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Drake Regrets BET Award Show Performance
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Drake is the first member of the Young Money entourage to address their performance at Sunday's 9th annual BET Awards.
"That, actually... to be honest... was a terrible idea that I'll never do to myself again, but I was being pressed from different areas to perform, and I think what really happened at the BET Awards is with the passing of Mike, the climate really changed, as far as the award show goes. I don't think it called for us to perform Every Girl and Always Strapped and I think it was an award show filled with tributes and music and these genuine heartfelt speeches. And to sort of climax out of a very tongue-n-cheek point, and then people misconstruing Wayne's daughters and her friends coming out on stage, it was just timed very poorly and it definitely wasn't planned like that, but with that being said, it is what it is. I believe in Wayne and myself and it's nothing we can't bounce back from. To anyone who was offended, my personal apologies, it wasn't intended to offend anybody," Drake explained.
Numerous media outlets expressed their discontent for the performance including award winning filmmaker Byron Hurt who penned an open letter BET's President Debra Lee.
In the letter, Hurt said, "Show executives watched, approved, and applauded as artists Lil Wayne, Drake, and Cash Money brought young, under-aged girls onto the stage to dance and serve as window dressing while they performed Every Girl, a song that reduces girls and women to sex objects," Hurt wrote.
"In a culture where one out of four girls and women are either raped or sexually assaulted - and where manipulative men routinely traffic vulnerable women into the sex industry - it is not okay that BET allowed this to happen. BET owes its entire audience - particularly girls and women around the world - an apology for its failure to intervene," he continued.
Debra Lee and BET have yet to comment.
In unrelated Drake news, the highly anticipated video for his first single Best I Ever Had was released yesterday July 2).
"That, actually... to be honest... was a terrible idea that I'll never do to myself again, but I was being pressed from different areas to perform, and I think what really happened at the BET Awards is with the passing of Mike, the climate really changed, as far as the award show goes. I don't think it called for us to perform Every Girl and Always Strapped and I think it was an award show filled with tributes and music and these genuine heartfelt speeches. And to sort of climax out of a very tongue-n-cheek point, and then people misconstruing Wayne's daughters and her friends coming out on stage, it was just timed very poorly and it definitely wasn't planned like that, but with that being said, it is what it is. I believe in Wayne and myself and it's nothing we can't bounce back from. To anyone who was offended, my personal apologies, it wasn't intended to offend anybody," Drake explained.
Numerous media outlets expressed their discontent for the performance including award winning filmmaker Byron Hurt who penned an open letter BET's President Debra Lee.
In the letter, Hurt said, "Show executives watched, approved, and applauded as artists Lil Wayne, Drake, and Cash Money brought young, under-aged girls onto the stage to dance and serve as window dressing while they performed Every Girl, a song that reduces girls and women to sex objects," Hurt wrote.
"In a culture where one out of four girls and women are either raped or sexually assaulted - and where manipulative men routinely traffic vulnerable women into the sex industry - it is not okay that BET allowed this to happen. BET owes its entire audience - particularly girls and women around the world - an apology for its failure to intervene," he continued.
Debra Lee and BET have yet to comment.
In unrelated Drake news, the highly anticipated video for his first single Best I Ever Had was released yesterday July 2).
Drake "Best I Ever Had" from kwest on Vimeo.
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