The 2023 BET Awards are celebrating 50 years of hip-hop with tributes to the genre’s earliest voices, late legends, and new talent during a performance-packed show that consistently felt like a party. The night’s biggest surprise was a rare public performance by Quavo and Offset, the surviving members of Migos, who did a rendition of “Bad and Boujee” in front of an image of Takeoff, who died in a shooting last December. DJ Kid Capri walked the audience through medleys of hip-hop classics honoring not just East and West styles but also the styles of Miami, Atlanta and more. The show is airing live from Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
