Leading the way with BET nominations this year is, unsurprisingly, Jay-Z. The rap star exceeds all other artists with five nominations: Best Male Hip Hop artist, Best Collaboration (with Alicia Keys for “New York State of Mind“), Best Video (both for “Empire State of Mind” and “Run this Town”), and Viewer’s Choice for “Empire State of Mind.”
Artists with four nominations include Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Trey Songz and Melanie Fiona.
The BET Awards, now in its tenth year, will feature performances from Trey Songz, Nicki Minaj, Drake and Diddy-Dirty Money.
Queen Latifah will host the 2010 BET Awards, which air Sunday, June 27 live at 8:00 PM.
Below are the nominees in each category:
Best Female R&B Artist
Beyoncé
Mary J. Blige
Melanie Fiona
Alicia Keys
Rihanna
Best Male R&B Artist
Chris Brown
Raheem DeVaughn
Maxwell
Trey Songz
Usher
Best Female Hip-Hop Artist
Ester Dean
Lil’ Kim
Nicki Minaj
Rasheeda
Trina
Best Male Hip-Hop Artist
B.o.B
Drake
Fabolous
Jay-Z
Ludacris
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Melanie Fiona
Nicki Minaj
Wale
Young Money
Best Gospel
The Anointed Pace Sisters
Kirk Franklin Presents Artists United For Haiti
Tamela Mann
Marvin Sapp
Vickie Winans
Best Group
Black Eyed Peas
Clipse
Diddy-Dirty Money
New Boyz
Young Money
Best Collaboration
Beyoncé f/ Lady Gaga – “Video Phone”
B.o.B f/ Bruno Mars – “Nothin’ on You”
Drake & Trey Songz – “Successful”
Drake f/ Lil Wayne, Kanye West & Eminem – “Forever”
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Trey Songz f/ Fabolous – “Say Aah”
Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Gil Green
Anthony Mandler
Chris Robinson
Hype Williams
Video of the Year
Beyoncé f/ Lady Gaga – “Video Phone”
B.o.B f/ Bruno Mars – “Nothin’ on You”
Melanie Fiona – “It Kills Me”
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West – “Run This Town”
Viewer’s Choice
Beyoncé – “Sweet Dreams”
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Monica – “Everything to Me”
Rihanna f/ Young Jeezy – “Hard”
Trey Songz f/ Fabolous – “Say Aah”
Young Money (Lil Wayne, Gudda Gudda, Nicki Minaj, Jae Millz, Drake, Tyga) f/ Lloyd – “Bedrock”
Best International Act
Kojo Antwi (Ghana)
Chipmunk (UK)
Dizzee Rascal (UK)
Estelle (UK)
Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) (South Africa)
K’NAAN (Somalia)
M.I. (Nigeria)
P-Square (Nigeria)
Corinne Bailey Rae (UK)
Sade (UK)
Centric Award
Melanie Fiona
Maxwell
Chrisette Michele
Monica
Sade
how can young money be nominated for best new artist
wat???? Justin Bieber? At HIP-HOP AWARDS??? ON BET????
these aren’t the hip-hop awards, just the regular BET awards. still, though, justin bieber…even at the grammys that’d be a tough pill to swallow
wow bet still comes on these days ??? i mean ever since they fsiled at firing free and aj leaving and rap city suckin and stupid shows like hanging wit a famous person for a day they went DOWN HILL
LOL @ Justin Bieber nominated for a BET award.
i would love to see his 14 year old, white, pop singin ass go up to accept that award.
I mean, that might be good enough to make me watch these things for the first time….
btw you can thank Drake’s gay ass for opening the door for the likes of Bieber in hiphop. I’m pretty sure he’s the one who collaborating with him. How bout this… Drake slides into Bieber’s genre of music instead, and they both stay there?
I really don’t think he is there because of Drake, I think Justin Bieber is there because he is signed to Usher. I think that alone gives him major status in the African-American Market. I really don’t think he would be on this list if he had signed to Justin Timberlake….or maybe he would?…
LOL @ Justin Bieber nominated for a BET award.
i would love to see his 14 year old, white, pop singin ass go up to accept that award.
I mean, that might be good enough to make me watch these things for the first time….
btw you can thank Drake’s gay ass for opening the door for the likes of Bieber in hiphop. I’m pretty sure he’s the one who collaborating with him. How bout this… Drake slides into Bieber’s genre of music instead, and they both stay there?
…why are they still doing these award shows? They’re irrelevant.
Wow…
HHP will win the Best International Act. Holla.
Yall niggaz need to stop hating on justin bieber. I mean, i dont listen to him but objectively speaking he is the best new artist this year.period. On the whole i could give a fuck less about bet awards. It be more disturbing if new boys win. I hate l.a for this skinny jean fag movement teens r embracing. But dont blame justin bieber 4 the death of hip hop hes just 15 yrs old. L.a n the fucking south killed hip hop.
Don’t blame the south for putting out that fire….nobody wants to hear that up north bullshit…..woman lie man lie numbers don’t check the numbers the south run hip hop
shut the fuck up theres only one reason Justin is on the show and thats for ratings.
FUCK BET!!
look at these mainstream rappers and how they go pop to sell..fuck y’all..just learn from lil wayne! he spits dat real gangsta shit runs the underground and sells 3 million..
these niggaz sold their soul to the buseness they can’t sell shit but debut at #1 cuz they’re sell outs lil kids listen to their shit..
on the other hand lil wayne! keep it real keep it g u could feel the dude when he raps he doesn’t have to go pop like gay z to sell mere 400k..
bloods got lil wayne’s! back baby got lil wayne’s! back real niggaz and gangstaz all across US got lil wayne’s! back…that’s the diffrence between lil wayne! and all these clowns…
lil wayne! is da greatest of all da time fuck haters
Where did you buy your rose-colored glasses?
Are you stupid? Wayne is not “underground”….he’s practically pop at this point. He’s one of the biggest sell-outs in the game.
Best rapper of all time?
You’re clearly a teeny bopper.
Lil Wayne is probably the only rapper you’ve ever listened to just because he could spit for 10 minutes about absolutely nothing over a decent beat.
He probably inspired you to become a sell-out rapper yourself
And you probably suck
just sayin
But don’t get me wrong I used to love Weezy right up until Dedication 3 …no no im lying, i actually did like Carter 3 ….everything after that, however, has been trash.
And lil wayne isn’t a “gangster”…
oh the ignorance!! oh the madness!!
he’s got a point. Even hiphopdx credited Wayne for his hard-gritty songs in Carter 3 which went triple-platinum. And everyone knows Blueprint 3, which wasn’t a bad album, by the way, was TOO radio friendly and pop-influenced.
I dont think Wayne is the best rapper alive, everyone has an opinion, and I think Em is the best rapper alive. But lil wayne is top 5 of the current rappers easily,
He’s got amazing punchlines, metaphors and versatile flow. If you dont agree, either you havent heard his songs, or you dont really understand concepts of hip-hop, or your just a plain hater. You dont like his songs in another thing, but to say he’s wack is just ignorant.
RADARADARADA is 100% right wayne as always be overated. his rymes are corny, simple and pure garbage and thats the plain truth. does’t have a cohesive album in his catalogue. hes good at rapping thats about it but hes not top 10 at anything at the moment. what mindblowing songs thats so great? he can’t make a storytelling song to save his life.give me a verse from wayne that can go up agains’t lupe, Dre 3000, Em or even Jay-z? you can’t because hes level below them as far as talent goes.
look a BET doing everything they can to get ratings. looks like Beyonce Entertainment Television every year. pathethic
Lil Wayne is not even in the top 5 of the people. Lyrically he cant see Luda which means he is not even the best in the south. As those hating a BP3….Pop album, not even. Just because the hooks where something you can sing along to and were catchy doesnt mean the lyrics were. Listen to the music….dont hear it but listen.
r u serious? lil wayne is wack and is just as much of a sellout as jay z..that drop the world vid with eminem symbolizes the coming of the antichrist..smh..ppl who think they actually know stuff..KILLUMINATI..GOD BLESS
Who the hell are in Diddy Dirty Money? Was there a season of making the band I missed?
so wait drake isnt considered an international artist? Since when has Canada become part of the US?
Shit line up but then what credible award shows are there?
HHP is nominated! That kid is one of the illest rappers, not just in South Africa, but the world. Even Nas Knooows thiisss!!! Jay Z take a back seat.
no thanks
Drizzy is gonna get a few awards.
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How is Young Money considered an ARTIST when it’s more then one of them?
BET is full of shit. They use the same people every year. I guess it showed be called the RADIO Awards show! THIS ISN’T A HIP HOP SHOW.. Because it has a couple of rappers for nomination.
Young money isnt even a group its a label.
Please someone explain: Why is Lil Kim nominated for an award…..? Why is Rasheda nominated!!!!why is justin fucking beiber nominated… why ISNT monica or Robin thicke nominated, and why is beyonce nominted (her album was nominated LAST yr) BET=EpicFail, as usual……
young money put out a album as a gropu like the black eyed peas, i have no beef with that…..
Im confused… Bieber is Hiphop? …. has it come to this…..*holds heart* “Biggie , im coming to join you man…… tell pac to meet me at the gates, and tell Big pun to make me a plate”
When are people gonna understand that the same people who control the radio stations
(clearchannel) are in
bed with the same people who own bet, MTV, centric(viacom) that’s why nobody buys our sad music anymore! They choose our music like they do our leaders . They took the one thing that we controlled and they bought us out. For as long as we sell our souls for money we will forever b a conquered people. No shot at jay z but when he has an artist like j Cole who represents everything missing in music today as does j electronica, yet he promotes these young money artists (drake and Nicki minaj) he is contributing to the downfall of our music!! And his wife is no different ! The songs her and rhianna sing that my 12 year old knows word for word is just as bad as the hip hop we are listening to today
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