Lizzo Accepted 2020 BET Award in Honor of Beyoncé

"Beyonce, thank you for everything you have done for black culture.”

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Lizzo expressed gratitude toward Beyonce for "everything [she has] accomplished for Black culture" as she acknowledged her Best Female R&B/Pop Artist honor at the BET Awards.


The service was held basically on Sunday night (28.06.20) due to the coronavirus pandemic, so the 32-year-old vocalist recorded a video message from her home, in which she adulated the 38-year-old star - who won the Humanitarian and BET HER prizes on the night - and conceded she has felt like a champ the previous three years too.


She stated: "Thank you so much BET, and thank you to all the wonderfully-talented, beautiful black women I share this category with.



"Beyonce, thank you for everything you have done for black culture.”



"Three years ago, I sat in the audience and I didn't win anything. But I still went home and felt like a winner. Last year, I performed on the main stage. I didn't win anything, and I still felt like a winner. I will always feel like a winner, because as long as you're winning in life that's the only trophy you need.



"So we're all winners, ladies. Let's keep bigging up the culture, because that's what this has been about and will always be about."



Megan Thee Stallion triumphed in the Best Female Hip-Hop Artist classification, and she let it out felt "so crazy" recording an acknowledgment discourse from home.




She stated: "I'll probably record this video 10 ten times, it feels so crazy doing this from my house. But thank you BET, I cannot believe I've won. Thank you to my team, thank you to Houston, thank you mumma, thank you God.” She added "I used to watch the BET Awards all the time thinking, 'One day, that's gonna be me going up there accepting my awards,' and now it is. So, thank y'all so much."




Other enormous victors on the celebratory night included Roddy Ricch, for Best New Artist and Album of the Year. Chris Brown won Best Male R&B/Pop Artist and Best Collaboration for his tune 'No Guidance' with Drake, who had driven designations with six gestures.




Open Enemy opened the occasion - which was facilitated by Amanda Seales - with their 1989 hip bounce great 'Fight the Power', and they added new verses to the tune to incorporate notices to ongoing occasions, with the assistance of Nas, Rapsody, YG, the Roots' Black Thought and Questlove.




The tune was likewise joined by film from Black Lives Matter fights.




Furthermore, the video for DJ Khaled's 'Higher' including the late Nipsey Hussle - who passed on in March 2019 matured 33 - and John Legend triumphed in the Video of the Year class.

 
 

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