Not including the extreme disorganization at the door, (won’t even get into that, because its not important) the event was a great one. You can’t really go wrong with a free concert with performances by some of the biggest names in hip hop.

Music Executive, Andre Harrell

Ashanti was there

Colin Munroe did a great job, but we couldn’t help but be distracted by his jeans!

Common and Q-Tip killing the performance.

Earlier that evening, Common took the time out to walk the red carpet

We saw Eve inside, and she was absolutely STUNNING! Pictures really don’t do her justice.

Actress, Lucy Liu

The Roots crew represented that night. Questlove was killing it, as usual.

Robin Thicke and wife, actress, Paula Patton

Rocsi

Tyrese and Ashanti

Aerial stunt performer

We actually left before the performance by Queen Latifah and Q-Tip, but we did see Q-Tip as we were exiting the venue. We also heard that Queen Latifah’s performance was pretty epic.

Video below via Miss Info:

Queen Latifah’s performance

Q-Tip and Common

Pics: Wireimage

Other attendees included Chris Rock (of course), Paul Mooney, Ice-T, Nelson George, Nia Long, Ashanti, Gayle King and more.

See an additional pic of the BFFs and read about why Chris Rock is being sued for the film below.

Radar Online is reporting that a Los Angeles woman by the name of Regina Kimbell, slapped a 5 million dollar lawsuit against Chris Rock for the film, saying that he stole the idea for the film from a 2005 documentary “My Nappy Roots”. She claims that she showed him the film while on the set of his hit show, “Everyone Hates Chris”. Her doc also features celebrities discussing their hair, and the like.

Read the court papers here

Chris definitely has some explaining to do, but we’re sure that this will not be the last of documentaries that discuss this exact same topic.

Eve rocked it. She looks cute and effortless.

Ashanti…

Ashanti rocked an interesting outfit backstage as well. *blank stare*

Chrisette Michele

Foxy…just…no. There’s too much going on here.

Sigh…we can’t. We won’t even get into the guys. We’ve had enough of the mess. Let’s just hope the performances were better than the red carpet.

According to Rap Up, the show went down like this.

• The Roots, Eminem, and DJ Jazzy Jeff opened with LL Cool J’s “Rock the Bells.”
• Ja Rule and Ashanti reunited on stage to perform “Down for You” and “Always on Time.”
• DMX collaborated with Gym Class Heroes on his 1999 hit “Party Up.”
• Ludacris and Scarface represented for the South with “Guess Who’s Back” and “Southern Hospitality.”
• Mary J. Blige and Method Man reminisced over “I’ll Be There for You/You’re All I Need to Get By.”
• Dressed as LL Cool J, Rick Ross took the stage to perform “Hustlin’.”
• Trey Songz filled in for Nate Dogg by performing “Regulate” with Warren G.
• Gym Class Heroes, Wale, and KRS-One covered the Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep Till Brooklyn.”
• Foxy Brown and Fabolous closed the show as part of an all-star medley.

This definitely sounds like something that is not to be missed!

VH1 Hip Hop Honors will air Tuesday, October 13, at 9 p.m. EST/PST.

Pics: Wireimage/Angela Yee Twitpic/Getty Images