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Key Takeaways

• Kai Cenat’s reside stream on the 2025 BET Awards captured viral moments with Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg and extra.
• Wale confronted Cenat after the streamer failed to acknowledge him throughout his reside stream.
• The second sparked a web-based debate about generational gaps in Hip Hop recognition and respect.

The 2025 BET Awards was an enormous night time for the tradition, and no person — perhaps no person — had a greater time than Kai Cenat. The web star streamed his complete night, which included crossing paths with almost each celeb in attendance, presenting onstage alongside Druski and Kevin Hart, and discovering himself on the heart of some viral moments.

Cenat’s night time started on the crimson carpet, the place he chatted with Final Icon honorees Kirk Franklin and Snoop Dogg. He additionally linked up Lil Wayne’s daughter Reginae Carter, Keke Palmer, Ciara, Moneybagg Yo and Younger Thug — and that’s simply scratching the floor. Watch the total clip under.

Kai Cenat Met Kendrick Lamar At The 2025 BET Awards

One other spotlight of the night arrived with the Twitch streamer’s fast backstage run-in with Kendrick Lamar, simply after the Compton emcee clinched Album of the Yr. “How [are] you doing, bro? You good?” he requested the pgLang founder, who was smiling ear to ear after snagging not one however 5 trophies that night time.

Particularly contemplating Cenat’s ties to Drake — he’s set to direct the Toronto hitmaker’s “SOMEBODY LOVES ME” video — and all of the reactions nonetheless echoing from 2024’s greatest rap beef, the web clearly ate their temporary BET change proper up.

Moments later, the Cenat and Druski took the stage with Hart to introduce Playboi Carti as a performer. “It is a second for me to raise my brothers,” the Grammy Award-winning comic informed his co-presenters backstage. “This ain’t for me to shine; that is for y’all to shine, so I’ma step again. I’ma let y’all placed on.”

Kai Cenat’s Awkward Alternate With Wale

Elsewhere that night time, Cenat bumped into Wale in a parking storage of the Peacock Theater. The “Lotus Flower Bomb” hitmaker was taking part in his Nintendo Change when the New York native approached and requested what he was taking part in. Shortly after their run-in, Cenat informed his viewers afterward that he genuinely had no concept who he’d simply met and that he was simply attempting to be well mannered.

After his viewers reacted to the second, filling him in on Walle’s identification, Cenat hilariously mispronounced his identify as “Wally.” He stated, “Oh my God, that was any person loopy. The entire chat is aware of him. What [does] he do?”

Wale, to his credit score, addressed it later when he noticed Cenat speaking with Snoop Dogg. “That s**t making me look loopy now, simply letting you recognize,” he stated, referring to the viral hallway second. “I imply, they [are] working with it, however we’ll discuss later.”