While accepting her Icon of the Year award at the 2026 BET Awards ceremony, Teyana Taylor got candid about her thoughts on such a loaded title.
“Tonight they handed me a title and that title is Icon of the Year and for a little minute I wondered if I was supposed to feel uncomfortable saying that title out loud,” Taylor, 35, said after accepting the award from — an appropriately fangirling out in front of — the one and only Janet Jackson during the Sunday, June 28, ceremony.
“But nah, I worked my ass off 20 years for this,” she continued. “So I’m not accepting what I have e...
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