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Rapper GloRilla performs onstage with “I Luv Her” collaborator T-Pain

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Key Takeaways:

• GloRilla is being acknowledged with the BMI Impact Award for her breakout success and rising affect in Hip Hop.
• T-Pain is being honored with the BMI President’s Award for his decades-long legacy in R&B and Hip Hop.
• The 2025 BMI R&B/Hip Hop Awards will happen on Aug. 28 in Los Angeles.

GloRilla and T-Pain shall be honored on the 2025 BMI R&B/Hip Hop Awards. The annual occasion goes down in August at a non-public ceremony in Los Angeles.

On Tuesday (July 29), BMI introduced that Big Glo shall be receiving the BMI Impact Award for her “groundbreaking artistry, creative vision, and influence on the future of music.” Glo hit the music business like a rocket when her 2022 track “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” went viral. She’s been making hits ever since, signing with Memphis rap OG Yo Gotti’s document label, Collective Music Group (through Interscope), and releasing her debut album, Glorious, in October 2024.

“This year’s Impact Award recipient GloRilla’s bold voice and fearless creativity is currently shaping and inspiring the future of Hip Hop, making her the perfect choice for this honor,” mentioned Catherine Brewton, BMI’s vp, artistic, Atlanta, in a press assertion. “It’s going to be an incredible night highlighting the exceptional artistry of all BMI’s award-winning songwriters, producers, and publishers, who are the creative visionaries of the music industry.”

Earlier in 2025, Glo was offered with the Powerhouse Award at Billboard Women in Music due to an unimaginable 2024. Clearly, the “Yeah Glo!” rapper isn’t shedding momentum, as she lately carried out on the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday, July 19 and held her inaugural Glo Bash live performance (which introduced the “The Glorious Tour” to a detailed) on Friday (July 25) night time on the FedExForum in Memphis.

As for T-Pain, the R&B and Hip Hop icon is receiving the BMI President’s Award as a nod to a hitmaking profession that has now spanned many years and generations, together with two Grammy Awards and hundreds of thousands of albums bought. Previous recipients have included Ludacris, Pitbull and extra.

GloRilla is off to an important begin in reaching the kind of accolades T-Pain has achieved. But lately, she hit a minor pace bump attributable to an arrest on drug costs. The younger star was launched on bond the identical day and was truly the victim of a home invasion (she was away on the time), which is what led to the alleged drug bust.

The 2025 BMI R&B/Hip Hop Awards shall be held on Thursday, Aug. 28 in Los Angeles.