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Justin Bieber scored a nomination  for a 2010 BET award. The BET Awards typically honor black singers, actors, actresses and athletes, but officials described Bieber as a cross-over artist.

“Bieber has crossed the color boundaries the same way that hip-hop has crossed the boundaries the other way for a number of years.”

I mean, it was bound to happen at some point right? As much as I’m not a fan of Justin Beiber for reasons that aren’t malicious, his music isn’t targeted towards me and I’m not really that interested in it, I can admit his songs are catchy and I do agree they do cross over. I mean, Usher promotes him and he got Ludacris to sing a pretty silly (imo) rap on one of this videos. Dude might as well start filing to reparations. Ohhh, too far?

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