It has been announced that Chris Brown will be taking to the stage at this year's BET Awards. The singer, who is also nominated for 6 awards this year, will perform a selection of music from his current album 'F.A.M.E'.
The last time Chris performed at the BET Awards, he broke down on stage as he gave a tribute to his icon, Michael Jackson.
Trey Songz, Alicia Keys and Jill Scott are also on the line up of performers for this year's ceremony which will be held on June 26th.
The nominations for the 2011 BET Awards have been released and Chris Brown's comeback seems to have worked as he is leading with 6 nominations!
Lil Wayne comes in close behind Chris with 5 nominations, and Drake, Rihanna and Kanye West all have 4.
Siblings Jaden and Willow Smith go head to head in the Young Stars category, and Chipmunk, Tinie Tempah, Tinchy Stryder and Skepta are all up for Best International Act.
Continue reading for the nominations in each category
Now Lloyd is saying that he didn't tell Chris to cry and wanted to clarify his statement.
"I consider Chris a friend. He’s been through a lot in the past couple years. I never told him to go on stage and cry. We spoke recently, and I told him as a friend that people hadn’t really seen him be vulnerable about his situation last year [with Rihanna]. I thought he was holding back and needed to let that emotion out. Him crying at the BET Awards was real, I could feel it.” said Lloyd.
“I think he cried about a number of things. About the fact that he thought people would hate him forever because of one mistake. Feeling that love on stage was probably overwhelming. Plus MJ being gone and him performing “Man in the Mirror”, that song is powerful, especially for his situation. It pushed him over the edge.”
“To say that he was faking or that I’m hating on him, that’s some bull shit. Last week Essence.com asked me what artist most embodied MJ. I told them it was Chris. I never saw MJ perform live, but he [Chris Brown] is the closest thing I’ve witnessed. Chris is back, and I’m just as excited as his fans are. It’s just frustrating that people want to make everything negative.”
So Mr 'Bedrock' Lloyd has admitted that he told Chris Brown to shed some tears whilst performing his Michael Jackson tribute at this year's BET Awards.
Lloyd told Rap-Up.com: "I told him man, you gotta get up there. You gotta cry, you gotta really show your heart to the world.”
We wonder why Lloyd chose to let the world know? This statement could start another backlash for Chris Brown.
Chris Brown performed a tribute to the late Michael Jackson at this year's BET Awards, and what a great but emotional performance it was! BET knew it was the right thing to do to allow Chris to perform.
After last year's plans for Chris to do an MJ performance were scrapped after his physical altercation with then girlfriend Rihanna, Chris took to the stage this year and danced his heart out.
When it came for Chris to do his performance of the classic 'Man In The Mirror', Chris just broke down and cried throughout the whole song.
This now has people speculating whether Chris' tears were really genuine or just a way to win everyone's hearts again.
Get ready for another battle for Team Chris vs Team Rihanna
Yesterday Diddy and this year's host, Queen Latifah, revealed the nominees for the BET Awards 2010.
The awards will take place in LA on Sunday 27th June.
Jay-Z received the most nominations with 5, followed by his wife Beyoncé, Trey Songz, Alicia Keys and Melanie Fiona, who all received four nominations each.
Justin Bieber has been nominated as 'Best New Artist' and Chipmunk, Dizzee Rascal, Sade and Corinne Bailey-Rae have been nominated in the 'Best International Act' catergory.
Check out the full list of nominees after the jump.
In what was rumoured to be a show in tribute of the great Michael Jackson, the BET Awards 2009 was boring.....very boring.....they should've let Chris Brown perform his MJ tribute, but they axed him lastmin.com.......
The night started off with a mediocre performance by New Edition, singing a medley of Jackson 5 hits, such as 'I Want You Back' and 'ABC'. Hosted by funny man Jamie Foxx, who opened the show donning a red leather jacket and sequined glove, Micheal Jackson style.
The host then moonwalked across the stage and had the crowd laughing throughout the show.
Keri Hilson channeled her inner Micheal Jackson by dressing up in clothing that resembled MJ's 'Bad' outfit in her performances of 'Turning Me Off' and 'Knock You Down'. She even tried to add a few MJ dance moves to her performance, which really didn't work. Ne-Yo gave a powerful rendition of Jackson's 'Lady In My Life', which was one of the best tributes to MJ given at the show.
Jamie Foxx, then gave his performance of his club hit, 'Blame It', featuring T-Pain and guest appearances from Snoop Dogg (who didn't rap, but 'Drop It Like It's Hot was mixed into 'Blame It'), and Travis Barker on the drums, who gave a great performance.
Queen Bey gave a sweet performance of 'Ave Maria' and 'Angel', but it was a shame that she didn't give a rendition of an MJ song - she would've given it the justice it deserved! Ciara sang MJ's 'Heal The World' donning some MJ clobber; she looked real good, but sounded bad "real bad, real bad Micheal Jackson".
Ne-Yo, once again, returned to the stage - oh did I forget to mention he was donning his bald head ALL night, no hats in any performance! - with a medley of his favourite stars, such as Keith Sweat, Guy and Bel BivDevoe, which was a great performance.
Jay Z had everybody bopping away, and even had his wife Beyonce singing along to his new single, 'Death Of Autotune' - Great performance!
Ladies favourite Maxwell sang his new single, 'Pretty Wings' and hot newcomer, Drake, alongside with Lil' Wayne, Baby and Young Money, gave one of the most driest performances ever, particularly because Drake sat through the whole of his performance due to injuring his Achilles Heel.
Janet Jackson made an emotionalappearance towards the end of the show, on the behalf of the Jackson family, which made everybody shed a tear, just to thank everybody for their support. Her emotions were a stark contrast to her fathers', Joe Jackson, who was also at the awards show, smiling, laughing and plugging his new record label, even though his son only died 3 days ago......
The finale of the show was performed by Ne-Yo (again) and Jamie Foxx with a duet of the Jackson 5 hit, 'I'll be There'.
The awards show was dire, and I know that BET only had 3 days to turn the whole show around with the news of Micheal Jackson's death, but they did okay, but could've done better.
Here's a list of all the winners on the night:
Best Male R&B Artist - Ne-Yo Best Female R&B Artist - Beyonce Best Group - Day 26 Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best Female Hip Hop Artist - M.I.A. Best Male Hip Hop Artist - Lil Wayne Best New Artist - Keri Hilson Best Collaboration Jamie Foxx f/ T-Pain - Blame It Viewer's Choice T.I. f/ Rihanna - Live Your Life Video Director of the Year - Benny Boom Video of the Year Beyonce - Single Ladies Best Actress - Taraji P. Henson Best Actor - Will Smith Best Female Athlete - Serena Williams Best Male Athlete - LeBron James Centric Award - Jazmine Sullivan
Here's some performance, some of which I haven't mentioned
