Tyler Perry launched a subtle shade to Hollywood Studios at 2025 Bet Awards.
Before Ledisi goes on stage to interpret “Blkwmn”, the Sistas The creator took the time to share a news on himself and his son walking along the beach, when his child said to him: “I walk on your steps”, to which he replied: “I said:” No, let’s walk together “. We walked to the end of the beach, then looked back and saw all the footprints he had left. »»
“I tell you tonight because I want to tell you about this thing that happens in this country and I want you to pay attention. Do not miss it,” said Perry. “They remove our books from libraries, they delete our stories and our history, they delete our names from government buildings. It is as if someone wanted to erase our footprints. ”
The magnate added: “But the truth is impossible to erase our footprints because we have left them on the water. What I mean by that, we were torn from our homeland, brought through the ocean and the footprints towards America. ”
Perry said that “Now is not the time to be silent, it’s not time to abandon – it’s time to dig and continue to leave footprints wherever you go.” THE Madea family meeting The writer then called studios in Los Angeles.
“I can tell you this, I did more black billionaires, hear me when I say this, that any studio in this combined city,” he said. “Because I make footprints. So I don’t care if you have trouble, if you try to do it, you try to create a business, if you have a dream, keep making imprints. Let no one stop, you can do it.”
Earlier in his speech, Perry also thanked the Black Women for supporting his work over the years. “I think of my incredible audience who is a lot of men, a lot of women, but I hear me when I tell you, black women have held me on the ground and I appreciate you as if you did not believe it,” he added.
Before Monday evening, Kendrick Lamar dominated the list of nominations with 10 heads, with Doechii, Future, Glorilla, Future and Drake after almost six names each. “Yeah Glo!” The rapper was also one of the artists of the night alongside Lil Wayne, Teyana Taylor, Playboi Carti and Leon Thomas.
Kevin Hart welcomed the Bet Awards 2025 at the Peacock Theater of Los Angeles. Sunday, a spokesperson for BET confirmed that the ceremony would take place as planned despite the ongoing demonstrations against the illegal immigration raids at the
