♪ There's no place to hide ♪
♪ Once I step inside the room ♪
♪ Dr. Doom, prepare for the boom ♪
♪ Bam! ♪
- [Announcer] They came, they saw, they conquered.
We're talking about all the OGs who blazed the stage
at the 2022 Hip Hop Awards.
From hosting to performing,
and receiving their flowers,
these must see moments prove that genre's pioneers
are only getting better with time.
(beat dropping)
First up, Joey Crack's opening number.
(marching band playing)
- Yo South! What's good?
Yo South, What's good?
Let's go!
(marching band playing)
Showbiz, I see you!
(marching band playing)
Yeah!
(marching band playing)
Okay.
(marching band music ending)
- [Announcer] N.O.R.E. lights up the stage
with Armani White.
(energetic music playing)
♪ Hey homeboy, I came to party ♪
♪ Yo' girl was lookin' at me ♪
♪ She's a haggler naw I'm not taggin' her ♪
♪ But you don't want them boys to come over ♪
♪ and start askin' ya ♪
- Say what?
♪ What you wanna do? ♪
- Say what?
♪ What you tryin' to do? ♪
- Say what?
♪ What you wanna do? ♪
♪ What you tryin' to do? ♪
♪ I still gettin' plaques in 2022 ♪
- [Announcer] Make some noise!
It's Drink Champs at the Hip Hop Awards.
- Shout out to my family.
To the Crazy Hook Productions Crew,
Drink Champs Crew.
(speaking Spanish) I'm doing this for
Dade County, 3-0-5 Miami in (censored) building.
(audience cheering)
Let's go.
- I'm a little more cocky with mine.
(audience cheering)
I'm gonna keep it 100.
I haven't been to a awards show since Pun been alive.
Me and Pun sat at these seats over there somewhere,
and Silkk the Shocker beat us
in every category there was.
(audience laughing)
I promise to never come to another award show again
because I didn't want to be embarrassed,
because hood (censored) get embarrassed too, y'all.
But I came tonight because Pun did,
(audience cheering)
Pun told me to come.
He said Fat Joe is hosting.
He said Mobb Deep is going to be there.
He said, "You gotta come tonight with your wife,
your beautiful wife, and accept this award
on every hood (censored) that cut school
(audience laughing)
and was in the resource room.
I had two teachers and five students.
I was in special education.
I never learned language.
I'm not sure if I know how to read, but I'm here.
(audience cheering)
- [Announcer] The reunion we all needed.
♪ While Pharrell keep talking this music shit ♪
- [Both] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
♪ We just grindin' ♪
♪ - [Both] Whoa, whoa, whoa, ♪ whoa, whoa, whoa.
♪ We just grindin' ♪
♪ Where my money makers at ♪ ♪ Grindin' ♪
♪ Where my money makers at ♪
♪ ♪ Where my money makers at ♪
- [Announcer] Jeezy reminded us why he was the realest.
♪ The real snow fall, ♪
♪ Just know you gon' need some skis ♪
♪ Them choppas all wood handle, ♪
♪ Just minus the leaves ♪
♪ Can make the Ninas do some things ♪
♪ You wouldn't believe ♪
♪ The way I had the block flooded, ♪
♪ Thought I had a boat ♪
♪ I talked them bits ♪ ♪ I flipped them bricks ♪
♪ And I'm the curry G.O.A.T. ♪
♪ Them fumes comin' from the kitchen ♪
♪ Louder then a Harley ♪
♪ White bricks on white counters ♪
♪ Got me feelin' godly ♪
♪ Counted up my first million ♪ ♪ Felt that in my soul ♪
♪ Schemin' on my second million ♪
♪ Got that in my bowl ♪
♪ Bald head ♪ ♪ No Samson powers in my fork ♪
♪ Same stone, same kitchen granite ♪
♪ Cook that pork ♪
- [Announcer] A befitting salute to the baddest.
- [Trina] I just wanna thank BET for continuing to be
a platform that heightens our culture,
and for giving me my flowers
while I am here to smell them.
(audience cheering)
I am speechless right now.
I am humbled, yet honored,
to accept the I Am Hip hop Award.
24 years, who would've thought
I would be standing here
and able to say this in my own reign and my own lane.
- [Announcer] And finally,
the moment where Hip Hop history was made.
♪ Hot damn, ho ♪
♪ Here we go again ♪
♪ Lyte as a rock, bitch ♪
♪ About your faults or mishappens ♪
♪ Happens ♪
♪ We from the Bronx, New York ♪
- [Audience] Shit happens!
♪ Kids clappin', ♪ love to spark the place
♪ Half the cats in the squad got a scar on they face ♪
♪ Band, I be Sam, Sam-I-Am ♪
♪ And I don't eat green eggs and ham ♪
♪ Style'll hit ya ♪ ♪ Wham, then goddamn ♪
♪ You'll be like, ♪ ♪ Oh shit, that's the jam ♪
(outro music)