What’s up?
It’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver News and the nominees for the 2020 BET Awards were
announced yesterday and 8 year old Blue Ivy Carter was one of the nominees!
The BET Awards are scheduled for later this month on June 28th and as always, they will
be celebrating Black achievements in music, television, film, and sports across 21 categories.
And in celebration of the award ceremony’s 20th anniversary and BET’s 40th anniversary,
the BET Awards will simulcast live across ViacomCBS networks, including BET and BET
HER, and will be making it’s national broadcast premiere on CBS.
And while the show won’t take place in a theater with a full audience like it usually
does due to social distancing protocols, last month BET said quote “Using an array of
innovative techniques and artist-generated content, the show will continue, allowing
the audience to join in a celebration of black love, joy, pride and power with an all-star
lineup.”
And we can’t wait to see how the show will be put together with it being done following
the social distancing guidelines.
The BET Awards might be setting the stage and paving the way for more award shows to
come, given it doesn’t seem like we will be able to have large group gatherings like
award shows for a while.
Alright so let’s talk about the nominees.
Drake scored the most nominations with six total.
His nods include Best Male Hip-Hop Artist, Video of the Year, and two noms for both Best
Collaboration and Viewer’s Choice, for his features with Chris Brown and Future.
Drake is followed by Megan Thee Stallion and Roddy Ricch who each have five nominations.
Megan’s nominated for Best Female Hip Hop Artist, Best Collaboration, Album of the Year,
Video of the Year, and Viewer’s Choice.
And Roddy Ricch is also a contender in the Best Male Hip Hop Artist, Album of the Year,
Video of the Year, and Viewer’s Choice categories as well as Best New Artist.
Then, Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Lizzo, and DaBaby are all tied with four nominations
each.
Other nominees include Zendaya, Kehlani, Lil Nas X, Chloe x Halle, Lebron James, Storm
Reid, Cardi B, Travis Scott, Doja Cat, and more.
So it’s definitely going to be a star studded event!
But one nominee caught many fans' eyes.
Among the noms was Beyoncé and Jay-Z's 8-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, who appeared on Beyoncé's
song "Brown Skin Girl" from ‘The Lion King: The Gift’ soundtrack album.
The track also features WizKid and SAINt JHN, and it’s nominated for the BET HER Award.
But surprisingly enough, this isn’t Blue Ivy’s first award nomination.
Yes you heard that right, at only 8 years old, she’s accomplished more than many of
us will in our entire lives…
Back in November, Blue became an award-winning songwriter after "Brown Skin Girl" won the
Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award at the 2019 BET Soul Train Awards.
Then a few months later "Brown Skin Girl" also won Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration
at the 2020 NAACP Image Awards, earning Blue Ivy her first NAACP Image Award.
So if Blue Ivy and Beyoncé win the BET Award, it will be yet another trophy Blue Ivy can
put up in her room.
I don’t know about you, but when I was 8 I only had one trophy and it was a participation
trophy for playing tennis in school… and everyone got one, even if you couldn’t hit
the ball like me….
But back to Blue, we are so excited for Blue Ivy on her first BET Award nomination and
her fans are too!
People are taking to Twitter to share their thoughts on all this.
One excited fan wrote quote, “sis blue ivy really gonna get a BET award.
legendary me think”
Another person tweeted saying quote, “yesss young legend Blue”
And this fan wrote quote, “Go Blue You are on your Way.”
But others wallowed in their own pity thinking about how much Blue has accomplished at only
8 like this person who wrote quote, “N here i am struggling to get my very first online
class certificate, gddamn”
And this fan wrote quote, “Y'all Blue Ivy is more successful in the 8 years she's been
on this earth than the 30 I have.
Proud of her for the BET Award nom but damn I gotta get my life together…”
And we just are looking forward to watching the BET Awards and tuning in to see if Blue
Ivy is among the winners list.
But lets be real, she’s always gonna be a winner.
If you want more on Blue Ivy and why fans think she’s going to be a pop star, click
right over here for another Clevver video.
And share all your thoughts about the BET Award nominees down in the comments below.
Will you be tuning in to watch on June 28th?
Let me know!
I’m your host, Sussan Mourad, bye guys!