Drake, Rihanna, Beyoncé lead BET Awards assignments

The 2016 BET Awards assignments are here and the rundown of confident champs sees Drake ahead of the pack with nine gestures, highlighting his achievements over the previous year. The rapper is additionally assigned twice in the same classification – video of the year – for "Hotline Bling" and "Work" with Rihanna.

Rihanna is assigned in four different classifications significance, making her tie with Beyoncé for second-most designations – five each. They're both up for best female R&B/pop craftsman nearby Adele, Andra Day, and K. Michelle.

The BET Awards, built up by the Black Entertainment Television system, honor specialists, performers and competitors crosswise over more than 20 classes and are picked by BET's voting institute made up of diversion experts and fans. The current year's best performer classification sees selections for Scandal's Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson for her part as Cookie Lyon in Empire, and How To Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis.

"These candidates speak to profundity and differing qualities in accomplishment over the previous year and we anticipate remembering them one month from now," said Stephen Hill, BET's President of Programming, in an announcement. "This show will be imaginative and exceptional; notwithstanding praising the best in diversion, we'll additionally invest energy all through the show recollecting Prince as no one but BET can. You can depend on important exhibitions and minutes out of appreciation for a genuine legend."

The 2016 recompenses occur on June 26 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and will be show live on BET's worldwide system.

The full list of nominations is below:

Best Female R&B/Pop Artist

ADELE
ANDRA DAY
BEYONCÉ
K. MICHELLE
RIHANNA

Best Male R&B/Pop Artist

BRYSON TILLER
CHRIS BROWN
JEREMIH
THE WEEKND
TYRESE

Best Group

2 CHAINZ & LIL WAYNE
DRAKE & FUTURE
PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY
RAE SREMMURD
THE INTERNET

Best Collaboration

BIG SEAN FT. CHRIS BROWN & TY DOLLA $IGN - PLAY NO GAMES
BIG SEAN FT. KANYE WEST & JOHN LEGEND - ONE MAN CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
FUTURE FT. DRAKE - WHERE YA AT 
NICKI MINAJ FT. BEYONCÉ - FEELING MYSELF
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE - WORK

Best Male Hip Hop Artist

DRAKE
FETTY WAP
FUTURE
J. COLE
KANYE WEST
KENDRICK LAMAR

Best Female Hip Hop Artist

DEJ LOAF
LIL KIM
MISSY ELLIOTT
NICKI MINAJ
REMY MA

Video of the Year

BEYONCÉ - FORMATION
BRYSON TILLER - DON’T
DRAKE - HOTLINE BLING
KENDRICK LAMAR - ALRIGHT
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE  - WORK

Video Director of the Year

BENNY BOOM
CHRIS BROWN
COLIN TILLEY & THE LITTLE HOMIES
DIRECTOR X
HYPE WILLIAMS

Best New Artist

ALESSIA CARA
ANDRA DAY
BRYSON TILLER
KEHLANI
TORY LANEZ

Dr. Bobby Jones Best Gospel/Inspirational Award

ANTHONY BROWN & GROUP THERAPY

ERICA CAMPBELL
KIRK FRANKLIN
LECRAE
TAMELA MANN
TASHA COBBS

Best Actress

GABRIELLE UNION
KERRY WASHINGTON
TARAJI P. HENSON
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

VIOLA DAVIS

Best Actor

ANTHONY ANDERSON
COURTNEY B. VANCE
IDRIS ELBA
MICHAEL B. JORDAN
O’SHEA JACKSON JR.

YoungStars Award

AMANDLA STENBERG
QUVENZHANÉ WALLIS
SILENTÓ
WILLOW SMITH
YARA SHAHIDI

Best Movie

BEASTS OF NO NATION
CONCUSSION
CREED
DOPE
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

Sportswoman of the Year

CHEYENNE WOODS
GABRIELLE DOUGLAS
SERENA WILLIAMS
SKYLAR DIGGINS
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sportsman of the Year

CAM NEWTON
KOBE BRYANT
LEBRON JAMES
ODELL BECKHAM JR.
STEPHEN CURRY

Coca-Cola Viewers’ Choice Award

BEYONCÉ – FORMATION
BRYSON TILLER – DON’T
CHRIS BROWN – BACK TO SLEEP
DRAKE – HOTLINE BLING
FUTURE FT. DRAKE – WHERE YA AT
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE – WORK

Centric Award

ANDRA DAY - RISE UP
BEYONCÉ – FORMATION
K. MICHELLE – NOT A LITTLE BIT
RIHANNA - BBHMM
THE INTERNET - UNDER CONTROL

Best International Act Africa

AKA (SOUTH AFRICA)
BLACK COFFEE (SOUTH AFRICA)
CASSPER NYOVEST (SOUTH AFRICA)
DIAMOND PLATNUMZ (TANZANIA)
MZVEE (Ghana)
SERGE BEYNAUD (COTE D’IVOIRE)
WIZKID (NIGERIA)
YEMI ALADE (NIGERIA)

Best International Act UK

KANO
KREPT & KONAN
LIANNE LA HAVAS
SKEPTA
STORMZY
TINIE TEMPAH

Lea Michele recalls a unique Glee minute before the series debuted

It's been seven years since the happiness club at McKinley High sang "Don't Stop Believin' " in front rooms over the U.S. interestingly and made an abundance of foresight for Fox's new appear, Glee.

Throughout the years, the arrangement saw a star conceived in Lea Michele, and a much greater one in the show's maker, Ryan Murphy, who's gone ahead to bring us American Horror Story, Scream Queens, and, most as of late, American Crime Story: The People versus O.J. Simpson. We said farewell to Cory Monteith when he kicked the bucket of a medication overdose in July 2013, and we read innumerable gossipy tidbits about dramatization on set. In any case, toward the day's end, Glee made a permanent imprint on TV, and the day that pilot initially disclosed was an obvious popular society minute, one Michele will always remember.

The performing artist commended the commemoration — and Throwback Thursday — by presenting on Instagram a foggy photograph of the cast, including Monteith, Naya Rivera, Chris Colfer, and whatever is left of the happiness club out to supper days before that portentous debut.

"7 years prior," she composed. "It's mind blowing how rapidly time can pass by.. To think we publicized 7 years back today.. Discovered this photograph from our Upfronts outing to NYC days before the debut. We were all so energized. We circumvented the table and each said something we cherished in regards to each other.. Regardless of where we as a whole are presently.. I will dependably recall this night."

From that point forward, Fox has proceeded to showcase music as a piece of its programming with Empire, and also its recently reported arrangement, Star.

Trevor Noah on hostile to transgender washroom laws: 'The contention falls level'

Since taking the reins of The Daily Show from Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah has built up his own image of comedic news scope, characterized more by Noah's dazed appeal than Stewart's blazing criticisms of Fox News. Yet, on Thursday's scene of The Daily Show, Noah drew out his own condemnation side as he fumed against hostile to transgender lavatory laws being gone in states like North Carolina, and the analysts spreading hyperbolic apprehension of rape.

"You do comprehend the transgender populace in America is more like zero percent than one percent?" Noah said. "0.3 percent of the populace is transgender. So the possibility of you chancing upon a transgender individual in the washroom is just about zero percent. Yet, the shot of a transgender individual requiring the washroom is 100 percent. They're as of now managing their own s–t, now you're giving them yours? I don't comprehend, it's so silly."

In genuine Daily Show style, Noah barbarously taunted a few clasps of savants from channels like Fox News and CNN waxing on the "perils" of transgender washroom use. Eventually, be that as it may, he didn't point the finger at them for the discussion. He faulted the penis.

"That is the thing that this is truly about: No one needs to see a penis," Noah said. "On the off chance that you see, nobody's having the discussion the other way. 'What, so there's going to be a vagina in the men's room?' No one's platitude that… Penises are appalling… . Men develop their stomaches to make sure they don't need to see them any longer."