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Getty Images Lauryn Hill was honored with the Living Legend Icon Award as well as a very robust all-star performance featuring Doechii, Nas, Doja Cat, SZA, Common and Queen Latifah, among many others, at the BET Awards 2026.
Ice Cube introduced the megawatt tribute by giving Hill her flowers. “One of the greatest voices in Black music history,” he said, “She achieved the depths of her complexity that defined her artistry.” Thus began an epic tribute to Hill, first with a significantly personal tribute to hill from the War & Treaty. They sang “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” which the group’s Tanya Trotter duetted on with Hill in the film “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,” back when she went by Tanya Blount. She sang it directly to Hill, who was taken aback by the powerful rendition.
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