BET announces the return of its hit unscripted series American Gangster: Trap Queens – a true crime series detailing the criminal chronicles of some of America’s most notorious female gangsters. Narrated by female hip hop icon Kimberly Jones a.k.a. Lil’ Kim, season two presents new and fascinating true stories of fierce and savvy women who hustled hard and solidified their […]
The 2020 Soul Train Awards will hit BET on Sunday, November 29, highlighting the best in R&B and Hip-Hop. The 2020 nominations are led by H.E.R. at eight nominations, she is closely followed by Chris Brown at seven. Additional nominations for the show include Beyoncé and Young Thug tied at six, a three-way tie at […]
BET has announced a new original documentary, Smoke: Marijuana + Black America, which will premiere on November 18 at 10 pm ET. The new documentary is produced by Swirl Films and narrated and executed produced by Nas. The two-hour documentary highlights marijuana’s cultural, social, economic, and legal impact on American society and the Black community. […]
According to several confirmed reports, Quinn Coleman, son of longtime BET President Debra Lee, passed away on Sunday. He was 31 years old. The cause of Coleman’s death has not yet been confirmed. Quinn, who went by the name DJ Spicoli, served as A&R Senior Director at Capitol Records at the time of his death. […]
On this date in 1989, BET debuted Hip Hop’s youngest syndicated video show, known best under the name Rap City, which was a spin-off of Rap Week hosted by long time BET VJ Alvin Jones aka “The Unseen DJ.” Rap City was an underdog competitor to MTV’s Yo! MTV Raps, however, the appeal of Rap […]
The 2020 BET Awards viewership put up big numbers. The simulcast on BET and CBS led to a 54% viewership increase, TV Line reports. The show brought in just under 2 million viewers on CBS, making a total of 3.7 million viewers across all of ViacomCBS networks. The show was the largest audience since 2017. […]
“What y’all really want?” The Ruff Ryders docu-series is coming soon. The BET Awards was more than a celebration of the network’s 40th birthday. It was a premiere for a number of future projects that Black Entertainment Television is set to produce, including the 5-part Ruff Ryders docu-series. The DMX-led group is one of Hip-Hop’s […]
BET delivered an epic, social distance-friendly award show Sunday night and set the bar for all virtual shows moving forward. Fresh off the heels of an enjoyable 20th-anniversary ceremony, the network announced their upcoming docuseries called, No Limit Chronicles. The five-part series will be centered around Master P and his iconic No Limit Records. The […]
BET has been rolling out their annual awards show on social media revealing the host for this year. The 2020 BET Awards will be hosted by comedian Amanda Seales. The I Be Knowin’ comedian posted the news on her Instagram Monday for the show going down June 28th on BET. The opportunity is a big […]
As the protest movement roils on, America’s forced atonement is now targeting its greatest sin: slavery. A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was torn down in Richmond, Virginia along Monument Avenue on Wednesday night. The statue of the Confederacy State’s President lies in the former capital of the southern rebellion since June 3rd, 1907. […]
It’s about time someone addressed the root of the economic plight that many are protesting around the country today. Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson took to CNBC’s Squawk Box to call on the U.S. government to offer African Americans and the descendants of slaves in the United States a $14 trillion reparations plan in […]
