Lil weezy, Rick, Acehood n Dj khaleed Husle Hard At BET

Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, DJ
Khaled, Ace Hood 'Hustle
Hard' At BET Awards
June 26 2011 | Rob Markman
Things started off slow when
Rick Ross took the stage to
perform at the 2011 BET
Awards on Sunday (June 26)
evening. Wearing a half-
buttoned red silk shirt, Rozay
emerged as his 2010 hit single
"Aston Martin Music" blared
from the speakers. Neither
Drake nor R&B singer Chrisette
Michele, who both sing on the
song's hook, were present
onstage, and their absence
was noticeable as Ross carried
on without them, spitting his
LL Cool J-inspired bars, "When
I'm alone in my room,
sometimes I stare at the wall,"
with his usual gruff. The set
began to pick up, however,
when DJ Khaled stormed from
backstage with his protégé
Ace Hood. Khaled shouted his
usual "we the best" mantra,
and a shirtless Ace, along with
Ross and Khaled, performed
Hood's "Hustle Hard (Remix)."
The hustler's anthem
definitely raised the energy in
Los Angeles' Shrine
Auditorium, but it wasn't until
Lil Wayne came out for the
song's third and final verse
that the crowd reached a
fevered pitch. Weezy, who
wore a white sleeveless tee,
black fitted hat and black
sunglasses, bounced around
the circular stage, rapping,
"OK, now black card in my
pocket, ridin' around in that
'Gatti/ Pistol off in my boxers,
I ain't got time to be boxin'."
As Wayne got deeper into his
verse, Ross, Khaled and Ace
gathered around Tunechi in
what resembled an old-school
rap cypher, which typically
took place in the urban
neighborhoods of New York,
where rap originated. Still,
despite their street-corner
appeal, the pyrotechnic-laced
performance proved that
Ross, Wayne and company
came to put on a show. It may
have started off sluggish, but
by the end, it was clear that
Ross, Wayne and Khaled have
themselves another hit. In
actuality, they have quite a
few. Later in the broadcast,
Drake joined the hyped-up DJ
to spit his bars on Khaled's
new single, "I'm on One." The
track's video premiered
during BET's pre-show, and
towards the end of the show,
Drizzy, Rozay and Wayne
treated fans to a profanity-
laced, network-censored
rendition of the single.