People.com Awards Toni Braxton and Rapper Birdman Put Love on Display at the BET Awards Toni Braxton and Birdman were spotted hand-in-hand backstage By Jordan Runtagh Jordan Runtagh Twitter Jordan Runtagh is an Executive Podcast Producer at iHeartRadio, where he hosts a slate of pop culture shows including Too Much Information, Inside the Studio, Off the Record and Rivals: Music's Greatest Feuds. Previously, he served as a Music Editor at PEOPLE and VH1.com. He's written about art and entertainment for more than a decade, regularly contributing to outlets like Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly, and appearing as a guest on radio and television. Over the course of his career, he's profiled the surviving Beatles, Brian Wilson, Aretha Franklin, Roger Waters, David Byrne, Pete Townshend, Debbie Harry, Quincy Jones, Brian May, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Taylor and many more. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, he lives in Brooklyn, where he can be found DJing '60s soul records. People Editorial Guidelines Published on June 26, 2016 11:40 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Paras Griffin/BET/Getty Get ready to show a whole new level of respek to Birdman! The Cash Money Records rapper and Toni Braxton are putting their buzzed about romance on display. The pair were spotted getting cozy at the 2016 BET Awards, where Birdman presented an award alongside Snoop Dogg and Jermaine Dupri. The couple were inseparable and looked blissful as they strolled together backstage, an onlooker tells PEOPLE. They even posed for photos together before making their way out of the theater hand-in-hand. From the looks of it, the rapper and Braxton are proud of their love and ready to show it off, but that didn’t stop Birdman from playing it cool when asked about their relationship. “We’re just chillin’,” he told PEOPLE. (A rep for Braxton confirmed the pair are dating.) Black-ish‘s Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson Are Really Excited to Host the BET Awards Braxton, who stars alongside her siblings on reality show Braxton Family Values was previously married to musician Keri Lewis. The two, who have two sons together, divorced in 2013. •Reporting by RAHA LEWIS