For over 10 years, Kanye West has consistently created various pop culture trends across the world. And with the recent release of the Grammy Award-winner’s exclusive apparel and sneaker line with Adidas, he was also among five luminaries honored this year during the eighth annual BET Honors ceremony.
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West went on to say: “The bit of sound bites that everyone loved from last year that got taken out of context, or misunderstood, did come from a place of saying, ‘yes, part of the reason why I’m not allowed to be empowered is because of race, because of people’s perception of celebrity,’ because all they want to present to young black men is the idea of making it to the league or making it to be a rapper, but not the idea of becoming an owner.”
Check out Kanye West’s “BET Honors” speech in its entirety in the clip above.
