Organisers of the Vibe Awards in America have confirmed they will return in 2005 despite their being marred this year by a stabbing incident involving G-Unit member Young Buck.
Rapper Young Buck, real name David Darnell Brown, is now due in court on 20 Dec after allegedly stabbing one Jimmy James Johnson at the awards event. The incident began after Johnson seemingly lashed out at Dr Dre, who was there to pick up a Legend Award. Although edited out of the TV broadcast of the awards event, the fracas that followed Johnson's attempts to attack Dre, and the resulting stabbing, dominated the proceedings, leading some to question whether or not Vibe magazine would stage another awards event next year.
However the magazine's president, Kenard Gibbs, yesterday told reporters that, while the knife attack was "sickening", it should not affect the future of the awards. "Not holding the awards would be counter to the work the magazine has done to promote hip hop music."