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BET Denounces Lil Wayne Performance And Drake Apologizes

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BET has expressed remorse over a performance by Lil Wayne, Drake and Young Money Records that involved underage girls during songs “Best I Ever Had” and “Every Girl.”

The songs, which have overt sexual references, were performed during the Sunday BET Awards ’2009 show as a bevy of young girls danced on stage. The group of girls consisted of Lil Wayneâ€™s daughters and her friends.

BET Networks deeply regrets the performance by Young Money at the BET AWARDS â€™09 (featuring Lil Wayne, Drake, Gudda Gudda and Mack Maine), the performance were unplanned and should not have happened.

In the aftermath of the show, many have expressed outrage over the outing by Young Money, which was set amid a show dedicated to the late Michael Jackson.

In a culture where one out of four girls and women are either raped or sexually assaulted and where manipulative men routinely traffic vulnerable women into the sex industry it is not okay that BET allowed this to happen, BET owes its entire audience particularly girls and women around the world an apology for its failure to intervene.â€

Drake has apologized and taken responsibility for the performance, admitting it was in poor taste.

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