2025 BET Awards Ultimate Icon Award Honors Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg

The 2025 BET Awards are swiftly approaching, and after bulletins of nominees, performers, and a number of the BET Expertise actions the weekend previous to the present, the community has now introduced the recipients of the Ultimate Icon Award. “Celebrating their many years of groundbreaking contributions to music, leisure, advocacy, and group affect,” the award shall be given to Mariah Carey, Jamie Foxx, Kirk Franklin and Snoop Dogg, all of whom are additionally billed to carry out. The 2025 BET Awards air dwell on Monday, June 9, at 8 PM ET.

Kevin Hart was introduced because the host just a few weeks earlier than the present, and Kendrick Lamar is the most-nominated artist with 10 nominations, together with Album Of The Yr, Viewer’s Selection, and Video Of The Yr. Doechii, Drake, Future, and GloRilla are all tied with six nominations every. This 12 months’s performers will embody GloRilla, Lil Wayne, Leon Thomas, Playboi Carti, and Teyana Taylor, with extra performers to be introduced.

Within the days main as much as the present, Los Angeles will as soon as play host to the BET Expertise pageant, with activations and concert events starting Thursday, June 5, and working by means of the weekend. Along with the twenty fifth anniversary of 106 & Park, this 12 months’s BETX may also function the return of the BETX superstar basketball sport, that includes BossMan Dlow, Cordae, G-Herbo, Hunxho, Kalan.FrFr, Pardison Fontaine, Rapsody, Rob49, and extra.