{"id":90133,"date":"2024-07-01T03:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/07\/01\/usher-accepts-lifetime-achievement-award-at-2024-bet-awards-but-speechs-audio-kept-cutting-out\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T03:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:03:40","slug":"usher-accepts-lifetime-achievement-award-at-2024-bet-awards-but-speechs-audio-kept-cutting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/07\/01\/usher-accepts-lifetime-achievement-award-at-2024-bet-awards-but-speechs-audio-kept-cutting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Usher Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award at 2024 BET Awards, But Speech\u2019s Audio Kept Cutting\u00a0Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n
\n

\n\tUsher<\/a> accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 BET Awards Sunday night (June 30) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, but the audio cut out for a good chunk of his speech for those watching from home.<\/p>\n

\n
\n

\n

\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

\n

\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Usher\"<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n

\n

\t\t\t\t\t2024 BET Awards Winners: See the Complete List\u00a0(Updating)\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is great to see him get the flowers while the garden is still growing, so keep growing them flowers,\u201d said Terry Lewis<\/a> at the beginning of the segments. While he and Jimmy Jam<\/a> mentioned they produced one of Usher\u2019s biggest records that was part of his tribute performance \u2014 \u201cBad Girl\u201d from his 2004 magnum opus Confessions<\/em> \u2014 they enlisted two other influential men in the R&B superstar\u2019s life to present him with the prestigious honor: L.A. Reid<\/a> and Babyface<\/a>. And while the gentlemen honored Usher\u2019s mother, Jonnetta Patton, for bringing him into this world and being the \u201coriginal momager,\u201d Babyface added that they \u201cwere part of your musical birth, and you are worthy of this prestigious award.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tUsher took the stage for his approximately 12-minute acceptance speech, but about four minutes of it were largely inaudible for those not in the theater with him. (Billboard <\/em>has reached out to BET for comment about the audio during Usher\u2019s speech.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGetting here has definitely not been easy, but it has been worth it. \u2026 I didn\u2019t write anything because I wanted this moment to be exactly what it was: present. In this moment, how I am feeling and the appreciation that I have for each and every person that had anything to do with this moment tonight as well as the 30-plus-year career that I celebrate. \u2026 I don\u2019t know, man, is it too early for me to receive it? Because I\u2019m still running and gunning and I still love this s\u2013t like I did when I was eight years old,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe later explained how he initially had a hard time making sense of his birth name, which Usher said was given to him by a man who didn\u2019t stick around or love him. \u201cOr at least, that was my perception of it, because I had to live long enough in order to understand you have to have a forgiving heart in order to understand the true pitfalls and hardships of a Black man in America,\u201d said the eight-time Grammy winner. \u201cAnd my father, he was a product of that. He made a lot of decisions, he made a lot of choices and the one that probably hurt and helped me at the same time was to stay away. But that\u2019s part of the reason why I say this is the year of the father, where all the fathers gotta stand up for their sons and daughters and be the man that they need them to be for them.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile praising Jam, Lewis, Reid and Babyface for how they helped shaped his successful career, Usher described them as \u201cthe men who motivated me, who speak to me, who have spoken to me, who have been solid no matter how f\u2013ked up it may have been \u2014 sorry, I\u2019m cursing to let you know how I really feelm\u201d while \u201cf\u2013k\u201d was censored but a subsequent \u201cs\u2013t\u201d wasn\u2019t. Almost four minutes into his speech, Usher\u2019s speech starting cutting in and out for almost four minutes straight.<\/p>\n

\n
\n

\n

\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

\n

\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Ice<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
\n

\n

\t\t\t\t\tBET Awards 2024: Photos From the Red\u00a0Carpet\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

\n\tBut according to a Billboard <\/em>reporter inside the awards show, Usher said \u201cf\u2013k\u201d and \u201cmotherf\u2013ker\u201d once, while barely swearing throughout his speech that didn\u2019t contain any salacious subject matter. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhen the sound was restored, Usher shouted out his eldest sons Usher \u201cCinco\u201d Raymond V and Nayvid Ely Raymond, who were in the front row, as well as his son Sire Castrello Raymond and daughter Sovereign Bo Raymond, who were at home. \u201cIt is 100% all about my children and making certain that you understand that your dreams can come true if you truly committed, if you are committed to it, if you\u2019re dedicated to something and you find passion and you stay committed to it, this could potentially be you. This could be your moment. Not on this stage, because I\u2019m the only one that\u2019s gonna have this one,\u201d he joked. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Usher accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 BET Awards Sunday night (June 30) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, but the audio cut out for a good chunk of his speech for those watching from home. Related 2024 BET Awards Winners: See the Complete List\u00a0(Updating) 07\/01\/2024 \u201cIt is great to see him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}