Another year, another chance for Drake to take home some trophies as he leads the 2016 BET Hip-Hop Awards nominations. The event is set to take place at 8 p.m. EST at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.
Drizzy is nominated for 14 awards, including Best Video, Best Live Performer, Best Lyricist, MVP of the Year, three nominations in the Best Collabo/Duo/Group award and two nods for Track of the Year with “Controlla” and “Hotline Bling.”
Future is up for 10 trophies, including MVP of the Year, Hustler of the Year and is up against Drake, A$AP Rocky, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj for the Made-You-Look Award honoring fashion.
Best New Hip Hop Artist will go to Anderson .Paak, Bryson Tiller, Chance The Rapper (he’s new?), Desiigner and Tory Lanez.
Yes, Kanye West’s “Famous” is up for the Best Hip Hop Video award.
Check out the entire 2016 BET Hip-Hop Award nominations below.
Best Hip-Hop Video
2 Chainz – Watch Out
Desiigner – Panda
DJ Khaled F/ Jay Z & Future – I Got the Keys
Drake – Hotline Bling
Fat Joe & Remy Ma F/ French Montana & Infared – All the Way Up
Kanye West F/ Rihanna – Famous
Best Collabo, Duo or Group
DJ Khaled F/ Drake – For Free
DJ Khaled F/ Jay Z & Future – I Got the Keys
Drake & Future – Jumpman
Drake F/ Wizkid & Kyla – One Dance
Fat Joe & Remy Ma F/ French Montana & Infared – All the Way Up
Best Live Performer
Drake
Future
J. Cole
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Lyricist of the Year
Chance the Rapper
Drake
J. Cole
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Colin Tilley
Director X
Hype Williams
Kanye West
DJ of the Year
DJ Drama
DJ Envy
DJ Esco
DJ Khaled
DJ Mustard
Producer of the Year
DJ Mustard
Dr. Dre
Metro Boomin
Mike WiLL Made-It
Pharrell Williams
MVP of the Year
DJ Khaled
Drake
Future
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Track of the Year
All the Way Up – Produced By Cool & Dre and Edsclusive (Fat Joe & Remy Ma F/ French Montana & Infared)
Controlla – Produced By BOI-1DA (Drake)
Hotline Bling – Produced By Nineteen85 (Drake)
I Got the Keys – Produced By Southside (DJ Khaled F/ Jay Z & Future)
Panda – Produced By Menace (Desiigner)
Album of the Year
DJ Khaled – I Changed A Lot
Dr. Dre – Compton
Drake – Views
Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap
Future -DS2
Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
Best New Hip-Hop Artist
Anderson .Paak
Bryson Tiller
Chance the Rapper
Desiigner
Tory Lanez
Hustler of the Year
DJ Khaled
Drake
Future
Jay Z
Kanye West
Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip-Hop Style)
A$AP Rocky
Drake
Future
Kanye West
Nicki Minaj
Best Hip Hop Online Site/App
Allhiphop.Com
Complex.Com
Hotnewhiphop.Com
Worldstarhiphop.Com
XXLMag.Com
Best Mixtape
Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
French Montana – Wave Gods (Hosted By Max B)
Future – Purple Reign
Lil Uzi Vert – Lil Uzi Vert VS. The World
Young Thug – Slime Season 3
Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse
2 Chainz – No Problem (Chance the Rapper F/ Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz)
Drake – Work (Rihanna F/ Drake)
Kendrick Lamar – Freedom (Beyoncé F/ Kendrick Lamar)
Kodak Black – Lockjaw (French Montana F/ Kodak Black)
Nicki Minaj – Down In the DM – Remix (Yo Gotti F/ Nicki Minaj)
Impact Track
J. Cole – Love Yourz
Jay Z – Spiritual
Jidenna – Long Live The Chief
Raury F/ Key – Trap Tears
Sir The Baptist F/ ChuchPeople – Raise Hell
People’s Champ Award
Desiigner – Panda
DJ Khaled F/ Drake – For Free
Fat Joe & Remy Ma F/ French Montana & Infared – All the Way Up
O.T. Genasis F/ Young Dolph – Cut It
Travis Scott – Antidote
Young Thug – Best Friend
Go ahead haters, do your thing. #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
Go ahead hip-hop heads. Talk about how pop is ruining your beloved art form.
Industry is fucked , how can be hotline bling a hip hop song?
Royce da 5’9 not in the lyricist of the year category? ???????
hahaha do you actually think that hasbin even matters. Get it through your thick head you hipster nerds. Your favourite rappers are all irrelevent nobodies.
Quentin Miller maybe? Or whoever else writes Drake’s shit?
Eminem is my favorite. More albums sold. More money. Drake scared as duck, kissing his pinky ring and sucking his dick to not get bodied over a beat. More Grammys. More street cred. Blacker. American. From a REAL city with real gangs.
Hipdx, shut the fuck up about candidness already, I can’t believe you take money in exchange for advertising trash in your so called “articles”
fuck candypens
What else is new. The numbers, awards, sales popularity etc just keep on coming for drake. Drake is the god of this rap game and it just makes these haters so mad. They are very very mad and will have to stay mad cause drake gonna run this rap game for another decade.
Still trailing MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice though…
BET awards are wack and so are a lot of those artist that are nominated. Hiphop sucks these days
Drake best live performer? LOLOLOLOLOL. He lip syncs over his own shit. He also calls real artists on stage because he sucks. Hilarious. LOLOLOLOLOL
Hhdx didnt make the cut for hip hop site? Not that shocking actually
In Drake’s case the Not Quite Black Entertainment Television Awards…
Drake nominated for best lyricist? It obvious some people didn’t go through his album tracklist.
How does a R&B pop artist lead the nominations at a hip hop award show? Best Lyricist? Sweet 16? With R&B vocals? Somebody at BET on that shit.
Haven’t even read the comments yet but I can jst feel the hate emanating…this is gonna be fun! haha
Hiphopdx should be insulted that they didn’t get nominated for best hip hop website.
they can’t be insulted cos they don’t even deserve any nomination..ain’t surprised.
Where’s joe buttends?
drake = fake face.
when will ppl learn that?
fkn soft hiphop zombies buying that crap xD
nice money waste.
uhhhh didnt ds2 compton and i change alot come out in 2015…..smh @ bet
Being from Canada I find it interesting how y’all gonna let Drake run rap like this so much. For real his music is the kinda trash homeless people don’t wanna go through for food/clothes. And… And… you know BET gonna have him walk away with all kinda of awards. I mean… Best Lyrics! da fuck is that about.
Bet y’all are sore you didn’t get on the best hiphop site list hahaha
Drake is black entertainment in the flesh