The Raw Emotions Poured Out Of Sheila E. During Her Prince Tribute Last Night

June 27, 2016 / Posted by:

Approximately 35 milliseconds after Madge warbled out her tribute to Prince while dressed like Willy Wonka Goes To The Bordello at the Billboard Music Awards last month, BET released a shady tweet where they declared in so many words that their tribute to Prince would be better. They tweeted, “Yeah, we saw that. Don’t worry. We got you.” When they said, “We got you,” they must have meant that they were going to cover our eyeballs and fill our ear holes with so much Prince that we’d find ourselves shitting purple glitter afterward.

There were several Prince tributes during the BET Awards and everyone from Jennifer Hudson to Stevie Wonder to Janelle Monae to Erykah Badu to The Roots partook in one. You can watch all of the tributes here. But the biggest one came from one of Prince’s muses and collaborators Sheila E. While dressed like a member of a cult led by Mr. T, Sheila E. closed the BET Awards with a medley of The Purple One’s hits. Sheila E. drummed! Sheila E. danced! Sheila E. sang! And she did it all barefoot!

Sheila E. worked it so damn hard and sweat so much that I expected her to melt into a puddle on stage. I think I burned at least 1,000 calories just from watching her. The video of Sheila E.’s Prince tribute (with cameos from Mayte Garcia, Jerome Benton and a special purple guitar) auto-plays, so it’s after the cut.

Now THAT was a tribute, but I still have to give it only four-and-a-half Puckering Princes:

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It would’ve gotten a perfect five Puckering Princes if Diamond and Pearl made an appearance! On the other side of the tribute coin, host Anthony Anderson served up one of the worst Prince tributes by doing this:

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What in the hell kind of GD half-assed Prince tribute is that? You aren’t honoring Prince’s ass-less chaps unless you show crack! How offensive. With that being said, I’m wondering if those pants come in my size, because I need something conservative to wear the next time I have to go to church.

Pics: Splash, Wenn.com

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