Hip Hop Awards ’20: Five Questions That Must Be Answered At BET’s Show This Year – BET

This year’s BET Hip Hop Awards are going to hit harder than ever before, due largely to the fact that they’re a reprieve from what a sucky year 2020 has been. Since 2006, BET has paid homage to the biggest hip-hop artists of the moment and evaluated the cultural impact of both rising stars and established legends through a staggering number of performances, hilarious monologues, and cutthroat cyphers of artists spitting their hardest bars one-after-the-other — all in one night.

But in between the flashing lights and the knocking beats, the BET Hip Hop Awards have been about not only celebrating Black culture, but exploring its current context as well. It’s a safe space for Black discussion and dissection and in 2020, a year that’s had enough traumatic events to last a lifetime, this edition of the Hip-Hop Awards should address some of the conversations that we’ve been having in barbershops, salons, and Twitter feeds.

Here are five questions that we’re looking to see addressed at the BET Hip Hop Awards.