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Andra Day honored Roberta Flack with a beautiful tribute performance of “Killing Me Softly With His Song” at the 2025 BET Awards on Monday night (June 9). Accompanied by a small string section and a few backup singers, Day’s lilting vocals echoed throughout the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live for her affecting cover. “Andra Day […]
Introduced by Tyler Perry with a lengthy speech, Ledisi gave one of the best performances of the night at the 2025 BET Awards, stunning the crowd in a red gown as she sang “BLCKWMN” the second single from her latest album The Crown, as the Perry-directed music video played behind her. The director started his […]
Mariah Carey received the Ultimate Icon Award at the 2025 BET Awards, marking her first-ever BET Award. During Monday’s (June 9) awards show, Carey was handed her prize after an emotional and lengthy speech from Busta Rhymes, who called the singer “timeless” while listing all of her accolades. She also acknowledged it was her first […]
On a night where there was plenty of catering to the 2000s, Playboi Carti brought the BET Awards back to 2025 and to the future of rap. Carti hit the stage for his BET Awards performance debut on Monday night (June 9), which saw him flanked by a pair of black SUV trucks and his […]
Kendrick Lamar won big at the 2025 BET Awards, taking home album of the year for his critically acclaimed 2024 LP GNX.
And while accepting the coveted prize onstage at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater on Monday night (June 9), the rapper explained why the recognition was extra special coming from BET. After first hugging his “Luther” collaborator and tourmate SZA, who excitedly cheered him on in the audience, Lamar began by saying, “I ain’t been here in a long time, but I always kept it in my heart.”
“BET always makes sure its representing the culture right,” Dot continued. “I’ll always give my heart to BET.”
After giving shout-outs “first and foremost” to God, followed by his teammates at his company PGLang, Lamar gave the grinning “Kill Bill” singer a nod. “SZA in the crowd,” he said, gesturing to his friend. “We on tour right now, please come to the show.”
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The Compton native then made his way to exit the stage, but the night’s host, Kevin Hart, stopped him in his tracks to unceremoniously present him with several other BET trophies. Lamar — who was the show’s top nominee in 2025, earning 10 nods — could barely hold all the prizes as he walked offstage with them.
Released in November, GNX was a massive success. The LP spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and produced several Billboard Hot 100 hits, including the 13-week chart-topper “Luther” with SZA.
As mentioned by Dot in his speech, he’s now supporting the album on his Grand National Tour with SZA. The joint run kicked off April 19 in Minneapolis, just a couple of months after the duet partners performed at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show in February.
Monday night wasn’t the first time Lamar has won album of the year at the BET Awards, with the hip-hop titan last taking home the award in 2018 for his Pulitzer Prize-wining Damn.
Teyana Taylor transformed into a sexy fembot for the television debut performance of “Long Time” at the 2025 BET Awards on Monday night (June 9). While the show’s host Kevin Hart was too busy pretending to be Usher by trying to feed Tisha Campbell and Tichina Arnold cherries while wearing a fuzzy red coat, Kerry […]
GloRilla put on a great two-song set at the 2025 BET Awards, as she was dressed like Michael Jackson in the “Smooth Criminal” video in the front and dressed as Prince at the 1991 MTV VMAs in the back. The first song she performed was her hit single “Let Her Cook” as a kitchen crew […]
Lucky Daye, Luke James and Miles Caton joined forces to pay homage to one of music’s late icons and sonic architects in Quincy Jones, who died at age 91 in November. Daye, James and Caton’s performance was short yet sweet, as they delivered a soothing rendition of the sultry “The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)” […]
Stevie Wonder surprised everyone at the 2025 BET Awards when he stepped out to honor his longtime friend Jamie Foxx. During the 2025 BET Awards on Monday (June 9), Jamie Foxx was set to be honored with the Ultimate Icon Award. Throughout the night, it was teased that a “special guest” would appear onstage to […]
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.”
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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.