Ma tops Minaj at BET Awards
Remy Ma has ended rival Nicki Minaj’s seven-year winning streak at the 2017 BET Awards, a show highlighted by 1990s R&B and groups popular in that decade, as well as five wins for Beyoncé. Ma, released from prison in 2014, won best female hip-hop artist Sunday in Los Angeles, an award Minaj has won since 2010. Ma last won the prize in 2005, but was sentenced to prison three years later after she shot a former friend after accusing her of theft. “I want to thank God first and foremost,” said Ma, who named two correctional facilities in her speech and thanked her mentor Fat Joe and husband-rapper Papoose. “You can make mistakes and come back.”