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Victoria Monét accepts the Hitmaker award at Billboard’s R&B No.1s 2024 party.

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00:00Thank you for coming out.

00:01We really appreciate it.

00:02It's been a historical, amazing hip hop week here at Billboard.

00:06I'm glad that we can have this R&B celebration.

00:09I'm Damian Scott.

00:10I'm the Deputy Editorial Director at Billboard.

00:13I've been here for a year so far.

00:14It's been an amazing, amazing ride.

00:17But tonight, I'm here to talk about a very special person.

00:21When we named Jaguar 2 as one of the best albums of 2023,

00:25we said the album signaled Victoria Monet's

00:27commercial breakthrough and put her on the same page

00:30as all the superstars whose careers she helped

00:33elevate in the years past, because that's what she does.

00:37She just makes everything better.

00:39And then she has kept it moving.

00:41Her mainstream arrival came when she won three Grammys,

00:44including one for Best New Artist.

00:47And she's been on a roll since then.

00:48Her smash hit, On My Mama, was one of the only two songs

00:53to top the adult R&B airplay, mainstream R&B hip hop

00:56airplay, and R&B hip hop airplay charts in the last year.

01:01But all of that is only a small part

01:03of why we're so proud to present her

01:05with the 2024 Hitmaker Award.

01:08Victoria Monet, please come down and accept this.

01:21Thank you for the sparking microphone.

01:24Do you mind holding this for me?

01:27Hey, y'all.

01:28How we feeling?

01:30I just, hey.

01:31Sorry, I saw Tenario.

01:34I just want to start off by saying thank you so much,

01:36Billboard, for this recognition.

01:38This is a place that I dream to be amongst people

01:40that I really admire.

01:41My peers, legends, and all of the other honorees

01:45really inspire me.

01:46So thank you so much for letting me be amongst you.

01:51I also want to say shout out to all the moms in the room.

01:57The record that I wrote on my mama

02:00I wrote when I was just trying to make it through postpartum.

02:05I had a seven-week-old.

02:07Titties was bigger, everything.

02:09You know, I was just trying to figure it out.

02:11So I really had to manifest a mindset

02:13that I wanted to be in.

02:14So I want to encourage all the moms in the room,

02:17all the moms-to-be, mothers of dogs,

02:20mothers of whatever kind of thing you're, yeah.

02:23Dog moms, too, because it takes time

02:26to put in care for another living being.

02:28But I just want to encourage you to stay inspired,

02:31fight through all the dark moments.

02:32And there is light at the end of every single tunnel.

02:35I want to thank my team.

02:37Rochelle's in the building.

02:38She saw things in me that a lot of people

02:41didn't see before.

02:42It was cool to like Victoria.

02:44She was there fighting for me.

02:45I want to thank RCA.

02:48A record doesn't do much in a hard drive.

02:49So I want to shout out my radio team.

02:52They really worked really, really hard

02:54and believed in this record.

02:55And that's how I think a lot of you heard it.

02:57But also, a record isn't really much without the people

03:01to hold their arms open and accept it and run with the torch.

03:03So thank everybody who bought it, who streamed it,

03:05who danced to it, twerked to it, everything

03:08you did with this record, and especially

03:09to get to this award that I'll have forever.

03:11So I appreciate you.

03:12I love you.

03:13Thank you so much.

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