Brandy Joins Jack Harlow On Stage At The 2022 BET Awards

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Come Home, The Kids Miss You. After exiting a stage scene mimicking a late-night session in a recording studio, Harlow was joined onstage by several dancers and participated in choreography to his smash hit single and infectious TikTok earworm “First Class.”Halfway through the performance, he was joined on stage by the vocal Bible herself, rapping her own original verse to the wildly popular track.

The move was a celebratory wink to the Twitter controversy the young Kentucky-bred rapper stirred up in early May after an appearance on Ebro in the morning that exposed his ignorance to the fact that the legendary songstress and Ray J were brother and sister.

When played the opening instrumental bars of Brandy’s 1998 hit “Angel in Disguise” during a game on the show, Harlow, born in 1998 himself, was unsure who the artist was.

When given clues as to whom she was related as a playful hint, he responded, “Wait, who is Ray J’s sister?”The moment sparked both joking memes and heated debate over whether a young white artist like Harlow, seemingly ignorant to tidbits of millennial Black cultural common knowledge should be “allowed” in Hip Hop.