtual host named Cita. She was voiced by Kali Troy.