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Jharrel Jerome Teases New Music and Talks Stepping Into the Music Industry | BET Awards 2025
The Hollywood Reporter
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6/10/2025
At the 2025 BET Awards, Jharrel Jerome chats with THR on the carpet and teases that he's working on new music of his own. Plus, he reveals that he's excited to celebrate Mariah Carey as she receives the Ultimate Icon Award.
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Why was it important for you to be here at this beauty celebration?
00:03
I'm in love with music too, you know?
00:05
Like a lot of people know me as an actor, and I'm proud of that.
00:08
But I've always loved music.
00:10
I used to rap when I was in the Bronx growing up and stuff like that,
00:13
and I make my own music.
00:14
So it's just more so about putting myself in the space
00:17
and shaking hands with people.
00:18
I'm inspired in that realm, you know?
00:20
One thing to go and see Denzhan and be like,
00:22
yo, but it's something to see Dolce and be like, yo, what's up?
00:26
So it's cool, yeah.
00:27
Are we working on a project right now?
00:29
Like a music project?
00:32
I am. Yes, I am.
00:33
I actually have, I can't say much, because it's a good operation going on,
00:37
but it's a full album with a great producer who many people know
00:40
and on a label that many people know about,
00:44
and that's why I'm right here now.
00:45
So it's good, it's good, it's good.
00:48
How are you feeling about, I don't know if it's even fair to say transition.
00:52
You're just an artist who does both.
00:54
But, yeah, how are you feeling?
00:55
That's fair to say.
00:57
I think transition to the world, not so much for me.
00:59
But, you know, I still will have to go through the mindset change of,
01:03
listen, I can do it, you know, do both, but the work has to be good.
01:07
If the work is good, just like that work is good, there won't be any problem.
01:10
So that's why I'm real quiet and specific and waiting for the right time.
01:13
I won't ask nothing else about it.
01:17
No.
01:18
That's all you can know.
01:19
All right?
01:21
I do want to ask you, and that's because we're just learning about Sly Stone and his passing,
01:25
and he has meant so much to music.
01:27
What should people know about him?
01:29
About Sly Stone?
01:30
I have to learn.
01:32
I don't know if I'm 27 or what it is.
01:34
Sly and the Family Stone.
01:36
So Sly Stone just passed today.
01:37
Okay, yeah.
01:38
No, I didn't even hear him.
01:39
I'm so sorry.
01:40
Yeah, no.
01:40
No.
01:41
I'm out of whack with that one.
01:42
I'm so sorry.
01:43
Yeah.
01:43
No problems.
01:44
Who are you looking forward to and seeing in one of the icon tributes?
01:48
Say it again?
01:49
We have four icons that are being awarded.
01:51
Actually, who has meant most?
01:54
Okay.
01:54
MC.
01:55
You and Liam?
01:55
I love Mariah Carey, man.
01:57
Yeah, I love Mariah Carey.
01:59
I think she's so special.
02:00
I think, I don't know, her name is ingrained in not even just the music space,
02:06
but in the world space, the pop space, the women's space, the fashion space.
02:11
It's not a space she ain't conquered.
02:12
And I know everybody else who's honored, they deserve it too,
02:16
but that's personal for me.
02:18
Yeah.
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