- From the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California,
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it's the 2023 BET Awards celebrating
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50 years of hip hop!
Featuring performances by Latto, Ice Spice, Davido,
Coco Jones, Glorilla, Patti LaBelle, Coi Leray, Spice,
Tip "TI" Harris, Big Daddy Kane, Remy Ma, Fat Joe, Trina,
Doechii, The Sugarhill Gang, Ja Rule, Yo-Yo, Uncle Luke,
D-Nice, Doug E. Fresh, Kid 'N Play, Dem Franchize Boys,
Soulja Boy, MOP, Erick Sermon, Master P, Ying Yang Twins,
Bia, DJ Unk, Warren G, E-40, Fabolous, Styles P, Jeezy,
Patra, Keith Murray, Rah Digga, Dexta Daps, Redman,
Trick Daddy, FLY, Easton, Tyga, Mad Skillz, Chief Keef,
King Combs, Trillville, Mad Lion, Scar Lip, 69 Boyz,
Skillibeng, Cutty Ranks, Lil Vicious, Spliff Star, GS Boyz,
Lola Brooke, Kaliii, your DJ for the night,
Kid Capri, and me, MC Lyte.
With appearances by Muni Long, SiR, G Herbo,
the cast of Average Joe, the cast of Sistas,
Big Tigger, and the cast of Love and Hip Hop Miami.
Plus Swizz Beatz and Marlon Wayans give Busta
Rhymes this year's Lifetime Achievement Award,
presented by Sprite.
And now please welcome Lil Uzi Vert.
[cheers, applause]
[lil uzi vert, "spin again"]
(RAPPING) Spin again.
Just spin again.
Pull up in a fishbowl, ohh clear lens.
Spin again.
Spinning [muted] just like I am a ceiling fan.
I got too much what.
[clicking] I get your [muted].
I get your [muted].
[muted] dog mutt.
[muted] I'm a pit.
I leave a [muted] stuck.
[muted] once duck.
Pull up an opp duck.
[muted] for lunch.
That [muted] woke up dub.
She need make up.
I got a [muted] cup.
Got ice to the brim.
It's crushed.
[muted] on me [muted].
I got a nice wife.
I'm [muted] out of this [muted]..
Her wig came off twice.
She had a little fro.
She look like Ice Spice.
[LIL UZI VERT, "JUST WANNA ROCK"]
[cheering]
(RAPPING) Damn.
Damn.
MC, make another hit.
This ain't what you want.
Project, project.
This ain't what you want.
Ha!
1,600 block, I just want to rock.
I just want to ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
I just want to rock.
Body-ody yeah.
Shawty got that body-ody, ah, ah, ah.
Hit it once, no ties.
You gonna kill my vibe.
Stand on my money.
Don't know my size.
Pick them sides.
And you better choose wisely.
That's my high.
One, two, three, four, throw up the five.
That's my high.
Let's go.
Damn.
One, two, three, four, throw up the fives.
Damn.
MC, make another hit.
Whoa!
This ain't what you want.
Project, project.
This ain't what you want.
Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh,
buh, buh, buh, buh, buh buh, buh, buh, buh,
buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, damn.
Shake it down.
Shake it, shake it down.
Shake it down.
Shake it, shake it down.
Shake it down, down.
Shake it, shake it down.
Shake it down, down.
Shake it, shake it, shake it.
[explosion]
[cheering]
- By all means necessary, it's the world's greatest
party rocker, the K-I-D, the Kid Capri.
And I'm going to take you through
a musical journey all show.
As a matter of fact, let's take it all
the way back to the beginning.
[SUGAR HILL GANG, "RAPPER'S DELIGHT"]
(RAPPING) Let's go, y'all. B-E-T!
Sugarhill Gang, come on up. Front and center!
Put your hands up.
Everybody, stand up.
Stand up!
Put your hands up.
Hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie dippy, hip, hip hop,
you don't stop the rocking.
To the bang-bang boogie, up jump the boogie.
To the rhythm of the boogie the beat.
Come on!
Now what you hear is not a test.
We're rapping to the beat.
Come on!
And me, my man, Wonder Mike's going
to try to move your feet.
Come on!
My boy's name's Wonder Mike, and he'd like
to rock the house.
Hey!
To the Black, to the white, red and the brown,
purple and yellow.
But first, we got to bang, bang.
The boogie to the boogie, say up jump the boogie.
To the bang, bang boogie. Let's rock.
You don't stop.
Come on.
Rock the rhythm that'll make your body rock.
Because I'm Imp the dimp, the ladies pimp.
The women fight for my delight because we're the grandmaster
with the three MCs that shock the house
for the young ladies.
And when they come inside, to the front, do the freak,
spank, do the bump.
When the sucker MCs try to prove a point, a treacherous
trio with serious joint.
See I'm M-A-S-- what?
The T-E-R- what?
The G with a double E. What's your name?
You see I go by the unforgettable name of the man
they call the master G. Well.
My name is known all over the world by all the foxy
ladies and the pretty girls.
I'm going down in history as the baddest
rapper that could ever be.
- Make some noise for Sugarhill Gang!
[cheering]
All the ladies, let's go.
MC Lyte, where you at right now?
[mc lyte, "cha-cha-cha"]
- [shouting] Come on!
(RAPPING) You can cha cha cha to this Mardi Gras.
I'm the dopest female that you've heard thus far.
And I do get better.
The voice gets wetter.
Nobody gets hurt.
Come on!
Do my thing with the MC Lyte.
Swing the dopeness I write a guaranteed delight.
To the hip hop maniac, the uptown brainiac,
the full effect MC Lyte is back and better than before,
as if that was possible.
My competition, you'll find them in the hospital.
Visiting time I think is on a Sunday.
But notice, they only get one day to shine.
The rest of the week is mine.
And I blind you with the science that
the others have yet to find.
So come along, and I'll lead you the right way.
Just clap your hands to the words I say.
Come on!
- MC Lyte's rapping now.
Hip hop.
What's going on?
(RAPPING) Kick this one here for me and my DJ.
[d-nice, "call me d-nice"]
(RAPPING) My name is D-Nice.
- D-Nice, what's up?
[cheering]
(RAPPING) My name is D-Nice.
My name is D-Nice, and now I'm taking out the suckers.
Here we go. Let's go!
Come on!
My name is D-Nice, although I hate to admit it.
Taking out you suckers, and you don't know how I did it.
See every episode remains in this mode.
Very cool, very calm, there's no sweat in my palm.
I just pick up the mic, proceed with the song.
I get right to the point.
My competition's not long or short.
It's like a sport hanging in the middle.
But now if you're puzzled, let me kick the whole riddle.
My name is Derek.
And if I didn't mention, D-Nice is just a description.
It describes the kid on the mic.
I'm the TR-808, yo, but just call me D-Nice.
- Big Daddy Kane, come on down here!
[cheering]
I'm rocking the world right now.
(RAPPING) I'm coming!
I'm coming!
Here I am.
R-A-W, a terrorist, here to bring trouble to phony MCs.
I move on and seize.
I just conquer, stop another rapper with ease.
Cause I'm at my apex and others are below.
Nothing but a milliliter.
I'm a kilo.
Second to none, making MCs run.
So don't try to step to me because I ain't the one.
I relieve rappers just like Tylenol, and they know it.
So I don't see why you all try to front,
perpetrating a stunt when you know that I'll smoke
you up like a blunt.
I'm genuine like Gucci, raw like sushi.
To stage a rage is what rap did to me.
To make me want to create chaos and mayhem, cold
rock a party until the AM.
I'll make a muscle, grab the mic and hustle.
While you stand dazed and amazed, I bust a little rhyme
with authority-- and what?
Superiority.
And captivate the whole crowd's majority.
The rhymes I use definitely amuse.
Better than Dynasty or Hill Street Blues.
I'm sure to score, adored for more without
a flaw because I get raw.
- Let's go!
Let's go!
Make some noise for my brother, Big Daddy Kane!
[cheering]
- But you know what?
I would not be in this business on this stage tonight
if it wasn't for one person.
So I'm going to need y'all to show him some
love and sing along with this.
Capri!
(SINGING) You, you got what I need.
- Everybody--
(SINGING) but you say he's just a friend.
- Point at Biz Markie!
Everybody, point at Biz right now.
(SINGING) Oh, baby.
- Put your fingers up.
(SINGING) You got what I need.
- Point at Biz.
(SINGING) But you say he's just a friend.
But you say he's just a friend.
Oh, baby, you, you got what I need.
- Sing it loud.
(SINGING) But you say he's just a friend.
You say he's just a friend.
- Rest in peace, Biz Markie.
[cheering]
- Hey, guys, what's up?
It's Watch Jazzy here at the backstage
cam presented by WhatsApp, and you won't believe what's next.
We are celebrating 50 years of hip hop
here at the 2023 BET Awards.
Next up, we have performances by Latto, Davido, and [bleep]..
(RAPPING) But, yo, I'm making money.
So yo, world, I hope you're ready for me.
Now gather round.
[music playing]
- And now, here are the nominees for Best New
Artist presented by Smirnoff.
[ambré, "call me baby"]
- Love it when you call me baby.
- Ambré.
- (SINGING) I'm baby.
[coco jones, "icu"]
- (SINGING) And you've got a feeling and a soul--
- Coco Jones.
- (SINGING) -I need in my life, baby.
[doechii, "persuasive"]
- (SINGING) And we so flirtatious--
- Doechii.
- (SINGING) --and we so persuasive-asive.
She's so persuasive. [flo, "cardboard box"]
- (SINGING) I'ma put your [muted] in a cardboard box.
- Flo.
- Changing my number, and I'm changing the lock.
[glorilla, "tomorrow"]
- (SINGING) Type the [muted] make her mad--
- GloRilla. - --she go and tweet something.
- Ooh.
- Me, I'm kind of ratchet, so I'm the type to beat some.
[ice spice, "in ha mood"] - (SINGING) No friends.
I don't [muted] with fakes. - Ice Spice.
- --but wanting my place.
Step in the party, I'm looking the baddest,
so the paparazzi in my face.
[LOLA BROOKE, "DON'T PLAY WITH IT"]
- Ugh. - Lola Brooke.
- (SINGING) Don't play with it. Don't play with it.
Come on, baby, don't play with it.
[cheering, applause]
- Yeah. - Right?
Right now? - Yeah.
We back. We back.
Hey, baby.
I go by the name of Ray J. Norwood.
- And I'm Princess Love, here to remind you to watch
the new season of Love & Hip Hop Miami
premiering on my birthday, August 14, on VH1.
- Yeah.
Love & Hip Hop Miami, the new season, August 14.
That's your birthday.
And before we get into the winners, the Best New Artist,
love wins.
I love you, baby.
I'm listening.
I'm trying to compromise.
I'm never going to let you go.
And to all y'all fly guys out there
that's been in my wife DM when we wasn't together, I see you.
[laughter]
And I just want to let you know, she mine.
[cheering]
She mine.
All right?
Now, OK.
All right.
Now, the Best New Artist-- the winner is, drum roll.
- Coco Jones!
[cheering, applause]
[music playing]
[cheering, applause]
[sobbing]
- Oh, man.
My mama and my family are right there, so--
I just-- I'm so happy.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you so much, BET.
I remember when I did 106 & Park with y'all.
I was 16, in them tight, little, gray skinny
jeans and my sneakers.
It's been a long journey.
Thank you guys for rocking with me the whole time.
Thank you so much to my culture,
who has stood beside me.
And we were raised together.
It's been a really long, long journey.
Thank you so much to my team.
Thank you guys for taking a chance on me.
I didn't have anything going for me at that time.
So thank you.
And I just want to thank God so much for keeping
me when I didn't understand.
And for all of my Black girls--
[cheering, applause]
--we do have to fight a little harder to get what we deserve.
But don't stop fighting, even when it doesn't make sense
and you're not sure how you're going to get
out of those circumstances.
Keep pushing.
Because we are deserving of great things, y'all.
And I'm going to continue to give y'all my everything.
Thank you guys so much.
[cheering, applause]
- Welcome valued customer.
- What's up, BET?
I go by the name of DJ Von.
Or I go by--
- World-famous DJ Von.
- I need a clean up on aisle 7.
I'd like to welcome you to the Latto show.
- Insert coins.
- I just want to let y'all know,
when it comes to Big Latto and DJ Von,
it's always on the floor.
Let's go.
[latto, "put it on da floor"]
Whoa!
- What's happening?
- Happening?
- Y'all know what time it is?
On your feet.
Let's go.
- Rip me out the plastic. I been acting brand new.
- What's up?
- [muted] acting like they running [muted]..
They really ran through.
I'll spend that 500 'fore I ever trap you.
They thought I was gon fall off--
I hate to bring you bad news.
- Let's go.
- Threw so many racks, a [muted]
can't even see the floor.
From Atlanta to LA, the only time I'm back and forth.
- What you tell them?
- Cheap [muted] make you pick, rich [muted] get you both.
Gave the Bentley to valet and let
that [muted] drive the boat.
- Come on, Latto.
- Let me pop off. - That's right.
- Leave the club sloppy drunk.
Come home and get my rocks off.
Heard [muted] from "da souf"-- he trying
see me knock his socks off. - OK.
- Told them [muted] meet me at the top.
Think they got lost. - And what you is?
What you is? - I'm on go like Grizz.
- Grizz.
- She thought I would kiss her [muted]..
She must ain't took her meds. - Come on.
- [muted] around my neck.
It cost an arm and leg. - On your feet.
Let's go.
- Swear that [muted] set for life.
I let him get me preg.
I done done it all, feel like Shawty Lo.
- That's right.
- Laughin' to the bank, but [muted] is not a joke.
Say she got a problem?
Imaginary smoke.
- Let's go.
- Said it's up, then put it on the floor.
I done done it all, feel Shawty Lo.
Laughing to the bank, but [muted] is not a joke.
- OK.
- Say she got a problem. - OK.
- Imaginary smoke.
- OK.
- Said it's up, then put it on the floor.
I don't know what y'all been told.
- Get it.
- Bet yo mans know if you don't.
What's happening?
- Big Latto.
[coughing]
- You good?
You good?
Come here.
Come talk to me.
I got what you need, Big Latto.
- [screwed vocals]
- And what we do and say?
- Smoking on that gas, blunt big as Coi Leray.
- Come on.
- [muted] like to run their mouths, but I'm the type
to run the fade.
Where your diamonds hit like this,
you don't ever see the shade. - OK.
- That's the key to my city.
They gave me a holiday.
Oh, good.
- What's up Big Latto? - Tch.
All kinda [muted].
Let me pull my diamond tester out.
[muted] counterfeit.
Better keep my name out her mouth.
They been trying it.
If it's beef, then let me know.
Baby, why you hiding it?
- And what you heard, Big Latto?
- And I heard about that kitty.
Pits like your [muted],, we all know that cat is giving fish.
When I send that eggplant, that [muted] know what time it is.
My ex crazy 'bout me. better be ready to die in it.
I done done it all, feel like Shawty Lo.
- Yeah!
- Laughing to the bank.
But [muted] is not a joke.
Say she got a problem. - OK.
- Imaginary smoke.
- Let's go.
- Said it's up, then put it on the floor.
I done done it all, feel like Shawty Lo.
Laughing to the bank, but [muted] is not a joke.
Say she got a problem.
Imaginary smoke.
[muted] said it's up, then put it on the floor.
I don't know what y'all been told.
- Make some noise for Latto.
- Bet your mans know if you don't.
What's happening?
Happening, happening.
[cheering, applause]
- RIP Shawty Lo.
And let us stand up.
- Thank you.
Remove all purchased items.
[latto, "put it on da floor"]
(SINGING) Leave the club sloppy drunk.
Come home and get my rocks off.
- BET and Smirnoff Lemonades are toasting tonight's winners
at the 2023 BET Awards.
Coming up, performances from Ice Spice,
Coco Jones, Davito, and plus an all-star tribute to
Busta Rhymes.
And our tribute to 50 years of hip hop
continues with a trip to the West Coast
with Yo-Yo, Warren G, E-40, and Tyga
when the 2023 BET Awards returns.
- (SINGING) Imaginary smoke.
[muted] said it's up, then put it on the floor.
I done done it all.
Feel like Shawty Lo.
[cheers, applause]
- At the very inception of hip hop culture,
women have always been at the forefront of the genre,
guiding, innovating, and mentoring.
From dancing to directing, let's give
it up for the multifaceted and empowering queens
opening the door for the next generation.
P&G and Queen Collective are working
to create access and opportunity for women
and nonbinary filmmakers of color to tell their stories.
Visit BET.com/QueenCollective to watch the films and learn
more about the filmmakers.
["hail mary" playing] Feel me.
Come with me.
- Rest in peace to the one to only Tupac.
West Coast, you in the building?
Make some noise.
[cheering]
I said.
(RAPPING) Come with me.
Hail Mary.
Run quick, see.
What do we have here now?
Ride or die.
Come on.
[vocalizing]
Hold on.
["regulate" playing]
West Side is in the building, representing heavy.
Warren G, what's up, baby?
(RAPPING) But you can't be any geek off the street.
Gotta be handy with the steel, if you know what I mean.
Earn your keep.
Regulators.
It's the West Side.
Kid Capri, Warren G, what's up?
Let's go.
(RAPPING) It was a clear black nights, a clear white moon.
Warren G was on the streets, trying to consume some skirts
for the eve so I could get some funk rolling in my ride,
chilling all alone.
Just hit the east side of the L-B-C,
on a mission trying to find Mr. Warren G. All right.
See a car full of girls.
Ain't no need to tweak.
You know what?
Skirts know what's up with 213.
So I hooks a left on 21 and Lewis.
Some brothers shooting dice, so I said, let's do this.
I jumped out the ride and said, what's up?
Some brothers pulled some gats, so I said, I'm stuck.
Since these girls peepin' me, I'ma glide and swerve.
These hookers looking so hard, they straight hit the curve.
On to bigger, better things than some horny tricks.
I see my homie, hey, and some suckas all in his mix.
I'm getting jacked.
I'm braking myself.
I can't believe they takin' Warren's wealth.
They took my rings.
They took my Rolex.
I looked at the brothers, said damn, what's next?
They got my homie hemmed up, hey.
And they all around.
Can't none of them see him if they going
straight pound for pound.
Them [muted] before they start to clown.
I best pull out my strap and lay them bustas down.
They got guns to my head.
I think I'm going down.
I can't believe it's happening in my own town.
Wings, I would fly.
Let me contemplate.
I glanced in the cut, and I see my homie, Nate.
[cheers, applause]
- Hey, guess who's coming up?
Yo-Yo! What's up?
["YOU CAN'T PLAY WITH MY YO YO" PLAYING]
My name is Yo-Yo.
I'm not a hoe, no.
I like to flow so swift, it's got to be a gift.
So yo, let the beat lift as I rip and rhyme
and represent while the hoes who can't adapt to the--
I hit the eight ball often.
The earrings I wear are called dolphins.
And check the booty.
Yo, it's kind of soft and, and if you touch it,
you're living in a [muted].
I'm from the '90s.
Back in the '80s, right?
I rock the mic.
Mike said I wasn't ladylike.
But I'm a lady.
I'll pull a stunt, though.
I K-O suckers.
Might hit a blunt.
So what you wanna do?
You must play hit and run.
'Cause to me, you simply can't get none.
You're wetter than a hot hoe in the snow.
West Coast, let 'em know.
Come on.
You can't play with my Yo-Yo.
Don't try to play me out.
Put your hands in the air for Yo-Yo.
Put 'em up. Put 'em up.
Yo. Yo.
Don't try to play me out.
Throw it out the window.
Hey.
And don't try to play me out.
Don't try to play me out.
Hey, West Coast is in the house.
Don't try to play me out.
Hey, where my Yo-Yo?
["rack city" playing] Rack, rack city.
BET, come on.
What's up?
West Coast, come on.
Tyga, what's going on, baby?
Let's get it going.
Come on.
Rack city, chick.
Rack, rack city, chick.
Ten, ten, ten, twenties on you-- it is.
100 deep, VIP, no guest list.
T-Raw, you don't know [muted].
Got my other chick hugging on my other chick.
Hugging all night, [muted] celibate.
They say I'm too dope.
I ain't selling it.
Raw, fresher than a [muted] peppermint.
Gold lettermans, last king killing it.
Last king, last king.
Yeah, we getting rich.
Uh, I got your main chick on my [muted]..
Uh, BET, you know what it is.
Rack city, chick.
Rack, rack city, chick.
Rack city, chick.
Rack, rack city, chick. Come on.
Rack city, chick.
Rack, rack city, chick.
Come on.
Ten, ten, ten, twenties, and them fifties, chick.
Yo, what's up?
Where you at?
["tell me when to go" playing] Ghostride the whip.
Come on. Ghostride the whip.
Come on.
Now scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape.
Put your stunna shades on.
Put your sunna shades on.
Now, gas, brake, dip.
Gas, break, dip.
Shake them dreads.
Let me see you show your grill.
Now, thizz face, thizz face, thizz face, thizz face.
Doors open, mayne.
Now watch 'em swang, watch 'em swang.
Now watch 'em swang.
Watch 'em swang.
Go, stupid.
Go, go.
Go, stupid. Go, go.
Everybody, come on. Tell me when to go.
[cheers, applause]
- Make some noise.
- Our next performer teamed up with Walmart to donate
$100,000 to Black Women's Health Imperative as part
of Walmart's Black and Unlimited platform
to provide access and supports to the community--
our community.
Now, please welcome to the stage
the winner of tonight's Best New Artist award, Coco Jones.
["icu" playing]
(SINGING) Something 'bout your hands on my body
feels better than any man I ever met.
Something 'bout the way you just get me.
I try and I don't 'cause I can't forget.
You've got a feeling and a soul that I need in my life.
Yeah, yeah.
And though we may grow, I don't know why we don't grow apart.
Baby, baby, baby, I need you, babe.
I breathe you.
You're turning my heart blue.
Baby, I need you.
When I leave you, I see you.
[vocalizing]
First we agreed that we better as friends.
And I'll delete every message that we send.
I try to move on with somebody less like you.
I don't know how we end up in the red.
I find myself reading your comments again.
And then we end up in each other's heads.
It all makes sense, because
You've got a feeling
And a soul that I need in my life, babe.
A soul that I need in my life.
Oh, oh, oh, ooh, whoa.
And though we may grow
I don't know why we don't grow apart, babe.
Baby.
Maybe I, I need you, babe.
I breathe you, you, you turnin' my heart blue.
Baby, maybe I, I need you, baby.
When I leave you, babe
I see you, baby.
When I leave you, I can't breathe.
I need you, babe.
Babe.
Baby, I just feel lost without you.
Maybe I'm just pissed off about you.
Maybe my life's just off without you.
Maybe you're worth it all to me, baby.
Maybe, maybe, maybe.
[cheers, applause]
- Here are the nominees for video director of the year.
ASAP Rocky for AWGE.
Benny Boom, Burna Boy, Cole Bennett,
DAVE Free and Kendrick Lamar, Director X,
Teyana "Spike Tey" Taylor.
[cheers, applause]
- Hey, yo, what's up, BET Awards?
[cheers, applause]
I'm proud to be here tonight to announce
the winner of the video director of the year.
These directors are some of the most
creative and talented individuals
in the whole industry.
And they've all made an incredible impact
on the planet this year.
But I ain't gonna lie.
Tonight's an extra special night
for me tonight because I'm nominated
for my first-ever BET award.
[cheers, applause]
Uh-huh.
Can't stop, won't stop, bad boy.
And it's an honor to be recognized and continue
my hip hop legacy, Bad Boy.
And I'm dropping the three-pack July 14 with three hits.
So I need everybody to tune in.
[cheers, applause]
But, listen, you can't have no hits without a fine music
video director.
So let's get into the winner.
The winner is Teyana "Spike Tey" Taylor.
[cheers, applause]
Yeah!
[TEYANA TAYLOR, "ROSE IN HARLEM"]
Grew out the concrete.
You know it ain't sweet.
Don't tell me any, any, any, anything
It be the one to say they right
For you it be the ones
The ones you love, them too.
It be the ones who sweat it real
Not true.
It be the ones--
- Oh, this is so amazing.
I'm Teyana's mom.
She, unfortunately, is not here tonight to receive the award.
But I will be accepting this award on her behalf.
Thank you, BET.
As a matter of fact, you know what?
I'm sorry.
This is a little off script.
But this is her night.
I'm going to let her have her night.
I'm calling her right now.
[cheers, applause]
- Sorry, BET. [laughter]
- We got to make a phone call real quick.
[cheers, applause]
Apologize.
Oh, no.
Woo!
- I'm nervous for her.
- Oh-oh.
[laughter]
- Hey, girl. Uh-uh.
Where you at?
I can't see you.
Hey, sis.
Hold on.
Guess what?
- Tell her something.
- Guess what?
Hold on. Hold on.
I got to show you-- I got to turn you--
I got to turn you around. Hold on.
Hold on.
- Where are we at?
[cheers, applause]
Ah!
Teyana!
- Oh my God.
Hi!
[laughter]
- Let's go.
- Wait, what's-- what is happening?
[laughter]
- You won!
- You won, mama!
- You won!
[cheers, applause]
- OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK.
Oh, man. OK.
[bleep] - Say something!
- All right. Sorry.
Excuse me.
My bad.
OK, let me see.
First of all, first of all, I wanna--
I know I've got to be quick, because I don't want you
all playing that music on me.
[laughter]
I don't really know [muffled speech]..
But I do want to thank the Lord Christ.
I've got to give Him all the glory.
[cheers, applause]
And--
- That's right.
- Now, make my way over to gratitude.
The quality of being thankful, that's
what this moment is about.
I'm so thankful [muffled speech]
to be [muffled speech].
Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you.
[cheers, applause]
[muffled speech]
Thank you.
Thank you, mom.
[muffled speech] You're crazy.
Thank you so much.
[muffled speech] Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you.
[music playing]
[cheers, applause]
[dr. dre, "the next episode"]
- Hey, what's up, everybody?
It's Lala.
And I'm I'm here at the American Express
BET Awards watch party, where 6LACK
just finished performing.
We're reminding you to vote for the Viewer's Choice Award,
presented by American Express.
Go to bet.com/ViewersChoice23, or use your favorite artist
hashtag and stay locked in to see
who wins at the BET awards.
Plus, stay tuned for performances from Devito, Ice
Spice, Dolce, and Lola Brooke.
And our celebration of 50 years of hip hop
continues with Trick Daddy, my girl Trina, Uncle Luke,
and an epic tribute to Busta Rhymes,
only at the 2023 BET Awards.
(RAPPING): When she got in the back door.
Looking at me strange, what you--
[g herbo, "ptsd"] I was hearing bangs like Chief Keef.
Always yelling names that deceased.
- Please welcome G. Herbo.
(SINGING) Shooting at the same time, we was in sync.
On the same thing, tryna repeat.
We was in them whips, right back on the enemies.
Stuffed on my last hit, I was in the middle seat.
[muted] out the sun roof, brodie got a quick release.
[applause]
- Mental health matters.
It's important for us to talk about it.
That's the focus of my own nonprofit organization,
Swervin Through Stress, to normalize
conversations around mental health in our community.
We're bringing wellness resources and events
to Chicago to help the community find relief,
from free yoga sessions to pampering mothers affected
by gun violence to mindfulness workshops
by introducing tools.
We're creating change, just like the man sharing
the stage with me tonight.
As a young clinical psychologist,
Dr. G cofounded Psych Me Out to encourage
Black communities to think differently
about mental health.
His work toward normalizing conversations
about mental health to help people understand
is just as important as their physical and spiritual health
is imperative to our culture, who
tend to minimize its urgency.
So tonight, BET and McDonald's are shining
a light on Dr. Garrick Beauliere, one
of 10 proud members of the McDonald's
Black and Positively Golden Change Leaders class of 2023.
[cheering, applause]
Congratulations, brother.
- Please welcome Davido.
[cheering, applause]
[davido, "feel"]
- Let me go.
Let me go.
- (SINGING) I be on the phone, calling you tonight.
I wan make you show me, make we no dey fight.
I no wan sleep alone.
Wanna hold you tight.
Water full my eyes.
And I'll be all right forever.
- Forever.
- [non-english singing]
- Everybody get on your feet, BET.
Say what?
Say dem go feel it.
- Feel it.
- Dem go run it down.
Dem go hold it.
Dem go.
Say what?
Say dem go feel it.
Dem go run it down.
Dem go hold it.
- Oh.
- Dem go.
[davido, "unavailable"]
- I'm unavailable.
- Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
- Dem no dey see.
- I'm unavailable.
- Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
- Dem no dey see.
- I'm unavailable. - Unavailable.
- Say! Dem no dem see.
- Dem no dey see. - I'm unavailable.
- Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
- I sorry for who wan, who wan, who wan [non-english singing]..
I'm only human, human.
So make nobody [non-english singing]..
Say I carry woman.
[non-english singing] I for carry?
[muted] all the rumors.
[non-english singing]
If you know, you-- oh.
Say what?
- The kind work.
If it's not, owo oh.
I can't talk 'cause [non-english singing]..
- Let me see y'all do the dance!
Let's go!
- [non-english singing] I don't have no time,
[non-english singing]
- Say!
- Come see me shining.
- Got too many girls on my I-G. I'm changing my life, oh.
- Say!
- And my mama proud in me.
She got me going.
This friend took all my freedom.
- Say! 'Cause I'm a big propeller.
- Save the remorse.
Girls go jealous, 'cause I dey banana.
Save the remorse.
Girls go jealous 'cause I dey banana.
- Say!
- Save the remorse.
Girls go jealous 'cause I dey banana.
- Hey! 'Cause I--
- --dey banana.
Girls go jealous 'cause I dey banana.
- I'm unavailable.
Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
- I'm unavailable.
- Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
- Dem no dey see.
- I'm unavailable.
- Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
- Dem no dey see.
- I'm unavailable.
- unavailable.
- Dem no dem see. - Dem no dey see.
- I'm unavailable.
- Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
- Dem no dey see. - I'm unavailable.
- Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
- Dem no dey see. - I'm unavailable.
- Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
- Dem no dey see.
- I'm unavailable.
- Unavailable.
- Dem no dem see.
[cheering, applause]
- Please welcome SiR.
[cheering, applause]
[sir - "john redcorn"] Why am I alone when
I know that you want me too?
Am I wrong?
Tell me that I'm wrong.
Tell me I deserve all the pain--
- BET has a history of giving new artists opportunities
to showcase their talent.
I performed on this stage, and it
was an honor to let my hair down in front
of so many of my peers.
It helped change my career for the better
and continues to serve as a platform
for talented young artists to speak their truth.
This next performer coming to the stage
reminds us that the ladies of hip hop
definitely have something to say.
Hailing from Brooklyn, New York,
please welcome our next amplified performer
of the night, presented by Nissan, Lola Brooke!
[cheering, applause]
[LOLA BROOKE, "DON'T PLAY WITH IT"]
- Yeah. Don't play with it.
Don't play with it.
Come on, baby.
Don't play with it.
Oh!
[laughs] I just want a roughneck [muted]
on the tongue.
He just want a semi-automatic with a drum.
Ask me if I'm finished-- nah.
[muted] I just begun, and I ain't giving out no [muted]
to no [muted] just for fun. Are you dumb?
Uh-uh.
Runner man.
I don't know no other man.
Yeah, you [muted] like a hundred
[muted] just for a hundred bands.
What?
I don't even got me a hundred bands.
I'm still gonna make me a hundred
M's with a hundred plans. [laughs]
Gimme Beso. Mwa!
Extendo.
Grrah.
I carry [muted] like I'm preggo.
Pop-pop, pop-pop. Peter roll a [muted].
Call Pedro.
Sucka [muted] should've knew it from the get-go.
Uh, yeah.
Don't play with it. Don't play with it.
Come on, babe.
Don't play with it.
Mwa, just lay in it.
Oh, spend all day in it.
Uh-uh, uh-uh.
My hitters don't play with it. Don't play with it.
Grr.
They stay with it.
Bah!
I'm OK with it.
Uh-huh.
When it comes to me, they don't play with it.
Mwa.
Uh-uh, uh-uh.
- BET.
Next up, Trina, Trick Daddy, and Uncle Luke
take the Hip Hop 50 stage.
Then later, performances for GloRilla, Trillville, Chief
Keef, Keith Murray, Redman, Doug E. Fresh and Lil
Vicious, Mad Lion, TIP TI Harris, and a tribute
to Tina Turner.
But first, find out who takes home the award for Best
Female Hip Hop Artist.
It's the 2023 BET awards.
- Here I come, y'all.
Here I come. [lola brooke, "just relax"]
- (SINGING) Here I come.
Heard they wan' be this 'cause I was always that.
Players say they right?
Let's keep it a stack.
I ain't with the tic.
I be movin' tac.
Sure think they it.
All that stuff is cap. Wanna be with--
- This or that? - She was never--
- This or that. - We gon' go with--
- This or that. - Because they was never--
- This or that. - Want a piece of--
- This or that? - 'Cause you ain't getting--
- This or that. - Oh!
Man.
Sis, just relax.
I can't love 'em if the stick ain't long.
Drip so tight, you know I put that [muted] on.
Up in the morn', drink till it's gone.
Been a bad, uh, since a chick been born.
Fresh out the jeweler, gotta keep it on ice.
I ain't your type, me and sis not alike.
She can't uh my man outta spite.
I'm crazy 'bout mines.
Better know how to fight. Grr.
- This or that. - Choosing--
- This or that. - I got--
- This or that. - Choosing--
- This or that? - I got--
- This or that? - Choosing--
- This or that. This.
- Once again, sis, just relax.
Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh.
[cheering, applause]
[unc & phew, "hotel lobby"]
- [vocalizing]
- Let's get it.
(RAPPING): Hop off a 16 passenger.
This a G5, no, this not a Challenger.
I keep some members with me, the freaks get coach seats.
They some cannibals.
Eaters.
They like to get geeked, drink a whole bottle,
wake up, and repeat.
She took a lil', shh, mixed it with the-- chill out.
Now she said she seein' 3D.
Wow.
I go in the jungle, and I ain't got a coat.
I bet I come out with a mink.
I bet I--
Do this for the fam 'cause this bigger than me.
Big.
Color stones in my infinity link,
and in the factory, masterpiece.
Factory.
I call him twin 'cause that be my brother.
We got the same Rollie. He matchin' me.
Nah, for real.
- BET!
[cheers, applause]
If you're ready to do it, let me get a yes, sir!
[cheers, applause]
- You know, y'all [muted].
You know, so we really never hear no.
- You ready, set.
Let's do it.
- We got a whole lot of new money though.
- One--
- [laughs]
- One, two, three, let's go!
[MUSIC - OFFSET & QUAVO, "BAD AND BOUJEE"] Raindrop.
Drip, drop, drop, drop, top
Smokin' on cookie in the
hotbox Cookie
She a thot, thot,
Cookin' up dope in the crockpot
We came from nothin' to
somethin' Hey!
I don't trust nobody, grip the trigger
Nobody Call up the gang
And they come and get ya Gang
Cry me a river, give you a tissue.
My [muted] is bad bougie Bad
Cookin' up dope with a
Uzi Blaow
My [muted] is savage,
ruthless Savage
We got 30s and hundred-rounds too
My [muted] is bad and
bougie Bad
Cookin' up dope with a
Uzi Dope
My [muted] is savage,
ruthless Hey
We got 30s and hundred-rounds
too Woo!
Offset, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, yeah!
Rackaids on rackaids
Got back-ends on back-ends
I'm ridin' around in a
coupe Coupe
I take your [muted] from you You
[muted], I'm a dog Roof
Grr
I beat the ho walls
loose Hey
Hop in the from,
whoo Hey
I tell that [muted] to comfort me
Comfort me
I swear these [muted] is under me
Hey They hate and the devil keep
Jumpin me Jumpin' me
Bankrolls on me keep me company Cash
Hey, we do the
most Most
Yeah, pull up in
ghost Woo
Yeah, my diamond's a choker Glah
Holdin' the fire with no
holster Blaow
Rick the ruler, diamond
cooler Cooler
This a Rollie, not a Muller Hey.
Dabbin' on 'em like the
usual Dab
Magic with the brick, do
voodoo Magic
Courtside with a bad [muted]
Then I send the [muted] through
Uber Go
I'm young and rich and plus I'm
boogie Hey
I'm not stupid so I keep the Uzi
Rah Rackaids on rackaids
Got back-ends on back-ends
So my money makin' my back ache Aagh
You [muted] got a low act
rate Act
We from the Nawf, yeah, dat way.
Nawf Fat cookie blunt in the
ashtray Cookie
Two [muted],, just national smash
day Smash
Hop in the lamb, have a drag
race Skrrt
I let them birds take a bath,
babe Brr
Raindrops, drip, drop, drop, drop-top
Smokin' no cookie in the
hotbox Cookie
[muted] on your [muted] she a thot, thot
Cookin' up dope in the
crockpot Pot
We came from nothin' to somethin' [muted]
Hey
I don't trust nobody, grip the trigger
Nobody Call up the gang
And they come and get ya Gang
Cry me a river, give you a tissue
My [muted] is bad [muted]
She bad
Cookin' up dope with a
Uzi Blaow
My [muted] is savage, ruthless Savage
We got 30s and hundred-rounds
too Grrah
My [muted] is bad and bougie She bad
Cookin' up dope with a Uzi
Hey, Honcho
My [muted] is savage, ruthless Hey,
Honcho Hey
We got 30s and hundred-rounds too
Pour a four, I'm droppin' muddy
outer space, Kid
Cudi Drank
Introduce me to your [muted]
As wifey and we know she [muted]
Broke a brick down, nutty buddy
Now that [muted] duckin' Phew
Don't move too fast, I might shoot ya
Huh? Draco bad an
boogie Draco
I'm away hangin with
shooters Brrah
Might be posted somewhere
secluded Private
Still be playin' with pots and pans
call me Quavo Ratatouille
Cook it up
I run with that sack, call me boobie
Run with it
When I'm on stage, show me
boobies Ayy
Ice on my neck, I'm the coolest.
How about the suicide with the Uzi
Pew, pew, pew I pull up.
I pull up
I hop out
With all of the drugs and the good
luck Skrrt
I'm cookin', I'm cookin', I'm whippin'
I'm whippin' until it rock up
Let it lock up I gave her 10 racks
I told her go shoppin'
And spend it all at the pop
up Ten
These [muted] they [muted] bustin' for Instagram
Get your clout up
Oh, yeah, that way Yeah
Float on the track like a segway
Which way we be goin'?
Yeah, that way.
I used to trap by the subway
Trappin', trappin
Yeah, that way Go
Young [muted] trap with the AK Rrah
Where we goin'? Yeah, that
way Yeah
Big [muted] get the door, Macy Gray
Hey Raindrop, drip, drop, drop-top
Drop-top, Drop-top
Smokin' on cookie in the
hotbox Cookie
[muted] on your [muted],, she a thot, thot, thot
Cookin' up dope in the crockpot Yo!
We came from nothin' or somethin' [muted]
Hey
I don't trust nobody, grip the trigger
Call up the gang
And they come and get ya
Cry me a river, give you a tissue
My [muted] is bad and
bougie Bad
Cookin up dope with a
Uzi Blaow
My [muted] is savage,
ruthless Savage
We got 30s and hundred-rounds too
My [muted] is bad and
bougie Bad
Cookin' up dope with a
Uzi Dope
My [muted] is savage, ruthless Hey
We got 30s and hundred-rounds
too Hey!
[cheers, applause]
- Here are the nominees for Best Female hip hop artist,
presented by Google Pixel.
[cardi b, "hot s--"]
(RAPPING): Pretty, when I wake up, I'm a bad--
- Cardi B. [cheers, applause]
(RAPPING): They stole my slide on the app.
It's electric. [coi leray, "players"]
(RAPPING): About to catch another fight.
- Coi Leray.
[cheers, applause]
(RAPPING): I'm about to make them run away.
I just want to have a good night.
[glorilla, "tomorrow 2"]
(RAPPING): I should have stayed down.
- Glorilla. [cheers, applause]
(RAPPING): All they doing is talking down.
Because they can't get up with me.
[ice spice, "in ha mood"] (RAPPING): In the mirror.
I'm doing my thing. - Ice spice.
[cheers, applause] (RAPPING): --on nobody's pants.
Be a rapper, but don't got a chance.
Stuck in my ways, so I'm loving my band.
[latto, "it's givin'"] - Lotto.
(RAPPING): It's getting bad, [muted]..
Never, ever play me like I'm average.
[megan thee stallion, "her"]
(RAPPING): I'm the most [muted]
- Megan Thee Stallion.
(RAPPING): --no matter what the do or sayin'
They no getting rid of me.
I come in every room and draw attention like a centerpiece.
Stepping for a long time, moving like a centipede.
[NICKI MINAJ, "SUPER FREAKY GIRL"]
- Nicki Minaj.
(RAPPING): OK, OK, OK, OK.
[cheers, applause]
- Hey, everybody.
We are the Castle Sisters. - Hey, y'all.
- And we want to say--
[cheers, applause]
- Hey, y'all!
Yes.
- We want to say--
ALL: That we stand in solidarity with the writers.
- We miss you, Nev.
- Yes.
- I'm KJ Smith.
- I'm Novi Brown.
- I'm Mignon.
- And I'm Crystal Renee Hayslett.
And we are the cast of your favorite show on BET, Sisters.
[cheers, applause]
- And we have the pleasure of announcing the winner of Best
Female Hip Hop Artist, presented
by Google Pixel from the New Google Pixel phone.
- Let's go.
And the winner is--
(TOGETHER) Latto!
[cheering]
[latto, "it's givin'] It's givin' bitch.
It's givin' bad.
Never ever play me like I'm average.
- Don't-- forget the shoe, girl!
Don't worry about the shoe, girl!
Don't get the shoe! You good!
Bring her up here.
(RAPPING) It's givin' Coke.
Bottle body, wannt hit it like some dope.
I'm in that wham bam brand new Lamb', pull
up, hop out, shut it down.
Sloppy toppy, call him Papi when
he make that slurpy sound.
It's givin' cake by the pound.
It's givin' trips out of town.
Water, he gon' sink or swim, I might just let him down.
Bottega heels in the club.
- This my sister, so she can hold my girl for me.
Woo!
Child, I got one heel on, one heel off.
OK.
[laughter]
I'm not gonna cry this year.
Shout out to God.
God.
[cheering]
He be doing his big one on me!
Shout out to all the other women in the category.
Ah!
All the women who paved the way for this to even be possible.
This category is going crazy this year.
Ah!
Oh, shout out to some women who I think,
um, should've been in the category.
Doechii, I love you, baby.
Maiya The Don.
Flo Milli.
Oh, my God.
I can't think.
Mello Buckzz.
TiaCorine.
Shout out to all the women.
We killing it.
This is the year of the female, year of women.
Hopefully we gonna see an all-female tour.
You feel me?
Very soon.
Keep killing it.
Mama, I love you.
And my man, thank you to my man.
[laughter]
OK. [screams] Bye!
Thank you! Oh!
BET. BET.
Y'all always give me my flowers.
I could cry.
Thank you, BET.
Bye.
[applause]
[music playing]
[rapping]
- Hey, hip hop, the Pimp C, baby.
(RAPPING) Everybody want to ball.
- I feel like going out to Miami right now.
Wait, hold up.
[music]
Can I shake it up?
- Hey, let's go.
- Put your hands.
Put your hands up.
- Trick Daddy and Trina. - Put your hands up.
- Let's go!
Come on!
[trick daddy, "nann"] You're no Nann.
That'll represent like me.
Say what?
Who'll say some [muted] like me.
One who'll make the hits like me.
Girl, you're no Nann.
Uh-uh Who'll do the things that I do.
Like you.
Run through your whole little crew.
Pay for it if I got to.
Girl, you're no Nann. Yeah.
Uh-uh Yeah.
Who'll run off in your house.
Put my tongue all in your mouth.
Mom's out.
Girl, you're no Nann.
Who'll fall off in the club.
Free drinks for the show, some love.
Pay the bar off for the thugs.
Girl, you're no Nann.
Miami!
Who make more figure than me.
Who do more iller than me.
And way more top billin' than me, girl.
You're no Nann.
No. Uh-uh.
Girl, you're no Nann. Keep going.
You're no Nann.
Done been the places I been.
Who can spend the grands that I spend.
Do 'bout five or six best friends.
You're no Nann.
That's off the chain like me.
That'll floss the thang like me.
Like you. On a awful thang like me.
Now, you are no Nann.
Uh-uh.
That sell more-- what?
And you are no Nann.
Uh-uh.
That'll make your [muted] like me.
You're no Nann.
Uh-uh.
Who done tried all types of stuff.
You know that I like it rough.
And I won't stop till I get enough.
Now you're no Nann.
Uh-uh.
That'll keep it hot like me. Like you.
Keep ya comin' back like me.
Have ya fiending like Jodeci.
Now, you're no Nann.
Uh-uh.
That'll get it down on the dime.
Say what? Who love to freak all the time.
One who's sex is better than mine.
Now, you're no Nann.
305, baby.
- Hold up.
[cheering]
Let me turn it up a little bit.
[rapping]
Let me see you pump them thangs.
Shake them. Doo Doo Brown.
[UNCLE LUKE, "I WANNA ROCK(DOO DOO BROWN)"]
- Here we go. You ready to rock?
- It's the Kid!
(RAPPING) Everybody go.
Put your hands up. Here we go.
Put your hands up. Put them up.
Let's go. Put your hands up.
Let's go. Let's go.
Let-- let's go. Let's go.
Let-- let's go.
Let's go.
Let me, let me hear you say.
Hey! Hey!
And more hey!
Now you sing it! Hey!
And more hey!
Let me hear you say. Hey!
And more hey!
Everybody say it! Hey!
And more hey!
Let me hear you say. Say what?
Doo Doo Brown. Doo Doo Brown.
Hey!
Miami, put your hands up!
Put them up! Oh!
Oh!
You better shake them things, baby.
Shake them things, baby. Keep going!
Come on.
Shake, shake them things baby.
Shake them things, baby.
Pop, pop that thing, baby.
Pop that thing, baby.
Pop, pop, pop that thing.
Pop, pop that thing, baby.
I wanna rock, I wanna rock. Who wanna rock?
You wanna rock? Who wanna rock?
We wanna rock?
Who wanna rock? Come on.
Doo Doo Brown.
Doo Doo Brown! Doo Doo Brown!
Do Doo Brown!
Doo Doo Brown!
Don't stop, get it, get it.
Don't stop, get it, get it Don't stop, get it, get it.
- Hip Hop 50 make some noise!
[cheering]
- Going with Amex means you go big,
and this year's Viewer's Choice Award nominees
definitely did it big.
You still have time to vote for the Viewer's Choice Award
presented by American Express.
All you have to do is go to bet.com/viewerschoice23 or use
your favorite artist's hashtag and stay tuned to see
who takes home the trophy.
Plus, more performances from Doechii,
Mad Skillz, Ice Spice, Erick Sermon, Jeezy, Master P,
the Yin Yang Twins, Petra, and of course
our tribute to Busta Rhymes, only
here at the 2023 BET Awards.
[xxxtentacion, "look at me!"] Look at me.
Look at me.
[applause, cheers]
- When I Fell In Love With Hip Hop, Presented by Sprite.
- The moment I fell in love with hip hop
was when Three 6 Mafia dropped "Chickenhead."
Bwok, bwok, chicken, chicken.
Bwok, bwok, chicken head.
[laughs]
What caught my attention about this song
was the beat, how Le Chat and Project
Pat were going back and forth on the beat like just
talking stuff.
Always in my face, talking this and that.
When I grew up and started wanting to rap,
it's like, dang, OK, they was from Memphis.
So like, that was motivation.
This song made me fall in love with hip hop.
Like, I could listen to that song back to back
to back to back to back.
[THREE 6 MAFIA, "CHICKEN HEAD"] You ride clean
but your gas tank is on E.
[pop smoke, "dior"]
- Oh, yeah.
BET hip hop 50 masterpiece, the Pop Smoke.
(SINGING) She like the way that I dance.
- Let's go.
(SINGING) She like the way that I move.
She like the way that I rock.
- Hey.
(SINGING) She like the way that I woo.
And she let it clap for [muted]..
She let it clap for [muted] - Shake them up.
(SINGING) And she throw it back for [muted]..
Yeah, she throw it back for [muted]..
Mike Amiri, Mike Amiri.
Billie Jean, Billie Jean.
- Ride, come on.
(SINGING) Christian Dior, Dior.
I'm up in all the stores.
- I'm going all around the world, baby.
(SINGING) When it rains, it pours.
She like the way I rrr.
- Hey, hey.
[chief keef, "faneto"]
- Chantel, what's up?
Y'all ready?
Chief Keef, what's going on, baby?
(SINGING) Ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy.
- (ECHOING) Wow.
(SINGING) I'm a gorilla in a [muted] couple.
Finna pull up to the zoo [muted] who
[muted] who the [muted] is you?
I don't [muted] know.
[muted] on your block.
We gon' blow [muted] go, [muted],, run, [muted]..
Run for the po, [muted],, police.
Gas what I smoke, [muted],, feds at my door,
jump out the window, [muted].
No, you can't get no money, silly [muted],, silly [muted]..
I just hit a stain, Faneto, Faneto.
Ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, Faneto.
Talking out his neck, [muted] to his throat, to his throat.
Blow this [muted],, he gon' choke.
Raw, bang.
He gon' be on the ground, on the floor.
Someone pick him up, take him to the morgue,
to the [muted] thang.
I'm riding through New York, skrrt-skrrt, bang, bang.
Finna go and shoot [muted] Jersey up, bang, bang.
Tryna to take my chain, I ain't going.
I ain't going.
We gon' come and [muted] New Jersey up.
Let's go.
Bang, bang, bang.
You want some?
Hurry up, hurry up.
Buy, try to rob, [muted],, 30'd up, bang, bang.
I just love Wokcano, [muted].
I'm curried up, curried up.
I got cheese in my pockets, Velveeta.
- Hold up!
[YING YANG TWINS, "WAIT (THE WHISPER SONG)"]
- Yeah, yeah.
- Shaking it down the canteen.
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
- Shaking it down.
(SINGING) Hey, how you doing, little mama?
Let me whisper in your ear, tell ya something
that ya might like to hear.
You got a sexy [muted] body and ya [muted] look soft.
Mind if I touch if to see if it's soft?
Nah, I'm just playing less you say I can.
And I'm known to be a real nasty man.
And they say a closed mouth don't get fed.
So baby girl, don't be scared.
You heard what I said.
We need to make our way to the bed
so you start getting that [muted] you like the [muted]..
Give it to me, that freak stuff.
Toot it up.
Don't be scared if you get too rough.
Switch position and let [muted] down to business
so you can see what you been missing.
You might had some, but you never had none like this.
Just wait till I show you this.
Ayy, girl.
Wait till I show you this.
Ayy, girl.
Wait till I show you this.
You will never get enough like b-am, b-am, b-am, b-am, b-am,
b-am, b-am, b-am, b-am, b-am, b-am,
b-am, b-am, b-am, b-am, b-am.
- Everybody come on. (SINGING) Never get enough.
Never get enough. - Here we go.
Come on.
(SINGING) Never get enough, never get enough.
Never get enough, never get enough.
Ah, yeah.
- Hip hop 50, make some noise.
[applause, cheers]
Next up, a performer that tore up the BET stage last year.
And she's back again tonight to show y'all she still
got that foot on the gas.
Please welcome the fearless, the creative,
the bold Doechii.
[applause, cheers]
- Aw, shoot, y'all.
It's your fairy godmother, reporting
live from the deejay booth.
Trick, you better not take that drink.
Me and my booze.
I know that's right.
Ain't never been wrong, ain't never been wrong.
I know that's right.
Ain't never been wrong.
BET, I know that's right.
Ain't never been wrong, ain't never been wrong.
I know that's right.
Ain't never been wrong, ain't never been wrong, let's go.
[doechii, "booty drop"] Strip club, dance,
dance, do it in a handstand.
Drop down, get bands.
Do it, don't command.
I'll make her drop.
She actin' up, she [muted] it up.
I make it pop.
That booty soft, she lift it up and get them props.
That Chanel purse'll cost enough to make her leave,
that [muted] bustin', super soaker,
'nough to make her ooh, make her ooh,
make her ooh, make her--
Cost enough to make her leave.
Time to pour it up, pour it up pour it up.
Shawty, what it is? bring that [muted] to the club.
Eat that [muted] fast like DoorDash.
I don't need knee pads.
I just need to see that--
Shawty want the liquor, just a little liquor, lil mo, lil
mo, lil mo, lil mo, liquor.
Shawty independent, make a [muted] spend it.
Make em, make em, make em, make em spend it.
I can make your booty pop, make your booty pop.
I can make your booty pop, make your booty--
BET, I can make your booty pop, make your booty pop.
I can make your booty pop, make your booty, booty.
- BET 2023.
I need you to make some noise.
You ready?
Let's go.
[doechii, "what it is"]
(SINGING) Can't you see it's just me and you.
Panoramic view, that's my point of view, bae.
All about me, that's the energy.
That's that lemon pepper thing.
I'm a ten-piece, baby.
Bedroom bully in the bando.
He gon' make it flip, do it with no handles.
Never switchin' sides, only switchin' angles.
Ooh, we go crazy like Rambo.
What it is, ho?
What's up?
Every good girl needs a little thug, thug.
Every Black boy needs a little love, love.
If you put it down, I'ma pick it up, up, up.
What it is, ho?
What's up, what's up?
Every good girl needs a little thug, thug.
Every Black boy needs a little love, love.
If you put it down, I'ma pick it up, up, up.
- Hold on, BET.
Hold on.
We've got some Atlanta legends in here.
Make some noise for Trillville.
- Hey.
What's up, what's up?
- What's up? - What's up, what's up?
- What's up?
- What's up, what's up? BET.
[trillville, "some cut"] What it is, yo.
BET. What's up.
BET.
Can a [muted] just keep them tucked?
Let's go.
Crank it up like you ain't been cut.
Show us all how to really give it up.
Ayy, give me your number and I'll call.
I'll call.
And I'll follow that thang in the mall, in the mall.
Take you home so we can do it all.
[doechii, "what it is"] What it is, hoe?
What's up?
Every good girl needs a little thug.
Every block boy needs a little love.
If he put it down, I'ma pick it up.
What it is, hoe?
What's up?
Every good girl needs a little thug.
Every block boy needs a little love.
If he put it down, I'ma pick it up.
I don't care if you run the streets long
as you're coming home to me.
I love the way you walk and the way you speak.
He gon' keep it real.
That's the deal.
That's the reason that I speed down.
I put that all on my name.
Yeah, that's an even exchange.
BET, hands up!
Hands up!
One, two, three.
What it is, hoe? What's up?
Make it loud!
Every good girl needs a little thug.
Every block boy needs a little love.
If he put it down, I'ma pick it up.
Let's go!
What it is, hoe?
What's up?
Every good girl needs a little thug.
Every block boy needs a little love.
If he put it down, I'ma pick it up, up, up.
[cheering, applause]
[chatter]
[young dolph, "preach"] Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what up.
- Ey, yo, rest in peace to Young Dolph, y'all.
(RAPPING) These [muted],, they just want to have my baby.
Born in the '80s, [muted] baby.
Mama, she was in the streets, so guess who raised me.
You [muted] right, couldn't get it from my mama.
So I got it off the block.
Been working my whole life, but I ain't never punched a clock.
Nine years old, I seen a [muted] get shot.
- Hey! YOUNG DOLPH: Damn.
- Hey, hey, listen, man.
In 1995, Andre 3000 said, "The South got something to say."
And they've been saying it ever since.
[shawty lo, "dey know (remix)"]
- Check, check, check, check, check.
- It's going down.
You know what time it is?
- Young Jeezy, what's up, baby?
It's the king!
- What's up?
(RAPPING) I'm in my cool whip, inside's Jell-O. Hop up
out that pretty mother [muted]
CROWD: Like, "Hello."
- (RAPPING) Hello, ladies, how you doing?
That [muted] crazy, girl--
KID CAPRI: Keep moving.
- (RAPPING) They know.
They know.
Got white, low-low.
Rob who?
Take what?
They know I give a [muted] about them haters.
Young Jizzle.
CROWD: Been getting paper.
- (RAPPING) Granite wheels on the coupe, Life Savers.
KID CAPRI: Keep moving.
- (RAPPING) Hit the club with 20 broads like Flavor.
I'm on the top floor.
Who you kidding?
I get my--
KID CAPRI: Everybody, everybody.
(SINGING) L-O, L-O. Dey know.
Dey know.
JEEZY: Lil miss shawty love it.
A-town in the building.
(SINGING) L-O, L-O. Dey know.
Dey know.
[record scratches]
KID CAPRI: Hold on.
[t.i., "24's"]
K-I-D is in the building.
We're gonna shake the world.
TI, what's going on?
You ready?
You read to trap or what?
- That's how you get it.
(RAPPING) Money, [muted],, cars, and clothes.
That's all all my [muted].
OK, now blowing dro on 24's.
That's how all my--
turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it.
Money, [muted],, cars, and clothes.
--to see if my eyes open 'cause I've been dranking,
and I've been smoking.
Flying down 285, but I'm focused.
454 SS, I race Porsches.
White leather seats as fresh as Air Forces.
Do it by the hundred, but the track still--
Number eight on NWA, "Straight Outta Compton."
Pull up in apartments, sitting on 20-somethings.
Dope boy holler ahead.
Kid running in the cliques start dapping,
and broads start choosing.
Cars been parked, but the wheel--
Sign picture, buy an onion of good and throw the deuces.
Man, I come from the hood I'm used to it.
If you rib, you shake it.
You see vibrating.
24-inch Dayton's got the Chevrolet skatin' makin'--
Cars and clothes.
That's all all my [muted] know.
Blowing dro on 24's.
That's how all my-- yeah, yeah, this is--
Ay, money, [muted],, cars, and clothes.
That's how all my--
Blowing dro on 24's.
It's the king!
- No limit soldier.
KID CAPRI: Hold up!
Hold up!
[master p, "make 'em say ugh"]
Master P, what's up?
We're bringing the world out tonight.
I'm bringing it out tonight.
K-I-D business, come on.
- (RAPPING) I'm the colonel of this double platinum tank.
Y'all after big thangs.
We after big bank.
3rd Ward hustlers, soldiers in combat.
Our comrades and dealers and wheelers with true tats.
Never gave a damn about no broads on our riches.
They moves come short.
I'm digging ditches.
MP pullin' stripes, commander in chief.
And fools run up wrong.
I'm knockin' out some teeth.
I'm down here slanging, rollin' with these hustlers.
Trying to get rid of all you haters and you bustas.
Steppin' on cold, break a fool's nose.
In the projects, fool, anything goes.
Breakin' fools off 'cause I'm a No Limit soldier.
At ease, now salute.
Here, pass me the-- KID CAPRI: Come on.
- Make 'em say ugh.
KID CAPRI: Everybody.
CROWD: Ugh!
- Na, na, na, na.
CROWD: Na, na, na, na.
- Make 'em say ugh.
CROWD: Ugh.
- Na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na.
[record scratches]
KID CAPRI: Hip-hop 50, make some noise!
[cheering, applause]
Since hip-hop's inception, our queens
have been rocking their crowns, setting
trends, and breaking barriers.
Check out how some BET execs are rocking their crowns.
- In celebration of the BET Awards,
we've decided to bring together BET executives to actually
have their headshots taken.
In the corporate environment, 2/3 of Black women
say that before they go for an interview,
they feel obligated or compelled
to change their hair.
We're here to prove that Black hair is professional.
Let's get these headshots.
- Let's do it.
- Hair can accentuate you so much.
I've accepted that my hair can be whatever I want it to be.
- As long as I'm comfortable, I can give my best self at work.
- This is OK.
TAI BEAUCHAMP: I think back to when I felt like I
had to straighten my hair.
And now, this is our crown.
- My natural hair is stunning.
WOMAN: Magic.
WOMAN: Phenomenal.
TAI BEAUCHAMP: Sign the Crown Act petition.
Visit dove.com/crown.
[applause]
- The impact of music extends far beyond the play and
pause buttons.
Hip hop helped visual forms progress even further
as the genre began to influence the production of feature
films, reaching new audiences, bringing visibility to
the vastness of our culture.
P&G is showing up for Black creators
to widen the screen, so that we can
widen our view of the images we see here
and the stories we tell.
Join us as we seek and share more Black stories.
Visit pg.com/widenthescreen to learn more.
[gang st arr, "mass appeal"]
- --to the one and only--
Big shout out to my brother, DJ Premier.
Start it up.
(RAPPING) No way, you'll never make it.
Come with the weak, I'll break it.
Step into my zone, mad rhymes will stifle ya.
Lines like rifles go blast when I kick some ass.
A lot of rappers be like one-time wonders.
Couldn't say a fly rhyme if there was
one right under their noses.
[erick sermon, "music"] Just like music.
- Here we go.
Erick Sermon front and center.
(RAPPING) Just like music.
Yeah, relax my mind, so I can be free
and absorb the sound that keeps me round, doing my thing
constantly with no worries.
Peace to Keith Murray.
Just like music.
They keep you flowing. They keep me going.
They keep me showing.
They keep me the E from knowing.
What happens out there is not my concern.
You want to die, it's not my turn.
To do something to me, like jump in the Mercedes
on the highway, doing over 80.
Without music, baby.
Oww, I'll go crazy.
Yeah, make me call my homie on the phone,
like there's something new about that got me in the zone.
Just that feeling got me.
I wish music can adopt me.
Come on.
Let's go.
- Throw a peace sign in the air one time.
Peace sign in the air.
Somebody say, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Say, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
- Keith Murray, where you at?
Where you at?
Keith Murray, where you at?
Where you at?
Come on, let's go.
[KEITH MURRAY, "THE MOST BEAUTIFULLEST THINGS
IN THIS WORLD"] (RAPPING) Y'all mythological
weapons is comical.
The astronomical be coming through like the flu
bombing you.
And embalming your crew too with
the musical mystical magical.
You know how I do, with word attack skills--
vocabulary too.
Come to hit you with this edition, all brand new.
You're through.
I'm interplanetarian, like Doctor Who.
What? What?
So who? Come on.
Born to get tripped on.
Words is bond.
I'm kicking rhymes till the AM.
Vultures swarm.
Not Quincy, but I'm back on the block.
Not selling crack.
Accompanied with the fat funk, flows and tracks.
So what you saying black with all that yakety yak.
My artifacts can't be beat with bats.
I'm saying, I eat everything up on the menu,
bend you, send you swaying. - Everybody sing it.
Let's go.
(SINGING) The most beautifullest
this thing in this world is just like that.
I get in ya.
The most beautifullest thing in this world is just like that.
I get in ya.
- Hold it.
- Come on.
- Hold up.
Just when in the house.
Redman, come to the front.
Let's go.
- Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
- Come on.
[redman, "da goodness"] Yo, bless the steel.
Step out dressed to kill.
[muted] the L. What up, Doc?
What the deal?
Come on.
Clock this sqeal, the MC overkill.
Certified cylinders, 35 mil.
Jumping out planes.
Doc's the name.
[muted] the flame, back to relieve your pain.
Hater, Iksrfo don't Piscopo.
Hit the safe for cake.
Should have switched the code.
Speak a pound through custom drug hounds.
Bound to rob your neighborhood.
Me and my man jumping out sedans, tapping your jaw
like Sugar Ray did Duran.
Execute like wars in Beirut.
22-inch rims to parachute out the Lex Coupe.
Deliver the rhythm without the venom in 'em.
Pin 'em, skin 'em with the [muted]..
I pull out the John Lennon.
Wild the [muted] out.
Smoke the [muted] out.
Drink the [muted] out.
Act the [muted] out.
Wild the [muted] out.
Scream the [muted] out.
Drink the [muted] out.
Act the [muted] out.
Do you feel it in your body?
Do you want to rock the party?
Shake your stanking [muted].
Do you want to get dirty?
Hey, we go 1, 2, 3, 4.
Oh!
BET, we in the building.
- Yes, sir.
- Hip hop 50 rocking out, baby.
[applause]
- And now, here are the nominees for BET Her.
Lizzo, "About Damn Time."
Pinkpantheress and Ice Spice, "Boy's a Liar, Part 2."
Beyoncé, "Break My Soul."
Megan Thee Stallion, "Her."
Rihanna and Ludwig Goransson, "Lift
Me Up" from Black Panther--
Wakanda Forever-- Music From and Inspired By.
Coi Leray, "Players."
Lizzo, "Special."
- I'm Cynthia Kay McWilliams.
- And I'm Malcolm Barrett from BET+'s new show "Average Joe."
Thank you. - Thank you.
- Now, we all know that there's a writers' strike.
So there isn't actually anything written on the--
- So we're just gonna improvise.
- Well, no. No, baby.
There's still a teleprompter.
- Yeah, yeah, we're going to improvise
what's on the teleprompter.
- No, there's nothing on the teleprompter.
- Exactly.
- Oh, dear god, please bring the writers back.
- And the BET award goes to--
[laughter]
Beyoncé, "Break My Soul."
- Yeah!
[cheering]
- I hate to be the one to say this.
Beyoncé couldn't be here tonight.
But we are very happy to accept this award in their honor.
- [laughs]
- Beyhive is gonna-- - I know.
I don't want them coming for me.
I'm so sorry.
- There is more BET awards coming up,
with performances from Glorilla,
Ice Spice, and the amazing--
I never thought I'd get to introduce this name--
Ms. Patti LaBelle.
Oh, my god.
[applause]
- Feels good.
- But right now, please enjoy a look at "Average Joe,"
premiering on BET+ June 26.
- Everybody, grab a drink, please.
To Teddy Washington.
- To Teddy.
- Tow truck driver, and a father.
Sometimes--
[intense music]
- Let me get this straight.
Your dad stole $10 million from the Russian mob.
- Is that right?
- And a Lamborghini.
- And a Lamborghini?
- Yeah.
- You sound insane.
- What are we gonna do?
- Look for the rest of the money.
- I think the only way out of this is you leave town.
- You're a cop--
- The decision--
- You can't think of other cop things to do?
- Family is everything.
I guess I don't need to tell you that.
- This is not who we are.
This is not our life.
- There is $10--
- --10 million problems.
[intense music]
- Hip hop city, was going on BET?
Listen man I am the Kid, the Kid Capri.
This is my brother, the world's greatest entertainer
Doug E. Fresh right here.
Now listen--
[cheering]
Reggae music always been a part of hip hop.
So we're going to bring it to you right now.
Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the stage, Lil'
Vicious and Doug E. Fresh.
["freak" playing]
Here we go.
Here we go, here we go!
I mean, one time.
I'm just thinking to myself, do you Maria, Gucci, BET,
make some noise!
Here we go.
Some gyal ah, Freak, Some gyal ha freak
Ah di week, some gyal ah
Freak, some gyal ah freak ah di seek,
Some gyal ah, freak, some gyal ah freak ah di week some
gyal, freak,
Some gyal ah di week
Buck a likkle gyal by di name Anika
Where me buck di gyal a East 21st
She a tell likkle Vicious how she underneath, and a
Brag and I boast how mi nuh,
Know how fi dweet
And from she look pon me, she know have a small pee pee meat
Never a mi house, fi kill her with it
When me open di gyal, me couldn't believe it
Big lightning, di gyal
Freak, di gyal freak, a di week
Di gyal freak, a di--
After we tell di gyal dem,
Say dem a freak, after we tell di gyal dem, hear wha
Punanny get serious,
New York man dem not even in di condom,
Where I put my trust,
Punanny get serious, and canterkerous, and dangerous.
Doug E Fresh, not even in di condom
Where I put my--
Pow, pow, pow,
pow [beatboxing]
- Mad Lion, what's up?
Mad Lion!
- Say ah!
Say yeah!
Take too many suckers and not enough time
Buck up all up with a clip from mi 9
To shoot to kill, mi don't care
I try to kill, but it nuh get me nowhere
Fli inna mi pocket and mi dip inna mi wait
Take out mi gun, put inna mi suitcase
Flip, script, and a guy head lick
Boof, baff, and not one shot no lick,
it's like toe to toe, once again
Yeah, yeah
Fi distinguish real bad bwoys dem
Yeah, yeah
And if yuh a bad bwoy, not a guy caan try,
Let mi see dis fist dem
Gotta take it easy
Why, why?
Gotta take it easy
Why, why?
Gotta take it easy
Why, why
Gotta take it easy
Me no know.
- Make some noise for Mad Lion right now!
[cheering]
Ladies and gentlemen.
Pattra, what was going on?
["romantic call" playing]
My property is my property
Any love come cross get tied fi life,
Baby Bobby, what was that?
- Big business, big business!
- I'm on a romantic call
I'm talking to my baby
down ah mi yaad
I'm on a romantic call
My man, Patra nah guh tek fi broad.
Watch this, what was that?
Hello mommy, can I speak to Bobby
Cross the ocean and I'm feeling very lonely
Inna him sleep
Mommy wake him fi me
I'm on the phone, I want to talk to my baby
Don't call of him, help when you feel lonely
Him cyann tell yuh tings mek yuh feel sexy
I'm on a romantic call
I'm talking to my baby down ah mi yaad
I'm on a romantic call
My man, Patra nah guh tek fi broad
Watch it!
I'm on a romantic call
I'm talking to my baby down ah mi yaad
I'm on a romantic call
My man, Patra nah guh tek fi broad
Watch this!
- Makes some noise for reggae music hip hop!
[cheering]
[hip hop instrumental music]
- Hey, let's keep this party going
because we all ain't finished.
I'm taking you all the way from Jamaica to the South.
Let's get hyped for this artist coming to the stage.
She is a superstar.
Turn it up for my girl, GloRilla.
[cheering]
[applause]
- What's up, BET?
Y'all ready to get ratchet?
Let me see this building stand up to your feet right now.
[glorilla, "lick or sum"] On gang.
What Juicy say?
He be like, shut the [muted] up.
Lick on my lip.
Make this cookie cream.
Do this mother lover how you do the Russian creams.
Smokin' on this pack, you know this cookie fat.
Lookin like he fiendin', god his nose all in my back.
He wanna hit this rock, he know this cookie slap.
Wow.
And based off his performance, I might make this booty clap.
Told him, drop the addy, 'bout to take him off the map.
I don't post it, boy, I ghost it boy,
and leave him on the Snap.
Don't wanna feel yo' teeth, and soften up his tongue.
All over his breath like cookie-flavored gum.
Pullin' on my tracks, cause he know I like to run.
You know I'm a P boy, and you know where I'm from.
told him that I love him, had him thinking I was dumb.
Got that bread, got that in the.
On the gang, gang.
Lookin' like a lick or sum.
Come and take a lick or sum.
Got me bussin' like a blick or sum.
And let me get come lick or sum.
I call that boy bruh, his mammy ain't
my mammy and callin' me sis, I'm tryna kiss yo baby daddy.
Get [muted] from his cousin too, I keep it in the family.
He fold me like a pretzel, I'm his Auntie Annie.
Oh, like a lollipop.
Lick it, dip it, this a baby bottle pop.
I ain't with that messy stuff, but I need some sloppy top.
What's up Mr. Ding Ling Ling?
I'm tryna get karate chopped.
My foot up on they neck, he suckin' on my toes.
You lovin' on this hitter, but he
love the [muted] I got a hitta on the town and a hitta
in the slammer.
If I'm with you and my [muted] just know
I'm still gon' answer.
I know you eating, boy, don't ask me for no kiss.
and don't bring up my man, cause I ain't askin' bout'
your chick.
He got all of these women that don't weight up to one of me.
He knows that I'm the big homie,
his other women under me.
Got the best thing from a Libra and the best thing
from a Cancer.
He said he never [muted] Well, I'm boutta set the standard.
Come here.
40-inch weave What else?
Dread head here.
OK.
4AM I need some liquor, I'm gone off that liquor,
on the gang, gang.
Lookin' like a lick or sum.
Come and take a lick or sum.
Bussin' like a blick or sum.
And let me get some lick or sum.
You lovin' on this [muted],, but he love the [muted]
So my advice to you would be to go and be the [muted] Haha.
Lovin' on this [muted] but he love the [muted] My
advice to you would be to go and be the [muted]
On the gang, gang.
Lookin' like a lick or sum.
[cheering]
Thank y'all, BET.
[music playing]
(SINGING) I've got some kids in the street
that'll blast your [bleep] for the shine and get, woo, woo.
- Hey, what's up?
I'm Miss Diddy, one of the 2022 Doritos
Solid Black Changemakers here live at the BET Awards.
Coming up?
Performances from Ice Spice, Mad Skillz,
and the legendary Patti LaBelle pays tribute
to the icon Tina Turner.
And later, an all-star hip hop dance performance presented
by Doritos Solid Black.
All at the 2023 BET Awards.
(SINGING) Be hostile, rock while on the beat, top dollar
the fleet.
Uh-huh.
Big moneys make the big decision, keep hip hop.
- Please welcome Mad Skillz.
[crowd cheering]
- Yeah.
[music playing]
(RAPPING) A child was born in '73,
and not even she would realize what she'd grow up to be.
But she would change the world before recognizing
her worth, wit 3 fathers, Bambatta,
Flash, and Kool Herc.
We talking about hip hop moving forward,
the only genre that was created from the genres before it.
And by '79 she had struck a nerve.
Cuz I'm sure everybody in here remember these words.
I said a hip hop the hippie to the hippity hip hop, hop
and ya don't stop a rock it to the bang bang boogie
say up jumps the boogie to the--
- rhythm of the boogity beat.
- (RAPPING) Cuz its the voice of the streets,
and it had just begun, based on peace, love, unity,
and having fun.
And then she'd thought she'd lose it.
But y'all know how we do.
If we going thru something, we just put it in the music.
The world got cold and she wasn't prepared.
When asked if she was all right, she just looked at me
and said, don't push me, cuz I'm close to the--
- Edge.
- (RAPPING) I'm trying not to--
- Lose my head.
- (RAPPING) And then a new generation came on the scene.
Imagine seeing ya heroes on ya TV screen.
They said it was a fad, but it passed the test.
Cuz it was in everything, how we
walked, talked, and dressed.
She got gangsta in '89.
And shout out to the ladies that figured they could
do it better than the guys.
She taught me Black History, but made it cool.
I learned more from hip hop than I ever learned in school.
She was that around-the-way girl.
And it was crazy when I would see her pop up
in different parts of the world.
Cali took it up a notch.
What's that saying?
It ain't no party like a West Coast party cuz a--
- West Coast party don't stop.
- (RAPPING) That's on the dead homiez
from the base to the bay.
Then Luke and the Geto Boys came to play.
And y'all remember that day when Andre 3K stood
on that stage and said, "Aye Ima
tell y'all folk like this doh.
The South got sumn to say."
That's hip hop.
She was everywhere.
She went from thousands to millions to billionaires.
I said, damn girl, you living your dream.
She said, "Cash rules everything around me.
Cream, get the money.
- Dolla dolla bill, y'all.
- (RAPPING) Let's keep it real, y'all.
This takes Mad Skillz, y'all.
And to the ones that we lost, y'all in our hearts.
When we reminisce over you, my God, remember Rappin Duke,
Da Haa, Da Haa, you never--
- Thought that hop would take it this far.
- Mad Skillz 50-year Wrap-up.
Peace and love, VA.
[applause]
- Here are the nominees for Viewer's Choice Award,
presented by American Express.
Beyoncé, "Break My Soul."
[beyoncé, "break my soul"]
- (SINGING) You won't break my soul.
- Drake, Featuring 21 Savage, Jimmy Cooks.
[DRAKE, FEAT. 21 SAVAGE, "JIMMY COOKS"]
[sza, "kill bill"]
- (SINGING) I might kill my--
- SZA, "Kill Bill."
- (SINGING) I still love him, though.
[jack harlow, "first class"]
- (RAPPING) Throw up the--
- Jack Harlow, "First Class."
[NICKI MANAJ, "SUPER FREAKING GIRL"]
- (RAPPING) Bitch with a ho glow.
- Nicki Minaj, "Super Freaky Girl."
- (RAPPING) Meeny, miny, mo. [lizzo, "about damn time"]
- (SINGING) OK.
- Lizzo, "About Damn Time."
- (SINGING) It's about damn time.
[burna boy, "last last"]
- Burna Boy, "Last Last."
- (SINGING)
- Future, featuring Drake and Tems, "Wait For You."
- (SINGING) I would have--
- What's happening?
If you love hip hop and you miss Rap City,
make some noise.
[crowd cheers]
Honored to be here to present this award tonight.
Shout out to my V103 Big Tigger Morning Show family
in the ATL.
And the winner of the highly-anticipated Viewers
Choice Award presented by American Express
goes to Beyoncé, "Break My Soul."
[applause]
- Well, we all know Beyoncé is on tour
and couldn't be here tonight, so we're happy to accept
the award on her behalf.
Much love out to Beyoncé.
[crowd cheers]
Now, we celebrate 50 years of hip hop,
and tonight has been an amazing celebration of our culture.
You've already seen some big moments from hip hop legends
right here on this stage, and there is still more to come.
This last year has also been one of the great moments
for our culture and, unfortunately,
for some great losses.
We're forever grateful for the art form
that they so graciously shared with all of us.
They will forever live throughout
the extraordinary legacy that they have left behind.
Hip hop salute.
[music playing]
[crowd cheers]
- Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Miss Patti LaBelle.
- Woo, come on.
Get on up for Tina Turner.
Hey.
[patti belle, "the best"]
- (SINGING) I call you when I need you,
my soul's is on fire.
You come to me, come to me, wild and wired.
Ooh, you come to me.
Give me everything I need.
Give me a lifetime of promises and dreams.
Speak the language of love like you know what it means.
You can't go wrong.
Take my heart and make it strong, baby.
I'm trying, y'all.
Come on.
Cuz you're simply the best.
Better than all the rest.
Better than anyone, anyone I've ever met.
I'm stuck on your heart.
I hang on every word you say.
Tear us apart?
Baby, you know I would rather be dead.
In your heart I see the start of every night, every day.
Oh, Lord.
I get-- what if I can't see the words?
I don't know.
I'm trying, y'all.
Just as long as I'm here in your arms,
I could be in no better place.
You know why?
Cuz you're simply the best.
Better than all the rest.
Better than anyone, anyone I've ever met.
I'm stuck on your heart, baby.
I hang on every word you say.
Oh, tear us apart?
No, no.
I would rather be dead.
Each time you leave me, I start losing control.
You're walking away with my heart and my soul.
I can feel you even when I'm alone.
Oh, baby, don't let go.
Oh.
Simply the best.
Come on.
You know, better than all the rest.
Better than all the rest.
Better than anyone.
Hey, now, where's my back when I'm singing?
Anyone I've ever met.
the best, simply the best.
Hang on every word.
Simply the best.
Tear us apart.
Simply the best.
I would rather be dead.
You are, you are.
Simply the best, ya'll.
Tina Turner.
Simply the-- that's who you are.
You are, you are, you are, you are simply the best.
Woo!
God bless you, Tina Turner, BET Hip Hop.
Bye, y'all.
- Our celebration of hip hop continues
with Fat Joe, Remy Ma, Fabulous,
Styles P, and Ju Rule.
Plus, performances from Ice Spice and Kaliii.
And still to come, Swizz Beatz and Marlon Wayans
present Busta Rhymes with this year's
Lifetime Achievement Award.
When the "2023 BET Awards" continues.
[cheers, applause]
[music playing]
- Hip hop culture has transformed
fashion, everything from what we wear
to our beautiful black hair.
In my early career as a costume designer,
I would create trends that traveled from the block
to the runway, from New York to Milan.
Hip hop has influenced fashion worldwide.
You might ask why?
It's an easy answer.
It's us.
Our culture, our vibe, our taste
has put hip hop and its looks on the pedestal
it so rightly deserves.
P&G and My Black is Beautiful salutes
and celebrates 50 years of hip hop.
[cheers, applause]
[music playing]
(SINGING) Biggie Biggie, Biggie, can't you see?
Yes, indeed, hip hop city.
Rest in peace to the one and only B.I.G.
(SINGING) This is they're broke and you're paid
- Yes, indeed.
Rest in peace to the boss the Big Pop, baby.
We movin'!
Boricua, morena,
Bourica, morena,
No more rollin'--
- I'm from the Bronx.
Hold up.
Let me show you.
[music playing]
- Hey, yo. What's up?
[cheers, applause]
- Fat Joe!
- D.I.T.C.
- Remy Ma.
- Nothing can stop me.
I'm all the way up.
[MUSIC - FAT JOE & REMY MA, "ALL THE WAY UP"]
- Here we go.
(SINGING) I'm all the way up.
- Come on.
Stay with it.
(SINGING) I'm all the way up.
I'm all the way up.
Nothing can stop me
For my haters with Bentley coupes and Rolexes
Kicked the chick out the room
And gave her no breakfast
Had to stash the jewels
These women's so reckless
Keep up the cruise
I'm talkin' naughty nothings
Shorty uptown takin' off the new things
Couldn't take it all, so I gave her own chain
She call me top shotta
Yeah, I keep a few tings
Champion sound, yeah, I got a few rings
And I'm all the way up
Come on!
Left the big house to a bigger house.
Yeah.
Ain't have a girlfriend, but the chick is out
Chanel croc bag, it ain't even out
With the gold chains,
Himalayan Birkin cocaine
Packs, I hit 'em up
I'm talkin' color money
Purple yen and blue trim dirham
I got Brown lira,
I ain't talking 'bout ross chick
I'm that shorty on Viagra ness
That means I'm all the way up
I'm all the way up
Shake 'em up shake 'em up
I'm all the way up
Nothing can stop me
I'm all the way up
- Yeah.
Yo, Fabolous, what's going on?
Hey, Capri, what's up?
[music - fabolous, "breathe"]
(SINGING) One and then a two
Two and a then a three
Three and then a four
Then you gotta breathe
- New York is independent heavy!
(SINGING) Two and then a three
Three and then a four Then you
gotta Yeah!
Then you gotta
Let's go!
Yo, these [muted] can't breathe
When I come through, hum two
Some shoes, gotta be twenty, man
It's not even funny
They can't
The chokehold's too tight
The left looks too right
You know what? You right
These people can't
Look, look, their hearts racing
They start chasing
But I'm so fast when I blow past
That they can't
In the presence of the man
Your future look better than your past
If you present with the man You better
Breathe, come on.
These people can't share my air
Or walk a mile in the pair I wear
And I'm getting better year by year
Like they say wine do
Cops couldn't smell me
If they brought the K9's through
And I pace myself
I know these money-hungry chickens
Want to taste my wealth
But I keep 'em on a diet
Embrace they health
Or either keep 'em on the quiet
And space myself
And just take a deep breath
I got 'em grabbing they chest
Cause it's hurting them
To see fab in his best
And they in they worst
They'd rather see me lay in a hearse
than lay in the 'bach
And I ain't just saying a verse
I'm saying the facts
I came back with some sicker stones
That got these broke haters looking at me
Like they choking on a chicken
bone Right
Hey chick, I don't can't leave the [muted]
So I know it's one of them
Every time I flip my phone [shouting]
(SINGING) Breathe One and then a two
Whoa Two and then a three
Whoa Three and then a four
Then you gotta breathe
One and then a two
Two and then a three
Three and then a four BET
We gotta breathe
One and then a two
Two and then a three
Three and then a four
Then you gotta breathe
Then you gotta
BET, much love.
[MUSIC - STYLES P, "GOOD TIMES"]
(SINGING) I get high - Yeah
(SINGING) I get high
- Hey, yo, Styles P, where you at, big boy?
- Hey, what up?
I love you, Ty.
Let's go.
(SINGING) High on your memory - Everybody, let's go.
Come on.
- Roll that sh--, light that sh--, smoke it.
- Everybody!
- Roll that sh--, light that sh--, some it.
- Way to go!
- Roll that.
- Yo, please talk to them.
Come on.
(SINGING) Hey, today I need an ounce and a half
SP, the only flowa that you know
With a bounce in the half
Listen, kid, I need
A mountain of cash
So I could roll up
Hop in the whip and like
Bounce to the ave
I get high cause I'm in the hood
The guns is around Yeah
Take a blunt just to ease the pain
That humbled me now
And I'd rather roll somethin'
up Why?
Cause if I'm sober, dawg
I just might flip
Grap my guns and hold somethin' up
Come on
I get high as a kite
All alone in the zone, ghost float
Case is dyin' tonight
So I roll 'em up, back to back, fat as I could.
Got beef with Styles P
I come to splatter the hood
Everybody, let's go
Roll that sh, light that sh, smoke it
Roll that, light that, smoke it.
Roll that, light that, smoke
it Yeah
Roll that, light that, smoke it
Roll that, light that, smoke it.
- Yo, Ja Rule, where you at?
[MUSIC - JA RULE, "PUT IT ON ME"]
(SINGING) What would I be without you, baby?
- BET, whoa?
- Yo, bro, what's up?
I'm rockin' the world right now.
Let's smash it
(SINGING) Because I love ya.
- 50 years of hip-hop!
- BET!
- Let's rock!
(SINGING) To put it on you
- Let's go!
- Come on!
(SINGING) The thought alone might break me
And I don't wanna go
crazy Why?
Cause every thug needs a lady
You and I being born and together
Inseparable, took pain over pleasure
So that you forever be part of me
My body and soul ain't know why ain't we
Baby, would you try to wipe your tears
When you scared, I'm telling you
Just look--
I will be there
When you need a shoulder to lean on
Never hesitate
Knowing you can call on
Your soulmate
And vice versa
That's why I be the first
See Jacob and frost your wrist up
Now your old man What?
I know you're tired of being lonely
- Everybody, sing it.
(SINGING) So, baby girl, What would I be without you?
- Come on.
(SINGING) What would I be without you?
I only think about you
Oh, what you're saying is true
I know you're telling me you're lonely
I need someone to hold me
So baby girl, put it on me
I will, I will, I will.
What would I be without you?
I only think about you, yeah
Oh, what you're saying is true
I know you're telling me, you're lonely
So need you to hold me
So baby girl, put it on me, yeah
- Hip hop city, make some noise!
[cheers, applause]
Hey, listen, man.
[music playing]
I'm from the Bronx, New York.
And I support all my Bronx people.
We going to keep it real New York up in here right now.
Here's a little boy from the Bronx coming at you
next on stage right now.
Welcome, Ice Spice.
[cheers, applause]
[MUSIC - ICE SPICE, "MUNCH (FEELIN' U)"]
(SINGING) - You thought I was feelin' you?
Nah
That [muted] a munch
[muted] he ate it for lunch
[muted] I'm a baddie, I get what I want, like.
You thought I was feelin' you?
Nah, thought I was feelin' you? That [muted] a much
[muted] he ate it for lunch
[muted],, I'm a baddie, I get what I want, like.
Get what I want, like
[muted] ain't bad, let's keep it a bean
Know they be mad that I be on the scene
I's too fat, I can't fit in no jeans
You was my stitch but it's not what it seam
I got that [muted] keeping it clean
[muted] Tonin' a beam
sayin' you love me But what do you mean?
Grrah
Pretty as [muted] and he like that I'm mean
Baddest [muted] out you [muted]
If you ain't a baddie can't Sit with me
I swear at these [muted] my
Mini-me's Mini-me
Grrah, grrah
He wanna sex, [muted] be dreamin'
I'm from the X, [muted] be schemin'
I'm on the necks, they is not breathin'
Thumbin' a check, blow it in
You thought I was feelin'
you Nah
That [muted] a munch
[music playing]
- BET, I go by the name of Ryan y'all make
some noise for Ice Spice.
[MUSIC - ICE SPICE, "PRINCESS DIANA"]
[cheers, applause]
- Get.
Grrah, grrah.
- Stop.
- One, two, three.
(SINGING) Like, grrah, keep it a stack
[muted] move wock' Cause they know I got bands
They be chattin', I don't give a [muted]
And I'm still getting money I know who I am
Tryna be low, he gon' hit up my
'gram Grrah
If he smart, he gon' act like a fan
Thinkin' you bigger
They got ya head gassed
[muted] slow, so I give 'em a pass
Like, grrah, keep it a stack
[muted] move wock'
Cause they know I got bands
They be chattin', I don't give a [muted]
And I'm still gettin' money I know who I am.
Tryna be low, he gon' hit up my
'gram Grrah
If he smart, he gon' act like a fan
Thinkin' you bigger They got ya head
gassed Grrah
[muted] slow, so I give 'em a pass
And I just fell in love with a gangsta
Like So he put my name in a tat'
But I don't let him come to
the Grrah
So we get it on where we at
Nowadays, I be duckin' them cameras
And they hype that I'm up on them banners
[cheers] Callin' they phone
But they know I don't answer Why?
In the hood, I'm like Princess Diana
Let's go
I'm thick, cause I be eatin'
oats Huh
[muted] not takin' [muted] from me
But notes
Wanna be me, so she do my emotes
And my name in her mouth
So I bet she gon' choke
To her man, I'm the girl of his dreams
Thinkin' about me when he brushin' his teeth
He keeps textin', I leave him on seen
Hottest bitch out and They know what I mean
Know what I mean
Like, grrah, keep it a stack [muted] move wock'
Cause they know I got bands
They be chattin', I don't give a [muted]
And I'm still getting money I know who I am
In the hood, I'm like Princess Diana
[cheers, applause]
- BET, how are we feeling tonight?
Make some noise right now.
[MUSIC - ICE SPICE, "IN HA MOOD"]
(SINGING) Like, [muted],, she in her mood
Like, [muted], she in her mood
Her mood
Like, [muted], she in her mood
she lit, got money too
Like, [muted], she in her mood
She in her mood
In the mirror, I'm doing my dance
And he packin', I know by his pants
He a rapper but don't got a chance
Stuck in my ways so I'm lovin' my bands
Like a million views in a day
It's so many ways to get paid
I tried dippin' he begged me to stay
Bae, I'm not staying, I just wanna play
In the party, he just wanna
rump Rump
Big boobs and the butt stay plump
Plump She a baddie, she know she a
10 10
She a baddie with her baddie
friend Friend
They like, "Ice, how you always stay hot?"
Oh, they mad cause I keep makin'
bops Bops
Oh, she mad cause I'm taking her spot
If I was [muted],, I'd hate me a lot
Like, [muted], she in her mood.
Like, [muted], she in her mood
She lit, got money too
Like, [muted], she in her mood
Let's go
No friends, I don't [muted] with the fakes
Sayin' they love me but wantin' my place
Step in the party, I'm lookin' the baddest
So the paparazzi in my face
Pretty bitch but I came from the gutter
Said I'd be lit by the end of the summer
And I'm proud that I'm still getting bigger
Goin' viral is gettin' 'em sicker
Like, what?
Let's keep it a buck
[muted] too boring, got 'em stuck in a rut
Lamborghini roarin' when I hop out the truck
Pretty [muted] like Lauryn with a big ass
butt Yup
Pretty face and the waist all gone
All gone
And I'm makin' 'em wait, hold on
Hold on.
And I'm making 'em wait, hold on
Hold on
Wait, hold on
Like, [muted], she in her mood In her mood
Like, [muted], she in her mood
She in her mood
Like, [muted], she in her mood
She in her mood
Like, [muted], she in her mood
She lit, get money too
Like, [muted], she in her
mood [muted]
[cheers, applause]
[music playing]
(SINGING) I could do this for hours.
- Please welcome Muni Long.
(SINGING) I could do this for hours, and hours, and hours.
I could do this for hours, and hours, and hours.
- I hear you.
Before I introduce this next incredible artist,
I must take a moment to acknowledge and stand
in solidarity with the artists who make us laugh, cry,
and, most importantly, think--
our Writers Guild of America family.
[cheers, applause]
Writers are, in many instances, the glue to the execution
of artistry and storytelling, our ability to extract
emotion from performers.
Helping them to articulate their voices and visions
to the world is irreplaceable.
The protection of the writer is crucial.
We simply must protect our intellectual property.
I have written many songs, like the one I share
with the next performer on the amplified stage, which
has given voice to many artists who have gone on to become
superstars on the main stage.
Please welcome our next amplified artist,
presented by Nissan, Kaliii!
[cheers, applause]
[music - kaliii, "area codes"]
(SINGING) Kaliii
Got a white boy on my roster
He be feeding me pasta and lobster
He just hit me up on Tuesday
Like, "What you doing, bae?"
Let me take you shoppin'
I told him, "Well, I'm a little
busy" [muted]
He said, "Dang, I'm in your city
But anyway, it's OK,
Hope you have a good day
I'ma send you 'bout eight fifty"
Then I told him, "You treat me so well"
He said, "Cash App or Zelle?
Matter of fact, scratch that,
I'ma send you a stack
Just cause you fine"
And I told him, "Well, thank you, baby"
"Anything for my favorite lady"
Well, I gotta go, they just let me know
That I could pick up my Mercedes
I got [muted]
Might just be your [muted]
In different area codes
BET everywhere I go
Every time I pop out
I call and they drop the lo'
He gon' drop that location
Yeah, cause I got [muted]
Might just be your [muted]
Area codes
She know what's up
Some of 'em bros
Could be your daddy
And I'm big pimpin' cause they know
They know what's up
Got a [muted],, yeah, he from the
trap Ooh
He low-key, yeah, he stay off the
map Uh-huh
Any time I need some money, he say, pull up
'cause it gotta be cash
Pushed up, he designered down Down
He like, "Bae, you ain't ever around
What [muted] I gotta put up in the dirt
'cause why you ain't ever in town?
I'm outta the way with Pablo
This [muted] swear that he el chapo
- Coming up, Swizz Beatz and Marlon [muted]
pay tribute to our Lifetime Achievement recipient,
Busta Rhymes.
And get ready to wind it up with Spice,
Dexta Daps, and more, when the 2023 BET Awards returns.
(SINGING) She know what's up
Every time I [muted]
I call and they drop the lo'
Come drop that location
Cause I got [muted]
Might just be your [muted]
In different area codes
Some of 'em bros
Could be your daddy
And I'm big pimpin' cause they know
They know what's
up Hello?
[cheers, applause]
- [cheering]
- Hip hop presented by Sprite.
- First song to make me fall in love with hip hop
was Busta Rhymes, Woo-Hah!!.
The hook, when I step up in the place,
you gotta-- step correct.
Woo-hah.
Got you all in check.
That's literally my favorite part of the whole song.
Busta Rhymes being so eccentric,
it caught the attention of a kid like me
who like wild music and wild musicians and stuff, you know.
And I was just like, oh, dude crazy.
Like he look--you know, he look cold.
Like he was like, he got like a different type of personality
about him.
And I think that kind of played a direct part in me
just finding my own identity.
You know, just how I dress, how I swag, how I do everything.
Just watching Busta Rhymes.
[music playing]
- Please welcome Marlon Wayans.
[music playing]
- Thank you.
Busta Rhymes in a word, brilliant.
I was at lunch with the legendary Mona
Scott, who by the way sounds very New York.
It's like she swallowed Wendy Williams.
And we was talking, and she said,
Busta is going to get his Lifetime Achievement Award.
I said, well, it's about damn time.
- [cheering]
- I said, who's presenting.
She said, Swizz Beats, and we're
looking for somebody else.
I said, I'm there.
And the reason why I said I'm there is because I remember
when I was 16 years old on the set of In Living Color telling
my brothers, Keenen and Damon, I was like,
yo, y'all got to get leaders of the new school on.
And Damon was like, who are they.
And Keenen was like, OK, put them on.
I said, there's this dude Busta Rhymes.
And then they perform. Charlie went on.
Dinkle went on.
And out of nowhere you hear, it's
Busta Rhymes, somebody infamous, always misbehaving
and mischievous.
And it was done.
Every song this man has done, he's
been a part of other people's hits
and been stealing hits for years.
If you know Busta, we are all happy for Busta in this room
because nobody-- everybody knows he deserves it.
He's a good brother, a great dude.
- [cheering]
- You see Busta out, he'll hug you real close
and talk to you with a hot mouth and be spitting on you
and be telling you how much he loves you dog.
- [laughing]
- And you don't say nothing because you
know that, that man loves you, and he loves his art.
And we are so happy to be here to celebrate
this ginormous entity called Busta Rhymes.
Let's look at his journey, please.
- (VOICEOVER) Bounce baby, bounce baby.
Bounce. Bounce.
When you come through, hit ya with the 1, 2.
- With 12 Grammy nominations and over 10 million records
sold, Busta Rhymes reigned supreme
as one of music's biggest and most
prolific hip hop heavyweights.
- Busta Rhymes is like the mayor of hip hop.
- He's unafraid to take chances.
- There's no bounds for him.
- He's just a brilliant artist.
- Busta Rhymes legacy is immense.
- Busta is the king of this.
- I'm Busta Rhymes, the mighty infamous.
- Originally from Brooklyn, New York,
a young Busta Rhymes would later
join forces with fellow Long Island emcees
to create Leaders of the New School,
garnering mentorship from hip hop royalty, Public Enemy.
- When I first heard Busta rap, he had a chopper style.
He had a little bit of Jamaican flow, a little bit of the flow
from Brooklyn.
He stood out and had a deeper, gruffier voice.
And he had his own original style.
- Very necessary.
- After his run with Leaders of the New School,
Busta soon developed his own image as a solo act,
becoming widely known for his intricate wordplay,
electrifying stage presence, inventive music videos,
and eclectic sense of style.
[music playing]
(RAPPING) They say, yo, watch that.
- Woo ha!
Woo ha!
- He picks these patterns and these pockets to rhyme ends.
When you listen to his verses, you
hear something that is distinctively
different, super uniform.
Or it's like where he goes into his, like, damn near jazz
trumpeter or saxophonist.
It's like Miles Davis, just scatting over the beat.
He just rhymes different. [music playing]
- (RAPPING) Hit you with no delay, so what you're
saying, yo.
- I was obsessed with plenty songs
by Busta and Flipmode Squad, like the whole situation.
People that know me know that I love Ante Up, can't help it.
It is what it is. [music playing]
- (RAPPING) Who be the king of this sound?
- He gives it his all, every time.
Like, I've seen Busta perform in front of 10 people.
And you would think he's performing in front of, like,
20,000, 30,000 people.
- The style of his music dictated his look.
He was rambunctious, and bold, and brazen, and ferocious.
And everything we did was just that.
[music playing]
- (RAPPING) We gonna make your body feel wet.
We gonna make your body say yeah.
- He found me, let me hear the song.
And I fell in love with it.
It was just different.
And knowing that he was going to do something
incredible visually with it as he's always done.
- When it comes to videos, I am going
to say give me some more.
It's like that joint, visually, that was next level.
But all of Busta's videos is top tier.
- (RAPPING) Never kiss them, but I
always hit 'em back to DR.
- From Flipmode Squad to the Conglomerate,
Busta Rhymes is a true visionary and remains
a one-of-one artist, solidifying his position
as a certified hip hop icon.
- He was always ahead of his time.
He didn't care.
Like, he just did what he wanted.
That was an approach that most people
were not taking back then.
He pioneered that.
- (SINGING) Busta what it is right now.
- (RAPPING) Come on.
Let me show you what it is right now.
- He's the once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
Whenever he walks on that stage, people scream.
He immediately reminds you of a cornerstone of the culture.
- Busta has always--
he's always pushed the envelope.
And he's continuing to do that.
- As an emcee, people know they can't [bleep] Busta Rhymes.
- (SINGING) Busta what it is right now.
Busta what it is right now.
[cheering]
- Yes, indeed.
Yes, indeed.
It's showtime.
I need everybody to stand on your feet
for the legend, Busta Rhymes.
[cheering]
And the reason, the reason I need you to stand on your feet
because every time he performs, he gives y'all all his energy.
So I want y'all to give Busta all his energy tonight.
Make some noise in the building!
[cheering]
When I say, Busta, you say, Rhymes.
Busta! - Rhymes!
- Busta! - Rhymes!
- Busta!
- Rhymes!
- We celebrate him while he's here today right now.
The Lifetime Achievement awards to my brother right now.
This statue, this trophy is heavy for a heavyweight
for real.
This thing, like, you trying to make me work out, Bus?
Hold on, Swizz, don't be talking
about the stuff like that, and move like this,
and move like that.
I speak to this brother every day.
And there's so many people in this room
that this brother inspired.
And if Busta inspired you, make another round of applause
right now.
[cheering]
I could talk all day about my brother.
The 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Sprite
goes to the (VOCALIZATIONS) Busta Rhymes!
What, what, what, what!
[cheering]
[music playing]
- (SINGING) If you really want to party with me,
let me see just what you got for me.
Put all your hands where my eyes can see.
Straight buckwildin in the place to be.
If you really want to party with me.
In God we trust.
Yo, it's a must that you heard of us, we murderous.
A lot of people be wondering and they curious.
And looking like they wonder how we be so mysterious
Furious, all my [muted] is serious
Others be walkin' around fearin' us
Front baby like you don't wanna be hearing us
Gotta listen to how radio be playing us
30 time a day it'll make you delirious
Damaging everything all up in the areas
Yo, it's funny how all the chickens be always serving us
All up in between they end where they wanna carry us
Hit you good then I hit them off with the alias
Various, chickens, they wanna marry us.
Yeah it's Flipmode, you stupid, we 'bout to bust
Seven figure money the label preparing us
Bite the dust, instead of you making a fuss.
[cheers, applause]
- All right.
So I'mma wear it on my sleeve.
I do wanna cry.
[cheers, applause]
You know, they told me I got two minutes.
[laughter]
So I'mma try.
I was the youngest one of the leaders
of the new school and the first one to have a child.
My oldest child was the three-year-old in the "Woo
Hah" video back in '96.
He's 30.
He's right here.
[applause]
I went on and I had five more kids after that.
[laughter]
So I got six beautiful children.
Five out of the six of them is here.
T'Ziah, Mariah, Cacie, T'Khi, Trillian, and the young boss
who's home, Sicario.
Now I'm saying all of this to say I was scared when leaders
of the new school broke up.
Because I ain't never want to be a solo MC.
I ain't like the responsibility of making a full song.
I'm good with the getting to the 16 bars
and busting everybody [bleep] and getting up out of here.
So I got kicked out of the group, and I was scared.
If y'all know I got kicked out of the group
after Scenario remix.
This is 1993.
I ain't put out a solo album until '96
because I was trying to figure out
what I was going to do being that I
had to feed my oldest child.
So Scenario had been hot in the street at the time,
and I thought that I would use this to my advantage.
I knew all of the studios.
I knew all of the receptionists that worked at the studios,
and I would call on them.
Who's working in there tonight?
And they would tell me.
And I would go to this little weed spot,
and this is pre-Northern Lights and DRO and Loud,
and this is when it was just Chocolate Thai,
skunk, and cess and indica.
So I would go to this location that we will not disclose,
and I would get this Chocolate Thai weed,
and I would get this slowest burning
cigar called White Owl cigars.
And I would call these studio sessions
to find out who was in them.
And when I found out who was in them, I would just pop up.
I knew they was going to be happy to see me anyway
because ran around like a dungeon dragon was
popping in the street.
So I would pull up to the studio,
and I would act like I was working in those studio
rooms the night before.
And I forgot something in there.
Yo, I left my rhyme book.
I got to get something.
I got to look for something.
Good to see y'all Can I come through?
But I'm coming in that room, and I
got my White Owl cigar of Chocolate
Thai burning already.
And I knew once I passed it to the MCs that
was working on they song in that session,
they couldn't kick me out.
This is my way of finding out how to feed my son.
Because when leaders kicked me out, I couldn't do the shows
and get the show money no more.
Promoters wasn't paying us for partial group to show up.
Now don't get me wrong.
Everything that is Busta Rhymes embodies as far as going
to get it and not taking no for an answer
came from being a Caribbean raised
in a Jamaican home, and--
[cheers]
- --and the same determination as leaders of the new school
when we wanted to get on.
I got to big up Dinko.
I got to big up Brown.
I gotta big up Mallo because we wanted it so bad that we did
anything it took to get on.
With that point being said, I made sure
that when my weed was moving around
in that room and that studio, I would
quickly whip up a 16-bar verse before the weed came back
to me.
[applause]
And I was able to try to do that quick enough for them
dudes that want to hear my verse
and when they asked me what was I doing I said,
let me go in the booth and do it.
I ain't telling you my rhyme until you let me in the booth.
And I go in the booth.
And I spit.
I come out the booth.
They couldn't hear the song without the rah-rah no more.
I did that three or four times a week.
I go back to the Violator office,
tell Mona Scott and Chris Lighty, yo,
send that invoice for $5,000.
Send that one for $10,000.
Send that one for $15,000.
$30, $40,000 a week, I ain't got to split it
up with nobody in the group?
I like that.
Long story short, by default, I pioneered the feature.
[applause]
I'm running out of time.
But one more thing.
A lot of greatness from our people and our culture
is by default because it's just a magic that we have.
You ain't never seen a Black caveman, right?
OK, cool.
So with that I'm going to say, I just
am grateful that the blessing that has been bestowed upon me
and this gift that I've been given
and this fire that continues to burn as a passion in my soul
that allows me to get in any situation from the stage
to collaborate with whoever, and making sure that I am far
from the weak link, because I enjoy
walking away from a situation saying I bust ass.
[applause]
It's just me trying to do my duty
to continue to advance the culture
and continue to contribute in a significant way.
I see so many people in here that I've known
and I've grown with for a long time.
And y'all watched me grow.
And I love y'all.
And I know y'all love me.
But I'm a real giver of love.
Sometimes I know I might overwhelm you.
I want to hug you.
And I won't let you go.
I shake your hand.
I shake it tight.
I speak to you from a place--
I really want you to know that--
I really want you to know I mean what I'm saying.
You know what I'm saying?
I got to say this.
I've got to say this.
There's nothing that I do that's as
great as I do it without my brother, Spliff Star.
[applause]
I love you so much, my best friend.
[applause]
My other best friend, DJ Scratchator.
We all grew up in East Flatbush Brooklyn
before we went to Long Island.
I think I had enough.
I really wish I could keep talking.
It took so long to give me this.
I got so much to say.
Mommy, I love you so much.
Thank you for signing my deal when
I was 17 at Elektra Records.
Sylvia Rhone came over there, changed my life.
Put your hands, woo-ha, everything remains raw.
We was busting ass.
Sylvia Rhone means so much to me.
Mona Scott, you mean so much to me.
Sylvia went to Universal.
She left Warner.
She brought me over there, took me with her.
She went to Epic.
I'm back with her.
You just dropped an incredible record two days ago called
"Beach Ball" with me and BIA.
It's the anthem for the summer.
Now, one thing that I need y'all to know,
we're going to stop these little petty beefs
that we'd be doing in rap.
This [muted]
[applause]
Y'all messing up the bag.
Y'all messing up the energy.
I don't like when I talk to these dudes that
run these streaming platforms.
And they talking about we turning the consumer off
because there's so much little this
and little that going on with you rappers.
We're going to stop that.
We're going to love each other.
And we're going to get to this money.
[applause]
Executives stop promoting everything that
can be great in the music too.
It ain't just got to be about the ass shaking,
and how much drugs we sold, and how much dudes we tied up,
and how much drugs we doing.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm from the Chuck D era and the Cain era.
But I'm a timeless great.
I rock with all of my new artists.
Everything about me is leading the new.
That's why my group is called Leaders of the New.
Shout out to every new artist that's contributing
and doing their job.
I love seeing Ice Spice.
I love seeing Coi Leray.
I love seeing Kendrick.
I love seeing J. Cole.
I love seeing Wu-Tang.
I love seeing Naz.
We're going stop this narrative like we don't love each other.
There's this divide thing.
It's corny. It's tired.
It's wack.
What's really happening is they scared for us to get together.
We might give y'all too much information.
But we ain't going nowhere.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm going to tell you one thing that I loved about the OGs
on my block.
They might have went to jail when I was 10.
And I'm 20 years old.
And maybe I'm still a knucklehead now.
And I'm on the block trying to hustle like them.
They come home when they're 30.
And they come back to the block acting like, yo, young boy.
Let me show you how to do this.
And then the young boy say of course, OG.
We salute you, OG.
But then the OG don't want to listen to the young boy.
When you trying to tell a young boy what to do.
But he don't look the part.
He don't smell the part.
He don't live the part no more.
How do you expect the young G to listen to you?
You still got to look the part.
You still got to be the part.
Because you don't want the young G to say,
hey, yo, OG, you telling me how to do something.
But it don't look like it work for you no more.
We looking good.
A lot of us OGs look good!
[applause]
It's important.
We want y'all to pull up.
And we want to give you the information.
Because when I needed it, Cain let me come to his crib,
a million dollar crib in Jamaica states.
EPMD used to let me come to their crib.
We're out in the Suffolk County area
and see all of their real estate.
Chuck D used to sit me down and give me the jewels.
I got the jewels.
I got the arm put around me to school
me, and show me how to be groomed, and well-raised.
Learn what to do.
And take it. And apply it.
And do it.
Secure the win.
Y'all got to do that now.
And we're going to do it with y'all because we
still busting ass!
[cheering]
[music playing]
- Next up, Busta Rhymes brings the celebration
to the stage with Swizz Beatz, a little dancehall
featuring Spice, Skillibeng, Cutty
Ranks, Scar Lip, and more.
And later, a crazy hip hop dance performance
featuring Kid N' Play, 69 Boyz, DJ
Unk, G's Boyz, King Combs, F.L.Y., and Soulja Boy
tell 'em.
But first, get ready for a special performance
from Sandals Resort with Shaggy.
[cheers, applause]
- Here are the nominees for Best International Act.
[music playing]
Aya Nakamura, France.
Ayra Starr, Nigeria.
Burna Boy, Nigeria.
Central Cee, UK.
Ella Mai, UK.
K.O, South Africa.
L7NNON, Brazil.
Stormzy, UK.
Tiakola, France.
Uncle Waffles, Swaziland.
[cheers, applause]
- What's up, y'all?
I'm Percy Miller, Master P. And before we
get into this international award,
I got to give a shoutout to the Bay Area.
And we can't mention 50 years of hip-hop
without mentioning the South, Rap A Lot
Records, Suave Hop Records.
Uncle Luke, Cash Money Records, and No Limit Records.
I love y'all, man.
Let me tell you all something.
We put money into the game.
We talk about hip-hop.
We taught them how to be bosses.
And y'all see.
Y'all wear Gucci.
I wear Miati, motivating one's health,
encourage you actually to think independently.
Also, me and Snoop, we got a partnership I know
y'all haven't heard of, a Black-owned cereal company,
but we are that.
So hip hop 50 years.
We're going international.
Go get your Snoop cereal.
And let me tell y'all who the winner is, you heard me?
It's Burna Boy.
Yeah.
[cheers, applause]
Yeah.
You know what?
Burna Boy not here.
But I see Michael Blackson from all the way over there.
[laughter]
But Michael Blackson, look.
- [laughs]
- Mike, accept this for Burna Boy.
We love y'all.
- This is for the continent of Africa right now.
[cheers, applause]
For Afrobeat.
Shoutout to all of you.
Burna Boy, congratulations.
Congratulations to Afrobeat.
Congratulations to my continent.
Everybody go and take a trip to Africa.
Go visit home. [cheers, applause]
- Yeah, Mike.
But one thing I want to say, y'all--
- Talk to me.
- Everybody put your wands up, man.
Everybody lost somebody, I'm gonna
put this up on my daughter, Tatiana Miller.
I love you.
And if you believe in God, you could make it.
I did it. Y'all could do it.
I love y'all.
[cheers, applause]
[music playing]
(RAPPING) Who gets laid, the chicken or the egg?
How about the emcee that had just
been led to a Renegade teacher, preacher?
Then he got stomped Cause I'm a preacher
- Please welcome D-Nice.
(RAPPING) If I was a king right now, I get crowned.
- Yes.
[cheers, applause]
Yes.
Over the past three years, Doritos Solid Black,
along with the PepsiCo Foundation,
has provided resources and a platform
to amplify Black voices.
The next performance is proof of hip hop's
bold impact on the culture.
And as a DJ who's played music all around the world,
I can say one thing's for certain.
Hip hop is going to make you dance.
Please, I need everybody to get up out of your seats right now
for the hip hop 50 finale.
Let's go!
- Hey, check this out, hip-hop 50.
[cheers, applause]
How about to make the whole world dance in support
of the [inaudible] Capri.
Yo, Doug E Fresh, cut teach 'em something.
["TEACH ME HOW TO DOUGIE" PLAYING]
(RAPPING) Ay
- I'm gonna make the whole world dance right now.
- You all ready?
BET, here we go.
(RAPPING) They be like smoove.
What?
Can you teach me how to dougie?
You know why?
Cause all the girls love me.
Ay.
All I need is a beat that's super bumpin'.
And for you, you, and you.
- Keep goin', Doug, come on!
(RAPPING) Teach me how to dougie.
Teach me, teach me how to dougie.
Teach me how to dougie.
Teach me, teach me how to dougie, dougie.
Everybody love me.
Every, everybody love me.
Everybody love me.
You ain't messing with my dougie.
- Keep going.
(RAPPING) Teach me how to dougie.
Teach me, teach me how to dougie.
Yeah. Teach me how to dougie.
Teach me, teach me how to dougie, dougie.
Everybody love me.
Every, everybody love me.
Everybody love me.
You ain't messing with my dougie.
[scratch]
- Hey, yo, Doug, can I show them
the break dances right now?
- Let's go!
[MUSIC - "LET ME CLEAR MY THROAT"]
[beat boxing]
- Hey-oh!
We gonna hey-oh!
When I say hip, y'all say hop.
Hip-- - --hop.
- Hip--
- --hop.
- Come on!
Turn it up!
Take it down.
[beat boxing]
Oh!
Come on!
Kid 'n Play in the house!
Whoa!
Kid 'n Play, let's go!
[MUSIC - KID 'N PLAY, "GETTIN' FUNKY"]
(RAPPING) Come on, baby.
Come on, baby. Yeah.
Come on, baby. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Come on, baby.
Yeah.
Come on, baby.
The ingredients for comin correct.
We select on the set beats and rhymes that are both in check.
Herby's behind the board cold gettin respect.
We are Kid 'N Play in total effect.
We gettin funky, up to par.
And that's with a hyped up beat.
Just playin on the guitar.
Yo, you'll feel the bass. It's soft and wet.
Yes, honey. You'll get a taste.
But not just yet.
Right, money?
The beat is live, troop, so don't front on it.
Get it while the getting's good.
And just jump on it. Yeah!
My minute.
Yo, hour by hour Say what?
Kid 'N Play got soul power We're gettin funky, yeah.
- Oh, this is just too much, man.
Ay yo, King Combs, come out here.
Show 'em how to shake it up.
[MUSIC - KING COMBS, "CAN'T STOP, WON'T STOP"]
(RAPPING) Can't stop, won't stop, bad boy.
- Let's go!
(RAPPING) Always upgradin' from my last toy.
- Let's go!
(RAPPING) I'm done [mute] Lisa, Keisha, and Joy.
And I ain't trippin' if you ain't takin' any joy.
I was locked 23 and one.
Now I ball like 23 and one.
Sniper gang, I'm always playin' manhunt.
I'm the one who kept it foolin' and what?.
It might look light.
But it's heavy like my Jesus.
Might rock a throwback.
Like I'm fab with the chipped tooth.
[mute] baby, I got deleon and blunts too.
She text me, "Where you at?"
I sent the addy, come through.
- I told you I'm gonna make the whole world
dance out here, right?
Yo, where you at?
[MUSIC - 69 BOYZ, "TOOTSEE ROLL"]
(RAPPING) The Butterfly? Uh-uh, that's old.
Let me see the Tootsee Roll.
Tootsee Roll.
Just make that Tootsee Roll.
Let's go! Here we go.
Tootsee Roll.
Just make that Tootsee Roll.
Come on. Come on.
Tootsee Roll.
Just make that Tootsee Roll.
Here we go, Tootsee Roll.
Come on, let's make that Tootsee Roll.
Everybody, to the left. Come on!
To the left. Let's go.
To the right, to the right.
To the front, to the front.
Here you go.
To the back, to the back.
Come on, and now slide.
Slide, baby, slide.
Just slide, baby, slide.
Come on, come on.
To the left, to the left.
To the right, to the right.
To the front, to the front.
To the back, to the back.
Come on.
And now dip, baby, dip.
Come on, let's dip, baby, dip.
Dip, baby, dip.
One time.
- Ain't no party like a pre party.
Let me show you how we get it when we snap!
[cheers, applause]
[MUSIC - DEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ, "LEAN WIT IT, ROCK WIT IT"]
- Let it go.
Dem Franchize, come on!
(RAPPING) Lean wit it, rock wit it!
- Let's go!
(RAPPING) Lean wit it, rock wit it!
Lean wit it, rock wit it!
Lean wit it!
Yuu!
[MUSIC - SOULJA BOY, "CRANK DAT (SOULJA BOY)"]
- Rest easy, buddy.
- Soulja Boy, what's up?
(RAPPING) Soulja Boy, tell 'em.
Hey, I got this new dance for y'all called the Soulja Boy.
- It's the world's greatest party rock with the kid.
- Yo!
Let's see.
Let's go! Soulja.
- Soulja Boy!
(RAPPING) Soulja Boy, off in this ho.
Watch me crank it, watch me roll.
Watch me crank that Soulja Boy.
Then Superman that ho.
Now watch me yuu. Crank that Soulja.
Now crank.
Now you crank that Soulja.
Keep going!
Soulja Boy off in this ho.
Watch me crank it, watch me roll.
Watch me crank that Soulja Boy, Then Superman that ho.
Now watch me yuu. Crank that Soulja.
Now crank. Yuu.
Crank that Soulja. Now watch.
Yuu.
- Now walk!
[music - dj unk, "walk it out"]
- You already know the playhouse!
- Yeah, yeah.
Keep going.
We got the whole world dancing right now.
- It's the go, go.
- Just walk it out! Let go, let go.
(RAPPING) Now walk it out Walk it out.
Walk it out. Walk it out.
Westside walk it out. Southside walk it out.
Walk it out.
Eastside walk it out. .
BET, walk it out.
[MUSIC - GS BOYZ, "STANKY LEGG"]
(RAPPING) [mute] if you wild Hold up.
Do the stanky legg.
- Come on!
(RAPPING) Do the stanky legg when I hit da dance
flo', I be do the stanky legg.
Yeah. Do the stanky legg.
Yeah.
Do the stanky legg.
If you wired up. Hold up.
Do the stanky legg. Stank!
Do the stanky legg.
Stank!
Do the stanky legg.
When I hit da dance flo', I'll be do the stanky legg.
Do the stanky legg.
Do the stanky Legg.
- Yeah!
- Oh my God, Ladies and gentlemen.
I'm about to shift the whole room left to right,
in and out, back and forth.
You know what's up.
You all follow me.
Fly, let's go!
[MUSIC - FAST LIFE YUNGSTARZ F.L.Y.
FT EASTON, "SWAG SURFIN"] (RAPPING) Man, I got that swag.
Hey, man, I got that swag.
My hat matches my bag.
You know I'm popping tags.
- It's the what?
(RAPPING) 'Cause man, I got that swag.
- BET hip hop 50!
(RAPPING) I got that swag.
- Keep it coming!
(RAPPING) You know I'm popping tags.
- Everybody, I want to see you go real hard!
(RAPPING) 'Cause when I got that swag.
- One, two, three, come on!
(RAPPING) I'm on hypnotic, exotic.
- Let's go!
(RAPPING) This polo on my body.
Got a bad girl beside me.
And her friend right behind me.
And I'm swagging. Swag.
Swag! I'm surfing.
I'm swagging. Swag.
I'm surfing. I'm swagging.
Swag. I'm surfing.
I'm clean like dish detergent.
On Patron, yeah, I'm gone.
Purple by the zone.
Yeah, I'm smoking strong. Strong.
And you know I'm gone.
'cause I'm swagging. Swag.
I'm surfing. Swag I'm swagging.
Swag. I'm surfing.
Surf. I'm swagging.
Swag. I'm surfing.
I'm clean like dish detergent.
- Make some noise, hip hop 50!
[cheers, applause]
Yeah!
Yeah.
[music playing]
(RAPPING) I know you got it.
- It's been a crazy night, and there's still more to come,
only at the 2023 BET Awards.
(RAPPING) Swag
[FAST LIFE YUNGSTAZ, "SWAG SURFIN'"] I'm on
Hypnotic, exotic.
This Polo on my body.
Got a bad girl beside me.
- BET, thank you for rocking with us all night long, man.
- And celebrating 50 years of hip hop.
- Good night.
On Patron, yeah, I'm gone.
Purple by the zone, yeah, I'm smoking strong.
And you know I'm gone 'cause I'm swagging.
I'm surfing. I'm swagging.
I'm surfing.
I'm clean like dish detergent.
OK, I pop off in the club with a pocket full of bands.
Big stupid fresh like I'm wrapped up in saran.
Swag super cool, blowing strong like a fan.
And my chain shining hard it just gave my neck a tan.
Pockets on Popeye cause they swoll of that spinach.
Peachtree swag you can call me Mr. Lenox.
Bottles in my hand, putting on just like cable.
Surfing on the stands like a young Kelly Starter.
I swag when I surf.
Now watch me surf and swag.
I swag when I surf.
Now watch me surf and swag.
Swagging in the club, you don't see me throwing money.
Catch me with a bad chick and all
her friends as fine as her.
Drinks, we going to pour them up.
Exotic, what we rolling up.
Patron, Goose, or Hennessey, they got it.
I'll go drink it up.
I'm always wearing Polo, nigga I'm Ralph Lauren mascot.
Cake on debit I don't hesitate to cash out.
Paint John Stephenson, the black and blue Jag out.
Pockets on half-time, I'm always bringing bands out.
I'm on Hypnotic, exotic.
This Polo on my body.
Got a bad girl beside me and her friend right behing me.
Yeah, I'm swagging. I'm surfing.
I'm swagging. I'm surfing.
I'm swagging.
I'm surfing.
I'm clean like dish detergent.
On Patron, yeah, I'm gone.
Purple by the zone.
Yeah, I'm smoking strong.