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  • Winners and Highlight from BET Awards 2017

    Winners and Highlight from BET Awards 2017

    In a show hosted by “Saturday Night Life” host Leslie Jones the Black Entertainment Television Award had an interesting tone. The highlight of the show saw Nicki Minaj’s seven-year winning streak end when rapper and ex-convict Remy Ma bagged the coveted best female hip hop artist award which Nicki has won since 2010. Ma who released a Minaj diss track in May title “Shether” was given credit for her lyrical prowess in the highly publicized song.

    The other major highlight say Mitchell Obama through a taped message present an achievement award to Chance The Rapper, who has raised $2 million dollars for Chicago public schools. The ex-first lady in alluding to chance’s heroic act praised the star for making young people believe that they matter and can go on to achieve great things.

    The bee hives also had a lot to laugh about as Beyoncé who was reported to have earlier delivered twin babies got the most nomination with 7 categories. The Sorry and Freedom singer bagged 5 of the nomination. That wasn’t all for the star power as her sister Solange who turned 31 on Saturday also won the Centric award and she described it as the best birthday gift ever. The soul singer later held a moment of silence for police brutality victims including Trayvon Martin, Philando Castile, Eric Garner and lots more.

    Bruno Mars had an electrifying performance of the night when he kicked of the show with the performance of “Perm”. He also had a successful night after his 90s R&B inspired album won him accolades for best male artist. Other performances from the night came from Tamar Braxton and Maxwell, Mary J. Blige and Xscape.

    Rave of the moment and Campton rapper Kendrick Lamar gave the surprise of the night when he performed alongside Future. The “Humble” rapper also won the award for best male hip hop artist

    For the night and praised rapper Chance the Rapper for his heroic act in winning the humanitarian award at the age of 24.

    The show ended on a sad note when Havoc former Mobb Deep member and Lil Kim spoke praise words about Prodigy. The former Mobb Deep rapper passed on last week.

  • The Unwavering Leslie Jones

    The Unwavering Leslie Jones

    As Leslie Jones trudged the Tower Bar in the Sunset Tower Hotel on Wednesday, sipping a Starbucks iced green tea, she gave a listening ear to an elderly white woman that moved to talk to her. The woman said, “I’m sorry, I just had to tell you how happy I am we have a voice out there like yours. Don’t let them stop you.”

    At the start, Jones appeared startled but as a matter of fact that shouldn’t be surprising to anyone considering the fact that the celebrity has over the years had to put up with so much negativity from the public. After a short while swung back to equilibrium to softly thank the elderly lady for the support she was showing her.

    Thereafter, Jones revealed that this was not the first time such a thing was happening to her. She’s a 6-foot-tall dark-skinned black woman with a signature spiky hairstyle which quite a large number of people have been saying makes her seem even taller.

    Jones while speaking to a number of top news reporters said that she was happy with herself since she had been able to achieve immense success in what she did best-comedy. She is definitely one of the top black female comedians in the world though she doesn’t like the idea of her immense success getting to her head.

    According to Buzzfeed.com, she criticized the aspect of the industry referring to her as the top black female comedian. Jones said that it was obvious she was black and she was also female. According to her, there was no need to bring that out in giving her titles. Instead, she preferred being called a comedian.

    The celebrity picked on the whites saying that there exists white female comedians and she has never heard that aspect of white being brought out. No one says white female comic! She condemned the double standards and wishes that the industry changes some things such as this.

    It is not about struggle on anything and thus it is important to just treat each and every comedian or actor with uttermost dignity.