The performances of the BET 2020 Awards on Sunday night (June 29) redefined what it means to go on stage, especially from one’s home. But whose artistic vision was most striking?
Megan Thee Stallion’s Mad Max Film stunts put “Girls in the Hood” on Fury Road for an epic adventure with his team’s ATVs and “Savage” dance moves minus Beyoncé, who received the BET Humanitarian Award during the socially estranged broadcast.
Like Megan’s black power fist and the “Black Lives Matter” signs decorating the scaffold, DaBaby He began his Roddy Ricch-assisted performance of his number 1 hit “Rockstar” (the Black Lives Matter remix) with powerful visuals. DaBaby lay on the ground, hands behind his back, as a white police officer pressed his knee against the rapper’s neck, in the same way that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin restrained Floyd for eight minutes and 46 seconds in one move that ultimately resulted in his murder.
More BET Awards performances honored black men who passed away this year, since Lil Wayne modernized his 2009 song “Kobe Bryant” with the latest featured reel from Los Angeles Lakers legend Wayne Brady portraying Little Richard’s hits “Lucille” and “Good Golly, Miss Molly”. “for the show honoring the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer.
This award ceremony also brought together some prominent family members for their performances, with the sisters Chloe x Halle constantly showing everyone with their home productions, brothers D Smoke and SiR juxtaposing the black fight with black excellence during their moving, and the mother and daughter duo Kierra Sheard and Karen Clark-Sheard asking God for the Kierra Gospel number.
So what performance from the BET 2020 Awards won you over? Vote below!
