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Lil Wayne was in the house at Monday night’s (June 9) 2025 BET Awards, with the rap icon taking the stage to perform both a new song and a classic track on the heels of the release of his new album Tha Carter VI.
Weezy’s performance came a little over an hour into the show, with the star making a dramatic entrance as a gospel choir in red robes sang and fog clouded the Peacock Theater stage in Los Angeles. As the audience greeted him with raucous applause, Wayne fittingly opened with “Welcome to Tha Carter,” which is the second track from his latest LP.
“Man of my word, I stand on my word/ Y’all get on my nerves, I get high and land like a bird,” the hip-hop titan spit, clutching a drink in a plastic tumbler. “Respect, I don’t demand, I deserve, my standards superb/ Family first, family second, family third.”
Tunechi then rolled seamlessly into his next selection for the night, giving fans a blast from the past by dusting off his 2008 hit “A Milli.” As he recited the iconic bars with a big smile on his face, fans in the crowd rapped along to the lines “A million here, a million there.”
Peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, “A Milli” was one of several hits on Wayne’s critically acclaimed Billboard 200-topper Tha Carter III, aka the third installment in his yearslong Tha Carter album series. The rapper recently added to the series with the long-awaited June 6 release of Tha Carter VI, a sprawling 19-track effort featuring collaborations with Wyclef Jean, BigXthaPlug, Jelly Roll, MGK and more co-stars.
The same day he dropped Tha Carter VI, Wayne kicked off his tour in support of the album with a performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Weezy is up for a few prizes at the 25th-anniversary BET Awards — hosted this year by Kevin Hart — including best male hip hop artist against BigXthaPlug, Bossman DLow, Burna Boy, Drake, Future, Kendrick Lamar, Key Glock and Tyler, The Creator. Wayne is also nominated twice in the best collaboration category, with both his work on Bless with Wheezy and Young Thug and “Sticky” with Tyler, GloRilla and Sexyy Red picking up nods.
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On Sunday (June 9), the Madleen was captured by Israeli naval forces as it was approaching the Gaza Strip. The ship, organized by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg in conjunction with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, was carrying aid supplies to Palestinian people in Gaza. In a post to Instagram, Thunberg issued a plea to the world. “We have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel. I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”
In a post made on X, formerly Twitter, Israel’s Defence Ministry stated that they had seized the boat, writing: “The ‘selfie yacht’ of the ‘celebrities’ is safely making its way to the shores of Israel. The passengers are expected to return to their home countries.” They went on to accuse the Thunberg and other passengers, which included French-Palestinian European Parliament minister Rima Hassan along with five others from that country of attempting “to stage a media provocation whose sole purpose was to gain publicity.”
According to The Guardian, Israel Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement that he instructed the IDF to “show the flotilla passengers the video of the horrors of the October 7 massacre.” In March, Israel ended a ceasefire that was in place from earlier in the year, blocking all imports and aid. The conflict, which began after a terror attack by the Hamas organization on a festival on Oct. 7, 2023, has displaced 90% of the Palestinian population with over 54,000 believed to have been killed in the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Two hundred and fifty-one Israeli hostages were captured during the attack, and to date 148 had been returned alive with 55 still believed to be held hostage by Hamas.
“The ministry of foreign affairs and the ambassador in Tel Aviv are in contact with local authorities and monitoring the situation closely,” a spokesperson for the Swedish government said on Monday (June 10). A representative for the French government who asked not to be named said that President Emmanuel Macron requested that the French nationals onboard the Maldeen “be allowed to return to France as soon as possible.”
The situation underscores the dire need for aid in the region, with a new plan backed by the United States in place, but difficulties in delivery are still presenting itself, according to CNN.
Mariah Carey dazzled during the television debut performance of “Type Dangerous” at the 2025 BET Awards on Monday night (June 9).
D-Nice welcomed viewers to Club Mariah with a sampler of her hits like “Fantasy,” “Obsessed” and “Heartbreaker” before the Songbird Supreme introduced herself with her signature whistle tone. A sea of white-suit-wearing male dancers swarmed her before one helped MC take off her white trench coat as she sang, “I don’t have time for the rigmarole/ Taking off my coat, clearing my throat” and showed off her shimmering gold dress.
While the song’s producer Anderson .Paak was on the drums, Rakim made a surprise appearance to deliver a special rendition of his verse from Eric B. & Rakim‘s classic 1986 debut single “Eric B. Is President,” which “Type Dangerous” samples. She ended the performance on a high note with gold confetti raining down on her as she sang a bit of her 2005 hit “It’s Like That” (sans Jermaine Dupri and the late Fatman Scoop).
Carey released “Type Dangerous” last Friday via gamma. as the first single ahead of her upcoming 16th studio album.
Later in the evening, Carey will receive the Ultimate Icon Award, alongside Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg and Kirk Franklin. The screen behind MC during her performance rattled off stats that proved her Ultimate Icon status, including five Grammy Awards, 19 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits and 200 million albums sold worldwide.
Hosted by Kevin Hart, the 2025 BET Awards are being held at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live.
At the 2025 BET Awards, Doechii had something to say.
The Florida rapper continued her winning year by being named best female hip hop artist at Monday night’s (June 9) show, and instead of using her speech to talk about all she’s accomplished since dropping the critically acclaimed mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, she addressed the protests happening right outside the Peacock Theater in downtown L.A., criticizing President Trump‘s use of force.
“I do wanna address what’s happening right now outside of the building,” she said of the protests against ICE raids happening around the city. “There are ruthless attacks that are creating fear and chaos in our communities in the name of law and order. Trump is using military force to stop a protest. And I want y’all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us. What type of government is that?”
She then added that she felt a responsibility to use her platform to speak out. “People are being swept up and torn from their families, and I feel it’s my responsibility as an artist to use this moment to speak up for all oppressed people,” she said to raucous applause. “For Black people, for Latino people, for trans people, for the people in Gaza, we all deserve to live in hope and not in fear and I hope we stand together, my brothers and my sisters, against hate and we protest against it.”
In a move that’s been highly criticized, President Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles over the weekend as an attempt to quell people protesting against ICE immigration raids that have been happening all over the city. And Doechii isn’t the only artist to speak out: Tyler, The Creator, The Game, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Rage Against the Machines’s Tom Morello, and Kehlani have all voiced support for the protesters as well.
Watch Doechii’s speech below:
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