Snap Judgment: 2008 VH1 Hip Hop Honors

Honorees De La Soul

October 2, 2008

For the past five years, VH1 has done hip-hop fans a huge favor by pausing from the shameless reality shenanigans to pay respects to the genre's founding fathers. The annual Hip Hop Honors is just that, an awards show with no envelopes or canned jokes, that celebrates the old school—Run-DMC, Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang Clan have previously been honored.

Metromix hit the purple carpet at Hammerstein Ballroom for 2008's edition, airing Monday, Oct. 6, at 10 p.m., to interview honorees Cypress Hill, Naughty By Nature and Too $hort, as well as find out how Big Boi, Ghostface Killah and Erick Sermon think the election is going. Not well, apparently. —Matt Rodbard, Metromix