BET Awards' carpet coloured blue in honour of Nipsey Hussle

The 2019 BET Awards held last night and it doubled as a celebration of late rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was killed in March in Los Angeles.

In honour of the slain rapper killed outside his Marathon clothing store, the carpet at the award show was coloured blue. A number of the celebrities who attended the show kept repeating the phrase, "the marathon continues." while on the blue carpet.

American rappper, YG wore a jacket with Nipsey's face on the back of it and "the marathon continues" written across.