Hip-Hop Island

Madonna's moving and lengthy eulogy for Michael Jackson was the perfect, quiet opening to the 2009 Video Music Awards. By celebrating the King of Pop's life through words, memories, music and dance, MTV gave the proper thanks to the man who launched the cable channel's career. Janet Jackson performing along side her brother in "Scream" is exactly how we first met the little diva. On stage, looking up at her brother Michael and putting on that sass the world fell in love with.