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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 speech by telling a story about his then 3-year-old son following his footsteps on the beach and segued into a commentary on the Trump administration’s assault on the Department of Education. “They are removing our books from libraries, they’re removing our stories and our history,…

Kendrick Lamar was top winner at the 2025 BET Awards, held in Los Angeles Monday night. The rapper took home the awards for album of the year for GNX, best male hip-hop artist, video of the year for “Not Like Us” and best collaboration alongside SZA for “Luther.” Lamar also shared the award for video director of the year with his longtime creative partner Dave Free. SZA and Chris Brown won best female and male R&B/pop artists, respectively. Doechii also won the award for best female hip-hop artist. During the latter’s acceptance speech, the rapper called out President Donald Trump for the “ruthless attacks that are…

The experience, even in animated terms, is so innately human. How many times do we pour ourselves into our work, into our friendships and into our goals, at hyperspeed, thinking that along the way the grief will find its way out? Unfortunately, it always finds a way to catch up, even when you’re an astronaut trying to get to Mars.  Source link

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 singing a Roberta Flack tribute? Ohhhh BET played NO games this year,” one person wrote on X, while someone else insisted to “put it in my veins!!!!” “Killing Me Softly With His Song” became Flack’s second No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973…

Check out a TikTok of the Airplane Pockets tray table cover in action. Airplane Pockets is a small business that specializes in sanitary, portable travel organization products. I used this on a roundtrip from NYC to Tokyo, both with connecting flights in Canada, and cannot sing its praises enough. It fit all four of the different tray tables I used it on and was so ridiculously handy for keeping track of all my littler odds and ends like AirPods, the plane’s headphones, earplugs, a sleep mask, a book, gum, a scrunchie, and little snacks. The hanging end of it easily tucked into the built-in…

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 right-hand DJ Swamp Izzo as he laid his throaty flow over MUSIC hits “Like Weezy” and “Rather Lie.” Rocking dark jeans with a colorful Bape zip-up jacket and a YVL fitted cap, Carti bounced around the stage as white smoke filled the Peacock Theater, while…

K-pop star Key is never one to sit idle. The 33-year-old, a member of the iconic boy group SHINee, finds himself performing as a group member, creating as a solo artist, starring in multiple reality TV shows and still finding time to have moments to himself. “I think every person has their own 12 identities or something,” the singer jokes to The Hollywood Reporter backstage at his music agency SM Entertainment’s SMTown Live L.A. He goes on to explain that every person takes on a different identity in a different situation, and that’s how he’s been able to tackle his…

“They called me and told me I was let go for not showing up on my first day. Which was a surprise for me since at no point after the interview had I been told that I’d been hired.”View Entire Post › Source link

Katy Perry‘s latest performance in Sydney was marked by a memorable moment, with an individual escorted away by security after a stage invasion. The incident in question took place at Perry’s performance at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Monday (June 9). The singer’s second of three sold-out dates at the venue for the Australian leg of her Lifetimes Tour, the show began as normal, but soon saw an unexpected figure appearing onstage during Perry’s performance of 2008 single “Hot N Cold.” Footage of the incident shows an individual appearing onstage, putting his arm around Perry, who instinctively turns away as…

Tyler Perry threw some subtle shade towards Hollywood studios at the 2025 BET Awards. Before Ledisi took the stage to perform “BLKWMN,” the Sistas creator took time to share a short story about himself and his son walking along the beach, when his child said to him, “I’m walking in your footsteps,” to which he responded, “I said, ‘No, let’s walk together.’ We walked to the end of the beach and then he looked back and he saw all the footprints that he had left.” “I say that to you tonight because I wanna talk to you about this thing…