Kanye West made a surprise appearance at the 2022 BET Awards Sunday night, paying tribute to the ceremony’s sole lifetime achievement award recipient, Diddy, with a five-and-a-half-minute speech.
He spoke on his long friendship with the Bad Boy Records founder, who mentored him early in his career. “I was signed to Puff without him knowing,” Ye reminisced, discussing how he idolized Diddy growing up. “That statement is not legally binding,” he then added, inducing laughs from the audience.
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He inspired so many of my choices — so many of my life choices, my wife choices, and here we are. Thanks for that, Puff.” Ye has been relatively absent from the public spotlight since his extremely public divorce from Kim Kardashian and his ensuing spat with her new boyfriend, Pete Davidson.
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