The 1999 Essence Awards

[@CommandD]

RIP Hydeia Broadbent, an angel on earth.

[@DhammabradaSymhaKughl13dandada]

@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

[@josephi9629]

The commercials were longer than the actual show lol

[@jayjay7133]

I wish this is what awards were still like

[@pm6796]

Lauren Hill's speech alone was worth it!!

[@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!!

[@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. 😢

[@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

[@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!!!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️

[@maurikthegreat4434]

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

[@awesomestar7597]

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

[@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! 💜

[@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.

[@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.

[@tonacor1413]

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

[@syckindahead]

She was stunning at EssenceFest 2022

[@aliadaduncan]

I really miss these times even though I was only 7

[@KathrynArmstrong-zu3id]

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

[@youuuknooow7699]

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

[@beemocha]

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

[@tracibarnett2058]

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

[@lelainerduh]

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

[@thomaskifleiesus7340]

90s commercials were so simple and refreshing 😍

[@JW-bk9qq]

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

[@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!

[@sweetdreams4321]

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

[@taniyahricks501]

Take us back man 😢😍

[@claudiabailey9899]

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

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Hadiyah is sooooo beautiful.

[@shametrickpowell6918]

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

[@Deerych]

This gave me so much Black joy.

[@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 .

[@R-and-Bj]

McKnight did his thing on that Distant Lover 🎤 💯

[@bimaputra9175]

Me & Mariah 😭

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Nona Gaye is a Beauty.

[@justsaying5245]

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

[@simplymj9032]

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

[@davidigbinoba507]

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

[@73lyfe96]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@claudiabailey9899]

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

[@noticieroactualizado7061]

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

[@zeemaster592]

Kirk just jumping on the stage!!! Lol😅

[@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.

[@adrina911]

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

[@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!! 😢

[@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.

[@jessicaolagunle]

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

[@Bradford196]

Patti Patti Patti!!!!!!!❤

[@kyndracrump]

Lauryn’s speech has me crying.

[@aliadaduncan]

Great Show!

[@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 !!!

[@KathrynArmstrong-zu3id]

Kelly has got everything along with her faith .

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Brian McKnight sounds so Wonderful.

[@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.

[@ataed2005]

Wow! Faith Evans

[@shermyrahrobinson8326]

Brandy killed this performance❤️❤️❤️

[@ciscotink7143]

I just watched this whole thing

[@1prettyladyofgrace7]

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

[@claudiabailey9899]

Kirk Franklin IS awesome

[@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. 💜💜💜💜

[@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.

[@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

[@menorowland3588]

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

[@poet82n]

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

[@bd3825]

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

[@jeremiahj3565]

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

[@tamshari9212]

Yes got y'all line up

[@jeffpiegari4942]

Anymore please please

[@73lyfe96]

Thanks for uploading!

[@davidigbinoba507]

Joe's outfit wowed!!

[@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…

[@ddgs07]

Thanks for the upload!!

[@amiehampton867]

YAYYY Thank u for posting this.

[@claudiabailey9899]

Congratulations!!!😍

[@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” 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🏽

[@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!!

[@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

[@Alliyahh145]

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

[@shirleyscott6606]

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

[@wykeishacraft6820]

God Is Good at all time.

[@DaisyAnnabelle65]

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

[@RaymanticM]

45:30 Chris Rock honored 🎖

[@romanlars4037]

Can't believe how cheap cars used to be.

[@sweetdreams4321]

Crystal Lewis gives me chills!

[@MrZackbrad]

The COMMERCIALS!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

[@yolandabarrett9200]

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

[@SamoanObsidian]

27:32 was too lit 🔥🔥🔥

[@noticieroactualizado7061]

CRYSTAL LEWIS min 25:00

[@shametrickpowell6918]

Montel did a good job

[@trascott531]

Kirk Franklin is the 🐐

[@ioslugs]

YES

[@KathrynArmstrong-zu3id]

Faith Evans sounds great .

[@Lala-mq3ke]

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

[@Carmen-D-Clinton]

nice

[@joalltheway9046]

34:12 Mariah Carey

[@tigertolliver5199]

How old is she now

[@jussmall]

That Chris rock speech segment was weird lol!

[@dezydream6472]

Yes, Jada wore her bantu knots. My white boyfriend frowned upon me wearing it as if it wasn't classy. He had to go!!!