Young Money Pulls Out Of BET Experience & Awards Show After BET’s GRAMMYs Tweet
by Karen
This post has been updated
The Viacom property shared some unnecessary opinions Sunday night.
Last night’s GRAMMYs attempted to right a lot of wrongs caused by its quesitonable past by not only nominating a record number of women but also awarding some of its first. After Cardi B became the Academy’s first solo female artist to win Best Rap Album, Black Entertainment Television (BET) decided to lower some honestly unecessary shade over hip-hop veteran Nicki Minaj.
It comes as a shock seeing how BET announced that not only Cardi B would be headlining the Network’s biggest night but Nicki Minaj would be as well. Nicki took to twitter to share the announcement.
Young Money will no longer be apart of the BET Experience or award show. ♥️🙏🏽♥️ Summer Tour dates dropping soon 🦄
— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) February 11, 2019
UPDATE BET has issued a formal apology.
“BET loves Nicki Minaj. We have supported her from the very beginning of her career and will continue to do so moving forward. Nicki has paved the way for so many performers and has solidified her place as one of the most powerful figures in the music industry. Unfortunately the respect we have for Nicki was violated by this post that should never have been written. The post does not reflect how we feel about Nicki. And further does not reflect our company values.
“We deeply apologize for the hurt, disappointment and confusion that this post has caused. We are committed to doing everything we can to address the situation. We are also conducting an internal audit to assure these types of posts are not published again. We have apologized to Nicki and her team. The post has been removed and we have taken additional appropriate action. We understand Nicki’s position and look forward to continuing our dialogue with her. Finally, we apologize to all of her fans. This should have never happened.”
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