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27.06.2022 - 06:37 / variety.com
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorKanye West made a surprise appearance some three hours into the BET Awards on Sunday night to pay tribute to Sean “Diddy” Combs, the show’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award.Wearing a grey leather Hood by Air jacket, a matching baseball cap, a full black-stocking facial mask and shades, he gave a speech in Sean Combs’ honor, who has also called himself Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, just Diddy and most recently, simply Love. As West attests below, he is no stranger to changing names: Last year he legally changed his name to “Ye.” Below, he speaks movingly of Combs’ influence on him, stressing that he considers him an artist — and it is easy the influence of Combs viewing his entire creative and business output as part of a whole.
Read West’s speech in full: “How do we crown our kings? How do we appreciate our kings?,” he began. “To think how far we could just make if off of inspiration, to hear the way somebody chopped a sample in. Me and [friend] rushin’ to see who could get the Bad Boy mixtape and play back the original version of “Benjamins,” over and over, thinkin’ I was one of the Hit Men.“I was signed to Puff without him knowing,” he laughed, adding “That statement is not legally binding!”“To go to New York,” he continued.
“And think that everybody had on leather jackets and new Tims every day…“To see Puff in real life at the ‘Missing You’ video, just like me tapping free like a little kid — I just need to meet this man. This is my favorite artist. You see I’m saying favorite artist — everything, not specifically production, the trip.
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Kanye West made a surprise appearance at the 2022 BET Awards Sunday night, paying tribute to the ceremony’s sole lifetime achievement award recipient, Diddy, with a five-and-a-half-minute speech. He spoke on his long friendship with the Bad Boy Records founder, who mentored him early in his career. “I was signed to Puff without him knowing,” Ye reminisced, discussing how he idolized Diddy growing up.
Kanye West showed up at the 2022 BET Awards covered head to toe to honor his favorite artist Sean “Diddy” Combs. During the ceremony, the songwriter, record executive, and entrepreneur, also known as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, or Puffy, received a lifetime achievement award, presented by West and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds.“How do we crown our kings?” West asked the crowd.
The BET Awards gave Sean «Diddy» Combs his flowers on Sunday night. None other than Kanye «Ye» West took the stage to help present Diddy with the award alongside Babyface. Kanye talked about his history in the music industry with Diddy, looking up to him as an artist and even managed to crack a few jokes!«How do we crown our kings? How do we appreciate our kings? To think how far we could just make it off of inspiration,» Kanye said starting off his speech.
Kanye West made a surprise appearance at last night’s BET Awards, honouring Sean “Diddy” Combs as the rapper and producer received the Lifetime Achievement Award.Babyface introduced the section, looking back on Combs’ achievements. “He made me feel like I could do anything and go anywhere, and that’s the mark of a great producer,” he said. Babyface then brought out Ye, whose face was covered in a mask, sunglasses and a baseball cap.“How do we crown our kings? How do we appreciate our kings? To think how far we could just make if off of inspiration, to hear the way somebody chopped a sample in,” West said, recalling repeatedly listening to the original version of ‘It’s All About The Benjamins’.“To see Puff in real life at the ‘Missing You’ video, just like me tapping, free like a little kid, like, ‘I just need to meet this man.
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Jennifer Aniston reeled off all the achievements her father, John Aniston, has accomplished in his storied career in television, making it convincingly clear why he deserved the 2022 Daytime Emmy's Lifetime Achievement Award.The star appeared remotely during Friday's show to honor her father, who for nearly four decades has played the role of Victor Kiriakis on. John's co-star, Suzanne Rogers, came out first with a brief spiel before turning things over to Jennifer, who appeared on video.«This is truly a special moment for me,» she said.
Kim Kardashian has shared a post for ex husband Kanye West, thanking him for being “the best dad”.The Kardashians star, 41, officially split from her rapper husband, 45, in April of this year after the star was declared “legally single” by a US court.The former couple share four children together – North, eight, Saint, six, Chicago, four, and Psalm, two – with the pair sharing parenting duties together.To celebrate Father’s Day, Kim shared two photos of Kanye with their children. In the first photo, the four children are standing in a line on a porch as Kanye bends down to put his arms around Psalm.
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