According to LilNasX's team, BET wanted to confirm that the rapper was not a devil worshipper before allowing him to perform at that year's show.
in his music, chanting “F*ck BET” in the opening lines of his new single “Late to Da Party" — which also features album art that depicts someone urinating on a BET Award in a toilet.stating that his zero nominations were unfortunate but not intentional, claiming that no one from BET serves as a member of their voting academy.
According to a member of Lil Nas' team, BET wanted to confirm that the rapper was not a devil worshipper before allowing him to perform at that year's show. Lil Nas X did end up taking the stage at the 2021 BET Awards, performing “Montero” on a Michael Jackson-inspired set.. The performance, which quickly went viral, was arguably the most talked-about moment of that year's show. Yet, according to a member of LNX's team, BET's reaction did not “feel celebratory," but rather “that they felt taken advantage of."
“It’s almost like they didn’t mind sweet kind of gay ‘Old Town Road’ Lil Nas X, but this is too much," said the first anonymous team member. “I think BET is doubling down on what they did wrong. Instead of saying, ‘We got it wrong,’ they said, ‘It’s [the voting] community and they don’t f*ck with him,’ which is bullsh*t.
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