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The songs, “Every Girl” and “Best I Ever Had” were performed by the rappers, and both songs are full of overtly sexual overtones, as well as explicit language, which was poorly edited by the network. Perhaps the most criticism came when Lil Wayne’s daughters and her friends hopped on stage during “Every Girl” leaving fans and critics angry at seeing pubescent girls on stage dancing during such a sexually explicit song.
The network said in a statement, “BET Networks deeply regrets the performance by Young Money at the BET Awards ’09 (featuring Lil Wayne, Drake, Gudda Gudda and Mack Maine). Elements of the performance were unplanned and should not have happened,”
The network has said they will re-air an edited version of the show beginning July 6th.
Drake also apologized for the performance, saying it was a “terrible idea.”
“…I’ll never do to myself again. But I was being pressed from different areas to perform, and I think what really happened at the BET Awards is with the passing of Mike, the climate really changed, as far as the award show goes,” he told Complex. “I don’t think it called for us to perform “Every Girl” and “Always Strapped,” and I think it was an award show filled with tributes and music and these genuine heartfelt speeches. And to sort of climax out of a very tongue-n-cheek point, and then people misconstruing Wayne’s daughters and her friends coming out on stage — it was just timed very poorly and it definitely wasn’t planned like that, but with that being said, it is what is. I believe in Wayne and myself and it’s nothing we can’t bounce back from. To anyone who was offended, my personal apologies, it wasn’t intended to offend anybody.” -jh
