The Latest: Foxx coaxes Donald Glover on stage at BET Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the 2018 BET Awards, which are being presented Sunday at the Microsoft Theater (all times local):
5:50 p.m.
BET Awards host Jamie Foxx says he won't make a joke about Childish Gambino's new single, "This Is America," but that didn't stop Foxx from bringing Gambino on stage during Sunday's show.
Foxx said during the show that everyone begged him to write a joke about the single, but he said that song was not to be joked about, saying the song "stopped me in my tracks."
He eventually got Gambino, aka "Atlanta" actor Donald Glover, to come up on stage and sing a few lines with him.
Glover praised one of his co-writers on "Atlanta," Lena Waithe, and Issa Rae during his time on stage.
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