By: Jarrod Horton
Staff Writer
LL Cool J and MC Lyte are well known for being legends in Hip Hop. However, the two were honored for something outside of their music at the Phoenix Awards in Washington D.C. They were presented with the Icon awards at the gala.
MC Lyte had this to say about receiving the award: “Thank you to the entire CBC for your dedication to change. Because you do what you do, and you take care of the heavy lifting in our communities, we in hip hop get to do what we do and that’s to entertain.”
Meanwhile, LL Cool J had this to say to the audience: “In Hip-Hop culture, we’re not always politically correct but we are always artistically correct, and so this love of this culture and this love of this art wouldn’t be anything without all of your support. I want to commend you on everything that you’re doing to make dreams come true around the country for Black men and Black women like myself, and I’d just encourage you to go after your dreams.”