The 2021 BET Awards will stream live from Los Angeles on Sunday, June 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, with a very outstanding lineup of performers from the last 21 years. Andra Day, City Girls, DaBaby, DJ Khaled, HER, Jazmine Sullivan, Kirk Franklin, Lil Baby and Lil Durk, Migos, Moneybagg Yo, Rapsody, Roddy Ricch, and Tyler The Creator, among others, will perform, according to BET. Taraji P. Henson will host the event, which will honor Queen Latifah with a BET Lifetime Achievement Award.
DaBaby and Megan Thee Stallion lead the pack with seven nominations each, including Best Female Hip Hop Artist for Megan and Best Male Hip Hop Artist for DaBaby. Roddy Ricch, Public Enemy, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, D Smoke, Anderson.Paak, Lil Wayne, and others performed at the 2020 Awards, which established the pattern for how awards ceremonies could thrive without a live studio audience.
This year’s show will be the first with an audience since 2019, the lowest-rated show in BET Awards history, but it seems some of the lessons the network took away from last year’s show stuck; namely, the focus on performances over bells and whistles.
