Last month, the stars gathered in the nation’s capital for BET Honors 2015, which was taped at Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 24. Airing on BET on Monday night, the eighth annual show saluted African-American trailblazers in art, music, theater, technology, and business.
This year’s honorees included Kanye West; Usher; Phylicia Rashad; Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art; and John W. Thompson, Chairman of Microsoft and CEO of Virtual Instruments.
Hosted by Wayne Brady, the evening featuring outstanding performances from the likes of K. Michelle, who stunned in a blue gown, belting out her Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart song “Judge Me.” Mary J. Blige inspired the crowd with her London Sessions song “Doubt.” While Patti LaBelle tore the house down with her gospel spiritual, moving Phylicia Rashad to tears.
An emotional Usher accepted the Musical Arts Award from Bobby Brown and Ben Vereen, and received a musical salute from Trey Songz, who performed a cover of “Nice & Slow.”
Other performers included Ne-Yo and Charlie Wilson, who was joined on stage by Kanye West for a freestyle over “Bound 2.”
Watch the performances below:
Trey Songz
Mary J. Blige
Patti LaBelle
Usher’s Acceptance Speech
Sung her heart out amazing performance @kmichelle #BETHonors pic.twitter.com/mTjrIBmxIN
— Tiffany (@BaileyArian) February 24, 2015
where’s K.Michelle’s performance?? AKA the only performance I came here to see… SMH
Sorry but they knew what they were doing leaving it out. No one should ever want to see a K. Michelle performance on purpose.
Hey, the performance wasn’t added because BET has yet to release it online. We wish they would!