Busta Rhymes Gets Emotional Reflecting On Fatherhood After Lifetime Achievement Win At BET Awards

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Sunday night’s 2023 BET Awards gave one of the greatest his flowers. During “culture’s biggest night,” Busta Rhymes was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award — presented by Marlon Wayans and Swizz Beatz — where he shared an inspirational message in his acceptance speech, and got emotional while reflecting on the award.

Speaking with ET’s Kevin Frazier after the show at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, Rhymes explained what, exactly, brought him to tears during his speech. “I was thinking about everyone that I acknowledged.

I was thinking about the ones I couldn’t get to because I ain’t have enough time,” Rhymes explained. “[And] I’m looking at my kids for the first time all together at such a prestigious moment in my life.” Several of the artist’s six kids were in the audience on Sunday, and Rhymes admitted that it was their love and support that really moved him. “I ain’t going to lie, one thing I didn’t want to say on the stage is that, as I’m looking at my kids, [there were] a lot of times when I had to leave home to do this s**t to make sure they were straight.

And I lived with that guilt for a long time, because I might have missed a graduation. You know what I’m saying, I might’ve missed a birthday.