The "Break Ya Neck" rapper thanked late MTV VJ host and two-time NAACP Image Award recipient Ananda Lewis, who died in June. Rhymes referred to Lewis as "the incredible woman that loved me" and that "loved the culture," before adding that she "lifted us up."

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