{"id":3882,"date":"2016-05-23T10:31:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/23\/the-weeknd-dedicates-his-billboard-music-award-to-the-late-great-prince\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T10:31:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:31:46","slug":"the-weeknd-dedicates-his-billboard-music-award-to-the-late-great-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/23\/the-weeknd-dedicates-his-billboard-music-award-to-the-late-great-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd dedicates his Billboard Music Award to &#039;the late, great Prince&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Theweekndbillboardmusicawards\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzIzLzkyL3RoZXdlZWtuZGJpLjRkYWVlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/baf86834\/d2f\/theweekndbillboardmusicawards.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=The+Weeknd+dedicates+his+Billboard+Music+Award+to+%27the+late%2C+great+Prince%27&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F22%2Fthe-weeknd-prince-billboard-music-awards%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F22%2Fthe-weeknd-prince-billboard-music-awards%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/prince\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Prince<\/a>&#8216;s last television appearance was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_p5HgcwXfZs\">presenting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/the-weeknd\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The Weeknd<\/a> with an American Music Award, and now The Weeknd has paid tribute the late legend in his <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/billboard-music-awards\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Billboard Music Awards&#8217;<\/a> acceptance speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was the greatest experience of my entire life,&#8221; he recalled, picking up the award for Top 100 Artist Award. &#8220;I love him so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/21\/prince-quotes\/\">9 quotes that prove Prince&#8217;s infinite wisdom will stay with us forever<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">I don&#8217;t know him. But he was very close to me<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">And \u2014 and he will always be an inspiration. And of course, helped me push the envelope forever, and every artist I hope. Rest in peace, Prince. Thank you, I love you.&#8221;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/22\/the-weeknd-prince-billboard-music-awards\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/celebrities\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Celebrities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/pop-culture\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Pop Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/music\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/billboard-music-awards\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Billboard Music Awards<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/awards-show\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Awards Show<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1463970369' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1463970369'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/MHdRc_A9nWs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince&#8216;s last television appearance was presenting The Weeknd with an American Music Award, and now The Weeknd has paid tribute the late legend in his Billboard Music Awards&#8217; acceptance speech.\u00a0 &#8220;That was the greatest experience of my entire life,&#8221; he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/23\/the-weeknd-dedicates-his-billboard-music-award-to-the-late-great-prince\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3006,3003,1182,800,2403],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-awards-show","tag-billboard-music-awards","tag-celebrities","tag-music","tag-pop-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}