New Details Emerge in SZA and Doechii's BET Awards Speech Interruption

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**Antonio Smith** (0:38)
Hey, everybody, welcome to The TMZ Podcast. My name is Tony, filling in for Branson today, and I'm joined by our regular co-host, Eric Wilson.

**Eric Wilson** (0:45)
Hello, happy Monday.

**Antonio Smith** (0:47)
Happy Monday, how are you doing today, Eric?

**Eric Wilson** (0:49)
I got sick yesterday.

**Antonio Smith** (0:50)
Oh, no.

**Eric Wilson** (0:50)
Quite in a cold. Newsrooms and Taylor watch out there, so we're all running around trying to get our Taylor stories in a row.

**Antonio Smith** (0:56)
Well, we're gonna get into Taylor. We're gonna also get into some other stories. There was some backlash on Druski's part, like people were really mad at him for this stunt or this bit he was doing at the BET Awards last night. We're gonna get into all the details for that. Like we mentioned, we're gonna get into the Taylor details, what's gonna happen at the wedding, all the stuff surrounding that. And we're gonna get into Justin Bieber.
Is he going on tour or is he not? We'll find out. We'll find out. To start off, we're going to get into Druski being criticized at the BET Awards. Well, you're asking, why is he getting criticized? Well, so, SZA and Doechii were accepting a BET Award, the BET Her Award last night for their song Girl, Get Up. And while speaking, a saxophonist walked on stage and began playing loudly. And their remarks were basically drowned out by that.
Earlier at the start of the BET Awards, Druski joked there would be no long speeches and no quote unquote struggle stories. And the winners would have 30 seconds to give their speech before a saxophonist would begin playing them off stage. Well, we got Doechii and SZA's reaction to that. Let's go ahead and play it now.

**Doechii** (2:13)
But I'm so glad that you pulled through for me, sister. I just want to say thank you so much. Anything for you, always. Y'all, she was literally up till 4 or 5 a.m. writing for me for us to get that song together. And I thank you so much for believing in me and giving me advice and coaching me and loving me and supporting me. Thank you so much, SZA. I love you.
This is my coach.

**SZA** (2:36)
This is literally also my coach.

**Doechii** (2:38)
I'm not playing. She's so confident, so eloquent, so well-spoken.

**SZA** (2:41)
She knows exactly. You won't come get in the mic.
Why they play? Either way, this is my favorite black girl. I'm going to keep my time. I'm going to keep my time.

**Doechii** (2:54)
I just want to say new music is coming soon.

**SZA** (2:56)
And to all the haters that have something to say about me, you better be ready for me to pop back out, because I'm coming with a new single and it's going to kill everybody. What's up? Don't ever play with me.
I just realized that that was supposed to signify saxophones getting louder. I thought this man was doing a solo. Good night.

**Antonio Smith** (3:17)
So to give a little bit more context, a lot of people were upset at this saxophone bit because a lot of people felt that this was drowning out their moment. And TDE, who is the label that SZA and Doechii are under, he had some stuff to say. He went on Twitter. He said, Druski is weird for that sax stunt. He later deleted it. And we also found that we're just getting clarification on whose idea was this. So TMZ reports that Druski was not responsible for cutting off SZA and Doechii's BET Awards acceptance speech. It was BET producers decision instead. So TMZ sources close to production says, BET producers decided to send the saxophonist onto the stage to keep the live broadcast on schedule. So all that being said, all that context out of the way, was this disrespectful or was it not, Eric?

**Eric Wilson** (4:09)
I think it's hilarious. I think Doechii took hold of the moment. It's not like she was forced off stage. I mean, they both owned it and kept talking and really just drowned the saxophonist out. This is obviously one of the biggest memes on TikTok right now, the saxophone. Saxophone is getting louder.