The 1999 Essence Awards

[@CommandD]

RIP Hydeia Broadbent, an angel on earth.

[@DamabraddahsymhaKughlydandadda]

@1:49:12

[@LifeIsNotorious]

Now this is an award show worth watching

[@patriciaadams6212]

Excellent awards, well deserving. God bless all of you for contributions of joy.

[@pm6796]

Lauren Hill's speech alone was worth it!!

[@traviscarter1023]

I mean 1999 was different time period for black music on TV . You had real people going through real shit. Nowadays everything seems so fake. Not authentic anymore you really see the pain in music the grind. It not really a accomplishment anymore if anything we live in a fantasy world.

[@LifeIsNotorious]

@@traviscarter1023 Yes the 90s were the best for black music/black Hollywood.

[@traviscarter1023]

@@LifeIsNotorious Agree

[@1prettyladyofgrace7]

Sweet, precious, brave lil Hydeia blessed my heart all over again!!! I can't believe that she's 39 years old now!!! May GOD continue to bless and keep her!!!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️

[@KathrynArmstrong-zu3id]

Hydia you are wonderful dealing with your disease this Long I hope you last much longer .

[@josephi9629]

The commercials were longer than the actual show lol

[@jamillaslife3696]

It’s amazing how all these great stars all in one night! So many who are gone. RIP Whitney, Prince, Luther, and Gerald Levert. 😢

[@JW-bk9qq]

Thanks for posting this. I love Black award shows from the past. So much nostalgia!!❤

[@taniyahricks501]

Take us back man 😢😍

[@Qu33n]

Waaaaait, there was an Essence Awards!?! I missed this at the time. I'm telling you the 90s were such a pinnacle for Black culture in media!

[@malcolmxpanther]

Every mayor black magazine did award shows back then. The Source, Vibe, Essence, I think Jet did it once, then the BET Awards came around and people focused on that one

[@Qu33n]

@@malcolmxpanther wow! I didn't know this. Well I knew of The Source Awards but not the others. What an era!

[@beemocha]

@@malcolmxpanther thank you for the trivia. Never knew this either! 🙂

[@LifeIsNotorious]

Yes the 90s were lit!!

[@jayjay7133]

I wish this is what awards were still like

[@youuuknooow7699]

Hydayia comment 'Just me and Mariah'. This young lady is Outstanding!!!!!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

[@aliadaduncan]

I really miss these times even though I was only 7

[@pm6796]

Lauren Hill's speech alone was worth it!!

[@rlveiga100573]

39:32 It´s Me and MARIAH, go back like babies with pacifiers (that's right), old Dirt Dog's no liar (uh), keep your fantasy hot like fire - Hydeia Broadbent you rock honey!

[@syckindahead]

12:06 Kirk Franklin video feat David Mann 20:01 that woman has been singing the praises of honey bunches of oats since the 90s?!! 75 cents per use of 3-way calling? 34:00 Mariah Carey walks on stage to introduce Hydeia Broadbent 46:09 celebrate Chris Rock segment; forgot he had a talk show 52:05 Chris Rock gave Hydeia's mother his award👏🏾 53:00 Marvin Gaye tribute:Montell Jordan, Gerald Levert, Brian McKnight (in a robe)😏 and Nona Gaye 1:03:40 Bill Cosby jokes and then introduces Star Jones 1:18:00 celebrating the 4 creators of FUBU [1:23:55 I didn't recognize Daymond John at first!] 1:32:15 Tia&Tamera, Marlon Wayans introduce Brandy, Hezekiah Walker and the choir 1:36:03 THEE SUSAN L. TAYLOR 1:41:37 Patti Labelle introduces Lauryn Hill 1:47:48 Lauryn's acceptance speech 1:52:20 Stevie Wonder, CeCe Winans, Joe, Deborah Cox

[@CamiCola]

Thank you

[@awesomestar7597]

That lil black girl omg she was well spoken. I saw her on a tv show last year still pretty and still educated

[@73lyfe96]

Kelly Price...🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@maurikthegreat4434]

Faith sounded bomb! Her voice is soulfully, butter soft 😍

[@tonacor1413]

Lauren Hill so beautiful ❤️😍 to me wow her skin is flawless

[@syckindahead]

She was stunning at EssenceFest 2022

[@lelainerduh]

I love watching award shows from back then. Before social media…

[@beemocha]

When award shows were worth watching!! Look at all my beautiful Black Aunties,Uncles & cousins 👏🏽👏🏽✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿😍😍😍

[@thomaskifleiesus7340]

90s commercials were so simple and refreshing 😍

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Hadiyah is sooooo beautiful.

[@Bradford196]

Patti Patti Patti!!!!!!!❤

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Ce Ce Winans and Deborah Cox , Our Beautiful Magnificent Melanin is Unmatched Just Gorgeous.

[@R-and-Bj]

McKnight did his thing on that Distant Lover 🎤 💯

[@rayrock90]

During the gospel melody when the young lady was singing Lean On Me and Tam came in and blew her out the park... even the young lady gave her a nod for approval! Love it!!

[@jclark21218]

the young lady is Crystal Lewis :)

[@TonyLWhite-gw7ih]

🌟🌟💎🌟🌟

[@TonyLWhite-gw7ih]

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@noticieroactualizado7061]

IS CRYSTAL LEWISS SHE IS AMAZING

[@youuuknooow7699]

That part! 💜

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Nona Gaye is a Beauty.

[@aliadaduncan]

Great Show!

[@bimaputra9175]

Me & Mariah 😭

[@zeemaster592]

Kirk just jumping on the stage!!! Lol😅

[@sweetdreams4321]

The Twins when McKnight was singing is how we all feel when he sing!😂

[@Deerych]

This gave me so much Black joy.

[@jessicaolagunle]

To the person who uploaded this, BLESS YOU! those of us who were babies during this time can enjoy it!

[@ataed2005]

Wow! Faith Evans

[@1prettyladyofgrace7]

This was excellent!!! The good old days!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@maxwellbrisk5622]

For the younger generation out there, the quality looked way better back then on tv...how we bootlegged and recorded back then was just not great quality which explains this.

[@cibida1]

Came here for Chris Rock award. I remember being 10 /11 years old watching with the fam. Certain moments always stick with you and when Rock gave that award to that girl’s mother it always stuck with me.

[@tracibarnett2058]

I miss Gerard Levert. He would turn out every tribute!

[@manueldavidson1398]

I think black award shows were much more authentic, real, more about real talent and very classic back in 1999 as well as during the decade of the '90s than today. This Essence Award Show from 1999 bring back some great memories for me especially seeing Jada Pinkett Smith and Jamie Foxx hosting the show and artists like Lauryn Hill, Faith Evans, Kelly Price, Mariah Carey were more about originality and performance not about the number of awards they won. Even some of the commercials were better like the Revlon commercial Halle Berry was in and seeing this young girl talking about kids who were suffering from AIDS as well as how she was dealing with the disease herself was so moving and down to earth. Chris Rock demonstrated a great act of compassion by giving that little girl's mother his Essence Award and said she deserved it more than him. Now how many celebrities would have done that at an average awards show today. Even though things are more crazy and insane in this country and the world now than in 1999 at least there was more concern and compassion for fellow human beings even though there were issues and problems between people's and nations back in the '90s. Listening to renowned actor Avery Brooks talk about how the youth could be the hope for the new millennium, now that we are 23 years into the new millennium as well as the 21st century we are still commiting the same foolish and idiotic mistakes, showing the same ignorance, arrogance, indifference, acts of systemic racism, bigotry, greed, corrupt power hungry people using power as a means to dominate and rule other people because what their address is and who they happen to be which makes the 21st century look almost like the 20th.

[@slimtee2]

I’m glad I came across this. I remember loving watching these black award shows. The 90’s and early 2000’s are the decades that truly exposed our talent and culture in the arts and entertainment world. Remembering all the black tv comedy shows, fashion, music, etc. truly united our community.

[@okthen1464]

That's the Jada I liked! Hood Jada!

[@traviscarter1023]

Facts she looks like different person now don't get me wrong she still lowkey can get a couple rounds. That 99 jade was different had me watching shit just because she was in it . Also he in Jason lyric in 1994 she could do no wrong I was boy at the time and I watched every move she made in that movie .

[@davidigbinoba507]

Joe, Cece and Cox totally killed it... Nostalgic!!!!

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Brian McKnight sounds so Wonderful.

[@justsaying5245]

Chris Rock had jokes then about Jada. He just kept it to himself, 😂!!!!

[@KathrynArmstrong-zu3id]

Kelly has got everything along with her faith .

[@4687878]

Jennifer Lindsay's mother is just the sweetest woman ...wow ..such a genuine wonderful mother with the most beautiful smile...and Jennifer is amazing !!!

[@ciscotink7143]

I just watched this whole thing

[@simplymj9032]

Wow! Patti LaBelle is so gorgeous as always. She is forever young 1999-2020 no change dahlinss

[@menorowland3588]

Great memories indeed!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💙🔥✊🏼🔥😊

[@noticieroactualizado7061]

Min 27:34 crystal lewis singing in front of prince. wow he stands up and claps his hands

[@claudiabailey9899]

He's a real person that is truly a man of God

[@derrickwilliams3674]

It seems to me that Hydeia Broadbent was the highlight of the whole show.

[@4687878]

Yes she was !!

[@poet82n]

Most definitely! I remember seeing this as a kid and she melted my heart. I'm only a couple years older than her and I never forgot her.

[@misskaren6730]

@@poet82n - I'm 61 now and I remember her as well. She's an incredibly strong young woman now, whose purpose was her story to tell.

[@kyndracrump]

Lauryn’s speech has me crying.

[@tamshari9212]

Yes got y'all line up

[@nikkieyrichardson8984]

Aww man I love to go back and watch all the old award shows only yo click on this one and see they were also honoring the beautiful hydeia broadbent who sadly passed away 6 days ago may she rest in peace

[@youuuknooow7699]

Love the Essence Music Awards. It's Essential during this time of Covid and all kinds of troubled times. Thank you for this video. 💜💜💜💜

[@aleyahmckinney]

Thank you smmm!! Now all I need to see is the 1999 NAACP image awards 🤣💕

[@amiehampton867]

Yeah Its been a long time.I miss Essence Awards soo much.

[@poet82n]

I remember this and glad it showed up on my feed. Watched the whole thing and it brought back so many memories.

[@kareemclyne5803]

This is what we need more Gospel on these awards showsw

[@nanitadaughtry8501]

Yes we do, amen😊

[@traviscarter1023]

@@nanitadaughtry8501 Facts rap music has ran it course. We need more real gospel back on the set this 1999 awards is different now some hip hop gospel soul is what we really need. People on here can really sing I don't know what they can really do anymore because of all that fake shit.

[@73lyfe96]

Thanks for uploading!

[@dldmills53]

I miss Jada’s original cheekbones 🥺

[@poet82n]

Lol...I was thinking this. She got a whole new face now. She was such a natural beauty then....blessings to her.

[@syckindahead]

🤔

[@beemocha]

SAME!! 😢

[@davidigbinoba507]

Joe's outfit wowed!!

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Gerald LeVert just Wow , he did a great rendition of that song.

[@4687878]

Chris Rock,..you are the F...man,..from now on I don't wanna hear anybody saying nothing bad about this brother or we gonna box !!! That's what a man is suppose to be like ,..selfless to our people's pain and struggle !!!

[@thequickster7651]

Selfless Fasho. ⭐😇⭐ Chris a Legend.

[@claudiabailey9899]

Faith Evans is so pretty her and Stevie J are really married

[@claudiabailey9899]

Kirk Franklin IS awesome

[@shermyrahrobinson8326]

Brandy killed this performance❤️❤️❤️

[@jeffpiegari4942]

Anymore please please

[@adrina911]

I love some Brandy but that song was off or something and the audience looked confused.

[@ioslugs]

YES

[@clairessadaniel1467]

😮 WOW!! My first time seeing this AWARD show but what KIRK FRANKLIN said is TRUE and RESONATES with me!! I LOVE IT!! “WE WRITE SONGS THAT DEGRADE WOMEN AND THEN WE THANK GOD FOR IT”!! I was just explaining that to my 13 year old son (whom said he wants to be a PRODUCER of MUSIC) 2 nights ago in another since. I PLAYED that GOSPEL SONG BY HEZEKIAH WALKER “GOD FAVORED ME” and told him to listen closely to the CHORUS “I WON’T HURT YOU WITH WORDS FROMMY MOUTH” 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🏽

[@amiehampton867]

YAYYY Thank u for posting this.

[@shirleyscott6606]

ALL off these Awards Ceremony is at the Honestly , Hottest and Greatest Hits Ok , Amen and Amen !

[@bd3825]

Thanks to Tamela Mann for saving that song because that woman wasn't doing it for me.

[@lisaraymond3048]

She has passed in 2024,but her message and memoey lives on period!!!Thank GOD for the little thing's and help others if u can!!

[@ataed2005]

Before ‘Me too’ . Before the entanglement. Before the Slap.Before cancel culture started. Before COVID. When people had a sense of humor. Before Alopecia….When the world was a little younger and nicer…

[@RaymanticM]

45:30 Chris Rock honored 🎖

[@claudiabailey9899]

Congratulations!!!😍

[@ddgs07]

Thanks for the upload!!

[@SamoanObsidian]

27:32 was too lit 🔥🔥🔥

[@chrisabout1523]

39:35 😂😂😂😍😍😍

[@wykeishacraft6820]

God Is Good at all time.

[@Alliyahh145]

t I was born in 98 but remember this honey bunches of oats commercial ayeeee

[@DaisyAnnabelle6]

Faith Evans is absolutely beautiful! ❤️ This is one of the best award shows! Loved it!

[@yolandabarrett9200]

Beautiful music the young generations to come. But God first, and everything else will follow. Matthew 11. YB

[@joalltheway9046]

34:12 Mariah Carey

[@sweetdreams4321]

Crystal Lewis gives me chills!

[@noticieroactualizado7061]

CRYSTAL LEWIS min 25:00

[@Lala-mq3ke]

✨️✨️✨️Ess💫ntially💎Ess💫ncè✨️✨️✨️ 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠 ⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️

[@Carmen-D-Clinton]

nice

[@jeremiahj3565]

When the world was sensitive to God! This country is in huge trouble, such a horrible time to be living amongst chaos!

[@trascott531]

Kirk Franklin is the 🐐

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Montel did a good job

[@MusicGirl8447]

Do you have the 1999 NAACP image Awards, 1st Annual Celebration of Black Music from 1999, and 2000 Essence Awards? It has been awhile since you have posted any videos. Let me know what you got.

[@tanetta9906]

Damn you on a roll love it

[@KathrynArmstrong-zu3id]

Faith Evans sounds great .

[@MrZackbrad]

The COMMERCIALS!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

[@Tonya23359]

Does you who are into the Essence Awards and seeing this one years back and like me hope Chris Rock would have host it with Jada Pickett ... As I was watching it what came to my mind was ... The slap of today at the Oscars but it wasn't Jamie Foxx as I thought and forgot "that was Chris Rock" Sister: lol Jamie Foxx... He would to though when you think about it then come about it to some 💫⭐🌟✨ Will Smith 🙈 to him Jamie Foxx ...

[@sanchez73day36]

The white woman was nervous but tamala Mann was like I'm not nervous I got this. 😘🤩

[@jacquelinereeves6209]

Montell Jordan did his thang on Marvin Gaye yessss!!!!💖💜