Artists React to Fatal Shooting and Stabbing at 2014 BET Awards Parties

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The excitement of the 2014 BET Awards quickly diminished with violent outbreaks at parties celebrating the show.

According to the Associated Press (via ABC News), one person was killed and five others were injured in separate incidents that occurred before the BET Awards. Celebrities such as Lil Wayne and Chris Rock were expected to attend the celebrations, which were unaffiliated with the show.

The fatality and four of the injuries followed gunfire at a restaurant earlier today (June 29). Additionally, Billboard reports that yesterday a man was stabbed at a BET Awards pre-show party in Hollywood. However, BET is working to keep the rest of the awards show events safe.

“The network and all organizers will continue to maintain a safe environment for all planned activities,” the Los Angeles police said in a statement.

Attendees at the 2014 BET Awards red carpet addressed the situation, with rapper Nelly saying, “you can’t place [the blame] on BET.”

Additionally, Ne-Yo explained that he feels safe at industry events, such as the BET Awards, saying, ”I feel like the energy I give off is the energy I get back, and I don’t give off that kind of energy.”

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Artists React to Fatal Shooting and Stabbing at 2014 BET Awards Parties

Nelly Neyo
Earl Gibson III, Getty Images (2)

The excitement of the 2014 BET Awards quickly diminished with violent outbreaks at parties celebrating the show.

According to the Associated Press (via ABC News), one person was killed and five others were injured in separate incidents that occurred before the BET Awards. Celebrities such as Lil Wayne and Chris Rock were expected to attend the celebrations, which were unaffiliated with the show.

The fatality and four of the injuries followed gunfire at a restaurant earlier today (June 29). Additionally, Billboard reports that yesterday a man was stabbed at a BET Awards pre-show party in Hollywood. However, BET is working to keep the rest of the awards show events safe.

“The network and all organizers will continue to maintain a safe environment for all planned activities,” the Los Angeles police said in a statement.

Attendees at the 2014 BET Awards red carpet addressed the situation, with rapper Nelly saying, “you can’t place [the blame] on BET.”

Additionally, Ne-Yo explained that he feels safe at industry events, such as the BET Awards, saying, ”I feel like the energy I give off is the energy I get back, and I don’t give off that kind of energy.”

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Artists React to Fatal Shooting and Stabbing at 2014 BET Awards Parties

Nelly Neyo
Earl Gibson III, Getty Images (2)

The excitement of the 2014 BET Awards quickly diminished with violent outbreaks at parties celebrating the show.

According to the Associated Press (via ABC News), one person was killed and five others were injured in separate incidents that occurred before the BET Awards. Celebrities such as Lil Wayne and Chris Rock were expected to attend the celebrations, which were unaffiliated with the show.

The fatality and four of the injuries followed gunfire at a restaurant earlier today (June 29). Additionally, Billboard reports that yesterday a man was stabbed at a BET Awards pre-show party in Hollywood. However, BET is working to keep the rest of the awards show events safe.

“The network and all organizers will continue to maintain a safe environment for all planned activities,” the Los Angeles police said in a statement.

Attendees at the 2014 BET Awards red carpet addressed the situation, with rapper Nelly saying, “you can’t place [the blame] on BET.”

Additionally, Ne-Yo explained that he feels safe at industry events, such as the BET Awards, saying, ”I feel like the energy I give off is the energy I get back, and I don’t give off that kind of energy.”

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Minaj at BET Awards: I Was Recently Near Death

 
PHOTO: Nicki Minaj performs at the BET Awards at the Nokia Theatre, June 29, 2014, in Los Angeles.

 

After nearly four hours of prizes, performances and the occasional bleeped expletive, the 2014 BET Awards came to a close. When it was all over, Pharrell Williams had two trophies, as did newcomer August Alsina, and Lil Wayne dropped the mike, apparently breaking it.

Here’s a look at some of the memorable moments that emerged from Sunday night’s ceremony, broadcast live from the Nokia Theatre on BET:

— Accepting her fifth consecutive award for female hip-hop artist, Nicki Minaj gave a rambling speech in which she said she was recently near death.

“The other day, literally I didn’t tell anybody this, I really thought I was about to die. Like, I was saying my prayers to die. And I didn’t even want to call the ambulance because I thought, ‘Well if I call the ambulance, it’s going to be on TMZ,'” Minaj said, as some of the audience laughed.

“And I would rather sit there and die,” she added, looking to the crowd. “And it made me realize I don’t care what anybody got to say. I’m going to do me.”

Lil Wayne accompanied Minaj to the stage to accept her award, just as she joined him — and dozens of others — onstage to accept the best group award for Young Money. At the conclusion of that acceptance speech, which featured an appearance by Wayne’s daughter, he didn’t just drop the mike, but the whole microphone stand.

— Chris Rock proved a winning host, opening the show with barbs aimed at Donald Sterling and heavyset rapper Rick Ross, sneaking clever swipes into his artist introductions and passing out food from Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles to hungry audience members.

Of the 83-year-old Sterling, Rock said, “The first black man he ever met, he got for Christmas.” Rock teased at the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry, saying the West won because Dr. Dre sold his Beats brand to Apple for $3 billion earlier this year. Everyone wants to get into the headphone business now, Rock said. “Dre has Beats,” the comedian said. “Rick Ross has Dia-Beats.”

As Rock introduced Usher, he noted the singer “discovered Justin Bieber, and now he’s going to spend the rest of his life apologizing for it.” And the comedian aimed a zinger at Chris Brown, who was recently released from jail and performed two songs during the show.

“He just signed a new deal,” Rock said. “Too bad it was a plea deal.”

— Maybe Pharrell Williams should have been seated just off stage. The multitalented entertainer opened the evening with a playful performance of “Come Get it Bae,” backed by a flurry of cheerleaders. Reclusive rapper Missy Elliott also joined in.

He was back on stage twice to accept awards — video of the year for “Happy” and best male R&B/pop artist — and returned a fourth time to introduce lifetime achievement award winner Lionel Richie.

— Richie’s lifetime achievement award was celebrated with music. The 65-year-old singer-songwriter performed two of his classic hits: the Commodores’ “Easy” and his ’80s party anthem “All Night Long (All Night),” before being feted by other artists. John Legend crooned Richie’s love song “Hello” from the piano, a song he said he’s been performing since high school. Ledisi rocked an enthusiastic version of “Brick House.” And gospel singer Yolanda Adams brought the house down with her moving rendition of “Jesus is Love.”

Backstage, Richie called the honor “magical.”

“If you are lucky enough in this business to have years of songs, as opposed to a couple of songs, (it’s) something to be proud of,” he said.

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Artists React to Fatal Shooting and Stabbing at 2014 BET Awards Parties

Nelly Neyo
Earl Gibson III, Getty Images (2)

The excitement of the 2014 BET Awards quickly diminished with violent outbreaks at parties celebrating the show.

According to the Associated Press (via ABC News), one person was killed and five others were injured in separate incidents that occurred before the BET Awards. Celebrities such as Lil Wayne and Chris Rock were expected to attend the celebrations, which were unaffiliated with the show.

The fatality and four of the injuries followed gunfire at a restaurant earlier today (June 29). Additionally, Billboard reports that yesterday a man was stabbed at a BET Awards pre-show party in Hollywood. However, BET is working to keep the rest of the awards show events safe.

“The network and all organizers will continue to maintain a safe environment for all planned activities,” the Los Angeles police said in a statement.

Attendees at the 2014 BET Awards red carpet addressed the situation, with rapper Nelly saying, “you can’t place [the blame] on BET.”

Additionally, Ne-Yo explained that he feels safe at industry events, such as the BET Awards, saying, ”I feel like the energy I give off is the energy I get back, and I don’t give off that kind of energy.”

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Sunni militants declare Islamic state in Iraq and Syria

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June 29, 2014: A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) waves an ISIS flag in Raqqa, Iraq. (Reuters)

The leaders of an Al Qaeda splinter group that has seized vast portions of northern and western Iraq have declared the establishment of an Islamic state and demanded allegiance from other Muslim groups.

In an audio statement posted online that coincided with the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a spokesman for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), announced that the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was the “caliph,” or leader, of a state whose territory extended from the city of Aleppo in northwestern Syria, to Diyala province in northeastern Iraq. 

The spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, described al-Baghdadi as “the imam and khalifah (caliph) for the Muslims everywhere.” He also said that with the establishment of the caliphate, the group was changing its name to just the Islamic State, dropping the mention of Iraq and the Levant.

“The legality of all emirates, groups, states and organizations becomes null by the expansion of the caliph’s authority and the arrival of its troops to their areas,” al-Adnani continued. “Listen to your caliph and obey him. Support your state, which grows every day.”

Muslim extremists have long dreamed of recreating the Islamic state, or caliphate, that ruled over the Middle East, much of North Africa and beyond in various forms over the course of Islam’s 1,400-year history.

But experts predicted the declaration could herald infighting among the Sunni militants who have joined forces with the Islamic State in its fight against the Shiite-led government.

“Now the insurgents in Iraq have no excuse for working with ISIS if they were hoping to share power with ISIS,” Aymenn al-Tamimi, an analyst who specializes in Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, told The Associated Press. “The prospect of infighting in Iraq is increased for sure.”

The greatest impact, however, could be on the broader international jihadist movement, in particular on the future of Al Qaeda.

Founded by Usama bin Laden, the group that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. has long carried the mantle of the international jihadi cause. But the Islamic State has managed to do in Syria and Iraq what Al Qaeda never has — carve out a large swath of territory in the heart of the Arab world and control it.

“This announcement poses a huge threat to Al Qaeda and its long-time position of leadership of the international jihadist cause,” said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, in emailed comments. “Taken globally, the younger generation of the jihadist community is becoming more and more supportive of (the Islamic State), largely out of fealty to its slick and proven capacity for attaining rapid results through brutality.”

Al-Baghdadi, an ambitious Iraqi militant who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, took the reins of the Islamic State in 2010 when it was still an Al Qaeda affiliate based in Iraq.

Al-Baghdadi has long been at odds with Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, and the two had a very public falling out after al-Baghdadi ignored al-Zawahri’s demands that the Islamic State leave Syria. Fed up with al-Baghdadi and unable to control him, al-Zawahri formally disavowed the Islamic State in February.

But al-Baghdadi’s stature has only grown since then, as the Islamic State’s fighters have strengthened their grip on much of Syria, and now overrun large swathes of Iraq.

In Washington, the Obama administration called on the international community to unite in the face of the threat posed by the Sunni extremists.

“[ISIS]’s strategy to develop a caliphate across the region has been clear for some time now. That is why this is a critical moment for the international community to stand together against [ISIS] and the advances it has made,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

The Islamic State’s declaration comes as the Iraqi government tries to wrest back some of the territory it has lost to the jihadi group and its allies in recent weeks.

On Sunday, Iraqi helicopter gunships struck suspected insurgent positions for a second consecutive day in the northern city of Tikrit, the predominantly Sunni hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein.

The insurgents appeared to have repelled the military’s initial push for Tikrit, and remained in control of the city on Sunday, but clashes were taking place in the northern neighborhood of Qadissiyah, two residents reached by telephone said.

Muhanad Saif al-Din, who lives in the city center, said he could see smoke rising from Qadissiyah, which borders the University of Tikrit, where troops brought by helicopter established a bridgehead two days ago. He said many of the militants had deployed to the city’s outskirts, apparently to blunt the Iraqi military attack.

Jawad al-Bolani, a security official in the provincial operation command, told The Associated Press the U.S. was sharing intelligence with Iraq and has played an “essential” role in the Tikrit offensive.

Washington has sent 180 of 300 American troops President Barack Obama has promised to help Iraqi forces. The U.S. is also flying manned and unmanned aircraft on reconnaissance missions over Iraq.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

 
 
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