The 2019 BET Awards are underway at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Hosted by actress Regina Hall, the annual event started promptly at 5 p.m. PST and is airing on BET, BET HER, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Classic, VH1 and Logo.
Cardi B — who holds the most nominations and kicked off the show — is nominated is seven categories, including Video Of The Year, Best Female Hip Hop artist and Album Of The Year, while JAY-Z and Beyoncé are nominated in three categories thanks to their EVERYTHING IS LOVE joint album.
Drake is also nominated in three categories: Video Of The Year, Best Male Hip Hop Artist and Viewer’s Choice Award.
Several explosive performances are expected throughout the evening from artists such as Lizzo, Cardi, DJ Khaled, Migos and Meek Mill.
A special tribute to the late Nipsey Hussle is also on the docket. He will be honored with a posthumous Humanitarian Award along with Mary J. Blige who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Par for the course, HipHopDX will be updating the winners list as the show goes on.
Check out the winners below.
Video Of The Year
21 Savage f. J. Cole, “A Lot”
Cardi B, “Money”
Cardi B & Bruno Mars, “Please Me”
Childish Gambino, “This Is America” — WINNER*
Drake, “Nice for What”
The Carters, “APESHIT”
Best Female R&B/Pop Artist
Beyoncé — WINNER*
Ella Mai
H.E.R.
Solange
SZA
Teyana Taylor
Best Male R&B/Pop Artist
Anderson .Paak
Bruno Mars —WINNER*
Childish Gambino
Chris Brown
John Legend
Khalid
Best Female Hip Hop Artist
Cardi B — WINNER*
Kash Doll
Lizzo
Megan Thee Stallion
Nicki Minaj
Remy Ma
Best Male Hip Hop Artist
21 Savage
Drake
J. Cole
Meek Mill
Nipsey Hussle — WINNER*
Travis Scott
Best New Artist
Blueface
City Girls
Juice WRLD
Lil Baby — WINNER*
Queen Naija
Best Group
Chloe x Halle
City Girls
Lil Baby & Gunna
Migos
The Carters
Best Collaboration
21 Savage f. J. Cole, “A Lot”
Cardi B & Bruno Mars, “Please Me”
Cardi B f.J Balvin and Bad Bunny, “I Like It”
H.E.R. f. Bryson Tiller, “Could’ve Been”
Travis Scott f. Drake, “Sicko Mode” — WINNER*
Tyga f. Offset, “Taste”
Album Of The Year
Cardi B Invasion of Privacy — WINNER*
Ella Mai Ella Mai
Meek Mill Championships
The Carters EVERYTHING IS LOVE
Travis Scott Astroworld
Viewers’ Choice Award
Cardi B f. J Balvin and Bad Bunny, “I Like It”
Childish Gambino, “This Is America”
Drake, “In My Feelings”
Ella Mai, “Trip” — WINNER*
J. Cole, “Middle Child”
Travis Scott f. Drake, “Sicko Mode”
Best Actress
Issa Rae
Regina Hall
Regina King — WINNER*
Taraji P. Henson
Tiffany Haddish
Viola Davis
Best Actor
Anthony Anderson
Chadwick Boseman
Denzel Washington
Mahershala Ali
Michael B. Jordan — WINNER*
Omari Hardwick.
Best Movie
Blackkklansman — WINNER*
Creed 2
If Beale Street Could Talk
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Hate U Give
Young Stars Award
Caleb McLaughlin
Lyric Ross
Marsai Martin — WINNER*
Michael Rainey Jr.
Miles Brown
BET HER Award
Alicia Keys, “Raise a Man”
Ciara, “Level Up”
H.E.R., “Hard Place”
Janelle Monae, “PYNK”
Queen Naija, “Mama’s Hand”
Teyana Taylor, “Rose in Harlem”
Video Director Of The Year
Benny Boom
Colin Tilley
Dave Meyers
Hype Williams
Karena Evans
WTF is a BET “HER” Award?? All this over the top feminism is beyond ridiculous.
Incoming comments about how we don’t care about the BET Awards in 3,2,1…
U got it wrong so that makes u a cawk suckaa
Both of y’all wrong now, haha!
Or no comments at all because…. no one cares about the EBT awards in 2019
looks a bit fair and balanced. it is time for those new blood to rise up.
Isn’t it ironic they give Nipsey an award because he has passed. Yet last year he had one of the hardest albums and it wasn’t even nominated for best album or best hip hop artist. No wonder nobody takes it serious
Nipsey victory lap was nominated for a Grammy for best hip hop album
Winners are biased af smh respect to Nipsey but just because somebody dies, it makes them male hip hop artist of the year? and cardi’s album came out over a year ago so how is it even up there. It’s as laughable as when she won song writer of the year at the ASCAP awards.
wtf has Beyonce done recently to win Best Female Artist???
How the fuck you gon give Gambino an award for a song, and video he 100% stolen.
What happened to integrity, what happened to no biting?
Lmao at all awards excluding other races, if you can’t win a best movie award without excluding thousands YOU DONT FUCKING DESERVE IT!!!
Your super gay for taking the name I posted under for the past 4 years. That’s why I switched from TRUTH to CHRIS, because your a jackass. Bet is a crap shoot I think, but your still a jackass.
You mean for me using a name I’ve battle rapped under since 1998, fuck outta here snowflake.
Are you that white dude Truth on YouTube who did battle raps way back? If so you were very talented. If that’s you, you should definitely expand into making actual music!
oh nipsey is the hip hop artist of the year huh? and Michael B Jordan is the best male actor…LMFAO. the BET awards never cease to entertain me.
sucks Nip had to literally die to get the respect his music deserves. i know the grammy votes feel dumb as hell now
lol this is type trash not gonna lie. the award systems are so rigged like there are other people besides bruno mars and beyonce jesus
lol this is type trash not gonna lie. the award systems are so rigged like there are other people besides bruno mars and beyonce jesus. fuck this it dead dont even matter anymore these shows just social clubs at this point.
Most biased awards. Not surprised. More of the same old same old.