BET Awards Performances, Ranked Worst to Best
From Will Smith to Ice Spice and Sexyy Red, Billboard ranks all of the performances from an action-packed 2024 BET Awards.
The 2024 BET Awards delivered on the “culture’s biggest night.” Taraji P. Henson played host for the show and kicked items off impersonating Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” overall performance at his Pop Out concert on Juneteenth.
Live from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater on Sunday evening (June 30), a versatile variety of legends to increasing stars hit the stage.
From Will Smith’s return to the public eye with a gospel anthem to Sexyy Red campaigning for a presidential nomination and Megan Thee Stallion’s rebirth opening the show, the BET Awards performances provided a tiny some thing for everyone.
Other artists performing all through the action-packed award show contain Shaboozey, Latto, Ice Spice, Victoria Monet, Tinashe, Ms. Lauryn Hill alongside her son YG Marley, GloRilla and additional.
Normani was also supposed to be performing Sunday evening to continue developing on the achievement of her new DOPAMINE album, but the Fifth Harmony album revealed she was forced to cancel her set soon after suffering an injury through rehearsals.
It was a celebratory evening for lots of dignitaries across Black music. Usher was the man of the hour though becoming honored with his lifetime achievement award. He even took property some additional hardware with a victory in the finest male R&B/pop artist category.
Killer Mike delivered the most boisterous and memorable speech of the whole show when the Atlanta rapper’s poignant 2023 LP Michael won album of the year.
Billboard ranks all of the performances that took location inside the Microsoft Theater. Find all of the winners at the 2024 BET Awards right here.
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Tanner Adell: “Buckle Bunny” & “Cowboy Broke My Heart”
Tanner Adell will have lots of possibilities to leave her mark on the nation music scene. Unfortunately, Adell’s overall performance comes off as additional of a promotional ad for Nissan, as she measures out of the SUV to kickstart every little thing.
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Heiress Harris: “Be You”
T.I. and Tiny’s daughter Heiress Harris represented for the youngsters though preaching a message of individuality to other folks across the U.S. The eight year old had the BET Awards stage turned into a classroom for the overall performance. Harris and VanVan energetically bounced about the stage hoping to see other folks just be themselves. “Just be you, playing tag cus I’m it,” Harris sings though surrounded by other students.
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Ice Spice: “Phat Butt” & “Think U the Shit (Fart)”
Ice Spice operating by means of her gas station stage set in a pair of white furry boots may well look eccentric, but that is just yet another day on Fordham Road in the Bronx. The “Deli” rapper performed her additional experimental album opener “Phat Butt” and twerked across the stage, which led to the Y2K gas station going up in flames, prior to major into “Think U the Shit (Fart).”
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Sexyy Red: “U My Everything” & “Get It Sexyy”
It’s Sexyy Red’s planet and we’re just living in it. Big Sexyy kicked off her “U My Everything” overall performance hunting like a ’70s soul singer equipped with her frilled cherry-red dress. The Sexyy Red for President campaign continued at the BET Awards for her “Get It Sexyy” anthem, as she turned the stage into the White House with her dancers doubling as safety guards. One thing’s for confident, Sexyy’s set was considerably additional invigorating than something from final week’s Presidential debate.
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Latto: “Sunday Service” & “Big Mama”
Latto’s yet another artist whose overall performance craft is almost unrecognizable compared to a handful of years ago, and that is meant as a compliment to how far she’s come in a somewhat brief quantity of time. The “Big Energy” rapper teased fans with a poignant unreleased track exactly where Latto gets candid about her unbreakable bond with her sister, Brooklyn, who was sitting front row.
She took the Microsoft Theater to “Sunday Service” and delivered the attractive reside debut of her new “Big Mama” single in leopard-print shorts and a matching crop top rated.
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Will Smith: “You Can Make It”
Will Smith’s revenge tour is right here. The “Miami” rapper-actor produced his initially significant award show look considering the fact that the infamous 2022 Chris Rock slap at the Oscars. Smith unleashed the reside debut of the inspirational gospel-themed “You Can Make It” with some assistance from the Sunday Service Choir, Kirk Franklin and Chandler Moore. “Dance in your darkest moments,” Will proclaims from inside the ring of fire.
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GloRilla: Medley
Big Glo came in at No. 6 on our inaugural Hottest Female Rappers list, and if GloRilla’s winning streak remains, she should really surely come across her way inside the top rated 5 and possibly top rated 3 by the finish of the year.
The Memphis rhymer parachutes in with the “Yeah Glo!” thumping beat fills the venue. She moved into her new “TGIF” single prior to surprising fans though reuniting with her tour mate Megan Thee Stallion, who took the power to yet another level with their “Wanna Be” collaboration overall performance. The track was slotted in at No. 25 on the most current Hot 100 chart.
It’s refreshing to see how considerably entertaining Big Glo and Meg have with every single other on stage and the chemistry they’ve constructed outdoors the studio is apparent. Thee Stallion looked like a proud sister when lending her approval to GloRilla’s enhanced twerking.
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Shaboozey & J-Kwon: “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
J-Kwon delivered one particular of the additional memorable moments from the award show when he rose from behind the bar of Shaboozey’s honkey tonk set in his St. Louis Cardinals cap to execute a mesh of “Tipsy” mixed with the nation singer’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy).
The 2004 anthem turned 20 earlier this year and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2004. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” interpolates J-Kwon’s counting flow and it is gorgeous to see the generations influencing every single other and them becoming capable to come collectively for the culture on nights like this.
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Megan Thee Stallion: Medley
Megan Thee Stallion is generating 2024 a banner year. Rolling off the momentum of her Megan album arriving on Friday (June 28), the Houston Hottie set the tone for the evening with an energetic overall performance. She continued her “rebirth” theme bursting out of an egg scantily clad.
Meg has come a lengthy way as a performer when it comes to stage presence and breath handle. The 29-year-old rumbled by means of her No. 1 hit “Hiss,” “Boa” and delivered the reside debut of her most up-to-date anthem “Where Them Girls at?” There was lots of twerking involved with her dancers and she even gave a shout-out to Victoria Monét and Coco Jones in the audience to cap off a strong get started to the evening.
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Usher Tribute Medley
Ahead of becoming honored with the lifetime achievement award, a phalanx of artists paid homage to Usher by performing some of the classic records from his Hall-of-Fame profession spanning 4 distinctive decades. Childish Gambino set the tribute bar higher with “U Don’t Have to Call” and Keke Palmer tipped the cap to Usher’s throwback tradition of stripping all through his performances.
Coco Jones, Summer Walker and Marsha Ambrosius all covered anthems from the R&B luminary. Tinashe’s “Nasty” momentum got flipped into My Way classic “Nice & Slow” and Usher loved just about every minute of seeing his profession ideal prior to his eyes.
However, Teyana Taylor and Victoria Monét could have stole the show with their gymnastic acrobatics recreating Beyoncé’s iconic overall performance when teaming up for “Bad Girl.” Latto closed down the epic set with her baggy outfit and XL chain for “Yeah!” sans Lil Jon and Ludacris.
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Tyla Featuring Gunna & Skillibeng: “Jump”
With finest new artist and nest international act wins in her back-pocket, Tyla’s “Jump” overall performance was the icing on the cake to a milestone evening in her burgeoning profession. What appeared to be a tiger in a cage was basically numerous dancers contorted like fixed puzzle pieces to make up the whole jungle predator. Tyla rappelled down on a swing for a sultry overall performance that also paid homage to her South African culture. Gunna and Skillibeng popped out for smooth assists as well.
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Victoria Monét: “On My Mama” & “Alright”
Victoria Monét is at property when she’s on stage. She brought the college/higher college vibes for BET’s video of the year-winning “On My Mama,” as the singer and her dancers have been draped in “My Mama Tribe” varsity jackets. Monét expertly blends the tomboy aesthetic with becoming a queen. The 2000s influence was heavy with the baggy jeans and array of headbands and bandanas on stage. Still, the oversized match couldn’t throw VM’s dance routine off.
Kaytranada produced a surprise look and Monét showed off her versatility as an artist with their “Alright” collab. She gets added points for speedily altering into the Michael Jackson “Thriller”-inspired white suit and then ditching it to gyrate in the manufactured rain.
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Lauryn Hill & YG Marley: Medley
Lauryn Hill and her son YG Marley closed out the 2024 BET Awards in style. Ms. Lauryn Hill took fans back to her acclaimed 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill with the album’s title track and fan-preferred “Lost Ones.”
Her son, YG Marley, joined the celebration with his effective “Survival” track, which Hill added a politically-charged verse to on the finish — comparable to what she did through the duo’s look on Fallon in May. As Ethiopian symbolism rotated all through the visuals and Marley wrapped up “Praise Jah in the Moonlight,” they saved the finest surprise for final with Hill’s Fugees operating mate Wyclef Jean taking the stage to execute their 1995 “Fu-Gee-La” track. Hip-hop is alive and effectively.