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Lucky Daye accepts the Torchbearer award at Billboard’s R&B No.1s 2024 party.

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00:00What it do, y'all?

00:00Can I get a yeah?

00:01Yeah.

00:03Oh, I love that.

00:04I love that.

00:06So I'm here to present the next award to a brother of mine,

00:10a perennial king in love making ballads and pillow talk

00:13confessions.

00:14Lucky Day has become the new age blueprint in R&B.

00:19Women swoon because when this brother croons,

00:21it's smooth like butter.

00:23After his 2019 breakthrough painted,

00:26Lucky Day put the world on notice

00:27and let them know that New Orleans isn't

00:29just the home of Frank Ocean, but another R&B superstar

00:33capable of driving the genre forward.

00:36By aligning himself with D-Mile early in his career,

00:40Lucky became a risk taker, stretching

00:42the boundaries of his creativity as proven

00:44by his new album, Algorithm.

00:47His versatility remains unmatched there

00:50as he tap dances through various soundscapes

00:52with relative ease.

00:54Ultimately, the R&B gods rewarded him for his efforts

00:58as he earned his first number one on R&B Adult this year

01:02as a lead artist with That's You.

01:07From songwriter to Grammy Award winner,

01:11Lucky Day is one of the reasons why R&B will continue

01:14to shine for years to come.

01:16So without further ado, Billboard

01:19would like to present this year's Torchbearer

01:21Award to Lucky Day.

01:30My brother.

01:32Thank you, man.

01:33How y'all doing, man?

01:34How y'all doing?

01:36Oh, you had a teleprompter.

01:41Look, hey, y'all look beautiful, man.

01:43I want to say thank you to Billboard.

01:46I want to say thanks to all my friends, all the peers

01:48that support me.

01:50I couldn't do it without them.

01:53This signifies that Billboard sees the light in my music of love and of happiness.

02:00And that's all I strive to do, man.

02:02And I am in it for the long haul, and longevity is in me, so yeah, you right about that.

02:06I'm not going to stop, and I'm going to continue to evolve R&B.

02:10Tonight we celebrate.

Lucky Daye Accepts the Torchbearer Award | Billboard’s R&B No.1s 2024

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