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GELO, Pusha T and No Malice

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Key Takeaways:

• The 2025 ESPY Awards will function a high-energy Hip Hop lineup, together with Busta Rhymes, Clipse, GELO and Tobe Nwigwe.
• Nwigwe will lead the In Memoriam tribute with David Michael Wyatt, honoring Diogo Jota, George Foreman and Bob Uecker.
• Clipse’s reunion and GELO’s debut album mark main profession milestones mirrored of their ESPY performances.

The 2025 ESPY Awards lineup is formally right here. Announced on Monday (July 14), GELO, Clipse and Busta Rhymes are set to take the stage at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on Wednesday (July 16).

Accompanied by David Michael Wyatt, Tobe Nwigwe will probably be delivering the night time’s In Memoriam tribute honoring Diogo Jota, George Foreman and Bob Uecker, who all sadly handed away earlier this yr. As for the present’s host, comic Shane Gillis will probably be accountable for retaining each the viewers and viewers at dwelling entertained. “I’m just as surprised as you are that I’m doing this,” he joked in a teaser forward of the occasion.

The ESPYs will air reside on ABC and ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET. In the meantime, watch the teaser clip under.

The performers’ lineup isn’t precisely shocking. GELO, in fact, has deep ties to basketball. He notably performed school ball at UCLA earlier than going professional within the JBA, and his brothers Lonzo and LaMelo Ball presently play for the Chicago Bulls and Charlotte Hornets, respectively. The “Tweaker” hitmaker’s inclusion makes much more sense contemplating he carried out throughout halftime at this yr’s NBA All-Star Weekend.

On prime of the ESPYs efficiency, GELO is ready to drop his much-awaited debut album, League of My Own, on Friday (July 18). It’s anticipated to accommodate singles like “Law N Order,” the GloRilla-assisted “Can You Please” and “Booted Up.”

The timing couldn’t be higher for Clipse, who’ll be hitting the ESPYs stage contemporary off the discharge of Let God Sort Em Out, their first full-length undertaking in roughly 15 years. Released simply final Friday (July 11), the 13-song providing contains options from Kendrick Lamar, John Legend, The-Dream and Tyler, The Creator, with Pharrell Williams behind the boards on each observe.

Of course, this yr’s ceremony has large footwear to fill. In 2024, Serena Williams hosted and hilariously broke out dancing to Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” so hopefully Gillis can match that vitality.