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Best Performances From the 2025 BET Awards, Ranked

From Lil Wayne and Playboi Carti to Kirk Franklin, the stars showed up in a big way during Culture’s Biggest Night.

On Monday night (June 9), the BET Awards 2025 made its way back to the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the BET Awards brought together an all-star cast of names. Extending from the worlds of Black music and entertainment, a bevy of superstar talent were all under one roof to commemorate the enduring legacy of BET and it’s venerable awards show.

Names such as Kendrick Lamar, Tyler Perry and Lil Wayne strutted their way to the festive event, making this year’s ceremony arguably one of the best showings in recent years. To bring everything together, BET unified some of the biggest heroes across hip-hop, R&B, and gospel, when they enlisted Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx, Mariah Carey and Kirk Franklin for the Ultimate Icon Awards. Not only did the musical heavyweights receive their honors and flowers, but they proved why they remain one-of-a-kind showstoppers with their sizzling performances. Though Foxx didn’t showcase his vocal prowess, his speech satiated the crowd’s hunger, as he had everyone in a vise grip emotionally when he recalled the dark moments of his stroke recovery.

“You can’t go through something like that and not testify,” Foxx said during his rousing speech. “A career that I could only thank God for.”

The icons weren’t the only ones to leave it all out there; younger superstars like GloRilla and Playboi Carti left indelible marks during “Culture’s Biggest Night,” with their stage presence and innate creativity.

Below, Billboard ranked the night’s best performances, including highlights from Teyana Taylor, Snoop Dogg, Leon Thomas, Mariah Carey and more.

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