50 Cent's awkward performance at the BET Awards Tuesday, when he roamed the stage and audience silently (as Tony Yayo nervously spouted hype-manisms), was not due to the fact that he was expecting to lip sync and was instead given the instrumental track, as some Web sites have speculated. Oh, no. It was a nasty case of the wibbly wobblies that did him in!

"Everything doesn't quite happen the way you practice it," he continued. "You see, I was hit by the aerialist and I was wibbly-wobbling coming down. Twenty five feet in the air, man, you fall — can't nobody help me with that, you know what I mean? Then by the time you get down, you try and regroup to fight, you got the pyro going off, the music starts, we four bars into the song, you know — I just wasn't concentrating."

I don't know. I watched the clip and didn't see any aerialist knock into him, but who knows? My question is, since when are performers allowed to lose their concentration for a prolonged period of time during a nationally televised performance? I was always under the impression that was part of performing. Can you imagine Beyonce or 50's new girl toy, Ciara, pulling stunts like that? If think not.

[MTV]