Chris Brown, Kendrick Lamar, Chris Tucker announce nominees for the BET Awards

SHOTLIST AP Entertainment Los Angeles, 14 May 2013 1. Wide exterior ICON lounge building, site of BET Awards nominations announcement 2. Wide, from left, Chris Tucker, Kendrick Lamar, Tamar Braxton, Chris Brown, Charlie Wilson pose for photographers 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Brown/Recording Artist - on performing at BET Awards: "I didn't really know all the stats. I kind of was in the back kind of shy. You know I'm not good with public speeches and the whole nine. But I just want to thank all the fans. I'm so excited to be performing again. Steven Hill, BET, everybody for always supporting me. I'm just trying to uplift the black community and bring everybody up, bring everybody together. So what I want to do is just have fun." 4. Medium Chris Tucker sits with Chris Brown 5. UPSOUND Chris Tucker mimics Charlie Wilson and Chris Brown songs 6. Wide from left, Chris Tucker, Kendrick Lamar, Tamar Braxton, Chris Brown, Charlie Wilson, BET executive Steven Wilson pose for photographers 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Tucker/BET Awards host: "You've got the check in the mail? Because you've got to get paid first at the BET Awards. You help them host, they be like 'Well Chris, you did it already!' 'I want my money! Give me my money!' I'm just playing. I'm not doing this for the money. All of my money is going to charity, to the Chris Tucker foundation." 8. Medium Tucker, Brown, Wilson, Lamar sitting on stage 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Brown/Recording Artist - on new song: "I just actually shot a video and I did it -- the song is dedicated to all my fans but it's called 'They Don't Know.' This song features Aaliyah. And never-before-heard vocals. All new stuff that's never been heard before. So I got something special for my fans, it's called 'They Don't know.' So I shot it in the hood. I went to the Sixties and I went to the Cedar Block. It's both worlds. Bringing both worlds kind of together in the video and trying to uplift the positive side of the community. Showing where I'm from. I'm from Virginia, but everybody come from being in a broken home or broke. You know? I remember when I was." 10. Wide Tucker, Lamar, Braxton, Brown 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kendrick Lamar/Recording Artist - on Chris Brown's polarizing reputation: "Man regardless of the fact or whatever mistakes made, people need to let that stuff go. This is music. The man makes good music. He's a great entertainer. As far as his personal life, we got nothing to do with that. All we can do is wish the best for everybody. We all are sinners. We all make mistakes." 12. Wide from left, Chris Tucker, Kendrick Lamar, Tamar Braxton, Chris Brown, Charlie Wilson, BET executive Steven Wilson pose for photographers 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Tamar Braxton/Recording Artist - on her pregnancy: "During my pregnancy, I'm a 100 percent true greedy gut. Nothing in particular but food and lots of it. It's going away soon and I can't wait for that. I am fooded out." (Reporter: "Have you picked out names yet?") Braxton: "No we haven't picked out any names. We don't have a nursery. We don't have a nanny. We are way behind. So it's time to hurry up." 14. Wide Tucker, Brown, Wilson, Lamar on stage 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlie Wilson/Recording Artist - on lifetime achievement honor: "I don't really know how to explain how happy I am. It kind of scares me a little bit when they start giving you lifetime achievement awards, because it kind of makes you think that people want to get rid of you: 'Go ahead, go on, sit on down.' Then I think about it again and it makes me think that I'm going to be recording records for another lifetime." 16. Medium Wilson poses at event STORYLINE BET AWARDS EVENT FEATURES CHRIS BROWN, CHRIS TUCKER You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/48e140e01fd84e6c16d6e7d34bd88dd2 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork