Usher's Candy Tribute to Fatherhood at 2024 BET Awards Acquired Us Fallin' in Fancy
After accepting the award for Finest Male R&B/Pop artist, Usher thanked fathers who had been motivation for the “future Shadowy leaders.”
Usher is aware of it began when he modified into youthful.
Upon receiving the award for Finest Male R&B/Pop artist on the 2024 BET Awards June 30, the forty five-year-outmoded worn his acceptance speech to present a heartfelt shoutout to fathers across the country.
“It’s indispensable to esteem that fatherhood is so indispensable,” Usher explained on stage at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. “On your total fathers tonight at dwelling or in the viewers I would in point of fact like for y’all to face up appropriate for 2 seconds for me. Far too usually, we accumulate to this second and we’re announcing to our mothers, ‘Seek Ma, I made it.’ We don’t accumulate a likelihood to claim sufficient, ‘Dad I did it’ So, this one is for the general men accessible being generals to their sons, and motivation for our future Shadowy leaders—younger men.”
And Usher—who’s a father to Cinco, 16, Naviyd, 15, with ex Tameka Foster moreover Sovereign, 3, and Sire, 2, with wife Jennifer Goicoechea—also dedicated share of his speech to advise on his occupation leading up to receiving the 2024 BET Lifetime Fulfillment Award.
“I’m in actuality contented to gentle be a share of the fight,” he explained. “Motivation from my previous, to your total artists of my previous, moreover inspiration to your total modern kids.”
Clearly, the “Yeah!” rapper couldn’t help nonetheless sneak in a shaggy dog story, too.
“Rattling, I sound outmoded as f–okay, upright?” Usher laughed. “Nevertheless I’m now not.”
Whereas his transient shoutout modified into centered round other fathers in the room—and who had been tuning into the display at dwelling—Usher has unfolded sooner than about how rising up with out a father formed his want to be a fingers-on dad to his four kids.
“It’s essential by no attain abandon that accountability, which is to be there, studying with your child, being supportive of your child's growth,” he explained to Essence in 2008, appropriate after changing true into a father for the predominant time. “That’s communicating. That’s making the likelihood to assign your child sooner than your accumulate conceitedness.”
Preserve studying to glimpse each superstar’s arrival on the 2024 BET Awards.
Usher
Ice Spice
Halle Bailey
Victoria Monét
Taraji P. Henson
Tinashe
Killer Mike
Gunna
T.I. (L) and Heiress Harris (R)
Chlöe
Sexyy Crimson
Keke Palmer (LC) and DivaGurl
Shaboozey
Colman Domingo
Ty Dolla $ign
Blac Chyna
Kyla Pratt
NLE Choppa
DC Young Soar
Andra Day
Karol Conká
Kesha Ward
Dominique Perry
Tamar Braxton
Kadeem Hardison (L) and Sophia Hardison (R)
Angela Simmons
Eric Bellinger (L) and La'Myia Merely (R)
Marsha Ambrosius
YBN Almighty Jay
DJ Diamond Kuts
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