Star Power Makes BET Awards Shine / Awkward Moment At The 2011 BET Awards

Alicia Keys, Cee Lo Green, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj were among the stars attending BET Awards in Los Angeles, where Chris Brown was the night's biggest winner.



Chris Brown won 4 honors at Sunday's BET Awards, but there was an awkward moment of the night when BET fan Tiffany Greene announced that Rihanna won the Viewer's Choice Award for 'What's My Name' featuring Drake, when Brown really won the honor.

T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Alicia Keys and Usher Rock BET Awards; West Among Night’s Winners

By: Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES - (AP) T-Pain transformed the BET Awards into a circus Tuesday with a multi-artist medley that showed the rapper and singer's wide-ranging influence on urban music, while best-selling rapper Lil Wayne and songstress Alicia Keys gave rousing performances of their own.

Wearing a spangled top hat, T-Pain -- nominated for a leading five BET Awards -- shared the stage with fellow nominees Flo Rida, Rick Ross, Ludacris and Big Boi, along with a bevy of big-top freaks, including fire eaters and acrobats.

"This industry is my circus," said T-Pain. "Ride with the ringleader."

Then T-Pain -- whose nominations came not for his own hits but for his collaborations with others, and whose vocoder-assisted voice is among the most ubiquitous in urban music -- gave a sample of his musical assists over the past year.

T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Alicia Keys and Usher Rock BET Awards; West Among Night’s Winners.