NIPSEY HUSSLE WILL BE HONORED AT THE 2019 BET AWARDS
BET NETWORKS TO HONOR GRAMMY NOMINATED RAPPER, ENTREPRENEUR AND COMMUNITY LEADER NIPSEY HUSSLE POSTHUMOUSLY WITH THE HUMANITARIAN AWARD AT THE 2019 “BET AWARDS”
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DJ KHALED, YG AND JOHN LEGEND CONFIRMED TO HONOR NIPSEY HUSSLE WITH SPECIAL TRIBUTE PERFORMANCE AT THE 2019 “BET AWARDS”
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REGINA HALL WILL HOST THE 19TH ANNUAL AWARDS SHOW AIRING LIVE ON SUNDAY, JUNE 23 FROM MICROSOFT THEATER IN LOS ANGELES AT eight P.M. ET
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New York, NY – (June 13, 2019) –In the present day BET Networks pronounces Nipsey Hussle because the recipient of the 2019 “BET Awards” Humanitarian Award. Within the spirit of uplift he evoked in his neighborhood, his work as a loyal son, brother, father, associate, good friend and all-around neighborhood advocate and philanthropist, musician and businessman, Nipsey will likely be posthumously honored with the long-lasting award on the 19th annual Awards present airing reside in his hometown of Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, June 23rd at eight P.M. ET.
Nipsey continues to be a giant a part of the BET household from previous BETX Staples Middle live shows, acting on the BET Stay Stage, to visiting the set of BET authentic collection, BET Networks will proceed to have fun the life and work of the beloved LA native recognized lovingly as “Neighborhood Nip.” BET Networks additionally commemorated and celebrated his life by broadcasting “BET REMEMBERS: NIPSEY HUSSLE”, reside and commercial-free protection of Nipsey’s funeral service in its entirety on BET and BET Digital.
Over the previous few months, “Neighborhood Nip’s,” work as an entertainer was solely a small piece of who he was, and that might have been outmoded solely by his outstanding and tenacious efforts to advance his neighborhood, empowering and using underprivileged teams via actual property investments, science and tech studying facilities for teenagers. Nipsey’s work inside his neighborhood displays the artist outdoors of the world of music, and BET Networks is honored to acknowledge his work in entrance of his friends in addition to the world of leisure on considered one of its largest nights in black leisure and tradition.
“As a prolific artist and chief, Nipsey Hussle was zealous about driving change for the betterment of his neighborhood, empowering and using these in want and being an influential and extremely revered chief. His passing was an incredible loss to the leisure trade and to the tradition. We are going to proceed to recollect his advocacy and be impressed by the groundwork he set forth and his dire dedication to social change. We’re endlessly grateful, humbled and honored to have skilled his presence and we’re invested in doing our half to make sure that the marathon will certainly proceed. It’s an immense honor for us to acknowledge him with this 12 months’s Humanitarian Award,” mentioned Connie Orlando, Government Vice-President, Head of Programming at BET.
Moreover, a star-studded tribute in Nipsey’s honor that includes DJ Khaled, YG and John Legend will happen throughout the reside present paying homage to the beloved artist and neighborhood philanthropist.
The “BET AWARDS” 2019 will simulcast LIVE at eight pm ET throughout seven Viacom networks within the U.S. together with BET, BET HER, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Traditional, VH1, and Emblem. Internationally, the present will simulcast for the first-time on BET Africa at 2 am CAT on June 24th, adopted by worldwide broadcasts within the UK on June 24th at 9:00 pm BST, South Korea on June 25th at 9 pm KST and in France on June 25th at 9 pm CEST. Internationally, BET will honor Greatest Worldwide Act in-show, together with the fan-voted class Greatest New Worldwide Act and BET Worldwide International Good Award throughout the reside pink carpet pre-show.
Connie Orlando, Government Vice-President, Head of Programming at BET will function Government Producer for the “BET Awards” 2019 together with Jesse Collins, CEO of Jesse Collins Leisure.
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ABOUT BET NETWORKS
BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIA.B), is the nation’s main supplier of high quality leisure, music, information and public affairs tv programming for the African-American viewers. The first BET channel reaches greater than 90 million households and may be seen in the US, Canada, the Caribbean, the UK and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American client model with a various group of enterprise extensions: BET.com, a number one Web vacation spot for black leisure, music, tradition and information; BET HER, a 24-hour leisure community concentrating on the African-American girl; BET Music Networks – BET Jams, BET Soul and BET Gospel; BET House Leisure; BET Stay, BET’s rising competition enterprise; BET Cell, which offers ringtones, video games and video content material for wi-fi units; and BET Worldwide, which operates BET across the globe.
ABOUT “BET AWARDS”
The “BET Awards” is likely one of the most watched award reveals on cable tv in accordance with the Nielsen Firm. The “BET Awards” franchise stays because the #1 program in cable TV historical past amongst African-People, and it’s BET’s #1 telecast yearly. It acknowledges the triumphs and successes of artists, entertainers, and athletes in quite a lot of classes.
ABOUT JESSE COLLINS ENTERTAINMENT
Jesse Collins Leisure (JCE) is a full-service tv and movie manufacturing firm based by leisure trade veteran Jesse Collins. For greater than a decade, Collins has performed an integral position in producing a few of tv’s most memorable moments in music leisure. Collins has produced groundbreaking and award-winning tv programming, together with “BET Awards,” “Grammy Awards,” “Soul Practice Music Awards,” “BET Honors,” “UNCF an Night of Stars,” “ABFF Awards” and “BET Hip Hop Awards.” Collins was an govt producer of the hit TV collection “Actual Husbands of Hollywood,” starring Kevin Hart, and the critically acclaimed “The New Version Story,” a biopic on the boy band that aired as a three-part miniseries on BET in January 2017. He’s additionally the chief producer of VH1 reveals “Pricey Mama” and “Hip Hop Squares” with Ice Dice. Most lately, JCE executive-produced “The Bobby Brown Story.” The miniseries picked up the place “The New Version Story” miniseries left off and chronicled the gifted however troubled singer’s exit from the favored 80s boy band via his solo success. It debuted on BET in September 2018 and was the highest-rated non-tentpole program on the community since “The New Version Story.” Subsequent for JCE is the second season of “American Soul” on BET and Netflix’s upcoming collection “Rhythm and Move.”