Honey, grab your popcorn, and secure your edges because no weave was ready for this pop culture tumble. Like a midnight phantasmagoria, the timeline of the 2025 BET Awards went all fifty shades of flexed with two of our indomitable divas, GloRilla and Keyshia Cole, turning the post-BET stage into their personal pilates studio. Whew, child! I need me a Coquito to cool down after that heat!
Gone are the days, when divas threw shade and spilled tea, honey. The Plank Wars have officially begun, and the battleground was none other than the flamboyant aftermath of the BET awards. The tea, as scalding, as ever, came twinkling down our Instagram feeds like dozens of Black girl magic-infused meteorites. I mean, who needs post-show drama when we’ve got a full-body workout happening right there, girl?
Our fierce and fabulous, GloRilla, known for her out-of-this-world hooks, traded her mic for a yoga mat, breathing fire into the night with her jaw-dropping planks. The ebony enchantress was pulling off plank jacks and elbow touches like she was born amidst sun salutations. If our resident divas are now doubling as fitness gurus, is it even a wonder why they are slaying the game?
Meanwhile, our sassy siren Keyshia Cole wasn’t slacking either. Just when we thought that the night’s proceedings had cooled down, Ms. Cole cranked the heat right back up. She was plank-passing down the timeline with so much fierceness, you’d think it was her Catwoman audition tape, and we were living for it. Between GloRilla setting our timelines ablaze and Keyshia Cole’s fiery core showdown, our social feeds were in pop culture overdrive!
The internet, like always, had no chill. Fans were going crazy, clutching their pearls as GloRilla and Keyshia out-planked each other, turning the world wide web into their personal boot camp. Reactions varied from hilarious “Can’t even hold my phone right, let alone a plank,” to all the amens echoing “These queens are showing us how it’s done”, the Plank Wars have set a new standard for award show rivalries.
If this exercisiac extravaganza is a sign of what’s to come, the scissors of pop culture are about to take a sharp turn, and we can’t wait! We were served piping hot fitness goals, wrapped in sass, and topped with a dollop of Black girl magic. It was a night of unexpected shenanigans that left us wide awake and pulsating for more.
So, for all those caffeine-induced night owls scrolling through, this was the monumental moment in BET history that did not just break the internet but left us all with a renewed gym membership. To GloRilla and Keyshia, you ladies hit us with an ab blaster we were not ready for, and we are still gasping for air. Now if y’all don’t mind, I’m off to perfect my plank.
