BET Networks and Viacom have pressed pause on the BET Hip-Hop Awards and Soul Train Awards. BET CEO Scott Mills stated the team is “actively thinking about where those award shows might best live as the media climate.” But three-time Hip-Hop Awards host Fat Joe claims the pause “is a form of gentrification.”
“Little by little over the years, quietly they’ve been firing a lot of people behind the scenes at BET and everybody who has something to say,” Joe continued. “And I know ’cause I’ve been working on the BET Hip-Hop Awards for three years. It was like the budget, not for me, but the budget just kept getting chopped and chopped and chopped.”
You can hear it all from Joe below.