Kirk Franklin closed the 2025 BET Awards by performing a medley of hits that includes Tamar Braxton, Muni Lengthy, Jamal Roberts and Salt from Salt-N-Pepa after he acquired an Final Icon Award.
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“I by no means felt the love of a mom or a father,” he stated throughout his acceptance speech when speaking about being adopted. “The one time I felt love was after I sat behind the piano and wrote songs to Jesus. Individuals beloved my songs and the extra I wrote, the extra individuals listened. Thanks to all of you that also pay attention. Thanks to each group, singer, musician that’s been the microphone to my ache.”
He then went on to say that regardless that he makes gospel music that the lots have come to take pleasure in, that also doesn’t make him greater than human. “I’m not excellent,” he instructed the gang. “I fail, I sin, I’m not an ideal Christian, I’m not an ideal husband, and everyone knows I’m not an ideal father. I’m not even an ideal artist as a result of I can’t even sing, which makes this award much more superb, as a result of what I actually do don’t make sense and in the event you’re listening to this that’s when you recognize it’s God when it don’t make sense.”
Franklin then shut issues down by performing a few of his well-liked songs like “Stomp,” “Silver & Gold,” and “Melodies From Heaven,” with D.C. Younger Fly serving as a pastor delivering a sermon proper earlier than Franklin and his military of performers went into an energized remix of “Revolution.”
Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey and Jamie Foxx additionally acquired Final Icon Awards at Monday evening’s present.
