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Criticism of Usher's women-centric BET Lifetime Achievement tribute is just another example of heightened scrutiny on female performers
BET says ‘audio malfunction’ caused heavy censorship of Usher’s speech at the 2024 BET Awards
BET has issued an apology to Usher for muting part of his Lifetime Achievement Award speech during the network‘s BET Awards. A spokesperson from the network told The Hollywood Reporter that an audio malfunction caused part of Usher’s improvised speech to get cut off from the airwaves.
When Usher received the Lifetime Achievement Award during Sunday’s BET Awards, a good amount of his speech was muted. But BET has apologized to the singer, adding that an “audio malfunction” led to portions of his 13-minute speech being “inadvertently muted.
On Sunday night, portions of Usher's 13-minute acceptance speech for his Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards were notably censored.