Usher chatted with Billboard’s Carl Lamarre on the red carpet of the 2024 BET Awards.
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00:00We have the man of the hour
00:03Mr. Usher Raymond my brother. How are you? I'm wonderful, man. I am so happy
00:08I feel blessed to be here with my family blessed to have this lifetime achievement award
00:14Blessed to continue to put out music blessed to have had an amazing year in
00:19Las Vegas Paris including the Super Bowl and now being able to kick off my
00:24Past present future tour really happy to be able to receive this award. It's been an amazing year for me
00:30Being recognized by the Apollo Theater, you know
00:33And and then this just to add to that incredible moment that I've been able to to curate over the last 30 years
00:38Really happy to be here celebrating with my family all of the people whom had something to do with this
00:44Specifically my mother who's here with me
00:46It's gonna be an emotional moment for me. I can already tell I was gonna say
00:50Did you have that moment this week to just really relish that longevity and knowing that you had ASCAP knowing you got this
00:57Lifetime achievement today would it be recognized by ASCAP to be recognized by you know
01:02The Apollo Theater to be recognized by BET seeing that I was here for the first, you know annual
01:10You know celebration man, so really happy to to have this this moment around, you know, I've been asking this question
01:18Moment for me man. It's a full circle moment
01:20And guess what?
01:20We're gonna make it even more of a full circle moment because I've been asking everybody this question
01:23I gotta ask you your favorite Usher Raymond record my favorite usher. That's like me selecting a child. I know I can't do that
01:31I don't know if I could do it
01:33No, I don't know if I could do that. I'll make it easier for you because it's the 20th for confessions your favorite
01:39deep cut from confession deep cut from confessions
01:43man, it would be
01:45throwback
01:47The just blazing Jada kiss man. Enjoy the night
01:50Congratulations, we appreciate you showing love to Billboard. Thank you, man