announcer: Ladies and gentlemen,
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- ♪ I'm a young black man ♪
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♪ Doing all that I can ♪
♪ To stand ♪
♪ Oh, but I look around ♪
♪ And I see what's being done to my kind ♪
♪ Every day ♪
♪ I'm being hunted as prey ♪
♪ My people don't want no trouble ♪
♪ We've had enough struggle ♪
♪ I just wanna live ♪
♪ God ♪
♪ Protect me ♪
♪ I just wanna live ♪
["Fight the Power"]
- This revolution.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Give it, give it, give it ♪
- ♪ Come on and get down ♪
♪ Come on and get down ♪
- ♪ No ♪
- ♪ The year is 2020, the number ♪
♪ Another summer get down ♪
♪ Sound of the funky drummer ♪
♪ Youse the king of heart 'cause I know you got soul ♪
- ♪ Brothers and sisters ♪
- ♪ The information age got 'em seeing what's really wrong ♪
♪ With these racist days ♪
♪ I honor the strong and pity the weak ♪
♪ Your thoughts run your life, be careful what you think ♪
♪ Haiti beat France in century 17 ♪
♪ Salute Toussaint and Dessalines ♪
♪ And I do love France, know what I mean? ♪
♪ It's a system I'm talking, nobody's agreeing ♪
♪ They say it's suicide when dead bodies are swinging ♪
♪ Cowards are hunting black men ♪
♪ That's what I'm seeing ♪
♪ How many toasters have been burnt down? ♪
♪ And once, Central Park was a thriving black town ♪
♪ Yo, Chuck, I'm fighting the power right now ♪
♪ Thanks to you, Flava, PE putting it down ♪
♪ Putting your life on the line so I can rap now ♪
♪ The next generation's still singing fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ We've got to fight the powers that be ♪
- ♪ Police think they weighing 6-9 over the law ♪
♪ Wanna give us short sticks, but we really Nia Long ♪
♪ To the boys in the hood ducking bullets and batons ♪
♪ From "Boyz n the Hood," triple Ks on their arms ♪
♪ Four fingers on my palm screaming fight ♪
♪ Change the policy, defund, buy back our property ♪
♪ You love "Black Panther" but not Fred Hampton ♪
♪ Word to the Howards ♪
♪ And the Aggies and the Hamptons ♪
♪ They book us, won't book us ♪
♪ I'm Booker T. Washington ♪
♪ George killed for a 20 ♪
♪ Think about it, that's 2,000 pennies ♪
♪ The value of black life, the cost of going to Wendy's ♪
♪ For a four quarter burger, ending in murder ♪
♪ Fight for Breonna and the pain of her mother ♪
♪ Gotta fight ♪ both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ We've got to fight the powers that be ♪
- ♪ Yo, generations is how long we been at war ♪
♪ The revolution on our platform ♪
♪ You break a man mind and his back ♪
♪ Your solidarity is what I'm wearing all black for ♪
♪ For comrades who done fought without me ♪
♪ It's not they try and change y'all thoughts about me ♪
♪ Or to redirect your reports about me ♪
♪ Damn right, you should take a course about me ♪
♪ 'Cause is it the long [...] four-finger ring? ♪
♪ The sciences of the arts, the songs we could sing ♪
♪ I really wanna know why y'all so scared ♪
♪ Probably 'cause the promised land ♪
♪ We almost there, but look ♪
♪ I think of images that fuel my youth ♪
♪ Interviews by Craig Hodges and Abdul-Rauf ♪
♪ Examples like Olympic black power salutes ♪
♪ The Panther troops, I saw as I pursued my truth ♪
♪ If racism is a cancer, black thought's the answer ♪
♪ Gotta get up off the back porch ♪
♪ Emancipate your mind ♪
♪ Get your bodies back from ransom ♪
- Come on!
- ♪ And all black hands up for the anthem ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Yo, yo, check this out, man ♪
- ♪ Bring that beat back, man ♪
♪ Bring that beat back ♪
♪ Two, three, four, hit it ♪
- ♪ People, people, stronger than this evil ♪
♪ Smashing your power structure ♪
♪ Melanin royal regal ♪
♪ System designed to kill and unprotect ♪
♪ Worldwide, hit the streets just to get some respect ♪
♪ Our fight in our rights for freedom will never waiver ♪
♪ Justice, Breonna Taylor, salute Chuck and Flava ♪
♪ Feel the same anger since Radio Raheem died ♪
♪ Black power to the people, push forward pride ♪
- ♪ Fighting power like it's a opp though ♪
♪ Born to fight, I made it out the block though ♪
♪ Thought he had a gun and he was black ♪
♪ That's the convo ♪
♪ The police killed George having a convo ♪
♪ They killed Malcolm X, they killed Dr. King ♪
♪ They gave us guns and dope, they wanna stop our kings ♪
♪ Trying to erase our history, stop and think ♪
♪ History class ain't tell us 'bout Juneteenth ♪
♪ Cops don't give a damn about a negro ♪
♪ Pull a trigger, kill a [...], he's a khero ♪
♪ [...] living life on welfare ♪
♪ The last time we cared was Obamacare ♪
♪ Round 12, nose kinda bloody, gotta keep fighting ♪
♪ Trump flew to North Korea, they respect violence ♪
♪ If you ain't trying to have your city on fire ♪
♪ Put some respect on our name ♪
♪ We come from gold and diamonds ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
♪ We've got to fight the powers that be ♪
♪ Elvis was a hero to most ♪
♪ But he never meant [...] to me, you see ♪
♪ Straight up racist that sucker was ♪
♪ Simple and plain ♪
- ♪ [...] him and John Wayne ♪
- ♪ 'Cause I'm black and I'm proud ♪
♪ I'm ready, I'm hyped, plus I'm amped ♪
♪ Most of our heroes don't appear on no stamp ♪
♪ Sample a look back, you look and find nothing ♪
♪ But rednecks for 400 years if you check ♪
- ♪ Don't worry, be happy ♪ - ♪ Was a number one jam ♪
♪ Damn, if I say it, you can slap me right here ♪
♪ Get it ♪
- ♪ Let's get this party started right ♪
- ♪ Right on, come on ♪
♪ What we got to say ♪
♪ Power to the people, no delay ♪
♪ Make everybody see ♪
♪ In order to fight the powers that be ♪
♪ ♪
- 60 years ago, this didn't exist.
- ♪ Uh ♪
♪ With your bad self ♪
♪ Say it loud ♪
- Isn't this an incredible show?
- ♪ Say it loud ♪
- I want everybody to say
as loud as you can,
what's up, BET?
- Hello, BET family.
- ♪ Say it loud ♪
- The thing is that just because we're magic,
doesn't mean we're not real.
So what's gonna happen is, we are gonna have equal rights
and justice in our own country,
or we will restructure their function and ours.
- ♪ Say it loud ♪ - Say it loud.
I'm black and I'm proud.
- Let's go. - ♪ Say it loud ♪
- Thank you to BET so much. I love you all.
This is incredible.
- ♪ All right ♪
- BET is home, you know? It's us.
Black people being beautiful, doing incredible things.
- Y'all want a little treat?
- ♪ Say it loud ♪ - Sexy mother--whoo!
- ♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Say it loud ♪
- There's a change in America that's going on right now
and everybody can feel it,
and we're gonna be the beacon to the rest of the world.
- ♪ Say it loud ♪
- I do believe the future is in good hands.
[cheers and applause]
announcer: It's the 2020 BET Awards.
Please welcome your host,
the smart, funny, and black Amanda Seales.
- Welcome to the 20th Annual BET Awards.
I'm your host, Amanda Seales.
Why am I hosting it? Who better?
I been telling y'all everybody racist.
I saw you up in the comments saying I was doing the most.
But look at us now.
Everyone is posting black squares.
Y'alls feeds went from only fans
to only fists in, like, 24 hours.
Now, folks always say,
"All Amanda ever does is talk about race."
Well, listen.
I would love to talk about regular, everyday things,
but racism always beats me to it.
For instance, candy. Who don't like candy?
But whenever I talk about Skittles,
I remember Trayvon Martin.
I would love to talk about ice cream.
It's a delicious treat.
But each time I do,
I am reminded of Botham Jean.
Who doesn't appreciate some shut-eye?
Man, I had a nap in 2015 that was so good,
it felt like black Jesus tucked me in.
I still talk about it to this day.
But that's a wrap because now,
I can't even dream of speaking about sleeping
knowing Breonna Taylor's killers have not been arrested.
When I said, "I don't got the time.
I'm on my trampoline,"
I meant it.
'Cause give it a minute
and racism gonna take the bounce out of that too.
Now, I must admit,
this BET Awards is a little different.
Main thing is, it's virtual.
We're getting real in touch with being real inside.
Because outside is on one.
It's got COVID and cops and Karens gone wild.
It's like we hated on 2019 so much,
it called its brother 2020 to come through
and provide a collective molly whop.
And that's precisely why we had to do the awards.
'Cause we deserve a break.
And when I say we, I mean all us black folks,
watching the kneeling, the gratuitous kente cloth,
the "I take responsibility" vids,
and saying to ourselves, "Wow.
Y'all goofy."
'Cause America is acting brand-new about racism,
like Dr. Martin Luther the King Jr.
was doing all them speeches for album interludes.
Now they talking about Juneteenth.
It's dope,
but y'all don't let them Cinco de Mayo our day.
If we ain't watchful, every June 19th,
folks gonna be at the bar
wearing Frederick Douglas wig hats,
ordering Harrietinis off the drinks special.
Then we have the protests.
Now, we've been out here in these streets marching
and this new eruption of consciousness
has been beautiful.
But keep it real though.
Some of y'all was only at the protests
'cause the club is closed.
No, I know.
It's like the let out with a cause.
Tonight's cause is not only to get accolades,
but also to celebrate 40 years of BET,
and because we're all still in the house,
we can get 40 years of BET stars.
We got Queen Latifah. Who you calling a--
Countess Vaughn. Mo to the--
And we can't miss Nelly and his Band-Aid.
Terry Crews couldn't make it.
Not surprised.
Not only do we have the stars, we have the shows.
Welcome back to "106 and Park" and the livest audience on TV.
Coming up, we keeping it free and easy
with Freestyle Friday.
We got reigning champ Blind Fury
versus challenger Jin,
but first up, give it up for Roddy Ricch!
[cheers and applause]
[hip-hop ballad]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Mustard on the beat ♪
♪ Shawty, make that [...] clap ♪
♪ She don't need no applause ♪
♪ High fashion like Goyard ♪
♪ G-Wagon or the Rover? ♪
♪ I put some ice on you 'cause you got a ♪
♪ I know I gotta keep my shawty on go, go, go, yeah ♪
♪ Drop that ass to the floor, floor, floor, yeah ♪
♪ Aye, whoa ♪
♪ You ain't gotta deal with none of these [...] ♪
♪ No more ♪
♪ If we hop in the Benz, is that okay? ♪
♪ Is it okay if I call you my Prada bae? ♪
♪ And I ain't no player, I just got a lot of, hey ♪
♪ But let me tell you, I like you a lot, bae ♪
♪ And I wanna start at the top and the bottom, bae ♪
♪ Do you want the shoe with the red at the bottom, bae? ♪
♪ You know I like when you ride at the top, bae ♪
♪ She want Chane-ne and Dio-yo ♪
♪ I'm only doing Cash App, don't need promo ♪
♪ I pull up to the high rise, I'm in the four, four, yeah ♪
♪ The inside's cocoa ♪
♪ And I got a feeling, I keep it inside my heart ♪
♪ And I keep a Patek too, 'cause I don't do facades ♪
♪ You can see my diamonds even when I'm in the dark ♪
♪ And since you got it, you go 'head ♪
♪ Make it do anything you want to ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Pulling out the Coupe at the lot ♪
♪ Told 'em [...] 12, [...] SWAT ♪
♪ Busting all the bells out the box ♪
♪ I just hit a lick with the [...] ♪
♪ Had to put the stick in the box, hey ♪
♪ Pour up the whole damn seal ♪
♪ I'ma get lazy, hey ♪
♪ I got the mojo deals ♪
♪ We been trapping like the '80s ♪
♪ She [...] soul, yeah ♪
♪ Told 'em wipe a [...] nose ♪
♪ Say slatt, slatt ♪
♪ I won't never sell my soul ♪
♪ And I can back that ♪
♪ All I really wanna know ♪
♪ Where you at, at ♪
♪ I was out back ♪
♪ Where the stash at? ♪
♪ Cruise the city in a bulletproof Cadillac ♪
♪ 'Cause I know these [...] after where the bag at ♪
♪ Gotta move smarter, gotta move harder ♪
♪ If you try to get me for my water ♪
♪ I'll lay his [...] down, on my son, on my daughter ♪
♪ I had the Draco with me, Dwayne Carter ♪
♪ Lot of [...] out here playing, ain't balling ♪
♪ I done put my whole arm in the rim, Vince Carter ♪
♪ And I know I probably get a key for the quarter ♪
♪ Shawty barely seen in double Cs, I bought 'em ♪
♪ Got a shawty looking like Aaliyah, she a model ♪
♪ I got the pink slip ♪
♪ All my whips is keyless ♪
♪ Compton, I'm about to get the key to the city ♪
♪ On my Patek like the sea, forgive me ♪
♪ Hey, told 'em [...] 12, [...] SWAT ♪
♪ Busting all the bells out the box ♪
♪ I just hit a lick with the box ♪
♪ You say, pour up the whole damn seal ♪
♪ I'ma get lazy, hey ♪
♪ I got the mojo deals ♪
♪ We been trapping like the '80s ♪
♪ She [...] soul, yeah ♪
♪ Told 'em wipe a [...] nose ♪
♪ Say slatt, slatt ♪
♪ I won't never sell my soul ♪
♪ And I can back that ♪
♪ All I really wanna know ♪
♪ Where you at, at, yeah ♪
♪ Ha-ha-ha, I been moving 'em out ♪
♪ If Steelo with me, then he got the blues in the pouch ♪
♪ Took her to the forest, put the wood in her [...] ♪
♪ Shawty don't wear no shoes in my house ♪
♪ The private I'm flying in, I never wanna fly again ♪
♪ I'll take my chance in traffic ♪
♪ No, no hands with it ♪
♪ I just made the Rollie plain like a landing strip ♪
♪ I'm a 2020 president candidate ♪
♪ I done put a hundred bands on ♪
♪ I moving real gangster, that's why she pick a [...] ♪
♪ Shawty call me Crisco 'cause I pop my [...] ♪
♪ Hey, got it out the mud ♪
♪ There's nothing you can tell me ♪
♪ Yeah, hey ♪
♪ When I had the drugs, I was street wealthy ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ ♪
announcer: The 2020 BET Awards are just getting started.
Up next, powerful performances from Megan Thee Stallion,
Alicia Keys, DaBaby,
John Legend, Lil Wayne,
Chloe x Halle, D Smoke,
SiR, Kierra Sheard,
Usher, Summer Walker,
Masego, Karen Clark Sheard,
Lonr., Jennifer Hudson,
Kane Brown, Jonathan McReynolds,
Wayne Brady, and appearances by Naomi Campbell,
Deon Cole, Marsai Martin,
Lizzo, Kirk Franklin,
John David Washington, Queen Latifah,
Tracee Ellis Ross, Melissa Williams,
and Donnie Simpson.
Plus, our forever first lady, Michelle Obama,
pays tribute to tonight's humanitarian,
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.
We're celebrating tonight, family.
Keep it locked.
- Welcome back to the 2020 BET Awards.
- For years P&G's been committed to
changing the way Black men are seen in the world
and how they are portrayed in media.
But we know we must do more.
Through the "Take on Race" fund,
P&G is committed to mobilizing and advocating
for Black men to ensure that they are supported.
One example of what our young men are capable of achieving
when properly supported and encouraged
is evident in the amazing achievements
of Princeton's first Black valedictorian,
Nicholas Johnson.
- P&G is proud to Shine A Light on Nicholas Johnson,
the first Black valedictorian
in Princeton University's 274-year history.
- Being Princeton's first Black valedictorian
is an accomplishment
that really holds a special place in my heart.
It is extremely empowering,
particularly given Princeton's historical ties
to the intuition of slavery.
Princeton's first nine presidents were themselves
slave owners, as were several professors
during the university's early years.
I think that given those historical beginnings,
the fact that we now today have a Black valedictorian,
goes to show how progress has occurred.
However the fact that it has taken so long,
also goes to show how much work still needs to be done.
Next off, I'll be beginning a PhD studies
in Operations Research at MIT in the fall.
I'm very excited.
Beyond my PhD years, I envision following
an entrepreneurial path.
One in which I really leverage my skill set
to tackle important problems in healthcare and in finance.
I'm Nicholas Johnson, I'm 22 years old,
and I'm Princeton University's first Black valedictorian.
♪ ♪
- On "The Voice," he's the judge you can trust,
on social media he's a fun loving Black father
and supportive husband,
on the keys, he always has an inspirational song
to remind us where we've been
and where we're going.
Welcome John Legend.
[people shouting, sirens blaring]
[explosions, helicopters whirring]
[glass shattering]
[tense ambient music]
[fire crackling]
♪ ♪
[footsteps thudding]
[keys playing]
[melancholic melody]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Oh-oh ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ ♪
♪ We got a good thing, babe ♪
♪ Whenever life is hard ♪
♪ We'll never lose our way ♪
♪ 'Cause we both know who we are ♪
♪ Who knows about tomorrow? ♪
♪ We don't know what's in the stars ♪
♪ I just know I'll always follow ♪
♪ The light in your heart ♪
♪ So, I'm not worried about us ♪
♪ And I've never been ♪
♪ We know how the story ends ♪
♪ We will never break ♪
♪ Built on a foundation ♪
♪ Strong enough to stay ♪
♪ We will never break ♪
♪ As the water rises ♪
♪ And the mountains shake ♪
♪ Our love will remain ♪
♪ We will never ♪
♪ No, no, never ♪
♪ We will never ♪
♪ No, no, never ♪
♪ It's more than a good sensation ♪
♪ It's more than a passing fling ♪
♪ You are the explanation ♪
♪ Of what love really means ♪
♪ It's bigger than you and me ♪
♪ It's one plus one equals three ♪
♪ When we talk about forever ♪
♪ Then forever's what we mean ♪
♪ ♪
♪ So, I'm not worried about us ♪
♪ And I've never been ♪
♪ No matter what may come our way ♪
♪ We will never break ♪
all: ♪ We will never break ♪
♪ Built on a foundation ♪
♪ Stronger than the pain ♪
♪ We will never break ♪
♪ As the water rises ♪
♪ And the mountains shake ♪
♪ Our love will remain ♪
- ♪ We will never ♪
all: ♪ No, no never ♪
- ♪ We will never ♪
all: ♪ No, no never ♪
- ♪ We will never ♪
all: ♪ No, no never ♪
- ♪ We will never ♪
♪ No-ohh ♪
♪ The world is dangerous ♪
♪ Throw it all at us ♪
♪ There's nothing we cannot take ♪
♪ We will never break ♪
♪ Built on a foundation ♪
♪ Strong enough to stay ♪
♪ We will never break ♪
♪ As the water rises ♪
♪ And the mountains shake ♪
♪ Our love will remain ♪
♪ We will never ♪
all: ♪ No, no never ♪
- ♪ We will never ♪
chorus: ♪ No, no never ♪
- ♪ Oh, we will never ♪
all: ♪ No, no never ♪
- ♪ We will never ♪
♪ No-ohh ♪
♪ We will never ♪ chorus: ♪ We will ♪
- ♪ No ♪ chorus: ♪ Never break ♪
- ♪ We will ♪ chorus: ♪ Never ♪
- ♪ No ♪ chorus: ♪ Never ♪
♪ ♪
- From "Black-ish," please welcome, Marsai Martin.
- Hey, Black people!
See, I know quarantine has been tough on us all.
But I want everyone to know, it's essential
to our mental health to take some time out every day
to find some joy.
Even if that means learning a new language,
and then using that language
to call the Kentucky's D.A. office.
You should do that. Or taking a nice walk,
while on a call with the Kentucky's D.A. office.
Yeah, that makes sense. You should do that.
Because we will not be silenced.
We will be heard.
And just like the following women
who will continue to use our voices
for activism and spreading joy.
And here are the nominees
for the Best Female Hip Hop Artist.
♪ ♪
- And the winner is...
See I already know the winner in my head
cause I don't have, you know, the card.
But I'm gonna act like I have the card.
[gasps]
♪ Classy, bougie, ratchet ♪
Megan Thee Stallion!
- Oh, my God. I probably recorded
this video like 10 times.
So it feels so crazy doing this from my house.
But thank you BET. I cannot believe I won
Best Female Hip Hop Artist.
Thank you to my team.
Thank you to Houston.
Thank you momma. Thank you God.
Most importantly, thank you hotties.
I used to watch the BET Awards all the time, thinking
one day that's gonna be me going up there
accepting my awards. And that is so.
[laughs] Thank y'all so much.
And hotties I'm gonna just keep on going for y'all.
Aaah.
- Ladies and gentlemen please welcome Tracee Ellis Ross.
- Hello, BET.
[laughs]
Our first BET Music performer
is presented by Nissan is also a BET Amplified Artist.
He is guided by legends, mentored by musical greats,
and is implementing his unique footprint
to a free flowing sound and experimentation.
He and I share a similar journey.
As someone raised in the soul of Black music
I finally allowed myself to explore
my own musical talents,
and share that side of myself for the first time this year,
in the movie "The High Note."
It was exhilarating and powerful
much like this next performer.
Performing his hit song "Queen Tings,"
here is Masego.
[soft soul music playing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I see Lupita ♪
♪ You know I got the Jones ♪
♪ For my own Rashida ♪
♪ Can you put me on With Danai Gurira ♪
♪ She stay on my dome ♪
♪ She gone pull on me ♪
♪ Pull like weed, entice me ♪
♪ She my queen ♪
both: ♪ Yeah, woah, yeah, woah, yeah ♪
- ♪ She my queen ♪
both: ♪ Yeah, woah, yeah, woah, yeah ♪
- ♪ She my queen ♪
♪ Yeah, woah, yeah, woah, yeah ♪
♪ She gone pull on me ♪
♪ Pull like weed, entice me ♪
♪ Oh Sharon Leal oh ♪
♪ She stay down the hall ♪
♪ Or I call Regina ♪
♪ Keep your bonnet on ♪
♪ It stay on for Lisa ♪
both: ♪ She more Solange Knowles ♪
- ♪ She gone pull on me ♪
♪ Pull like weed, entice me ♪
♪ She my queen ♪
both: ♪ Yeah, woah, yeah, woah, yeah ♪
- ♪ She my queen ♪
both: ♪ Yeah, woah, yeah, woah, yeah ♪
- ♪ She my queen ♪
♪ Yeah, woah, yeah, woah, yeah ♪
♪ She gone pull on me ♪
♪ Pull like weed, entice me ♪
♪ ♪
- [vocalizing]
♪ ♪
both: ♪ Yeah, woah, yeah, woah, yeah ♪
- ♪ She my queen ♪
both: ♪ Yeah, woah, yeah, woah, yeah ♪
- ♪ She my queen ♪
both: ♪ Yeah, woah, yeah, woah, yeah ♪
- ♪ She gon' pull on me ♪
♪ Pull like weed entice me ♪
♪ She my queen ♪
- Coming up next,
Megan Thee Stallion keeps us locked in,
D Smoke and SiR perform,
and later Jennifer Hudson pays tribute
to the Queen of Soul,
plus Lizzo presents the award for Video of the Year.
It's the 2020 BET Awards.
- Welcome back to the 2020 BET Awards.
- I was just trying to swim with my dog
and then security asked me to leave, and I said--
"Clearly, this building cares more about safety
than its residents."
- That must have been devastating.
- But your dog's in therapy.
- That reminds me of when I was at the airport waiting to board.
I was drinking my latte-- too much foam--it's fine.
And I was standing behind a young African American woman
with those cord things in her hair.
- I think they're called "braibs."
- Well, anyway, I said, "Excuse me,
I think they're just boarding first class right now,"
and she whipped around and said, "Don't assume just because
I'm black that I don't belong in first class!"
- You would never!
- I don't even see color!
- Van Jones is my hall pass.
- And then she said, "You need to mind your own business.
You don't work for the airline."
- Well, you're Sapphire Status.
- You were being helpful.
- Yeah, and they're the ones who work at the airport.
- And you know what?
She was right.
I did need to mind my own business.
A-ha! You're all Karens.
And you need to stop torturing black folks with your fragility.
- You're not one of us!
- She's a black!
- How did she do that with her hair?
- That's right, and I know how all y'all's kids
got into college.
- Welcome back to "BET News,"
covering the stories that matter most to our community.
In exciting news, California has elected Maxine Waters
to the House of Representatives.
We look forward to seeing what she does with her...time
in office.
Additionally, "BET News" endorses attorney Phillip Banks
of Bel Air in his run for circuit court judge.
Next up, you may have thought they were just two talented
dudes from Inglewood.
This just in...
they're brothers!
Give it up for D Smoke and SiR.
[police sirens wailing]
[D Smoke & SiR's "Let Go"]
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ If I don't make it to my pillow ♪
♪ Before these lights go out ♪
♪ Please write about me, cite my lyrics ♪
♪ And know they ignite my spirit ♪
♪ Poor babies fighting depression ♪
♪ Been writing them essays to graduate with no stage ♪
♪ On Zoom? ♪
♪ Send me the link, I'll check in to your room ♪
♪ Cyber-congratulate you, then purposely agitate you ♪
♪ Asking questions like, "How you supposed to protest ♪
♪ With no chest?" ♪
♪ A big heart, but they closed down all the gyms ♪
♪ Wish you had a Bowflex ♪
♪ A Rolex won't keep you sane and safe from danger ♪
♪ They shut down nature ♪
♪ Where the [...] I'm supposed to place my anger? ♪
♪ Ironically, my honesty might make me enemy of state ♪
♪ I trust that God'll use my pen to draw His face ♪
♪ Still got my pistol on my waist ♪
- ♪ If I shout but ain't nobody around to hear it ♪
♪ How 'bout it? Will it echo? ♪
♪ I sing loud to talk to my inner child, he feel it ♪
♪ Young dreams made out of Legos ♪
♪ I reach out despite the feeling they out to kill us ♪
♪ Get rowdy 'bout the pesos ♪
♪ The solution for this cold institution ♪
♪ Just to breathe, we need to let go ♪
♪ Oh, we need to let go ♪
♪ Oh, we need to let it go ♪
♪ Oh, we need to let go ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Every time they hear this ♪
♪ They gonna say he made an anthem ♪
♪ Life ain't a panda ♪
♪ It ain't black and white, it's a canvas ♪
♪ Spike Lee your dreams, Bruce Lee your tantrums ♪
♪ Two-three that bull [...] ♪
♪ Go Michael Jordan, go Samson ♪
♪ Knock down the walls around me ♪
♪ Strong and dark and so handsome ♪
♪ Uh, everything around me ♪
♪ Is shining dark and the timing's divine ♪
♪ I found a spark where the clouds leak and the rain fall ♪
♪ And I found peace, uh ♪
♪ Black as the concrete ♪
♪ Black as the street that's lined with the palm trees ♪
♪ I'm black as the night sky when you broke ♪
♪ And your bread and your bacon just don't meet ♪
♪ Black as the bottom of Chuck Taylors ♪
♪ Black on some [...] haters ♪
♪ Black as the burnt rubber ♪
♪ Hitting donuts in front of the store ♪
♪ Where two months later, they got stopped ♪
♪ Cops found a black burner underneath the seat ♪
♪ On some Nat Turner, black as the judge robe ♪
♪ When the case closed ♪
♪ Now your life on the back burner ♪
- ♪ Black magic ♪ - ♪ Black magic ♪
- ♪ Black excellence ♪ - ♪ Black excellence ♪
- ♪ Black habits ♪ - ♪ Black habits ♪
- ♪ Black medicine ♪ - ♪ Yeah, everything ♪
♪ Black Chucks, black tux everything ♪
- ♪ Everything black ♪ - ♪ Black hug, black love ♪
♪ Everything ♪ both: ♪ Praise black Jesus ♪
- ♪ Play black Moses, uh ♪
♪ Give 'em flowers while they still here ♪
♪ Black roses, everything ♪
♪ Black tie, black ride, everything ♪
- ♪ Everything ♪ - ♪ Black pride, black lives ♪
♪ Everything ♪
♪ Skin noire, friends noire ♪
♪ Here you are, black ♪
♪ Everything you need, better believe you are that ♪
♪ Skin noire, friends noir, here you are, black ♪
♪ Everything you need, better believe you are that ♪
Super.
Give it up for my beautiful mother,
Jackie Gouche.
[vocalizing]
- Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Queen Latifah.
- Hi, I'm Queen Latifah.
For years, P&G has shined a light
on inequality and bias,
sparking dialogue that leads to understanding and action.
I'm so excited to partner with them
on the "Queen Collective" program,
which gives filmmakers of color a platform
to tell important stories about issues
directly impacting our communities.
The "Queen Collective" aims to drive equality in front of
and behind the camera,
opening doors for the next generation
of multicultural women directors
whose voices are crucial in diversifying the film
and advertising industry.
Now in its second year,
P&G's "Queen Collective" continues to provide
opportunities for women of color to tell authentic stories
from our unique points of view.
Here's a sneak peek of the "Queen Collective" films
"Gloves Off" and "Tangled Roots,"
streaming now on BET platforms.
- BET and Wells Fargo are proud to share
an Empowerful Spotlight Yolo Akili Robinson of BEAM.
- BEAM is really in response to the gaps that myself
and many of my colleagues saw
in the public health infrastructure
as it relates to supporting black people
around mental health and wellness.
When there were conversations being had about mental health,
they weren't being said or talked about
in ways that were targeting us,
and so we really wanted to create an institution
that spoke to us in our language
that also upheld our legacy of being healers,
but also gave us an opportunity
to learn some new things and think about things differently.
- To help support this work,
Wells Fargo is donating $25,000 to BEAM.
- I want to express my sincere appreciation
and gratitude to Wells Fargo for contributing to our work,
to supporting our work with a donation.
It really, really means a lot.
It will help us continue to train and educate
and cultivate more wellness in this time of distress.
Thank you for lifting and holding a light
to black mental health and healing.
- We honor the empowerful spirit
of all front-line heroes like Yolo,
identifying a need in our community,
taking action and helping others do the same.
This is how empowered because empowerful.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Naomi Campbell.
- I remember growing up in London
and knowing from a very early age
of how music made me feel.
It made me feel so many different emotions.
It made me feel sad, it made me feel happy,
and it just made me dream.
I'm so very proud tonight to recognize
some of the brightest new artists from around the world.
Here are the nominees.
[hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- And the BET Award goes to...
Burna Boy!
Congratulations, Burna.
I'm so happy for you. You deserve this and more.
Afrobeats all the way!
Niger in the house!
[kisses] Congratulations, darling.
You deserve this.
- Thank you very much, BET.
Second time. I appreciate it.
I'd like to use this opportunity to say
that sometime around 1835
there was a mission to turn Africa,
the nation of Africa, into a dominated nation.
Now is the time to overturn that
and go back to the royalty that we were.
Because in order for black lives to matter,
Africa must matter.
Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
- Don't let me catch you, don't let me catch you.
"Rap City: Tha Basement." Whoo!
♪ Amanda, Manda ♪
♪ Comedy special straight bananas ♪
♪ Ya man sleeping on me, 40 pajamas ♪
♪ IG Stories longer than your grandma's been alive ♪
♪ Never been a lie ♪
♪ At the time was pregnant on TV, Tiffany DuBois ♪
♪ It's time to switch 'cause I handles it ♪
♪ Up next, oh yes, DaBaby with Roddy Ricch ♪
[kisses] I'm nice.
Harlem!
- ♪ Even if I told you ♪
♪ Still wouldn't understand what happened ♪
♪ Rather be myself, if people look at me don't matter ♪
♪ A rock star just trying to keep it kosher ♪
♪ Trying to keep my eyes on my own paper ♪
♪ Like my teachers told me ♪
♪ Soon as [...] think it's over, poof ♪
♪ Number one on the charts, I'm there vicariously ♪
♪ Oh, there they go by us ♪
♪ They pushin' negative narratives, I'm ready though ♪
♪ Cops wanna pull me over, embarrass me ♪
♪ Abusin' power, you never knew me, thought I was arrogant ♪
♪ As a juvenile, police pulled their guns ♪
♪ Like they scared of me ♪
♪ And we're used to have [...] treat us ♪
♪ Now that's the scary thing ♪
♪ Want anything we good at and we cherish it ♪
♪ Now we all fed up and [...] comin' back for everything ♪
♪ Rockstars, just watch the news ♪
♪ They burnin' cop cars, kill another [...] ♪
♪ Break the law, then call us outlaws ♪
♪ What happened? Want us to keep it peaceful ♪
♪ Shoulda seen them hatin' ♪
♪ When I bought that Lamborghini ♪
♪ Throw up my middle finger, police can't catch me this a ♪
[birds chirping]
[wind whooshing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Seth in the kitchen ♪
♪ Brand new Lamborghini, [...] a cop car ♪
♪ With the pistol on my hip like I'm a cop, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Have you ever met a real [...] rockstar ♪
♪ This ain't no guitar, bitch, this a Glock ♪
♪ My Glock told me to promise you gon' squeeze me ♪
♪ You better let me go the day you need me ♪
♪ Soon as you up me on that [...], get to bustin' ♪
♪ And if I ain't enough, go get the chop ♪
♪ It's safe to say I earned it, ain't a [...] gave me nothin' ♪
♪ I'm ready to hop out on a [...], get to bustin' ♪
♪ Know you heard me say "You play, you lay" ♪
♪ Don't make me push the button ♪
♪ Full of pain, dropped enough tears to fill up a bucket ♪
♪ Goin' for buckets, I bought a chopper ♪
♪ I got a big drum, it hold a hundred ♪
♪ Ain't goin' for nothin', I'm ready to air it out ♪
♪ On all these [...], 'cause I can see 'em runnin' ♪
♪ Just talked to my mama, she hit me on FaceTime ♪
♪ Just to check up on me and my brother ♪
♪ I'm really the baby, she know that her youngest son ♪
♪ Was always guaranteed to get the money, okay let's go ♪
♪ She know that her baby boy was always guaranteed ♪
♪ To get the loot, she know what I do ♪
♪ She know 'fore I run from a [...] ♪
♪ I'ma pull it out and shoot, PTSD ♪
♪ I'm always waking up in cold sweats like I got the flu ♪
♪ My daughter a G, she saw me kill a [...] in front of her ♪
♪ Before the age of two and I'll kill another [...] too ♪
♪ 'Fore I let another [...] do somethin' to you ♪
♪ Long as you know that don't let nobody tell you different ♪
♪ Daddy love you, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Let's go ♪
♪ Brand new Lamborghini, [...] a cop car ♪
♪ With the pistol on my hip like I'm a cop, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Have you ever met a real [...] rockstar ♪
♪ This ain't no guitar, bitch, this a Glock ♪
♪ My Glock told me to promise you gon' squeeze me ♪
♪ You better let me go the day you need me ♪
♪ Soon as you up me on that [...], get to bustin' ♪
♪ And if I ain't enough, go get the chop ♪
- ♪ Keep a [...] when I ride in the Suburban ♪
♪ 'Cause the codeine had a young [...] swervin' ♪
♪ I got the mop, watch me wash 'em like detergent ♪
♪ And I'm ballin', that's why it's diamonds on my jersey ♪
♪ Slide on opps' side and flip the block back, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ My junior popped him and left him lopsided, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ We spin his block, got the rebound, Dennis Rodman ♪
♪ Fool me one time, you can't cross me again ♪
♪ Twelve hundred horsepower, I get lost in the wind ♪
♪ If he talkin' on the yard the pen' dogs'll take his chin ♪
♪ Maybach SUV for my refugees ♪
♪ Buy blocks in the hood, put money in the streets ♪
♪ I was solo when the opps caught me at the gas station ♪
♪ Had it on me thirty thousand, thought it was my last day ♪
♪ But they ain't even want no smoke ♪
♪ If I had to choose it, murder what she wrote ♪
- ♪ Let's go ♪
♪ Brand new Lamborghini, [...] a cop car ♪
♪ With the pistol on my hip like I'm a cop, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Have you ever met a real [...] rockstar ♪
♪ This ain't no guitar, bitch, this a Glock ♪
♪ My Glock told me to promise you gon' squeeze me ♪
♪ You better let me go the day you need me ♪
♪ Soon as you up me on that [...], get to bustin' ♪
♪ And if I ain't enough, go get the chop ♪
♪ ♪
- We are black people,
and we shouldn't have to feel like this.
We shouldn't have to protest
because y'all are treating us wrong.
We do this because we need to.
[sobbing]
It's a shame that
our fathers and mothers are killed,
and we can't even see them anymore.
♪ ♪
- This next artist is performing a song
by a women who didn't just sing about freedom,
but was also a resounding voice
in the fight for equality.
And the words of this song still resonate today
as much as they did when she sang them almost 50 years ago.
Here to perform "Young, Gifted and Black,"
please welcome Oscar winner and the star of "Respect,"
the biographical film based on the life
of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin,
Jennifer Hudson.
♪ ♪
- ♪ To be ♪
♪ Young ♪
♪ Gifted and black ♪
♪ Oh what a lovely ♪
♪ Precious dream ♪
♪ ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
♪ Yes we are ♪
♪ We are ♪
♪ Young ♪
♪ Thank you Jesus ♪
♪ Gifted and black ♪
♪ Open your heart ♪
♪ Is all I need ♪
♪ ♪
♪ In this whole wide world ♪
♪ There are millions of boys and girls ♪
♪ Who are young, gifted and black ♪
♪ With their souls intact ♪
♪ And that's a fact ♪
♪ You are young, gifted and black ♪
♪ We must begin to tell our young ♪
♪ There's a world waiting for you ♪
♪ You, yours is the quest that's just begun ♪
♪ ♪
♪ When you feel real low ♪
♪ There's a great truth you should remember and know ♪
- ♪ Young, gifted and black ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ Is where it's at ♪
- ♪ Lord knows it's where it's at yeah ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪ - ♪ Is where it's at ♪
- [vocalizing]
♪ It's where it's at ♪
- ♪ Gifted and black ♪
- ♪ Hey ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ Gifted and black ♪
- ♪ Whoo-hoo ♪
- ♪ Gifted and... ♪
- [vocalizing ]
- ♪ Black ♪
[song crescendos]
♪ ♪
- [vocalizing]
♪ Anybody hear me sing ♪
♪ I want you to search there ♪
♪ Deep down in your soul ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ You should know ♪
♪ That you are young and gifted ♪
♪ It's where it's at ♪
♪ Can I get a yeah ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
[all vocalizing]
- ♪ Ooh, yeah ♪
- Welcome back to the 2020 BET Awards.
In these challenging times of sheltering in place,
I want to take this moment to stand in solidarity
with all my brothers out there and their struggle hairlines.
Until all the barbershops reopen,
we see you and we feel for you.
As the fight for civil rights
is changing the landscape of the country,
this next artist is transforming
the sound of hip-hop,
blending genres to create a sound uniquely his own.
Here to perform his new single, "Lockdown,"
please welcome Anderson .Paak featuring Jay Rock.
[Anderson .Paak's "Lockdown"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ You should've been downtown ♪
♪ The people are rising ♪
♪ We thought it was a lockdown ♪
♪ They opened the fire ♪
♪ Them bullets was flyin' ♪
♪ Who said it was a lockdown ♪
♪ Damn lie, oh, my ♪
♪ Time heals all, but you outta time, now ♪
♪ Judge gotta watch us from the clock tower ♪
♪ Little tear gas cleared the whole place out ♪
♪ I'll be back with the hazmat for the next round ♪
♪ We was tryna protest, then the fires broke out ♪
♪ Look out for the secret agents ♪
♪ They be planted in the crowd ♪
♪ Said, "It's civil unrest," but you sleep so sound ♪
♪ Like you don't hear the screams ♪
♪ When we catchin' beatdowns? ♪
♪ Stayin' quite when they're killin' ♪
♪ But you speak loud when we riot ♪
♪ Got opinions coming from a place of privilege ♪
♪ Sicker than the COVID, how they did him on the ground ♪
♪ Speakin' of the COVID, is it still goin' around?
♪ And won't you tell me 'bout the looting ♪
♪ What's that really all about? ♪
♪ 'Cause they throw away black lives like paper towels ♪
♪ Plus unemployment rate, what, 40 million now? ♪
♪ Killed a man in broad day, might never see a trial ♪
♪ We just wanna break chains like slaves in the South ♪
♪ Started in the North End but we in the downtown ♪
♪ Riot cops tried to block, now we got a showdown ♪
♪ Down ♪
- I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly,
and in the name of the people of the State of California--
- ♪ You should've been downtown ♪
♪ The people are rising ♪
♪ We thought it was a lockdown ♪
♪ They opened the fire ♪
♪ Them bullets was flyin' ♪
♪ Who said it was a lockdown? ♪
♪ Damn lie ♪ [gunshot]
- ♪ Turn on your tube, dog, look how they do us ♪
♪ Knee on our necks, bullets in backs ♪
♪ Stimulus checks strictly for blacks ♪
♪ History repeating, people scared to eat a chicken ♪
♪ Everybody going vegan, what they put in it?
♪ Look at the world we livin' in, they got it shook in it ♪
♪ Go on your jog ♪
♪ Then your color might get you took in it ♪
♪ Man in the mirror, don't look away ♪
♪ You better look at it ♪
♪ Black lives matter ♪
♪ So what it means when they shoot at it? ♪
♪ Generation genocide, what happened to enterprise? ♪
♪ Heard the man infiltrated Black Panther, we energize ♪
♪ Nothing to figure out, they tryna kill us out ♪
♪ If I take a kneel, see my fist? ♪
♪ I'm a killer now ♪
♪ Just think, "bull ish" You gotta filter out ♪
♪ Are you really ready for the smoke like a Swisher house? ♪
♪ Ready for the revolution? Who ready to ride? ♪
♪ It won't be televised, so tell me who ready to die ♪
♪ If downtown going up, where we at with the livin'? ♪
♪ At the liquor store, homie 'bout to get us a fifth ♪
♪ Or they 'bout to start lootin' ♪
♪ Grab the gloves and masks ♪
♪ Watch out for them tanks when they rolling past ♪
- ♪ Can never understand why they do it ♪
♪ Someone cut the channel off the news 'fore I lose it ♪
♪ I ain't even trippin' ♪
♪ If you wit' it, then we lootin' ♪
♪ Help me put this Louis in the back of Suzuki ♪
♪ Oh, he had to break it down so smoothly ♪
♪ They gon' say, "It's not about race" but we movin' ♪
♪ Oh, pow, copped the tre pound ♪
♪ Had to put that in my name ♪
♪ Wish a [...] play now ♪
♪ Any given day, I'll be headed to the pulpits ♪
♪ Say a little prayer ♪
♪ Matter fact, I need two of 'em ♪
♪ Ooh, won't he do it? Won't he do it? ♪
♪ This ain't '92 so we into new rules ♪
♪ [...] got hip so we don't loot the projects ♪
♪ 'Bout to hit Rodeo with my little cousin Marcus ♪
♪ Someone threw a whole brick in the Neiman Marcus ♪
♪ Help me put the whole mannequin in the Charger ♪
♪ You should've been downtown ♪
♪ The people are risin' ♪
♪ We thought it was a lockdown ♪
♪ They opened the fire, - ♪ Had to get low ♪
- ♪ Them bullets was flying ♪
♪ Who said it was a lockdown? Damn lie, ooh-wee ♪
♪ Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to ♪
♪ Downtown, where I got popped with the rubber bullet ♪
♪ Tre pound, got it in my name now I'ma shoot it ♪
♪ Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to ♪
♪ Downtown ♪
♪ ♪
- Please welcome gospel superstar
and the host of BET's "Sunday Best," Kirk Franklin.
- Our second BET music performance presented by Nissan
is also a BET Amplified artist.
His musical style blurs the lines
between soul and simmering alternative hip-hop.
On top of being a talented vocalist,
he's also an accomplished producer
who's become a trusted collaborator of H.E.R.
Tonight, he's here to take us to the land of nothing real
performing "Make The Most," please welcome Lonr.
[Lonr.'s "Make the Most"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Lookin' at your smile ♪
♪ Starin' at your eyes, I could stay awhile ♪
♪ Feelin' this vibe ♪
♪ Pick up like we never even lost time ♪
♪ I could do this for days ♪
♪ I would run a thousand miles for you ♪
♪ I could do this many ways ♪
♪ But I'ma fall fast and die with you ♪
♪ Wanna chase that, going crazy ♪
♪ I'm like, "Oh, my," but I'm laid back ♪
♪ Gotta save that ♪
♪ Time to face facts ♪
♪ If you love me, girl, just say that ♪
♪ I don't wanna leave your mind to wander ♪
♪ I'll surround you, make you feel sure ♪
♪ Got desire to make this right ♪
♪ 'Cause every single night I wanna feel your soul ♪
♪ I wanna grow old with you, make the most with you ♪
♪ That's the goal ♪
♪ I wanna grow old with you, make the most with you ♪
♪ I'll give you some time ♪
♪ Whatever you want, you just say the word ♪
♪ We can do the time ♪
♪ Lock away the key, that's what you prefer ♪
♪ I could do this for days ♪
♪ I would run a thousand miles for you ♪
♪ I could do this many ways ♪
♪ But I'ma fall fast and die with you ♪
♪ Wanna chase that, going crazy ♪
♪ I'm like, "Oh, my," but I'm laid back ♪
♪ Gotta save that, time to face facts ♪
♪ If you love me, girl, just say that ♪
♪ I don't wanna leave your mind to wander ♪
♪ I'll surround you, make you feel sure ♪
♪ Got desire to make this right ♪
♪ 'Cause every single night I wanna feel your soul ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I wanna grow old with you, make the most with you ♪
♪ That's the goal ♪
♪ I wanna grow old with you, make the most with you ♪
♪ If we met in another life ♪
♪ If we met on a different street ♪
♪ Would you still be walking this direction? ♪
♪ Would we still be walking at the same speeds? ♪
♪ Would you still put up a fight? ♪
♪ Would you still make time for me? ♪
♪ I hope so ♪
♪ I hope so, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ I don't wanna leave your mind to wander ♪
♪ I'll surround you, make you feel sure ♪
♪ Got desire to make this right ♪
[upbeat music]
- Coming up, a powerful performance
from Alicia Keyes,
Wayne Brady takes on Little Richard
with an uplifting tribute to his life,
and Lil Wayne remembers his friend and hero, Kobe Bryant.
And later, we celebrate this year's humanitarian,
Beyoncé, and 40 years of BET
with Donnie Simpson
and BET founder Bob Johnson.
It's the 2020 BET Awards.
♪ ♪
[funky dramatic music]
- Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Deon Cole.
- Hey, what's up, everybody?
Look, before we start, I want to say that
I appreciate everything that everyone is doing out there
in order to help make change.
Thank you so much.
Now, before I get into these awards,
there's one more piece of change
that I would like to see being made.
When we get back to work--
and those that are at work--
stop talking white at work. All right?
No more white talking at work, okay?
Now, it's gonna be a little jarring at first,
but it's either one day or day one,
and it is day one, all right?
No more white talking at work.
All this marching we doing,
and you go back to work talking white.
"Hey, Kathy, any more hummus?"
Or "Hey, Chad, did you see 'Ozark' last night?"
Or "No, keep the air on. I'm not cold."
All of that? Cut it out.
When you get to work,
you be your most beautiful, Blackest self.
You hear me?
All right. And another thing.
I want everyone to go get tested for COVID, all right?
Everyone. Look, fellas,
your woman's results ain't your results.
Don't be sittin' up like,
"If she ain't got nothing, I ain't got nothing."
No, you go get tested.
And, women, likewise with you, too.
"If he ain't got nothing, I ain't got nothing."
No, everyone, go get tested, okay?
We need that.
Now, let's get to these nominees.
- And the winner for
Best Female R&B/Pop Vocalist is...
Lizzo!
[laughs] Hey!
Congratulations, Lizzo!
- Thank you so much, BET.
And thank you to all the wonderfully talented,
beautiful Black women that I share this category with.
Beyoncé, thank you for everything
that you have done for Black culture.
I have to say that, three years ago,
I sat in the audience at the BET Awards
and I didn't win anything,
but I still went home and felt like a winner.
Last year, I performed on the main stage.
I didn't win anything, and I still felt like a winner.
This year, I have the honor
of winning this prestigious award,
but I will always feel like a winner,
because as long as you're winning in life,
that's the only trophy you need.
So we're all winners, ladies,
and let's keep bigging up the culture,
'cause that's what this has been about
and will always be about.
- Whether it's spirituals or the blues,
jazz or hip-hop,
music has always been
the voice of the Black experience.
It speaks to our resilience, our resistance,
and, even in the messiest of circumstances,
we find melody.
♪ You about to lose your job ♪
Tonight, as we revel in Black music,
we must also honor the lives of those who have brought us
to this moment of consciousness.
Ladies and gentlemen, everyone,
Alicia Keys.
[distant sirens wailing]
[quiet distant traffic]
[Alicia Keys' "Perfect Way to Die"]
[soft piano music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Simple walk to the corner store ♪
♪ Mama never thought she would be ♪
♪ Gettin' a call from the coroner ♪
♪ Said her son's been gunned down ♪
♪ Been gunned down ♪
♪ "Can you come now?" ♪
♪ Tears in her eyes ♪
♪ "Can you calm down?" ♪
♪ "Please, ma'am, can you calm down?" ♪
♪ But it rained fire in the city that day ♪
♪ They say ♪
♪ River of blood in the streets ♪
♪ No love in the streets ♪
♪ And then came silence in the city that day ♪
♪ They say ♪
♪ Just another one gone ♪
♪ And they tell her move on ♪
♪ And she's stuck there singing ♪
♪ Baby, don't you close your eyes ♪
♪ 'cause this could be our final time ♪
♪ And you know I'm horrible at saying good-bye ♪
♪ And I think of all you could've done ♪
♪ At least you'll stay forever young ♪
♪ I guess you picked the perfect way ♪
♪ To die ♪
♪ Oh, I guess you picked ♪
♪ The perfect way to die ♪
♪ ♪
♪ New job, new city, new her ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Bright-eyed ♪
♪ You would've been proud ♪
♪ If you knew her ♪
♪ Flashing lights in the mirror ♪
♪ Pull over ♪
♪ A couple nights in detention and it's over ♪
♪ A whole life's over ♪
♪ They came marching in the city that day ♪
♪ They say ♪
♪ Carrying signs in the streets ♪
♪ Crying eyes in the streets ♪
♪ But they heard nothing from the city that day ♪
♪ They say ♪
♪ Just another one gone ♪
♪ And the city moves on ♪
♪ We're stuck here singing ♪
♪ Baby, don't you close your eyes ♪
♪ 'cause this could be our final time ♪
♪ And you know I'm horrible at saying good-bye ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'll think of all you could've done ♪
♪ At least you'll stay forever young ♪
♪ I guess you picked the perfect way to die ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ I guess you picked the perfect way to die ♪
♪ Another dream lost ♪
♪ Another king and queen lost ♪
♪ Another broken promise they refuse to make right ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, another night to live in fear ♪
♪ Oh, another night that you're not here ♪
♪ Another reason to get out there and fight ♪
♪ But I said, baby, don't you close your eyes ♪
♪ 'cause this could be our final time ♪
♪ And you know I'm horrible at saying good-bye ♪
♪ But I'll think of all you could've done ♪
♪ At least you'll stay forever young ♪
♪ I guess you picked the perfect way to die ♪
♪ Oh, I guess you picked ♪
♪ The perfect way ♪
[quiet distant traffic]
[blues music]
♪ ♪
- What is it you want me to reconcile myself to?
I was born here almost 60 years ago.
I'm not going to live another 60 years.
You always told me it takes time.
It has taken my father's time, my mother's time,
my uncle's time,
my brothers' and my sisters' time,
my nieces' and my nephews' time.
How much time do you want for your "progress"?
♪ ♪
- Unfortunately, these names represent
only a fraction of the Black lives we've lost
to the over 400-year-long pandemic called "racism."
We can't allow the cycle of pain and oppression
to continue any longer.
It ends now.
We will not lose.
♪ ♪
- P&G is stepping up their ongoing efforts
to advance equality for all people,
and especially, right now, for Black Americans
who face racism, bias, and brutality.
P&G continues its series of thought-provoking films
on bias and racism with "The Choice,"
an invitation to the silent majority
to become allies, advocates, and activists
to end racial inequality.
Now is the time to take action.
Learn how at pg.com/takeonrace.
- It's the 2020 BET Awards.
Up next, performances from Chloe x Halle,
Summer Walker, and Usher,
and later, our former First Lady,
Michelle Obama, presents Beyoncé
with this year's Humanitarian Award.
- Welcome back to the 2020 BET Awards.
- We are not born with hate in our hearts.
Hatred and racism are taught,
taught by the things we see on television and movies,
hear on the news,
and reinforced by the images we don't see.
Like, for real, "Friends" was in New York
for, like, ten years,
and there was, like, one black person?
Anyway,
one of the most powerful, pervasive teachers
of racism in America
is media.
People believe what they see.
So why not change what they see?
Why not tell stories that underscore
our shared humanity,
sense of connection, and values?
At BET and, I'd like to announce, across Viacom-CBS,
they are unleashing the power of their platforms
to eradicate racism.
Content for Change.
- BET is committed to changing the world
through actions, not just words,
through the content we make
for the audience we proudly serve,
change for a world where you aren't just judged
by the color of your skin
or just by the flag you wave
or just by the god you serve,
but a world with a better appreciation
for a better you and me,
where the media we create
helps to paint a broader narrative
with deeper meaning
for all black lives to matter.
Content for Change will help
in the fight for positive social change,
change that helps the media industry
end racial stereotypes and bias,
with content that entertains and informs,
content that leads to justice for all,
content dedicated to the positive advancement
of black people
and a better society we all want to see.
[[cheers and applause]
- "Teen Summit," kicking the truth
to the black youth.
Welcome back.
We want to thank Michaela one more time
for showing us why crack is in fact wack.
And a little later on, we'll be discussing
Brandy and Monica
and why neither one of them
should be fighting over that boy.
But first, here are two sisters that live in harmony.
Performing "Forgive Me" and "Do It,"
it's Chloe X Halle.
- ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
[energetic string music]
♪ Moving too fast now ♪
♪ You caught in the middle ♪
♪ Try so hard to keep up, now you single ♪
♪ Bettin' you regret what you did just a little ♪
♪ Ah, ah ♪
♪ Baby, what you think this is? ♪
♪ Why you wanna plead the Fifth? ♪
♪ You ain't gotta tell me what it is ♪
♪ 'Cause I saw the messages ♪
♪ You must got me messed up ♪
♪ I think I had enough ♪
♪ So forgive me ♪
♪ Forgive me ♪
♪ I been going too hard in your city ♪
♪ So forgive me 'cause I'm not teary ♪
♪ Best believe I'll move on to better things ♪
♪ Oh, you lie ♪
♪ Give me back all my time ♪
♪ So forgive me ♪
♪ No, not really ♪
♪ Best believe I'll move on to better things ♪
♪ Goodbye, you stay wasting time ♪
♪ No, you never try ♪
♪ You said this for life ♪
♪ But you know you lied ♪
♪ Catch you every time like ♪
♪ Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie ♪
- BET!
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Yeah, I beat my face ♪
♪ Movin' fast 'cause the Uber on the way ♪
♪ Takin' pictures, make sure you can't see no lace ♪
♪ That wig secure like the money in a safe ♪
♪ I look like bae ♪
♪ Now I'm on the way ♪
♪ Let you know when I'm about a mile away ♪
♪ When I'm outside, please don't make me wait ♪
♪ The party starting when we pull up to the gate ♪
both: ♪ Girl, we so late ♪
- ♪ I'm just with the crew ♪
♪ We ain't out here looking for boos ♪
♪ 'Cause some nights be better with you ♪
♪ It's a homies-only kind of mood ♪
♪ And tonight, we on a hundred, oh ♪
♪ One hundred, oh ♪
♪ No drama, no baby mamas ♪
♪ Keeping it cute ♪
- ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ That's just what I do, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ And that's just how we do it, do it, do it ♪
♪ Yeah, that's just how we do it, do it, do it ♪
♪ You liking what I do? ♪
♪ Know how to keep it cool, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Know how to keep it cool ♪
- ♪ And that's just how we do it ♪
- ♪ Yeah, that's just how we do it ♪
♪ That's just something ♪
[percussive music]
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh, do it, do it ♪
♪ How we do it ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh, that's just how we do it ♪
- Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Donnie Simpson.
- This year, BET celebrates 40 years
of bringing all that is beautiful
about black artistic expression into your home.
As someone who's been a part of BET
from its humble beginnings,
it's one of the greatest joys of my life
to watch the constant evolution
of such a powerful and seemingly simple concept:
a network that's for us,
telling our stories,
celebrating our magic
and our culture
through the world's biggest lens.
As host to BET's "Video Soul,"
I was able to showcase artists and music
that other networks were afraid to explore.
I watched as we expanded to include shows
like "Rap City,"
"Teen Summit," "Comic View,"
and "Caribbean Rhythms."
And we didn't stop there.
Under Debra Lee's direction,
BET continued to thrive,
diving into additional avenues
and illustrating our massive cultural influences
with specials like the BET Awards
and the Hip Hop Awards.
We dominated musical docuseries
with a record-breaking "New Edition Story"
and the "Bobby Brown Story,"
all while shaking up the world of scripted television
with cultural juggernauts
"The Real Husbands of Hollywood,"
"Being Mary Jane,"
and now with Tyler Perry's "The Oval."
Now, none of this would be possible
without one man who had an extraordinary vision,
a man who was driven with a purpose
to give the world something necessary.
Quite simply, he's a titan and a maverick.
Mr. Bob Johnson.
Without his hard work and singular belief,
BET wouldn't be here.
So today, BET and Coca-Cola
are bringing people together to celebrate
40 years of culture makers and history shakers,
just like the man who started it all.
[spacey music]
♪ ♪
- "Video Soul."
- When there was a lot of doors shut for black music,
BET was a door that was open.
Songs that were too black for white radio,
artists that were too black for mainstream,
you know, BET has been there,
that open door for us.
- Seeing something like Black Entertainment Television
showed me that I could be myself,
which is a black woman.
- Look, BET is like family.
It's not always perfect, but it's always there,
and we grateful. I love BET.
- We've always been there because, as I said before,
we know black people better than anybody on the planet,
and when you know somebody, you serve them,
you understand what's important to them,
and you know when to show up,
and you know what to do when you get there.
If you think way back,
we took all of our regular programming
off the air to support the Million Man March.
We were there for the Haiti relief fund
or the Katrina relief fund,
and for the most recent,
the COVID relief fund.
We show up in times of need.
- I know it hasn't been an easy road,
but I will say, it's been incredibly impactful
and significant for the community.
- Bob Johnson was unapologetically putting
black voices in front of the camera,
behind the camera,
building not just Black Entertainment Television
so you could see blacks on television...
- I'm Donnie Simpson. God bless you.
- But blacks were making the television as well.
- His success is not that he's a billionaire.
His success is that there's BET.
Here is a pillar in society
that holds up this roof
where artists and creators have a pathway into society.
- Close to the time where he was coming
towards the end of his term at BET,
he wanted us to understand what BET was to him,
and he said,
"Well, for me, I gotta tell you,
BET meant freedom,"
and I've always loved
linking BET and freedom together
because no channel has ever, ever...
- Next on BET.
- Been free to present us
in ways in which we could be extremely proud of ourselves.
- Bob Johnson's legacy is infinite.
It's one that will live on
for many, many, many decades to come,
and I hope that it'll inspire other people
to build their own empires
and to not look for someone to say yes,
but to say yes to themselves.
- What Bob Johnson did for us was--
gave us a place where we could be ourselves...
BET! Do you want some cake?
Where we could feel like we belonged.
I mean, don't forget, the B stands for "black" in BET,
and I'm so proud of that.
I think it's important to continue it.
We can't just stop with that.
We have to continue to champion black voices
now and into the next generation.
So what we gonna do next,
that's up to the future,
and we are the future.
[hopeful music]
- And it started in Washington, D.C.,
which I'm just saying,
it feels like D.C. is, I don't know...
I don't know. I'm not saying it
'cause I'm from D.C., but it feels
like we're the best. It just looks like that,
and it is like that.
- I want to take this opportunity
to thank all of you
who have been loyal BET fans and supporters
for over 40 years.
As an entrepreneur, I've always believed
that if you have a dream or a vision,
you go in search of it.
I was fortunate to be in the cable television industry
in its infancy,
and I felt that black Americans needed a voice,
and I moved to found BET
out of that passion for being an entrepreneur
and bringing content and information
that reflected the black experience
in this country
over satellite cable television.
And also, I was able to find
some very talented young African-Americans
who believed in my dream,
worked as hard for that dream with me as I did,
and proved without question
that given African-Americans, black Americans,
a chance to succeed, we can do that.
BET is a voice,
and, uh, culture needs a voice
to speak for the diversity of a country
or the diversity of a culture,
and BET has been that voice for over 40 years now,
and I expect that BET will be that voice
for many, many years to come.
And the culture of this country for black people
has defined by their entertainment,
by their ability to speak truth to power,
and by their willingness to show the world,
uh, what we have created.
That culture of BET is like a beating heart
that I believe will be beating for a very long time.
- There's more star-studded black excellence to come
with performances by Summer Walker,
Usher, Jonathan McReynolds,
and Kane Brown,
plus the award for Album of the Year.
And still to come,
our forever first lady,
Michelle Obama,
presents Beyoncé
with this year's Humanitarian Award.
♪ ♪
- Welcome back to the 2020 BET Awards.
- Let's turn up, BET Awards!
It's DJ Diesel Time.
- ♪ E-e-everybody hands go ♪
♪ Everybody hands ♪ - Let's go, General!
- ♪ Go up, go up, go ♪
- ♪ Nothing can stop me, I'm all the way up, oh! ♪
- We got the G in the building.
And the G stands for "The General."
Snoop Dogg, what's up, baby?
- ♪ Nothing can stop me, I'm all the way up ♪
- ♪ Toot that thang up, mommy, make it roll ♪
♪ Once you pop, pop, lock it for me, girl ♪
- Lil Wayne, I see you, brother.
And I'm just saying, I got something for you.
- ♪ Drop it for me, maybe we can roll, oh ♪
- ♪ Pop, lock, and drop it, pop, lock, and drop it ♪
♪ ♪
- What's poppin'? - DaBaby, what's up?
I see you.
- ♪ I got options ♪
♪ I can pass that [...] like Stockton ♪
♪ Just joshing ♪
♪ I'ma spend this holiday locked in ♪
♪ My body got rid of them toxins ♪
- Future, Swizz Beatz, what's happening?
- ♪ I can put the ball in the end zone ♪
♪ Put a bad [...] in the friend zone ♪
♪ This [...] sound like an intro ♪
♪ Jetson, give me that tempo ♪
♪ Told Pooh he a fool ♪
♪ Told her don't let her friends know ♪
♪ In the gym trying to work on my free throw ♪
- General's in the building, baby.
BET Awards. DJ Diesel. Stand up.
- ♪ Video Soul ♪ - Welcome back to "Video Soul,"
the Moscato of music shows.
Keeping the vibe going because we love an R&B vibe,
yes, we do.
This fly guy taught the world how to moonwalk sideways,
and this young lady is a fantastic new artist.
I just wish she wasn't doing all that cussin'.
Give it up for Summer Walker and Usher.
- ♪ Threw away your love letters ♪
♪ I thought it'd make me feel better ♪
♪ I finally got you out my bed ♪
♪ But I still can't get you out my head ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Sending you one text at a time ♪
♪ Know you're by your phone ♪
♪ Boy, pick up your line ♪
♪ I ain't too proud to beg ♪
♪ So what's been said has been said ♪
♪ Mm ♪
♪ I need you to know ♪
♪ You don't know what love is ♪
♪ And I need you to know ♪
♪ Mm ♪
♪ You don't know ♪
♪ 'Cause you don't know what love is ♪
♪ If you don't put up a fight ♪
♪ And you don't know what love is ♪
♪ If you don't stay up all night ♪
♪ Crying ♪
♪ You don't know what love is ♪
♪ If you're too good to call a million times ♪
♪ And you say you know what love is ♪
♪ But I swear you never seen it in your life ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
[Summer Walker and Usher, "Come Thru/You Make Me Wanna"]
[soulful ballad]
♪ ♪
♪ I should've known better ♪
♪ Can't even pretend ♪
♪ I don't want it again ♪
♪ On the brain all the time ♪
♪ Thinking 'bout the things that we did ♪
♪ You did something ♪
♪ 'Cause [...] like this don't happen too often ♪
♪ It's the way you put it down ♪
♪ I don't want no one else around ♪
♪ Got me taking a step on the wild side ♪
♪ Cutting all ties ♪
♪ With them other guys ♪
♪ Way you, way you look in my eyes ♪
♪ You're loving me nice and slow ♪
♪ You make me wanna leave the one I'm with ♪
♪ To start a new relationship with you ♪
♪ This is what you do ♪
♪ Think about a ring ♪
♪ And all the things that come along with ♪
♪ You make me ♪
♪ Leave the one I'm with ♪
♪ To start a new relationship with you ♪
♪ This is what you do ♪
♪ Think about a ring ♪
♪ And all the things that come along with ♪
♪ You make me ♪
- ♪ Before anything begin between us ♪
♪ Be sure you're ten toes down before I pull out this car ♪
♪ And the only thing that's coming beside me ♪
♪ Out this situation is you waiting to get some more ♪
♪ I told you, I'ma take you places ♪
♪ I seen it in your face ♪
♪ And I know that you would say this ♪
♪ How you wanna play this? ♪
♪ You got somebody ♪
♪ I been in this predicament ♪
♪ Don't trip, be discreet ♪
♪ That's just what we dealing with ♪
- ♪ You make me wanna come through ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪
- ♪ Quarter after 2:00 ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Just to put it down on you ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪ - ♪ You make me wanna replay ♪
- ♪ Replay ♪ - ♪ All of those things ♪
- ♪ All of them things ♪ - ♪ That you and me would do ♪
♪ You make me wanna come through ♪
both: ♪ Quarter after 2:00 ♪
- ♪ Just to put it down on you ♪
- ♪ They don't know you, baby ♪ - ♪ You make me wanna replay ♪
♪ All of those things ♪ - ♪ Oh, all of them things ♪
- ♪ That you and me would do ♪ - Yeah.
- ♪ This is what I really wanna do ♪
- What's that?
- ♪ I'll cut off my [...] for you ♪
- ♪ For sure ♪
- ♪ This ain't what I really wanna do ♪
- ♪ Do it, babe ♪
- ♪ This ain't what I'm really used to ♪
- ♪ To ♪
♪ ♪
- From the upcoming action film "Tenet,"
please welcome the star, John David Washington.
- They are the albums we couldn't get enough of,
made by artists who dominated the game
all year long.
Now more than ever,
our community needs to see strong black men and women
become the protagonists of their own stories.
Their words and rhythm combine to create music
that continues to push the culture forward,
so I am proud to present
this year's Album of the Year.
- Album of the Year.
Lizzo, "Cuz I Love You."
Megan Thee Stallion, "Fever."
Beyoncé, "Homecoming: The Live Album."
H.E.R., "I Used to Know Her."
DaBaby, "Kirk."
Roddy Ricch, "Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial."
- And the winner is...
"Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial,"
Roddy Ricch.
- I appreciate y'all for Album of the Year
for "Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial."
I would like to thank Bird Vision,
like to thank God,
everybody involved with the project.
Kiefer, Dallas Burge,
Don Bocay, Julie Kize,
I appreciate everybody for being a part of my album.
We'll see y'all next year. Thank you.
- Two of America's oldest inventions
are gospel and country music,
both of which were created and molded by...
black people.
Tonight, we are excited to present two young men
who are continuing to innovate in their respective genres.
Sharing the stage for the first time,
please welcome Jonathan McReynolds
and Kane Brown.
[Jonathan McReynolds, "People"]
- ♪ Mm ♪
♪ ♪
♪ They are the best and the worst you've created ♪
♪ Loving and hating and opinionated ♪
♪ Loners in basements and those congregated ♪
♪ Deliver me ♪
♪ Far from the peaceful shore I was sinking ♪
♪ Deep in the ocean of thoughts they were thinking ♪
♪ I don't know what validation I was seeking ♪
♪ Deliver me from ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ When you said you could heal me ♪
♪ From anything ♪
♪ Did you mean people? ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Deliver me ♪
♪ 'Cause I can't point 'em out ♪
♪ I won't say their names ♪
♪ I don't know the damage ♪
♪ Or which one to blame ♪
♪ It's just people ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Deliver me ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ 'Cause the hurt are hurting ♪
- ♪ Ah ♪
- ♪ And the broken are breaking ♪
♪ And the ones who had their joy taken away ♪
♪ Are out here taking ♪
♪ From other people ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Heal me from people ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Help me to forgive people ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Crazy people ♪
♪ Self-righteous people ♪
♪ Hating people ♪
♪ And forgive me ♪
♪ When I'm one of those people ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Deliver me ♪
♪ ♪
[Kane Brown's "Worldwide Beautiful]
- [vocalizing]
♪ ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ White churches, black churches ♪
♪ Different people, same hearses ♪
♪ It's kinda hard to fight with each other ♪
♪ Laying down in the ground six under ♪
♪ At every show I see my people ♪
♪ They ain't the same, but they're all equal ♪
♪ One love, one God, one family ♪
- Whoo!
- ♪ You're missing every color ♪
♪ If you're only seeing black and white ♪
♪ Tell me how you're gonna change your mind ♪
♪ If your heart's unmovable ♪
♪ We ain't that different from each other ♪
♪ From one to another ♪
♪ I look around and see ♪
♪ Worldwide beautiful ♪
Come on. - Whoo!
- ♪ One love, one God, one family ♪
- ♪ Worldwide beautiful ♪
- ♪ One love, one God, one family ♪
- ♪ Worldwide beautiful ♪
- ♪ One love, one God, one family ♪
- ♪ Worldwide beautiful ♪
- ♪ One love, one God, one family ♪
Sing it with me.
♪ You're missing every color ♪
♪ If you're only seeing black and white ♪
♪ Tell me how you're gonna change your mind ♪
♪ If you're heart's unmovable ♪
♪ ♪
♪ We ain't that different from each other ♪
♪ From one to another ♪
♪ I look around and see ♪
♪ Worldwide beautiful ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Look around and see ♪
♪ Worldwide beautiful ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Look around and see ♪
- ♪ Worldwide ♪ - ♪ Beautiful ♪
- ♪ Worldwide beautiful ♪
♪ Worldwide beautiful ♪
- ♪ Look around and see ♪
♪ Worldwide beautiful ♪
♪ ♪
- Keep it locked.
We still have more show to come.
Up next, our forever First Lady,
and Queen Bey.
Plus, Karen Clark Sheard joins daughter Kierra
for an incredible performance,
all next on the 2020 BET Awards.
- I'm proud to partner with my friends at McDonald's
to support the Boys and Girls Clubs of America
to continue their mission of helping children reach
their fullest potential.
McDonald's is donating $25,000
as part of their Black and Positively Golden movement
which celebrates all things positive in our community.
- Welcome back to the 2020 BET Awards.
- Next up, a best-selling author and dedicated mother
who even brings elegance to the Dougie.
Presenting the BET Humanitarian Award,
please welcome former First Lady Michelle Obama.
- I am here today to talk about the queen.
You know the one.
Ever since she was a little girl in Houston,
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has been lighting up the stages
and gracing the world with her talent,
with her generosity of spirit,
and with her love for her community.
You can see it in everything she does,
from her music that gives voice to black joy and black pain,
to her activism that demands justice for black lives.
And no matter how big the stages get,
I know my girl isn't satisfied
unless she's sharing all that shine she has
with the next generation.
That's why she's always pulling up young performers,
like Chloe and Halle,
and that orchestra that dazzled us in her "Homecoming" special.
That's why she's calling out sexism and racism
when she sees it, paving a path for new artists
who are trying to navigate the music industry.
That's why she went out of her way
to rewrite "Get Me Bodied"
for the White House's Let's Move! campaign
and got a whole lot of kids shaking it on the dance floor.
She's always turning up, looking out,
and making us all a little bit better,
a little more fierce, and she's doing it all
while staying devoted to her children
and the loved ones she holds dear.
So to my girl, I just want say
you inspire me.
You inspire all of us,
which is why I'm so proud to name Beyoncé
the 2020 BET Awards
Humanitarian of the Year honoree.
Congratulations, girl. Love you so much.
[hip-hop music]
- She's always had a humanitarian attitude.
She just knows that she has a responsibility
'cause she's been blessed to give back.
- Listen, it's easy to be a superstar
and take all your money and go live your life
and not think about anybody else.
But it's one with heart, it's a superstar with heart,
with soul, with kindness that really changes the world.
- Beyoncé's humanitarian journey
is anchored in her hometown of Houston.
With community partners, she's developed youth centers,
low-income housing, and continues to provide relief
during times of crises.
- When Hurricane Harvey just devastated Houston,
just-just tore it up, to get a call from Beyoncé
just saying, "What can I do," is a lot.
- Her strong message to me was simply this:
Ivy, help as many people as we can.
- This today is a celebration of survival.
- Yeah. - Houston is my home.
And I just want to say I love you.
- During the recent COVID-19 pandemic,
Beyoncé's efforts have focused on free testing,
providing for families in need, and mental health,
specifically for black and brown communities
disproportionately affected by the virus.
Additionally, she helped establish
a dedicated wing at Houston's Memorial Hospital
for patient care.
- Beyoncé and Jack Dorsey came up with $6 million
that they have donated to various organizations
fighting COVID.
- The donation that Beyoncé made is significant
to help us actually move the needle
on mental health, so its on-ground work
in the city of New York, the city of New Orleans,
the city of Houston and the city of Detroit.
- The BeyGOOD Initiative aims to provide tools
for students to excel in school,
their careers and community,
awarding much-needed scholarships
and giving special attention to those attending HBCUs.
- The Homecoming Scholarship was all about who you are
and what you bring to the community.
And to see how Beyoncé loves HBCUs,
it kind of put us on a pedestal.
It put us in the limelight.
- Beyoncé's education initiatives
reach across the globe.
With the help of Tyler Perry,
BeyGOOD works with Global Citizen
to provide a fellowship in Africa.
- We're trying to help these fellows become employable
by equipping them with the tools
and skills that they need to really thrive,
not just during their time at Global Citizen,
but in a future working environment.
- It is amazing, this fellowship program,
and I'm so proud to be a part of it.
- BeyGOOD's work across continents is groundbreaking,
from the East African country of Burundi
to Flint, Michigan, they're working to bring
clean, safe water to vulnerable communities.
♪ ♪
- If you look at her work "Lemonade,"
it's about having a unified voice.
- It was about us sending a clear message
that we're bonded together, and I appreciate her
for using her platform to say what she need to say,
because there's so many people that are following her
and listening to what she has to say.
- The BeyGOOD initiative believes anyone
could be a humanitarian if you use what you have
and start where you are.
- Beyoncé's fans are inspired by her,
but she incites action in them.
- She's carrying on that message to give back,
to look to each other, and to help one another.
- So it's about giving and paying it forward,
and that's what BeyGOOD does,
that's what Beyoncé is about,
and that is why she is deserving so much
of this Humanitarian Award.
- ♪ I can't forget my history is her story, yeah ♪
♪ Being black, maybe... ♪
Thank you so much for this beautiful honor.
I wanna dedicate this award
to all of my brothers out there,
all of my sisters out there inspiring me,
marching and fighting for change.
Your voices are being heard,
and you're proving to our ancestors
that their struggles were not in vain.
Now we have one more thing we need to do
to walk in our true power, and that is to vote.
I'm encouraging you to continue to take action,
continue to change and dismantle a racist
and unequal system.
We have to continue to do this together,
continue to fight for each other
and lift each other up,
because there are people banking
on us staying at home during local elections
and primaries happening in states across the country.
We have to vote like our life depends on it,
because it does.
So please continue to be the change you want to see.
Thank you everyone who took the time to speak
in that beautiful presentation,
and thank you, BET, for this honor.
It means so much to me, especially coming from y'all.
I love you deep. God bless you and good night.
- Welcome back to the 2020 BET Awards.
chorus: ♪ Jesus ♪
♪ Take me the higher ground ♪
- Welcome back to Bobby Jones Gospel.
That was Marcus Rondell Livermore
with "Jesus is the Only Light In the Belly of the Whale."
Later in the show, we have True Blessings
singing "You Can Say Whatever You Want About Me Janine,
But You Can't Stop Me From Worshipping My Lord Above."
Man. That is a long title.
But now, these two anointed voices
know how to keep it in the spirit
so we're going to keep it holy
and we're going to keep it hype.
Please welcome Kierra Sheard
and her mother Karen Clark Sheard.
[piano music playing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I feel it in this room ♪
♪ Holy spirit move ♪
♪ 'Cause when you have your way ♪
♪ Something has to break ♪
♪ Tear down every lie ♪
♪ Set the wrong thing right ♪
♪ 'Cause when you have your way ♪
♪ Something has to break ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ Right now in your name ♪
♪ Something has to break ♪
♪ Right now in your name ♪
♪ Something has to break ♪
[vocalizing]
- ♪ I believe you'll lead me through it ♪
♪ I believe you'll get me to it ♪
♪ I believe that you will do it right now ♪
♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ I believe you'll lead me through it ♪
- ♪ I believe ♪ - ♪ I believe ♪
♪ You'll get me to it ♪ - ♪ Oh, I'll be standing ♪
♪ On your word ♪ - ♪ I believe ♪
- ♪ That you will do it right now ♪
all: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ I believe it ♪ chorus: ♪ I believe ♪
♪ You'll lead me through it ♪
- ♪ Oh, we're standing on ♪ - ♪ I believe ♪
♪ You'll get me to it ♪ - ♪ Oh ♪
♪ We're depending on ya ♪ chorus: ♪ I believe ♪
♪ That you will do it right now ♪
- [vocalizing]
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ Oh, yes, you can ♪ chorus: ♪ I believe ♪
♪ You'll lead me through it ♪ - ♪ I declare right now ♪
♪ In the name of Jesus ♪ chorus: ♪ I believe ♪
♪ You'll get me to it ♪ - ♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Believe ♪ chorus: ♪ I believe ♪
[singing indistinctly] chorus: ♪ That you will do it ♪
♪ Right now ♪
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ Surely he is born of grief ♪
♪ And carried on sorrow ♪
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ God didn't bring you this far to leave you ♪
♪ He's fighting for you ♪
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ He is fighting for you ♪
♪ He's fighting for you ♪
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ Ah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ Whoever's bound against you ♪
♪ Shall be able to prosper ♪
♪ God is pushing back darkness on you ♪
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- [vocalizing]
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ Something has to break right now ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪ - ♪ Speak it wherever you are ♪
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ I'll break it over his knees ♪
♪ I'll break it, whatever it is ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- [vocalizing]
- ♪ It's gonna break right now ♪
- ♪ It's gonna break it ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Oh, I speak it now ♪ - ♪ We speak it now ♪
chorus: ♪ It's breaking, it's breaking ♪
♪ It's breaking, it's breaking... ♪
- ♪ Break ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Breaking ♪ - ♪ Breaking ♪
- ♪ Break ♪ chorus: ♪ It's breaking... ♪
♪ It's breaking, it's breaking ♪
- [vocalizing]
chorus: ♪ Something has to break ♪
- ♪ I believe there's heaven in your life ♪
♪ God wouldn't bring you this far to leave you ♪
♪ He's done it for me ♪
♪ Just when I was at the end of the road ♪
♪ God worked it out for me ♪
♪ He made a way out of no way ♪
♪ Surely he can do it for you ♪
both: ♪ God will work it out ♪
- ♪ You got to believe it ♪ - ♪ Believe it ♪
- ♪ Use your power that's in your tongue ♪
♪ Use your authority, your dominion ♪
♪ Surely you have it, you wear the victor's crown ♪
♪ You got the victory ♪ - ♪ You got it ♪
- ♪ Speak and say it's breaking ♪
- ♪ You got it ♪ - ♪ Speak ♪
♪ And say it's breaking ♪
- ♪ You got it ♪ - ♪ Speak ♪
- ♪ And say it's breaking ♪ - [vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- Congratulations to all of tonight's winners.
And to BET for celebrating 40 years.
And we look forward to another 40.
I had a blast time hosting,
I didn't have to see anybody I don't like,
I got to go to the bathroom whenever I wanted,
and look, I'm not even wearing shoes.
I feel revitalized.
And I hope you do too,
and that tonight's show gave everyone the energy
to get back out there because there's work
that needs to get done.
Donate, protest, vote, speak.
We are each other's business.
When we look out for each other, we lift each other up.
Breonna Taylor's killers are still walking free.
Goodnight, y'all.
Oh, and by the way.
I did do it in my house!
Ah, ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah.
["Fight the Power"]
- ♪ Come on and get down ♪
♪ Come on and get down ♪
- ♪ The year is 2020, the number ♪
♪ Another summer get down ♪
♪ Sound of the funky drummer ♪
♪ Youse the king of heart 'cause I know you got soul ♪
- ♪ Brothers and sisters ♪
- ♪ The information age ♪
♪ Got 'em seeing what's really wrong ♪
♪ With these racist days ♪
♪ I honor the strong and pity the weak ♪
♪ Your thoughts run your life, be careful what you think ♪
♪ Haiti beat France in century 17 ♪
♪ Salute Toussaint and Dessalines ♪
♪ And I do love France, know what I mean? ♪
♪ It's a system I'm talking, nobody's agreeing ♪
♪ They say it's suicide when dead bodies are swinging ♪
♪ Cowards are hunting black men ♪
♪ That's what I'm seeing ♪
♪ How many toasters have been burnt down? ♪
♪ And once, Central Park was a thriving black town ♪
♪ Yo, Chuck, I'm fighting the power right now ♪
♪ Thanks to you, Flava, PE putting it down ♪
♪ Putting your life on the line so I can rap now ♪
♪ The next generation's still singing fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ Fight the power ♪
both: ♪ Fight the power ♪
- ♪ We've got to fight the powers that be ♪
- ♪ Police think they weighing 6-9 over the law ♪
♪ Wanna give us short sticks, but we really Nia Long ♪
♪ To the boys in the hood ducking bullets and batons ♪
♪ From "Boyz n the Hood," triple Ks on their arms ♪
♪ Four fingers on my palm screaming fight ♪
♪ Change the policy, defund, buy back our property ♪
♪ You love "Black Panther" but not Fred Hampton ♪
- Ooh, look, Daddy.