BET Denounces Lil Wayne Performance, Drake Apologizes
BET has expressed remorse over a performance by Lil Wayne, Drake and Young Money[CLICK TO WATCH] Records that involved underage girls during songs “Best I Ever Had” and “Every Girl.”
The songs, which have overt sexual references, were performed during the Sunday BET Awards ‘09 show as a bevy of young girls danced on stage. The group of girls consisted of Lil Wayne’s daughters and her friends.
In an exclusive statement, BET has responded to the criticism and the public outcry over the segment.
“BET Networks deeply regrets the performance by Young Money at the BET AWARDS ’09 (featuring Lil Wayne, Drake, Gudda Gudda and Mack Maine),” a BET representative told AllHipHop.com exclusively. “Elements of the performance were unplanned and should not have happened.”
In the aftermath of the show, many have expressed outrage over the outing by Young Money, which was set amid a show dedicated to the late Michael Jackson.
See our list of Most Awkward BET Awards Moments
Activist and filmmaker Byron Hurt lambasted the network earlier in the week in an open letter to Debra Lee, the President and Chief Executive Officer of BET Holdings, Inc.
“In a culture where one out of four girls and women are either raped or sexually assaulted – and where manipulative men routinely traffic vulnerable women into the sex industry – it is not okay that BET allowed this to happen,” Hurt said. “BET owes its entire audience – particularly girls and women around the world – an apology for its failure to intervene.” [Read His Full Statement HERE]
A representative said generally the company has found such opinions useful.
“We value and appreciate the feedback from our viewers and have edited Young Money’s performance for all BET Awards ’09 encore presentations.”
Drake has apologized and taken responsibility for the performance, admitting it was in poor taste.
“That…was a terrible idea that I’ll never do to myself again. But I was being pressed from different areas to perform, and I think what really happened at the BET Awards is with the passing of Mike, the climate really changed, as far as the award show goes,” he told Complex. “I don’t think it called for us to perform “Every Girl” and “Always Strapped,”…it was just timed very poorly and it definitely wasn’t planned like that…To anyone who was offended, my personal apologies, it wasn’t intended to offend anybody.”
Drake followed up that performance by releasing the video to “Best I Ever Had” that has many of his female fans crying foul for some over-the-top sexuality. Drake responded to that criticism as well {click to read].
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« Previous 1 2 3 4I wouldn’t have apologized either if I was him.They are just songs and a performance it’s never that serious. Come on it’s Lil Wayne you are suppose to expect the unexpected from him. The little girls were cute. The just wanted to get their couple of minutes of fame and they got it. It’s all said and done so why say something about it now. Get over it. It was harmless.You don’t see his daughter or her friends on stage pregnant then it would have been a problem. You see little girls their age now-a-days havin kids.They was just havin fun.
Drake is trying too hard to be ghetto. Lil Wayne need to check himself.
By the way! Have you-all seen the Reggae Buss-MJ tribute video on youtube? a work of art.
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DID WAYNE APOLOGIZED ALSO OR WAS IT ALL DRAKE??? CUZ HE’S THE ONE ON STAGE WITH HIS CHILD SINGING BEST I EVER AND EVERY GIRL, OR MAYBE HE DIDN’T NOTED CUZ HE WAS TOO BUSY LOOKING FOR HIS NEXT BABY MAMA IN THE CROWD
OMG, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PPL. HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT IT WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH WHAT WAS SONG ON STAGE. HAD IT BEEN YOUR LITTLE GIRL UP ON STAGE DANCING TO A RACY SONG LIKE THAT, YOU WOULD BE UPSET. IT JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW IMMATURE YOU ALL ARE, IT IS A SHAME HOW AFTER ALL THE GREAT ARTIST LEAVES THIS EARTH, ONES THAT SANG GOOD, CLEAN SONGS, THIS NASTY MUSIC AND THE ARTIST THAT CREATED THEM WILL BE THE ONLY ONES THE THE YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE IN THIS TIME,THAT IS SCARY.
EVERYONE READ THIS CUZ THIS DONT MAKE NO SENSE HOW PPL MAKE A BIG DEAL!!! Drake you didnt have to apologize but u did the right thing though. and if the show was normal they would have said yall rocked it
mane wasnt s**t wrong wit it. it was just the atmosphere was off cuz of the tradgic death. if that situation wasnt going on then Young Money wouldnt got criticized for there performance. i hate when the media and others say dumb s**t and try to tear ppl down. that was his daughter and friends and they were having fun ok. SO LEAVE PPL THE F**K ALONE!!!!!!
LMAO @ watermelon-friedchicken syndrome~ (adding to that “Big ass chain gold plated spinners”)
When I was younger (I’m a late 70s baby) BET was once a highly respected outlet for the African American community as a whole; they had a lot of up-to-date programming that was informative, creative & true to the game, while at the same time having a measure of not putting us in a bad light. (Read: Not having us looking like n*****s.) But now?! Hell, BET has fallen off so badly that I don’t even bother watching it anymore. It’s almost embarassing. Black Entertainment Television is more like Ignorance 101 these days. (And no, I’m not just talking about what College Hill’s ACTUAL SHOW TITLE should be.) With all the trash on the network now – I’m talking about the trash programming, the trash shows, the way the BET Awards have become trash, AND some of the pieces of TRASH that’s getting their own shows on BET (I’ll let y’all fill in those blanks) – I can’t tell if I’m watching BET or Bravo.