Teyana Taylor, Keke Palmer and Chlöe were among the stars who hit the stage to help honor Usher at the 2024 BET Awards held at Peacock Theater on Sunday (June 30) in Los Angeles.
01.07.2024 - 05:15 / deadline.com
Some of the biggest names in music came together to celebrate some of Usher Raymond‘s greatest hits on Sunday.
Childish Gambino, Keke Palmer, Chloe Bailey, Teyana Taylor and more performed a musical tribute to the R&B crooner as he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles.
Producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis introduced a video retrospective featuring industry peers praising Usher’s career, before Gambino serenaded the live audience with the artist’s 2002 single ‘U Don’t Have to Call’ before Palmer transitioned to ‘You Make Me Wanna…’
The tribute also featured a medley of hits like ‘Good Good’, ‘There Goes My Baby’ and ‘Confessions Part II’ from artists like Summer Walker, Coco Jones and Marsha Ambrosius.
After taking in the show front row, Usher accepted the award with a heartfelt speech. “Getting here has definitely not been easy but it has been worth it,” he began.
“This Life Achievement Award… I don’t know, man. Is it too early for me to receive it? Because I’m still running and gunning and I still love this shit like I did when I was 8 years old. But I want to thank each and every one of the performers tonight who paid tribute.”
Usher added, “We was going back to moments that some of y’all might not even know, when I was dropping my pants. So those moments that become legacy are all about expression and just having fun and finding the connection and the spark. When I first started, I had a different idea about what I thought life was gonna be. I started off as an artist in a group in Chatanooga, Tennessee, and my name was Cha-Cha. And I really was searching for some identity and I was doing that specifically because I was trying to make sense of this name that was given
Teyana Taylor, Keke Palmer and Chlöe were among the stars who hit the stage to help honor Usher at the 2024 BET Awards held at Peacock Theater on Sunday (June 30) in Los Angeles.
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Normani had to sadly pull out of her scheduled performance at the 2024 BET Awards on Sunday night (June 30).
Victoria Monet slayed the stage during her performance at the 2024 BET Awards on Sunday (June 30) at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
Childish Gambino took to the stage at the 2024 BET Awards on Sunday (June 30) held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
Two years later, Will Smith has made his triumphant return to the awards show stage.
Normani has pulled out of her scheduled performance at the BET Awards due to an injury.The former Fifth Harmony member was due to perform at the BET Awards on Sunday night (June 30) in the United States. However, less than an hour before the show went live, the singer took to social media to share that she wouldn’t be able to perform “on doctor’s orders”.In the first of two posts on her Instagram Stories, Normani wrote: “I am more frustrated and disappointed than anyone, believe me.
Will Smith got his rap groove back at the BET Awards on Sunday night.The 53-year-old Oscar and Grammy winner performed his new single “You Can Make It,” a gospel-charged testimony — featuring Haitian-American singer Fridayy and the Sunday Service Choir — that was released on Friday.The performance marked the first time Smith appeared at an awards show since he infamously slapped comedian Chris Rock across the face for a joke at the expense of Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith.“The darker the hell you gotta endure/The brighter the heaven you get to enjoy/The harder the fall, the higher you soar/God opens a window when the devil closes the door,” raps Smith, sounding more like the Fresh Preacher.“Believe me, they tried to bleed Will Smith/In the rearview, I see adversity was the gift/To lift me higher gifts require faith/So dry your eyes and then you’ll find the way,” he continues over the take-you-to-church arrangement.It all continues the Oscar Slapgate redemption tour that Smith has been on since “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” opened to boffo box office on June 7, reestablishing the actor as a bankable movie star.But now, the “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” MC is looking to regain the music cred that led DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince to receive the first Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1989.Smith wasn’t the only rap icon to take the stage at the 2024 BET Awards: Ms. Lauryn Hill celebrated the 25th anniversary of her Album of the Year Grammy win for her 1998 classic “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”Also performing at the show — hosted for the fourth time by Taraji P.
Will Smith performed his new single for the first time at the 2024 BET Awards held at Peacock Theater on Sunday night (June 30) in Los Angeles.
Megan Thee Stallion was the opening act for the 2024 BET Awards held at Peacock Theater on Sunday night (June 30) in Los Angeles.
Usher wears a white blazer and jeans while hitting the blue carpet at the 2024 BET Awards held at Peacock Theater on Sunday (June 30) in Los Angeles.
Niecy Nash-Betts and Colman Domingo are among the stars in attendance at the 2024 BET Awards held at Peacock Theater on Sunday evening (June 30) in Los Angeles.
Taraji P Henson shines in gold while hitting the blue carpet at the 2024 BET Awards held at Peacock Theater on Sunday (June 30) in Los Angeles.
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Childish Gambino has debuted the trailer for his upcoming movie “Bando Stone & The New World” during the BET Awards 2024. A short version of the trailer ran during the commercials during the event, though the rapper posted a two-minute version on his YouTube account an hour prior.
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Will Smith debuted his new single “You Can Make It” at the 2024 BET Awards, just two days after releasing the track that features Fridayy and Sunday Service Choir.
Thania Garcia Normani will not be performing for the BET Awards on Sunday night. Normani wrote and posted a lengthy statement to her Instagram story saying she injured herself during rehearsals for the music and entertainment awards show. The singer was scheduled to perform as part of a lineup that also included Ice Spice, Sexyy Red, Latto, Cardi B, Queen Latifah and the Jungle Brothers, among others.
The 2024 BET Awards are taking place in just a couple of hours!
The 2024 BET Awards will close out the first half of the year at the end of June. This year’s show boasts a wide range of nominees as well as performers, and the spotlight will be on Usher — fresh from his Super Bowl halftime show — as he receives the BET Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes pioneers in the industry who have shifted the culture of entertainment.
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