2019 BET Awards Highlights
The 2019 B.E.T Awards have come and gone…
A night filled with a star studded carpet, moving performances, comedy and profound tributes… this year’s award show was not one to miss. However, for those who did miss it (and those who might just need a little refresher), we’ve got a summary.
Here are Blk Girl Culture’s highlights of this year’s BET Awards:
1. Red Carpet Looks:
This year’s Blue carpet was flooded with incredible looks. Here are our top 5:
(From Left to Right): Justine Skye, LIZZO, Yara Shahidi, Rico Nasty, Megan Thee Stallion
2. Regina Hall Hosts
Blk Girl Culture stands by the fact that Regina Hall is one of the funniest women in Hollywood and she certainly proved it at this year’s BET Awards. She opened the show with a go-go themed parody of Beyoncé’s Homecoming, made sure that the audience was amused throughout, and even highlighted gentrification in D.C. in the midst of the #DontMuteDC movement. All the while, Regina consistently pulled off one gorgeous looks after another.
3. Award Wins
With such an incredible and successful year for Black art in film, television and music, it is no doubt that there were some incredible wins at this year’s BET Awards. Cardi B. Took home Album of the year for “Invasion of Privacy,” Regina King took home Best Actress and Serena Williams took the award for Sportswoman of the yea (to name a few).
BET also awarded activist Candice Payne for the incredible work she did with providing shelter in the midst of the Chicago blizzards.
Our favorite awardee, Marsai Martin received the Young Stars award and, in the process, blessed us with another meme.
4. Performances
This year’s performances were amazing and surprising in their own right. I mean… if you had told us last year that Billy Ray Cyrus would be performing at the BET Awards, we would have looked at you funny.
Cardi B. put on a steamy show along husband Offset, Yung Miami of City Girls reminded us that it is a City Girl Summer, and Fantasia graced us with her vocals.
Lizzo blessed us with her vocals, twerking, and flute playing with her performance of “Truth Hurts”:
H.E.R wowed us with both her talent and message in her evocative performance of “Lord Is Coming”:
5. Rihanna presents Mary J. Blige with the Lifetime Achievement Award
First, of course, we have to talk about Rih’s debut of her new scarlet locks. We’re still not over it.
Rihanna at the 2019 BET Awards
Rihanna at the 2019 BET Awards
Mary J. Blige was awarded for her work in “Forever aligning the worlds of Hip-Hop and R&B,” as Rihanna so wonderfully put it in her introduction.
Mary J. Blige is a style icon, a performer like no other and a musician of special talent. (Did you know that she was the first person ever nominated for an Oscar in an acting and music category in the same year).
Watch Mary’s acceptance speech here:
Trust, Mary J. did not disappoint with her performance. She surprised us all by bringing out Lil Kim– talk about a dynamic duo.
Watch here…
6. Tribute to Nipsey Hussle
The loss of the prolific Nipsey Hussle is one that shook the Black community to its core. This year, BET remembered him for his activism & uplifting the community. We were particularly moved by his Grandmother’s words, watch them here:
