The BET Awards Couldn’t Stop Talking About Drake and Kendrick

Even when neither of them popped out at final night’s Bet Awards, Kendrick Lamar and Drake have been still the males of the hour. It started out outdoors the constructing on the crimson carpet, in which reporters ended up inquiring any person and everybody to weigh in on the months-aged beef. “This is my third time remaining asked about this,” Way too Shorter informed Billboard, declaring his fellow West Coast rapper Kendrick the winner. Mostly everyone else on the carpet agreed — even Jermaine Dupri’s daughter Jalynn. Within, the audience may well have believed they had been finding a shock Lamar functionality to kick off the present, in advance of recognizing that, no, that was just host Taraji P. Henson dressed as Kendrick Lamar. (If the breathless rapping or the strains about the Wager Awards also did not give it away.) Even Vice-President Kamala Harris slipped a reference into a prerecorded minute with Henson: “The greater part of us believe in independence and equality, but these extremists, as they say, they’re not like us.”

And when it arrived to trophies, the Wager Awards declared a winner in the beef way too. Lamar received Greatest Male Hip-Hop Artist for a file seventh time, even though his award wasn’t televised. Drake, however, had appear into the night time with the most nominations, at 7 — but by the stop, he hadn’t gained a solitary trophy. Which is not worse than acquiring bodied in a rap beef with the environment viewing, but it’s rather close.