The 2021 BET Awards were held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night (June 27) and featured several jaw-dropping moments.
Early in the evening, Migos performed “Straightenin” and “Type Shit” off Culture III, then shocked the audience when Cardi B emerged with her very pregnant belly. When it was time for Lil Nas X to take the stage, he pulled out all the stops, executing a rendition of “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” in honor of Michael Jackson.
Much like the King of Pop’s 1991 hit “Remember The Time,” the performance boasted an Egyptian theme with Lil Nas X sporting an Egyptian headdress and gold attire. But it was the passionate kiss with a male dancer at the end that caught Diddy’s attention — along with the rest of Twitter. Shortly after Lil Nas X exited the stage, Diddy hopped on Twitter to applaud the Grammy Award-winning rapper for his courage.
“Lil Nas X did that!!” he wrote. “Be fearless!!!”
As for Lil Nas X, he was met with both praise and criticism from the general public. Of course, the negativity is nothing he can’t handle. The “Old Town Road” breakout star has been the recipient of plenty of homophobia since he came out in June 2019.
When someone who evidently didn’t appreciate the salacious gesture tweeted, “DONT USE AFRICAN CULTURE FOR SHITS LIKE THIS!!!! RESPECT OUR ANCESTORS,” Lil Nas X replied, “y’all really like to pretend homosexuality didn’t exist in african culture.”
But Diddy wasn’t off the hook either. He faced an onslaught of gay jokes for supporting Lil Nas X until he was a trending Twitter topic. But for someone who legally changed his middle name to “Love,” there’s a sense Diddy isn’t worried about all the hate flowing his way. After all, June is Pride Month and Lil Nas X’s stunt was well-timed.
Keep scrolling to watch Lil Nas X’s performance below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgfsn1vOoNQ
Pushing this same agenda. Then black women will ask “where are all the strong black men?”, they are busy kissing other men. No thank you. But, what did you expect from BET?
Bet is trash all they show is gay or emasculated men all the time. Dudes music sux so his gimmick of being Gay works. Just because Egyptian were black doesn’t make every black person Egyptian, most of you are Hebrews and your roots are from the horn aka Shems lineage.
Egyptians weren’t black, they were Greek. the people of Kemet were black/melinated people. Kemet is the real/previous name of Egypt before it was invaded by Greeks. we are also not Hebrews. gotta stop promoting fairy tales of the buy-bull.
WE WUZ KANGZ
..and the Greeks (Phoenicians as well) back then would be considered blackish judging from today’s standard
I’m not against gay people. I’m against gay sex
Why are you so concerned with what men do in private? Seems the lady doth protest too much.
Oh….so everyone that mentions this dude doing the slightest bit of gay shit (including this article) is somehow discreet??
I’m lost
It’s not in private anymore it’s in national tv and it’s disgusting
Yep, and on the streets, they got a whole month in june now, full of parades on the street full of freaks and weirdos in gimp suits lol
😳😳😳😳YOU SOUND DUMB
Come on Diddy come out the closet already be fearless
Diddy is and will always be a coward and the king of queers
nothing wrong with being gay. it is just that this is diddy we talking about here. street credibility at risk of flying out the window. if diddy is openly gay the brothers aren’t going to like that. it is hard being both black and gay. and isn’t he catholic? those brothers are going to want him run out of town or some shit.
Of source this is the Drake fans take on it. LOL.
Wait… Diddy had street cred?? Since when?? With y’all twitter/instagram nixxaz??
bruh let him live. At the same time, I need to throw away all my tv’s.
Just more distraction to keep the masses sleep walking..
Exactly…Malcolm X warned about white liberals and people didn’t listen.
I can see the start of the fall of an empire if this crazy shits don’t change.
Well Diddy is the King of homos so of course he would support his own kind.
Diddy is going smash LNX lol gross
Pause on all this
I stand with diddy, i bust a nut watching these kiss x
if Nas x dressed up like he did for nicki minaj for Halloween I’d smash them cheeks and put sum babies n his stomach
That you, Young Buck
HOMOSEXUALS CAN ALL DIE ON THE CROSS, THE STEAK, THE DICK, OR WHAT EVER. DEATH!
Too bad most of WSHH are gay AF too
Wow, The self homo rage is strong in this one
Bet is an embarrassment to the”culture”. Rich execs who are completely detached from the ground level. Reality show trash, nothing even remotely empowering or informative to advance. You think Viacom gives a shit about Bet!? Haha kys
bet went down hill after they sold out. now “they” only keeping bet around to dumb down blks that tune in to their channel by getting them hooked on reality TV and tricking them into what right looks like
BET is part of Viacom, Sumner Redstone’s media empire. His real name was Murray ROTHSTEIN and he wore one of them funny ass small hats. I believe since his death now his wife Gloria Redstone control it.
Hip Hop has been gay AF for the last 15 years. Can’t listen to any of these guys at all.
What’s the matter black America Isn’t this what you voted for?