The BMI Urban Awards were held last night at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, California, honoring the songwriters, producers and music publishers of this past year’s most-performed BMI R&B and Hip Hop songs.
According to Billboard.biz, Drake was awarded his first songwriter of the year award, dedicating the award to his mother. “I really want to dedicate this award real quick to my mother, who never gave me the definition of a word in my life. I would always ask her what this meant, she’d always make me look it up. And I would have to look up all these words and I’d have to learn words and build a vocabulary.”
Producer Lex Luger was honored as the youngest-ever BMI Urban Award recipient, while producers Polow Da Don, Kane Beatz, R. Kelly and Kanye West were also named Top Producers.
B.o.B also became the youngest songwriter ever to win the BMI Urban Song of the Year for his track “Nothin’ on You” 
featuring Bruno Mars.
Snoop Dogg was the recipient of the BMI Icon Award. During a tribute performance, “Wiz Khalifa kicked off the tribute with ‘Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang’; The Lady of Rage followed with ‘Deep Cover’; Too $hort delivered ‘Gin & Juice’; Warren G, Kurupt and Daz Dillinger came together for ‘Ain’t No Fun’; Game performed ‘Murder was the Case’; Charlie Wilson delivered ‘Beautiful’; Akon followed with ‘Sexual Seduction’; Nas and Kurupt wowed with ‘Next Episode’; and lastly, Aftermath’s Dr. Dre offered a heartfelt speech before Snoop Dogg himself joined Bootsy Collins and Charlie Wilson on stage to deliver ‘What’s My Name?’ as the towering finale.”
Watch footage from the event below, via Rap-Up.
did game just do a crip sign?
YO DAD IS A CRIP NIGGA
abviously he threw a crip sign hes honoring snoop dogg you dum faggit
I wouldn’t think it would be ok for a known blood to throw up a crip sign, you fucking idiot.
All Snoop Everything!
IF HE WERE REALLY REAL
HE WOULDNT HAVE DID THAT
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION
UNLESS ON THA REAL HE REALLY
HAS THAT MUCH RESPECT ON THA
REAL BUT I DONT KNOW I REALLY DOUBT
THAT THOUGH SO TOO ME AFTER WATCHING
THIS VIDEO OF HIM WITH A BLUE FLAG AROUND
HIS WRIST HE SHOULD GET SHOT DOWN BY
CRIPS AND BLOODS AT THE SAME TIME
Game lives in a gated community and his kids are in private school..him and Snoop are cool..so damn what he threw a “crip” sign.he’s not an active gang member and neither is Snoop..the only ones who take rappers seriously when they relate to gang culture is silly kids like the one on here..lol
i wish u guys posted the nas and kurupt performance…