BET will break open the time capsule to rejoice the twenty fifth anniversary of former music video countdown, 106 & Park.
On Tuesday (Could 6), the community introduced that the present’s twenty fifth anniversary particular might be held through the 2025 BET Awards on Monday, June 9. Slated to reunite are former 106 & Park hosts AJ Calloway, Free, Julissa Bermudez, Terrance J, Rocsi Diaz, Keshia Chanté and ‘Mr. 106 & Park,’ Bow Wow. Additionally becoming a member of are throwback artists Amerie, Mya, B2K, T.I. and Jim Jones.
The unique present premiered on September 2000 and, for fourteen years, was an after-school favourite of hip-hop and R&B followers.
“106 & Park was greater than only a music countdown present; it was the heartbeat of Black youth tradition and one of many highest-rated BET applications for over a decade,” acknowledged Scott Mills, President and CEO at BET.
“From Freestyle Friday to unforgettable dwell performances, it launched careers, influenced vogue, and have become a platform the place voices, fashion, and sound converged,” Mills continued. “106 & Park each celebrated and fueled a lot of a very powerful musical and tradition evolutions that occurred throughout its two-and-a-half-decade tenure.”
The twenty fifth 106 & Park anniversary will start simply two days earlier than the weekend’s principal occasion, with a Freestyle Friday battle being held on the BET Expertise (BETX) Fan Fest dwell from the 106 & Park stage on the Los Angeles Conference Heart.
Different occasions embrace the BETX on Sunday, June 8, the place the present’s hosts will replicate on particular 106 moments and interact with followers. The 2025 BET Awards airs by way of BET and BET.com on June 9 at 8 pm ET/PT.