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Yahoo
5 days ago
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Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx, Kirk Franklin Named BET Ultimate Icon Award Recipients
Mariah Carey, Kirk Franklin, and Snoop Dogg will take the stage at the 2025 BET Awards for a special performance as recipients of the Ultimate Icon Award. The honor will also be presented to Jamie Foxx, who will accept the award without performing. The show will air live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, at 8 p.m. EST. 'Thank you @BET this is an honor,' Franklin wrote on social platform X. The award is meant to celebrate groundbreaking contributions across entertainment, music, advocacy, and community impact, according to BET. More from Rolling Stone An Embattled Snoop Dogg Bites Back a Little But Mostly Keeps It Cool Lil Wayne, Playboi Carti, Teyana Taylor Among Performers at 2025 BET Awards Snoop Dogg's New Album 'Iz It A Crime?' Is Here Last month, Carey was notably shut out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame despite her tangible and lasting cross-genre influence on music. Foxx recently released the stand-up special What Had Happened Was, which detailed the harrowing medical scare he experienced in April 2023 while hospitalized following a debilitating stroke. 'I was fighting for my life, but I'm here right in front of you,' he said tearfully during his set. 'If I dance all night, don't mind me. I'm happy to be alive.' This year's slate of honorees marks the first time the Ultimate Icon Award has been presented since 2019, when it was awarded to Tyler Perry. Past recipients also include Janet Jackson and Deborah L. Lee. In addition to Carey, Franklin, and Snoop Dogg, the 2025 BET Awards will also feature performances from Lil Wayne, Teyana Taylor, GloRilla, Playboi Carti, and Leon Thomas. The night will also pay tribute to 106 & Park in honor of the show's 25th anniversary, which will bring together former hosts AJ Calloway, Free Marie Wright, Julissa Bermudez, Keshia Chanté, Rocsi Diaz, and Terrence J. Performers for the tribute include Bow Wow, Amerie, B2K, Jim Jones, Mya, and T.I. 'We're setting the tone for a night that celebrates 25 years of impact, creativity, and Black culture,' Connie Orlando, EVP of Specials, Music Programming & Music Strategy at BET, said in a statement. 'With electrifying performances from some of the biggest names in music and an iconic comedic host, 'BET Awards' 2025 will be a can't-miss celebration of everything the culture represents.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Snoop Dogg Breaks Silence On Trump Inaugural Ball Backlash
Snoop Dogg has hit back at critics who accused him of selling out by performing at the Crypto Ball during President Donald Trump's second inauguration celebrations in January. The rapper and longtime Trump critic ― whose tone on the president has softened in recent years ― addressed the backlash on 'The Breakfast Club' radio show last week while promoting his new album, 'Iz It A Crime?' Asked if the controversy over his short DJ set had bothered him, Snoop replied: 'No. I call it 30 for 30. I DJ'd at the Crypto Ball for what, 30 minutes? Made a whole bunch of money, made a lot of relationships to help out the inner city and the community and teach financial literacy and crypto in a space that it don't exist.' 'That's 30 minutes' he continued. '30 years, Snoop Dogg been doing great things for the community, building, showing up, standing up for the people, making it happen, being all I can be. But which one is it? 30 for 30. 30 minutes or 30 years?' Snoop, who didn't endorse any candidate for the 2024 election, said the gig had come about through other friendships but that 'even if I would have done it' for Trump 'and hung out with him and took a picture with him, can't none of you motherfuckers tell me what I can and can't do.' 'But I'm not a politician,' he pointed out. 'I don't represent the Republican Party. I don't represent the Democratic Party. I represent the motherfucking Gangster Party. Period. Point blank.' Snoop also revealed why he kept relatively silent in public as the anger grew over the gig. 'G shit, we don't explain shit. That's why I didn't explain, that's why I didn't go into detail when motherfuckers was trying to cancel me and say he a sellout,' he said, later adding: 'The things that I do in real life should matter to you more ... not what I do when I'm DJing or making music or doing this and that.' Watch from the 21-minute mark here: Lara Trump Likens Donald Trump To 'Demonized' Dog Breed Biden's Powerful 2017 Message Of 'Hope' To Meghan McCain Resurfaces After Cancer News 'Big Donald Is Watching You': MSNBC Host Mocks Gigantic Banner Of Trump 'Pretty Humiliating': John Oliver Cringes At 4 Words Trump Won't Stop Saying
