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Anthony 'Top Dawg' Tiffith saw several of his protégés clean up at the BET Awards last night -- and Paul Pierce saw it too!!!

TMZ Hip Hop linked up with the TDE label boss outside the Peacock Theater last night in L.A. ... fresh from racking up new accolades for the empire.

SZA took home Best Female R&B/Pop Artist and Best Collaboration alongside Kendrick Lamar for their chart-dominating “Luther” while Doechii walked away with the Best Female Hip Hop artist -- and a new beef with President Donald Trump!!!

Rae Sremmurd had the world freezing in their tracks over their track "Black Beatles" years ago ... which is now officially a social media challenge for a Diamond-selling song!!!

On Tuesday, the Recording Industry Association of America doled out the award to Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi for selling 10 million records of their 2016 smash hit that featured Gucci Mane La Flare.

The groovy vibe appeared on their sophomore album "Sremmlife 2" and dominated the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1 for seven straight weeks, and also has more than a billion plays on Spotify and YouTube.

The Cyrus family drama has reached a stunning new level ... 'cause Trace Cyrus just torched his "washed up, delusional" father Billy Ray Cyrus in a scathing Instagram post.

Check out the shocking post -- TC minced no words attacking the country crooner ... sharing a snap of him and claiming he's "so hungry for fame it's pathetic."

And it only got uglier from there. Trace went on to accuse his father of flying to Italy for a fashion show but not showing up to his grandmother's funeral in Los Angeles when he was still wed to his mother, Tish Cyrus -- even allegedly blowing it off after one of his daughters paid for a $60,000 private jet for him.

Miley Cyrus is finally opening up about all that headline-making family dramas -- calling the last 10 years of her life her the "dark decade."

Speaking on Monica Lewinsky’s "Reclaiming" podcast, Miley looked back on those rough years -- admitting they skipped therapy altogether because just getting the family in the same room for counseling would’ve created a warzone.

Miley explained the root of it all was her parents’ messy on-again, off-again relationship before their official '22 divorce -- admitting that while she stayed loyal to her mom, Tish, the rest of the family was so fractured, half of them weren’t even speaking.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has taken a swipe at President Donald Trump ... using pop culture to make his message loud and clear.

As demonstrations against ICE continue across Los Angeles in protest of aggressive immigration enforcement, Newsom jumped on his TikTok to throw shade at Trump in a slideshow post featuring photos of the two men together -- all set to Taylor Swift’s hit track "You Need to Calm Down."

The slideshow highlighted a specific verse from the song with the lyrics, "Say it in the street, that's a knock-out ... But you say it in a tweet, that's a cop-out ... And I'm just like, ‘Hey, are you okay?'"

Massive rough patch for Macklemore -- masked bandits hit his Seattle home, swiping thousands in jewelry and bear-spraying the nanny while kids were inside the house.

Check out this dramatic doorbell footage -- the nanny, shaken and desperate, banged on a neighbor’s door, seeking refuge ... after two men wearing black outfits, vests and face masks broke into the home very early Saturday morning through a patio door.

The nanny reportedly told police the intruders sprayed her in the face with bear mace and demanded to know where the jewels were kept ... she said one of the men yelled at her, "Where are the jewels, b****?"

"Bebe??" More Like "Bae-be!!!"

Bebe Rexha recently vacay'd in Croatia ... and based on the bootylicious pics, she got her daily dose of Vitamin Sea, with her bikini buns on blast. The sexy singer hit the back of the boat for a quick photo sesh before headin' deep!

Rexha showed off her backside to her millions, clearly she's lettin' loose on her getaway and lettin' blonde locks flow freely ...

Back on the shore, the 35-year-old donned a form-fitting dress and posed pretty on the patio.

The 2025 BET Awards were absolutely lit -- especially 'cause performers Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Teyana Taylor and more absolutely crushed it onstage.

Dive into our gallery for the juiciest highlights from L.A.'s Peacock Theater Monday night... Ashanti, Jennifer Hudson, T.I., and Bow Wow didn't just bring the house down -- they demolished it!

The judge has finally weighed in on whether to grant Diddy a mistrial ... and he's giving the disgraced music mogul a big thumbs down.

Hell no, Judge Arun Subramanian told Diddy as the 20th day of his federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial kicked off Tuesday.

Remember, this whole issue came up last week when Bryana Bongolan -- Cassie's friend -- took the stand and testified Diddy dangled her over the edge of a 17th-floor balcony at Cassie's Los Angeles apartment around September 26, 2016.

Mariah Carey is 'Obsessed' with herself and proud ... celebrating her "iconicness" as she took home her first-ever BET Award Monday night.

Check out her spirited speech ... the pop star is elated to accept her Ultimate Icon Award at the 2025 show, sharing an overarching message -- Don't let anyone dull your shine.

She noted ... "It took me a while, but I finally realized life is far too short to live for anyone else's approval, which is something I always did. So I decided to own who I am. My extra-ness, my fabulousness, my and yes, my success and my iconicness."

If your name wasn't Kendrick Lamar, good luck trying to find a 2025 BET Award with your name on it ... the "GNX" rapper took home virtually every category he was up for -- even beating himself at one point!!!

Kendrick nabbed the Album of the Year, Best Male Hip Hop Artist, Video and Director of the Year and Best Collaboration, beating out the likes of Drake, GloRilla, Tyler, The Creator, Anderson .Paak ... and he was there in person to accept his honors!!!

Some of the biggest artists skipping the BET Awards has been part of ongoing criticism in past years ... but that problem was solved last night with K. Dot, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Jamie Foxx, Keke Palmer, Leon Thomas, Tyler Perry and others all hitting the Peacock Theater in DTLA, in spite of the raging ICE protests in the city.

Get ready to fangirl ... 'cause two more BTS members have wrapped up their mandatory military service, meaning the long-awaited boyband reunion is just around the corner!

BTS members RM and V are officially out of the South Korean military ... and their discharge was a total spectacle with swarms of fans, AIA the BTS Army, swarming Chuncheon City to welcome the duo back.

V thanked the fans for sticking around and teased them to hang tight a bit longer for a "really cool" comeback performance.

Shaboozey had an emotional full-circle moment over the weekend at Spotify House -- capping off his high-energy set with a surprise that left him in tears.

The country star returned to the stage in Nashville to perform fan-favorites like "Good News" and "Drink Don’t Need No Mix" -- but it was the finale that had everyone talking. As he prepared to wrap up his set, he was surprised with a Billions Club plaque for his viral hit "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," marking the track’s massive milestone of over 1 billion streams on the platform.

The crowd erupted in cheers as Shaboozey was visibly moved, wiping tears from his eyes before launching into the record-breaking track to close out the night.

06/10 10:28 AM PT -- Roll out the pink carpet ... Skyh Black and KJ Smith revealed they're having a girl at the 2025 BET Awards!!!

"All the Queen's Men" actor Skyh Black says he was in the dark about his wife KJ Smith's fertility issues ... and things stayed that way until they saw those two little blue lines on the stick.

His wife refused to believe the doctor's expertise!!!

TMZ caught up with Skyh outside the Waymakers Men’s Summit last week ... and he's a few months out from putting a nice blue or pink bow on his fairy tale romance.

Tragedy in Nashville -- an elderly woman was hit and killed by a truck this weekend ... and we have learned the driver was country singer Conner Smith.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Conner was behind the wheel of a Chevy Silverado heading north on 3rd Ave when 77-year-old Dorothy Dobbins was crossing the street Sunday -- and that’s when tragedy struck.

We're told Dobbins, a local resident, was in a marked crosswalk around 7:30 PM when she was hit. She was rushed to Vanderbilt Medical Center ... but sadly didn’t make it.

Diddy's ex-girlfriend "Jane" says he beat the crap out of her a couple weeks after the Cassie beating video was released ... and she claims the violence all started with a verbal argument about another woman.

Jane testified Monday she didn't see Diddy for about a month after the Cassie beating video aired on CNN in May 2024 ... until they met up at her home in Los Angeles on June 18 in what she said ended up being "a very terrible day."

She told jurors Diddy had just come from a family trip to Utah and they were talking in her backyard and drinking champagne and tequila when she says she confronted him about who he was traveling with in Utah.