The nominees have been announced for this year’s 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards, with Lil Wayne nabbing a record-breaking 18 nods.
Behind Weezy were Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa, both of whom earned nine nominations and will go head-to-head in the MVP of the Year category. Rick Ross follows with eight nods, while Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj each scored six.
Check the full list of the nominees below for the event, airing on October 11 at 8 p.m (via Soul Culture).
[September 8]
UPDATE: Last night, the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards aired on the network and the winners were revealed. Check below to see who walked away with honors.
Best Hip-Hop Video
Big Sean Feat. Chris Brown – My Last
Chris Brown Feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – Look At Me Now
DJ Khaled Feat. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne – I’m On One
Eminem Feat. Rihanna – Love The Way You Lie
Kanye West Feat. Rihanna & KiD CuDi – All Of The Lights
Reese’s Perfect Combo Award (Best Collab)
Ace Hood Feat. Rick Ross & Lil Wayne – Hustle Hard (Remix)
Big K.R.I.T. Feat. Ludacris & Bun B – Country Sh*t (Remix)
Chris Brown Feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – Look At Me Now
DJ Khaled Feat. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne – I’m On One
Lupe Fiasco Feat. Trey Songz – Out Of My Head
Best Live Performer
Busta Rhymes
Cee-Lo Green
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Kanye West
Lyricist of the Year
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Nicki Minaj
Rick Ross
Kanye West
Video Director of the Year
Gil Green
Anthony Mandler
Chris Robinson
Kanye West
Hype Williams
Producer of the Year
J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League
Kane Beatz
Lex Luger
No I.D.
Kanye West, Emile, Jeff Bhasker & Mike Dean
MVP of the Year
Lil Wayne
Nicki Minaj
Rick Ross
Kanye West
Wiz Khalifa
Track of the Year
6 Foot 7 Foot – Produced by Bangladesh (Lil Wayne Feat. Cory Gunz)
Black and Yellow – Produced by Stargate (Wiz Khalifa)
I’m On One – Produced by T-Minus (DJ Khaled Feat. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne)
Look At Me Now – Produced by Diplo & Afrojack (Chris Brown Feat. Lil Wayne &
Busta Rhymes)
My Last – Produced by Lex Luger (Big Sean Feat. Chris Brown)
CD of the Year
Big Sean – Finally Famous
Lupe Fiasco – LASERS
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers
DJ of the Year
DJ Drama
DJ Enuff
DJ Envy
DJ Khaled
DJ Prostyle
Rookie of the Year
Big K.R.I.T.
Big Sean
Frank Ocean
Diggy Simmons
Tyler the Creator
Wiz Khalifa
Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip-Hop Style)
Jay-Z
Lil’ Wayne
Nicki Minaj
Kanye West
Wiz Khalifa
Best Club Banger
Ace Hood – Hustle Hard (Produced by Lex Luger)
DJ Khaled Feat. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne – I’m On One (Produced by T-Minus)
Lil Wayne Feat. Cory Gunz – 6 foot 7 foot (Produced by Bangladesh)
Waka Flocka Flame – No Hands (Produced by Lex Luger)
Wiz Khalifa – Black And Yellow (Produced by Stargate)
YC Worldwide Feat. Future – Racks (Produced by Sonny Digital)
Best Mixtape
Big K.R.I.T. – Return Of 4Eva
B.o.B – No Genre
J. Cole – Friday Night Lights
Kendrick Lamar – Section .80
Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra
Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse
Busta Rhymes – Look At Me Now (Chris Brown Feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes)
Lil Wayne – Motivation (Kelly Rowland Feat. Lil Wayne)
Nicki Minaj – Monster (Kanye West Feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver)
Wiz Khalifa – Bright Lights, Bigger City (Cee-Lo Green Feat. Wiz Khalifa)
Wiz Khalifa – Till I’m Gone (Tinie Tempah Feat. Wiz Khalifa)
Hustler of the Year
Diddy
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Rick Ross
Kanye West
Verizon People’s Champ Award (Viewers’ Choice)
Chris Brown Feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – Look At Me Now
Lil Wayne Feat. Cory Gunz – 6 Foot 7 Foot
Nicki Minaj Feat. Drake – Moment 4 Life
Kanye West Feat. Rihanna & KiD CuDi – All of The Lights
Wiz Khalifa – Black And Yellow
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I only watch these for the cyphers. Fuck everything else.
ME TOO
Same here.
I dream cypher would be vado, banks, j. cole, tech 9, meek mill
Not me. I just catch the cyphers on youtube or on hiphopdx the next day.
this award show is nuts how is emeinem not on lyrist of the year and album of the year
No question the kid is nice and no doubt he gets busy- I’m not talking about him but Ali Lafayette Rhea. One Love
BULLSHIT!!!…
As for the Lyricist of the year..really?
HOW DO YOU NOMINATE SOMEONE IN EVERY FUCKING CATEGORY ? THATS ODEEEEEEEE.
so they watch the VMA’S but its fuck the bet awards..WOW
look like the lil wayne awards to me maybe thats why they not watching
Hip-Hop awards is about viewers. Same artists differnet year.
Viewers = ads and sponsors = more money for the network/channel.
Well, look at these nominees. Most of them rap about material objects and bullshit. I guess I’ll have a lot of rape victims this year. In case you didn’t know, I rape the asses of evil doers. I raped famous people such as Tyga and Birdman, and plenty of murderers, thieves, and rapists. If you want someone raped, then let me know. I will ram their ass-pussies for the sake of peace and justice.
Hustler of the year?…wow they are really trying to push Gangsterism…
I dont get it. Gangsters and hustlers r polar opposites. Hustlers r focused on they bread if u clockin in at mcdonalds u hustling. A gangsters primary focus is his gang
So that fat white kid working the fryer with all the pimples could be up for the hustler of the year award too?
hustlers work hard for their money, but gansters take whatever they want from the hustlers.
12 nominations? A million in a week? Yea he’s the best rapper alive
wanye sold over 900,000 not a milli and sells aint shit i love wanye but the album was not all that if he win any awards for that album wit them kiddie lines he been using for 3 years bout life a bitch or what the f is for then im gone keep it reel and agree that maybe he starting to be a little overrated
@Jay
Lil Wayne sold more like 964,000 copies, so it’s safe to say that it was a million. You are hating on that man, just cuz he from the south and isn’t attractive. Fuck you!
CD of the Year
Big Sean – Finally Famous
Lupe Fiasco – LASERS
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers
Where’s Em at? He outsold all of them Together. Whateever. At least he got One Nom I guess.
That’s More than The B.E.T Awards gave him.. Shit aint right
No Eminem for Lyricist of the Year???
No Colin Tisley for Director of the Year???
No Boy1da for Producer of the Year???
PS: FUCK WACK ASS BIG SEAN!!!
hasn’t that white won enough over the past 10 years? you white people are so fucking greedy. this motherfucker pushing 40 years old and y’all still want him to be the best in a young person’s game. white racist people will never change.
Rick Ross nominated for best lyricist? Com’on now BET…Really? Don’t get me wrong I like some Rick Ross’s stuff but thats a far stretch.
kendrick better win mixtape of the year. his mixtape was the best release of the year and is better than all the albums nominated also.
Section 80 was an album…so i don’t know why it’s in best mixtape category.
J. Cole Friday Night Lights should win!
BET is one on the worst award shows!
chek this web by the way it has some good content in it
http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/the-2011-vmas-a-celebration-of-todays-illuminati-music-industry/
this is 2011 vma Artlict! 2009’s was way better !
Thanks for the link, family. Just so you know that there are open minded people out there aware of the real shit that goes on in this world, the bullshit fed to us through mass media (TV, and the shady ass music industry).
except No I.D. produced my last not lex luger…
“Made You Look Award”?WTF?Stupid:
it’s getting hard to respect award shows nowadays..These categories r stupid & some make no sense. I hope dey put on a good show for da ppl dats actually gonna watch it tho
no matter how big Em gets he’ll get da respect he deserves at BET betya kanye wins best hiphop vid, nd he’s not even nominated 4 cd of the year!!
nd Em’s no love should be up der in da best club bangers :-{
what club song he made
you sound like an idiot for saying thast shit.
yes very much
My Last – Produced by Lex Luger (Big Sean Feat. Chris Brown)
Waka Flocka Flame – No Hands (Produced by Lex Luger)
is this a joke
Eminem isnt gonna win shit because its a BET awards show, and bet are racist faggots. lil wayne is gonna get it all for no reason. no point in watching that wack shit.
JUS LIKE DEY LET HIM WIN EVERY GRAMMY OR WITE SHOW,YEA IT GOES BOTH WAYS
BET is owned by Viacom, which by the way is owned by white people. Eminem has sold more records than every rapper in the history of rap, just because he is white. He doesn’t rapper better than 25% of the black rappers, but he gets all of the attention, so calm your racist ass down, bitch!!!!!!!
They win because of all the people in their camp that invested money in that particular artist. Think about all of the money and people tied to them… of course they win, they bought their way into the show. You couldn’t have an underground cat in the shit with a camp worth 10 Gs… This is America folks… its how it works. lol, fuck it.
ummm dont dey have a white boy in the cypher an wasnt eminem at 2010 bet awards dont start dat race shit
They really have a “Hustler of the year” award? Really?
who the fuck watches BET these days????
the majority of people from ages 5 yrs-35 yrs old, so stop hating people who actually work for a living, lame.
BET cypher 2011 Eminem & Slaughterhouse & yela
Cypher > BET
wayne is a workaholic whether his material gr8 or nt but da industry being real 1 sided wit awards & his praise…http://www.youtube.com/user/Darealkingrichard?feature=mhee#p/u
wow its like bet beats off to mtv. all i see is generic stardom on this list. nicki minaj nominated for best lyricist???? well suck myy dick with broken braces. fuck BET.
ah cracks me up reading this.. so fucking funny.. HAHAHA..
Why do they have a best featured verse award? and why does Wiz have two nominations in that category? and why does Nicki have soo many nominations?????
because nicki minaj made history despite all of the negative people like you, who wanted to see her fail. in life you have to understand that true success makes people say negative things about you, because they don’t have what you have. you should you tube creflo dollars sermon about jealousy.
There are a shit ton of female emcees that would take Nicki’s lunch money. But we will never see them just like we will never see Talib nominated or Yasen Bey nominated… /sigh
dj khaled won dj of the year? GTFOH
just about all of these winners are a joke
If dude dropped the “DJ” in front of his name I wouldn’t mind so much. Phuck Phoniness… why isnt DJ Premiere a choice? A-Trak? those are ACTUAL DJs…
its crazy cause they always get dj premier to do dj the cyphers, he should be boycotting this shit
…….did they HONESTLY have wayne nicki and RICK ROSS for best lyricist? what the fuck??????????????………..i’ll calm down. gotta remind myself that this is BET. i’m sure in their eyes rick ross spits hotter fire than Lupe or Bad Meets Evil….. makes perfect sense.
how about this, nicki minaj is one of the first female rappers to write all of her own lyrics and she does say some slick shit. whoever you are, you are a hater and are stuck in a box.
So Eve, Missy Elliott & Lauryn Hill don’t write their own verses?
Get outta here douche
shut down lol!
BET HAS NO CREDIBILITY WHATSOEVER
WACK ASS CHANNEL WITH WACK ASS AWARDS TO WACK ASS RAPPERS
i guess any artist who isn’t from the east coast is considered wack to you?? your worse than racist white people, who can’t admit that there are some smart black people.
^ who the fuck is talking about the east coast?
i guess you hating because lil wayne is from louisiana then. you lame ass, bitch!!
Lil’ wayne lricist of the year ahahah , quote him >??? wtf did he even say?
it’s sad that you have too much hatred in your heart to even hear lil wayne’s talent. stop hating him just because he from the state of louisiana!!!!!
that nigga is right. quote him
We would qwote weezy but real g’s move in silence like lasagna….so eat a dick pawtna.
bitch shut the fuck up nobody’s even talking about louisiana but u
The whole list of nominees is bullshit!
don’t even get me started on the winners.
really? you sound like the republicans not liking obama’s plans, but can’t give a reason. how about you list who you thought should’ve been nominated.
Lyricist of the Year —> Lil Wayne (!)
That’s why i don’t give a fuck.
Funny…
hate will never get u anywhere. when u start making money, it will make most of ur hate go away.
Wow @anonymous, you must think Weezy is such a lyricist! I know your kind.
Watch The Throne?
Bad Meets Evil?
Game?
What the fuck is going on? Wayne was in jail like 8 monts, how can he be best live act?!
bitch, b/c he did at least 70 live shows since he been out. it’s called “hard work promoting ur brand”, instead of living off past hype, like some other artist try and do.
kanye at coachella >>>> every wayne show
HOW DOES A POP ARTIST WIN THE MOST AWARDS AT A HIP HOP SHOW who still watches bet anyway lil kids when they get home from school
what the hell do half of these awards mean? Nothing. Wayne for best lyricist? Stop lying
I see you Everett…Remember…real g’s move in silence like lasagna. shhhhhh
trolololol
BET = Bullshit EveryTime
This is some bullshit, that’s why every year I just watch the cyphers and keep it moving.
I understand why it’s like this though, BET can’t nominate the MCs who really deserve those awards since they would lose ratings because their brainwashed/dead audience wouldn’t know who the fuck any of the people are.
same ones saying fuck BET and its award show are same ones who watch the MTV music awards
Lyricist of the Year
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Nicki Minaj
Rick Ross
Kanye West
Seriously, Wayne best lyricist. That’s like sayin’ that Rick Ross is the skinniest rapper of the year! Watch the Throne was way more lyrical then Carter 4. And WTT was even that “Lyrical”. I can name like 4-5 if not more that could have gotten the the Lyricist of the year and deserv it. Damn BET u guy’s fucked up, fo’ real!
Sorry meant MYBDTW instead of WTT!
Young Money conquered the show.n Lil Wayne is the pinnacle of rap Godliness
I wonder why lil wayne and young money never did a cypher? Hmm, oh wait, yea, they can’t rap, yet alone remember a freestyle.
^^^!!!!!!
HAHAHA YESS SO TRUE!! and yet their fucking ring leader wins lyricist of the year, damn bet c’mon son
didnt you see that little bitch tyga trying to rap in the cypher?
everytime someone tells me wayne is a good lyricist i just show them his tim westwood freestyle lol
DJ of the year??? WOW…. those were the choices????? The disconnection makes me physically sick…lazy ass BET…do some research. I swear, people wouldn’t know a good DJ if they were smashed in face with a sledge hammer… The cyphers were dope!
who in the fuck chooses the winners for this shit? is it fan voting? like what in the fuck is going on here….
1. are you just considered a rookie ’till you win something? cause wiz BEEN around, and i think others deserve that title more than him/
2. lex luger for producer of the year? i gueessss that’s aight, im not gunna say he didnt deserve it, he did his thing, but i feel like there are some better mans with more music knowledge and variety of sound/
3. kanye should’ve won AT LEAST ONE other thing, most likely lyricist in my opinion/
4. if any of those other nominees beat out kanye for cd of the year i honestly dont know what i’d do but like… fuck i dunno thank god he won that/
5. what is considered a ‘DJ’ now a days? someone wanna fill me in…
and finally…
6. BET GET THE FUCK OFF YOUNG MONEY’S DICK!!!
to all the kids out there, if you want to make it big just do the same thing over and over and over, especially when you make your beats.
Haha…
G# G# G# G# A A
The chord progression to almost every Lex Luger beat ever made (or at least the ones I’ve heard)
yaaayyy
Yo…. how the hell can Lil Wayne win over Jigga for best lyricist. That might have been valid from 2007-2009. But last year and this year, Jay has lyrically done his best since the Black Album. And Wayne has been sucking so bad. It’s like BET forgot that Wayne made an album like “Rebirth”. Carter IV was mediocre at best too kids. Even Kanye was way better than Wayne. Last year’s MBDTF was a classic. You gotta be kidding me…
Oh yeah LEX LUGER? Over Kanye AND No ID? This mofucka produces the same garbage ass beat over and over and yall give him an award for that shit?
jay been garbage since he turned 40 years old.
still wayne winning lyricist of the year is a joke. I dont even agree that all of the nominees deserved to be there and im a self professed kanye stan. I cant really think of which producers dominated this year, i guess lex got the most exposure with HITS. Probss No ID or Kanye should have won, maybe more Kanye becuase of MBDTF. even if you didnt think it was good lyricly the production was crazy. NO ID should win next year with Commons new album though. And just to clarify can Eminem win BET awards? because if khaled can win dj of the year maybe he should havewon lyricist
To be honest the only categories I think they got right here were Best Video Director, Best Album and Best Club Banger.
My Kanye Stan-dom may be shining through here but how you can not give him Live Performer of the Year with the show he put on at Coachella is beyond me…
I understand how Lex Luger would be considered Producer of the Year considering all the hits he contributed to but overall the other 4 nominees were all better than him from a quality perspective, in my opinion.
One more thing, No I.D. produced My Last, not Lex Luger.
Dude i was bouta post that No ID produced my last, now im jus commentin on you postin it
half of the nominees were there haaaa!
did anybody actually watch the show? They only aired about 4 or 5 awards; Busta accepted the first three for Look At Me Now. NOBODY was really even there….
HIP HOP IS DEAD
true that. it really is
Too many people hate Louisiana rappers and that’s a shame, because we show every state and genre love. For all my people from Louisiana, this is my message to you. Stop supporting all out of state rappers. Don’t buy tickets, singles nor albums, because they all hate artist from our state. Lets just only support our own artists, until these haters start giving us some damn respect.
dude is not were there from its the music they make
jay electronica and wayne are from NO
its just jay is a lot better
BET….you make me sick. This list is absolute bullshit. Any self respecting black person in the US would’nt give two shits what BET has to say. They’re just a vehicle for ignorant,greedy, and mostly non-talented people to use to make more money. Specifically everybody on this list minus Lamar,Lupe,KRIT, and maybe 1 or 2 more people. The ILLUMINATI= people who sell there soul to the crooked business of the music industry, filling there music with, no creativity, no personality, pussy,power,drugs, no substance or anything to uplift the people in a positive way whatsoever
lil wayne is a ass lyricist should have picked kanye west
Omg lil wayne best lyricist??.. what the F*??what hip hop came down to….. ppl wake the f up, lil wayne is horrible… -_-
the lyricist of the year didn’t even get a spot on the cypher within good reason… ain’t that funny
u know its trash when rick ross is nominated for being a lyricist
NAS is the greatest lyricist of all time.
same people on every list fukn lil wayne etc etc. HIP HOP IS DEAD
Hustler of the Year? Jay doesn’t need that… Jay is the DEFINITION of hustler son!
Live performances-wise, Wayne has been steppin his game up. But LYRICIST OF THE YEAR? Over Jay? Over Kanye? Even Rick Ross was better than him. He bodied Wayne on that “If I Die Today” joint. Award shows really aren’t shit anymore. Even the ones that are genre-specific.
Only three good things about the BET Hip Hop awards are these: the Shady Records cypher, J Cole’s win for Best Mixtape, and DMX. Otherwise BET fucked up again.
this is fuckin ridiculous lol kanye should of won MVP award and producer of the year. and every other thing he was nominated for. best and most talented artist in hip hop today. all these other niggas strait doo doo
I swear, are the awards based on fucking popularity, or are they based on the artists’ actual talent?
As much as I have respect for J. Cole, he definitely shouldn’t have won Best Mixtape. Did the people who voted for FNL even listen to Return of 4eva (or even Section.80)? Hell, both of K.R.I.T’s last two mixtapes were better than most of these rappers’ retail albums. After months, I’m still going back to those mixtapes while I pretty much forgot about FNL (I’m not saying that it was bad, but it definitely wasn’t the best that came out).
As for Wiz winning Rookie of the Year, how the fuck is someone whose been in the game for years still considered a “rookie?” Using that concept, how come Big K.R.I.T. didn’t win, because Rolling Papers was flat-out terrible (it felt like watered-down, basic bullshit meant for pre-teens and teenage girls). If anything, the award should’ve went to someone who actually just started out like Tyler.
And the nominees for some of these other awards (like CD of the Year) are just shameful. The people at BET need to either step their game up or just quit while their behind, because all this shit thatthey’re doing on that channel is just fucking embarrasing black people.
WIZ KHALIFA IS A BITCH NIGGA!! TYLER SHOULD OF WON THAT SHIT BUT ALL OF YALL NIGGAS SCARED OF A REAL NIGGA WHO HAS UNSTOPPABLE SWAG!! WIZ IS A BITCH NIGGA WHO CANT EVEN THROW HANDS WITH KANYE WITHOUT HIS BODYGUARDS AROUND HIM!! HE THINKS HE’S THE SHIT CAUSE HE GOT INTO SOME AMBER ROSE PUSSY?? LMFAO!! WHAT A JOKE!! THAT NIGGA IS A PUSSY AND IF I EVER SEE HIM IN MY HOOD I WILL FUCK HIM IN THE ASS AND MAKE HIM CHOKE ON A BLUNT WHILE I’M DOING IT! PWAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!
AND I’D RATHER HAVE NICKI MINAJ WIN THE LYRICIST OF THE YEAR AWARDS OVER THAT FAGGOT ASS NIGGA LIL WAYNE!! I’D FUCK HIM IN THE ASS TOO BUT I DONT WANT TO CATCH HIS AIDS!! HE ALREADY GOT RAPED IN PRISON TRUE THAT!! IF NOT THEN HE WAS SNITCHING AND SUCKING DICK FOR PROTECTION!! THIS SHIT MAKES ME SICK!! B.E.T. STANDS FOR BLACK ENEMA TALENT!! ONE OF THESE DAYS I’MA MAKE MY OWN T.V. NETWORK FOR REAL NIGGAS AND CALL IT “THE REAL NIGGA NETWORK!!” I GOT ALOT OF IDEAS FOR ALOT OF SHOWS THAT WOULD DESTROY THE MAINSTREAM BULLSHIT THATS ON THE RADIO!! AND THE ONLY WAY A MAINSTREAM ARTIST WOULD BE FEATURED ON MY NETWORK IS IF THEY SUCK MY DICK OR LET ME PORK THEM IN THE BOOTYHOLE!! HAHAHA!!
What a crap load of awards. About five people were in the running for all of them, and it’s all hearty backslapping to reinforce the notion that hip-hop is a specific style consisting of these crap rappers.
Lyricist of the year? Since well-crafted lyrics no longer matter in the mainstream, that’s a load of crap. The nominees only confirm this.
Producers? All peddling the same watery shit.
Stop this slurry-voiced, wet excuse for hip-hop. If people buy this moronic rubbish in droves, as they seem to, then they deserve a bit of effort, craft and variety – not this calculated crap.
Lyricist of the year?
LOL!
Best Video all of the lights
Perfect combo I’m on one
Best Live Performer Wiz Khalifa (he passes j’s out at his concerts)
Lyricist of the Year Kendrick Lamar or J.Cole (Wayne HELL NO HE STILL SAYING THE SAME BULLSHIT)
Director of the Year Hype Williams (like always)
Producer of the Year Lex Luger
MVP of the year RICK ROSS
Track of the Year DJ Drama Oh My
CD of the Year My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
DJ of the Year DJ Drama(are you judging mainstream dj, mixtape dj or bet dj’s ha)
Rookie of the Year TYLER THE CREATOR
Made You Look – Currensy !!!!
Best Club Banger – No Hands
Best Mixtape – Section 80 or Nostralgia Ultra
Best 16 – Anybody except the nominees
Hustler of the Year Rick Ross
im sorry but J.coles mixtape was shit. B.o.B all the way. and lyricist of the year? lil wayne? who the fuck votes? 10 year old girls? my question to BET is. wtf? tyhe cyphers were ill. except maybe Tech’s. i was disapointed. the performances. sure DMX was ill. but cmon your awards are shit. maybe the credibility was brought back with the Kanye CD of the year award. but Dj of the year? are you like marking brownie points for every other song they jump on? DJ khaled and lil wayne would be the best lyricists smh. next year. performances and cyphers only