{"id":487364,"date":"2019-06-24T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=851596"},"modified":"2019-06-24T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:21:09","slug":"dj-khaled-leads-meek-mill-jeremih-lil-baby-through-the-fog-at-bet-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/dj-khaled-leads-meek-mill-jeremih-lil-baby-through-the-fog-at-bet-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Khaled Leads Meek Mill, Jeremih, Lil Baby Through the Fog at BET Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/10317962bpw.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dj-khaled\/\">DJ Khaled<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/meek-mill\/\">Meek Mill<\/a> performed their new song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-dj-khaled-take-meek-mill-lil-baby-to-church-weather-the-storm-video-837993\/\">\u201cWeather the Storm\u201d<\/a> in an actual cloud of fog at the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bet-awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bet-awards\" data-tag=\"bet-awards\">BET Awards<\/a> on Sunday. The duo, stationed atop a massive platform emblazoned with the former\u2019s \u201cWe the Best\u201d slogan, made good use of the weather theme: A backdrop flashed lightning strikes and ominous clouds as Mill unfurled his flurrying rhymes.<\/p>\n<p>After that dizzying verse, he and Khaled descended the platform, with the latter giving a quick shoutout to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rihanna\/\">Rihanna<\/a>, who was in attendance. The pair were joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jeremih\/\">Jeremih<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-baby\/\">Lil Baby<\/a> for \u201cYou Stay,\u201d which (along with \u201cWeather the Storm\u201d) appears on Khaled\u2019s 11th LP, the May-issued <em>Father of Asahd<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The DJ-producer\u2019s latest album earned a polarized response: Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/dj-khaleds-father-of-asahd-837600\/\">lukewarm reviews,<\/a> it debuted at Number Two on the Billboard 200 behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tyler-the-creator\/\">Tyler, the Creator\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;<em>IGOR<\/em>. In May, Khaled teamed with Will Smith for a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/will-smith-dj-khaled-aladdin-friend-like-me-838803\/\">hip-hop version<\/a> of \u201cFriend Like Me\u201d from Disney\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/aladdin-disney-will-smith-movie-review-835646\/\">live-action remake of&nbsp;<em>Aladdin<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dj-khaled-meek-mill-jeremih-lil-baby-bet-awards-851596\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DJ Khaled and Meek Mill performed their new song \u201cWeather the Storm\u201d in an actual cloud of fog at the 2019 BET Awards on Sunday. The duo, stationed atop a massive platform emblazoned with the former\u2019s \u201cWe the Best\u201d slogan, made good use of the weather theme: A backdrop flashed lightning strikes and ominous clouds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 17:40:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}