: Kanye West makes surprise appearance at BET Awards #IndiaNEWS #Cinema Los Angeles, June 27 | Rapper Kanye West made a surprise appearance some three hours into the BET Awards on Sunday night to pay

Kanye West makes surprise appearance at BET Awards #IndiaNEWS #Cinema
Los Angeles, June 27 | Rapper Kanye West made a surprise appearance some three hours into the BET Awards on Sunday night to pay tribute to Sean Diddy Combs, the shows recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award.
His speech followed an elaborate performance that spanned Combs entire career, featuring cameos by Mary J. Blige, Jodeci, Nas, Lil Kim, Busta Rhymes, the Lox, Bryson Tiller, Faith Evans, the Maverick City Choir and Diddy himself, who dedicated the first half of his hit 1997 Ill Be Missing You, to his longtime partner, actress Kim Porter, who died of a lung infection in 2018, via video footage that played while he performed; the second half of the song featured a video tribute to its original subject, Notorious B. I. G.
Next came a powerful video speech from Jay-Z and an amusing one from Babyface who recalled Diddy haltingly but successfully teaching himself to ski.
According to Variety, West took the stage, wearing a grey leather Hood by Air jacket, a matching baseball cap, shades and a full black-stocking facial mask, similar to ones he wore in appearances and performances last year.
In his speech, West identified with the desire to change ones name: Over the years, Combs has called himself Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, just Diddy and most recently, simply Love; last year West legally changed his name to Ye.
He also spoke movingly of Combs influence on him, stressing that he considers him an artist and it is easy the influence of Combs viewing his entire creative and business output as part of a whole.
Read Wests speech in full:
How do we crown our kings? How do we appreciate our kings?, he began.
To think how far we could just make if off of inspiration, to hear the way somebody chopped a sample in. Me and (friend) rushin to see who could get the Bad Boy mixtape and play back the original version of Benjamins, over and over, thinkin I was one of the Hit Men.
I was signed to Puff without him knowing, he laughed, adding That statement is not legally binding!
To go to New York, he continued.
And think that everybody had on leather jackets and new Tims every day To see Puff in real life at the Missing You video, just like me tapping free like a little kid I just need to meet this man. This is my favourite artist.
You see Im saying favorite artist everything, not specifically production, the trip. Back then there was so many rules to hip-hop and he broke all of them.
Understood contracts in a way a lot of us still dont. Understood money in a way a lot of us still dont. I go to him for advice to this day. He inspired so many of my choices. So many of my life choices. My wife choices. And here we are. Thanks for that, Puff. And here we are, yall dont understand, getting snuck into the club at 17 years old in Chicago, thinking we was part of Bad Boy.