Kanye, Usher Phylicia Rashad to get BET Honours

Someone other than Kanye West is confirming his visionary status.

The rapper will receive the Visionary Award next month at the BET Honours. West — who has called himself a visionary and more — will be one of five luminaries honoured at the eighth annual event hosted by Wayne Brady.

Usher will receive the Musical Arts Award for his two-decade career, Phylicia Rashad will receive the Theatrical Arts Award. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art and former president of Spelman College, will receive the Education Award. Microsoft chairman John W. Thompson will receive the Technology and Business Award.

The BET Honours will be taped on January 24 in Washington and will air on February 23. Ticket sales will benefit the National CARES Mentoring Programme.

Past honorees include Maya Angelou and Whitney Houston.