Lil Baby, Jon Platt, and executives from Amazon Music, The Recording Academy and Billboard’s executive director of R&B/hip-hop Gail Mitchell were also honored.
Johnny Nunez/WireImagetook home top honors Thursday night at the 2nd annual Music in Action Awards Gala benefiting the Black Music Action Coalition.At this year’s ceremony, presented at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, Lil Baby received the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award for his social and racial justice efforts, including his annual “Back to School Fest” at Atlanta’s West End Mall.
“I honestly didn’t know what a humanitarian was, but as I looked into it and started reading, I understand that I’m actually humanitarian,” Lil Baby said to applause from the crowd of 600 people. “I just want to say that I appreciate everybody in here because nothing that we doing or trying to do can be done by one person. It’s gonna take all of us to stick together and stay together.”
Prior to the presentation of Lil Baby’s humanitarian honor, Platt was honored with the Clarence Avant Trailblazer Award. The longtime music executive was frequently thanked in speeches throughout the night, but Platt took his time on stage to read a lengthy letter written 30 years ago asking those in the music industry to help people of color succeed in the music industry.
Platt ended his speech by saying the letter “could be written today. Everybody in this room has a responsibility to people 30 years from now.”
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