Kendrick Lamar won all eight awards he was nominated for at the BET Hip Hop Awards
South African rap artists Maglera Doe Boy and Blxckie missed out on the BET Awards as Kendrick Lamar won it all at the BET Hip Hop Awards.
Maglera Doe Boy and Blxckie were both individually nominated for the Best International Flow category for the first time at the awards in Las Vegas. In the end, the winner was England's Goetz.
Flow is the style in which rappers express their lyrics over a song, and is an important part of hip-hop because it distinguishes rap artists from other artists.
This category pays homage to how hip-hop has grown beyond the borders of the United States, and how other parts of the world have uniquely embraced the genre and culture in their own ways. .
Other nominees in the category included Brazil's Buda, France's SDM and Nigeria's Odumodurvuk.
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Kendrick Lamar entered the BET Awards as the second most nominated artist with eight nominations behind Megan Thee Stallion's 11.
However, Kendrick won all eight awards for which he was nominated, and Stallion ended the night empty-handed.
This year was a year of great events for Are you okay After years of strained relations with fellow rap star Drake, the pair's highly publicized conflict drew attention.
The result of the beef was Kendrick's hit song different from us This was the last of four diss tracks targeted at Drake.
The track won Song of the Year, Best Hip Hop Video, and Video Director of the Year. [Kendrick and Dave Free] It also won in the impact truck category.
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of different from us The video was filmed just days after the Grammy Award-winning rapper hosted the historic “The Pop Out: Ken & Friends” concert in California.
Social media was littered with images of neighborhood rappers filming music videos, but in the end, the references to Drake became more subtle through fine art direction.
In the video, Kendrick is seen holding a stick and aiming at an owl piñata, but the logo for Drake's clothing brand October's Very Own (OVO) is an owl.
In the final shot, Kendrick appears to be holding a barn owl, looking into its eyes, and locking it in a cage. This symbolized Kendrick putting Drake in his place and ending their beef.
One of the final shots of the video shows Kendrick dancing to the song in his living room with his partner Whitney Alford and their two children.
above family problemsone of the songs released by Drake while he was releasing diss song after diss song, Drake claimed that Kendrick and his partner had issues and that Kendrick physically abused Whitney. He even criticized him.
The Canadian rapper also claimed that one of Kendrick's children is Kendrick's father, who is his childhood friend, business partner, and co-director of the film. different from us Video, Dave Free.
Kendrick Lamar also won Hip Hop Artist of the Year, Lyricist of the Year and Best Collaboration. Like thatMetro Boomin and Future songs, Best Verse of the Sweet 16.
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