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#BETAwards25 RECAP: The GOOD, The BAD & The UGLY! [vids]

June 12, 2025 thegamuttblog Leave a comment

We are STILL REALING from Culture’s BIGGEST night, the 2025 BET Awards went down this past Monday NIGHT…. yes a MONDAY. Different from in the past from a Sunday night live broadcast, but the TONY AWARDS aired that Sunday, so, to avoid CONFLICT the grand FETE was moved back a DAY.

Nonetheless, Kevin Hart RETURNED as HOST and did not DISAPPOINT… too much. LOL. We CELEBRATED 25 years of the BET Awards and 45 years of BET! We had ALOT to celebrate, and not to mention not one, not 2, not 3, but FOUR ICON AWARD recipients in ONE NIGHT– Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Kirk Franklin and Mariah Carey!

For these AWARD shows, I USUALLY give my ‘GOOD,BAD and UGLY’ review, but for this show…. It was hard to find any BAD or UGLY infarctions this year! This was one of the best-produced shows BET has put on in years! I am not sure what the RATINGS were, but I AM SURE the RATINGS were through the ROOF! Let’s DIVE right in!

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Music

Remembering the legendary #RoyAyers! [vid]

March 6, 2025 thegamuttblog Leave a comment

Legendary vibraphonist, producer, and vocalist Roy Ayers has passed away at 84 years of age. Ayers would enjoy success in the 70s and 80s as a solo artist, and with his band Ubiquity.

His recordings provided the soundbed for hits by ATCQ, Mary J. Blige, Brand Nubian and many more.

He helped introduce a funkier strain of the music in the 1970s. He also had an impact on hip-hop: His “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” has been sampled nearly 200 times.

Ayers died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 84.

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Entertainment

#JamieFoxx OPENS UP about his ‘medical emergency’ that left him fighting for his life in 2023! [vid]

December 17, 2024 thegamuttblog Leave a comment

Finally, Jamie Foxx is opening up about his medical emergency that left him fighting for his life back in 2023!

Many speculated but we were not certain until now.

Foxx, in his latest comedy special gets candid about the ‘medical emergency’ that almost killed him.

His “mystery illness” started with a headache.

On April 11, 2023, Foxx was hit with a bad headache and asked a friend for an aspirin. But before he was able to take it, he says he “went out.” He doesn’t remember the following 20 days, but Foxx says he was told by friends and family members that the first doctor he saw gave him a cortisone shot and sent him home. When his sister, Deidra Dixon, went to visit him she insisted he get further medical care because something didn’t seem right.

Dixon drove him to Piedmont Hospital, where another doctor speculated Foxx was having a brain bleed that led to a stroke. The doctor operated on Foxx in what the actor says was a near-death experience. “He may be able to make a full recovery, but it’s gonna be the worst year of his life,” Foxx tearfully recounts the doctor telling his sister.

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