Giveon chatted with Lauren-Ashley Beck & Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2025.
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00:00We are here at the 2025 BET Awards Red Carpet with the one and only Givion.
00:04How are you doing tonight, man?
00:05I'm so good. I thought I was going to be a little hotter, but it still feels cool and nice.
00:08We got some time for the sun really beats down on us.
00:11Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:12Now, I know you got some new music on the way.
00:15I've been running up 20s. What can we expect from the album?
00:19Just more of that organic soul sound and just raw, vulnerable storytelling.
00:26Just what you would expect from me, but just a little more elevated.
00:30The songwriting is elevated.
00:32My vocal is elevated.
00:34And I grew not only as a man, but as an artist as well.
00:38You've been working.
00:39I love that.
00:40Any collaborations we can expect on the album?
00:44Just me again.
00:44I don't know. I just like doing albums by myself.
00:47I'll do features on other people's things sometimes, but for my stuff, I like to just...
00:54Because I'm just venting almost and getting stuff off my chest, so it's hard to vent in there.
00:59Has somebody else vent on top of your venting.
01:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:01Got you.
01:01That's beautiful, actually.
01:03We're honoring Snoop Dogg and Mariah Carey tonight as the Icon Award.
01:08What would you say is your favorite Mariah or Snoop song, or both?
01:11Well, me and Snoop are both from Long Beach, California.
01:14LBC.
01:14Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:15You better represent.
01:15So my mom was running up all types of Snoop Dogg, so it's impossible for me to pick.
01:21Yeah.
01:22Mariah Carey, I'm going to say we belong together, especially because I love the sample, the Bobby Womack sample.
01:27But also, I'm excited for the 106 and Park tribute, too.
01:31Who do you hope comes out for the 106 and Park tribute?
01:33Honestly, I don't know, because I don't know.
01:35Are they honoring even the last year?
01:39They're honoring old school, like what we grew up watching.
01:42Oh, okay.
01:42Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:42Okay.
01:43Yeah, no, I don't know.
01:44I feel like anyone who ever went on the show could come out, so I'm excited to see it.
01:48Yeah, I am, too.
01:49We're also excited to see it.
01:51We hope that you have a fantastic time inside the show tonight.
01:53Oh, yeah, absolutely.
01:53Always great linking up with you, man.
01:55Thank you so much.
01:55Take it easy.