{"id":4578,"date":"2016-06-27T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T05:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/27\/prince-tributes-take-center-stage-at-the-bet-awards\/"},"modified":"2016-06-27T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T05:24:20","slug":"prince-tributes-take-center-stage-at-the-bet-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/27\/prince-tributes-take-center-stage-at-the-bet-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince tributes take center stage at the BET Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now <\/span>that’s<\/i> how you pay tribute to Prince.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After promising to outdo\u00a0Madonna’s tribute at the Billboard Music Awards <\/a>\u2014\u00a0“Yeah, we saw that. Don’t worry. We got you,” a promo read after the May 22 show \u2014 Sunday night’s BET Awards made good on that promise. Rather than having one tribute, the show opted for several, making it a night where Prince’s presence was felt throughout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Erykah Badu and the Roots kicked it off with a simple \u2014 and slightly disappointing \u2014 performance of “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker.” But\u00a0Bilal stepped it up with a show-stopping cover of the “The Beautiful Ones,” channeling the Purple One’s signature sexual swagger, unbuttoning his top, writhing along the floor, and nailing the yearning falsetto.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now that’s how you pay tribute to Prince.\u00a0 After promising to outdo\u00a0Madonna’s tribute at the Billboard Music Awards \u2014\u00a0“Yeah, we saw that. Don’t worry. We got you,” a promo read after the May 22 show \u2014 Sunday night’s BET Awards … 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":[3533,739,800,2360],"class_list":["post-4578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-bet-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-prince"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578","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=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}