{"id":53620,"date":"2015-06-30T11:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53620"},"modified":"2015-06-30T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T03:53:42","slug":"chris-brown-nicki-minaj-beyonce-win-big-at-bet-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/30\/chris-brown-nicki-minaj-beyonce-win-big-at-bet-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce win big at BET Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.666667% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/478989770?et=JMaomwQDTdtc0OwRDTOB9Q&#038;viewMoreLink=off&#038;sig=zBsYPDUA6JB9R5zfYRtR5r0p0qwa_AlHqRkhPIRinS8=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/478989770\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Though she was absent, Beyonce won three BET Awards, including video of the year for &#8220;7\/11,&#8221; while Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj also won multiple awards at the all-star show Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>But the show was less about the awards &#8211; video of the year didn&#8217;t even make the live broadcast &#8211; as performances stole the night.<\/p>\n<p>As Janet Jackson entered the stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Brown screamed loudly, Minaj whipped out her phone to record the moment and Laverne Cox was teary-eyed. The pop star was honored with the Ultimate Icon: Music Dance Visual Award as she made one of her first public performances in sometime as she readies a new album and tour this fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a very long moment to this journey &#8230; my heart is so full,&#8221; Jackson said to the audience, which included her mother and father. &#8220;To my beautiful mother, to my beautiful father, and to my entire family, your love is unbreakable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An impressive Ciara, Jason Derulo and Tinashe paid tribute to the 49-year-old veteran by mimicking her signature dance moves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twenty five years ago we created `Rhythm Nation,&#8217; hoping the world would be a better place, but today there&#8217;s even more to be done,&#8221; Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson wasn&#8217;t the only show stopper Sunday: Diddy dropped it like it&#8217;s hot at the awards show &#8211; figuratively and literally.<\/p>\n<p>The entertainer fell during an exciting performance that celebrated Bad Boy Records&#8217; 20th year anniversary, one of the night&#8217;s highlights. Lil Kim, Mase, Faith Evans, 112 and The Lox joined Diddy as they performed a medley of past hits. A video montage of rap king Notorious B.I.G. appeared in the background as his verse from &#8220;Mo Money Mo Problems&#8221; played.<\/p>\n<p>Brown performed multiple times, and won best male R&amp;B\/pop artist and the fandemonium award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot has changed in my life, a lot of mistakes, a lot of lessons learned. The best thing I&#8217;m most thankful for is my daughter,&#8221; he said onstage. &#8220;I&#8217;m so thankful and happy to have the loyal fans &#8230; and everybody here that knows me, to know me is to love me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The show Sunday brought a mix of funny and serious moments. Rapping on top of a police car with a large American flag waving behind him, hip-hop prince Kendrick Lamar kicked off the BET Awards with a dose of seriousness, but also brought a fiery energy thanks to his charisma and beat of his song, &#8220;Alright.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He later won best male hip-hop artist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is for Compton, this is for Watts,&#8221; the Los Angeles-born rapper said.<\/p>\n<p>Janelle Monae and Jidenna also brought a serious vibe to the stage when they performed &#8220;Classic Man&#8221;: The singers and their background dancers wore large &#8220;I&#8217;m a Classic Man&#8221; signs around their necks, a reference to the historic &#8220;I Am a Man&#8221; civil rights era protest signs.<\/p>\n<p>And as Anthony Hamilton and Gary Clark Jr. performed while photos of celebrities who died appeared on screen, a montage of the nine people who were gunned down at a church in Charleston earlier this month closed the performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black-ish&#8221; actors Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross won over the crowd with back-to-back jokes, including one about Rachel Dolezal, the former president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is white really the new black,&#8221; Anderson sang as two photos of Dolezal &#8211; one old, the other recent &#8211; appeared on screen.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson also dressed as British singer Sam Smith, who won best new artist but didn&#8217;t attend the awards show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sam Smith isn&#8217;t here tonight because he&#8217;s white and he didn&#8217;t think he would win at the BET Awards,&#8221; Anderson said as the audience burst into laughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This award is going to stay with me for you not showing up to BET,&#8221; Anderson sang, referencing Smith&#8217;s ubiquitous hit, &#8220;Stay With Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rihanna, who debuted a 1-minute clip of her new music video for &#8220;B&#8212;- Better Have My Money,&#8221; was among the A-listers who sat in the audience, and she sang along during Omarion and Brown&#8217;s performance of the pop hit, &#8220;Post to Be.&#8221; Alicia Keys surprised the crowd when she joined The Weeknd to sing his hit, &#8220;Earned It.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smokey Robinson received the Lifetime Achievement Award, performed a medley of his hits and earned a standing ovation from the audience when he spoke about Hollywood and humility. Ne-Yo, Robin Thicke and rising singer Tori Kelly paid tribute to the icon.<\/p>\n<p>And Patti LaBelle was a fan favorite too, hitting high notes alongside Tamar Braxton and K. Michelle.<\/p>\n<p>Minaj, who won the fan-voted viewer&#8217;s choice award, brought her mom onstage when she collected her sixth consecutive best female hip-hop artist award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Momma, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you&#8217;ve done for me. I love you so much,&#8221; said Minaj, who performed her with rapper-boyfriend Meek Mill later in the show.<\/p>\n<p>Beyonce&#8217;s wins included best female R&amp;B\/pop artist and video director of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com Though she was absent, Beyonce won three BET Awards, including video of the year for &#8220;7\/11,&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":53707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","mauthors-mesfin-fekadu","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}