Queen Latifah Performs at “VH1 Hip Hop Honors”: Watch

This year’s “VH1 Hip Hop Honors” is the first installment of the ceremony since 2010. Queen Latifah was one of the honorees at tonight’s “All Hail the Queens” event. She performed twice during the show. Toward the beginning, she delivered a medley of her songs alongside Da Brat and Monie Love. Then, after an introduction from Common, she brought out several female hip-hop icons for a closing performance of “U.N.I.T.Y.” She was also honored with a performance from Naughty by Nature.

During her acceptance speech, she addressed the racial tension in the United States:

“Listen, we all know that the world, and our world, is really tense right now. There’s a lot of tension, a lot of angst, a lot of hurt, a lot of pain. I’m hoping that we can somehow manage to channel all of these emotions that we have in a positive way. … I don’t care how much or things I have, or Puff has, or Missy has, or the ladies have—if I go outside and try to hail a cab and he passes me for the white woman standing right there, that racism is still alive and kicking. And we have to change that. And I’m not blaming the white lady, she needed a cab too. I’m just saying, we’ve got to change this attitude.”

Watch those performances and Latifah’s acceptance speech below. Missy Elliott, Lil’ Kim, and Salt-n-Pepa were also honored on the show.

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