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"Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9, Kanye West and Jay-Z were among the winners at Sunday night&amp;#039;s (July 1) BET Awards in Los Angeles. West and Jay-Z won a pair of awards - &amp;#039;Best Group&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Video Of The Year&amp;#039; - for their collaboration as The Throne. West quipped while accepting the first award that he wished Jay-Z was present to &amp;quot;say something politically correct for me&amp;quot;, prompting the &amp;#039;99 Problems&amp;#039; star to emerge and conclude the speech.      Upon accepting the second award, Jay-Z interrupted West in a nod to his stage invasion at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, saying: &amp;quot;Excuse me, Kanye, I&amp;#039;m gonna let you continue, but\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6&amp;quot; Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9 triumphed in both the &amp;#039;Best Female R&amp;amp;B Artist&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Video Director of the Year&amp;#039; categories. Chris Brown, who performed on the night, took home the award for &amp;#039;Best Male R&amp;amp;B Artist&amp;#039;, while Drake - who was not present at the ceremony - won the &amp;#039;Best Male Hip-Hop Artist&amp;#039; trophy. Nicki Minaj paid tribute to &amp;quot;all the female rappers doing their thing, past, present and future&amp;quot; as she won the accolade for &amp;#039;Best Female Hip-Hop Artist&amp;#039;.  Stars including Mariah Carey, Brandy, Monica and Chaka Khan also joined forces for an emotional tribute to Whitney Houston in which the late singer&amp;#039;s mother Cissy also performed a rendition of &amp;#039;Bridge Over Troubled Water&amp;#039;. Carey, who introduced the performances, said: &amp;quot;I miss my friend. I miss hearing her voice and laughter. But we&amp;#039;ll always have the music. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll always have that voice we all fell in love with. She inspired us all.&amp;quot; Soul musician D&amp;#039;Angelo also appeared in his first US television performance in over a decade. Elsewhere, Oscar nominee Viola Davis was honoured with the &amp;#039;Best Actress&amp;#039; award, while The Help won the prize for &amp;#039;Best Movie&amp;#039;. Frankie Beverly featuring Maze were honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award, while Serena Williams and basketball star Kevin Durant were named &amp;#039;Sportswoman of the Year&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Sportsman of the Year&amp;#039; respectively. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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