BET aired the 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday (October 16). Cardi B, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, JAY-Z and Beyoncé are all up for various honors.
The first award handed out during the ceremony was Album of the Year, which went to Beyoncé and JAY-Z’s collaborative album, Everything Is Love.
Cardi took home four awards, including MVP of the Year, while Childish Gambino earned the Best Hip Hop Video award for “This Is America.”
Drake, who was nominated for 11 awards, walked away with a sole award for Hot Ticket Performer.
Check out the list of winners below.
Best Hip Hop Video
Cardi B – “I Like It” f. Bad Bunny & J Balvin
Childish Gambino – “This Is America” — WINNER
Drake – “God’s Plan”
Kendrick Lamar – “Loyalty” f. Rihanna
Migos – “Walk It Talk It” f. Drake
Hot Ticket Performer
Cardi B
Childish Gambino
Drake — WINNER
Kendrick Lamar
Travis Scott
Album of the Year
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Drake – Scorpion
J. Cole – KOD
Migos – Culture II
The Carters – Everything Is Love — WINNER
Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Dave Meyers & The Little Homies
Director X
Eif Rivera
Hiro Murai
Karena Evans — WINNER
Lyricist of the Year
Childish Gambino
Drake
J. Cole
Kendrick Lamar — WINNER
Travis Scott
MVP of the Year
Cardi B — WINNER
Childish Gambino
Drake
J. Cole
Travis Scott
Producer of the Year
Ben Billions
DJ Esco
DJ Mustard
Metro Boomin
Pharrell Williams — WINNER
Best Collabo, Duo or Group
21 Savage & Offset & Metro Boomin – “Ric Flair Drip”
Blocboy JB – “Look Alive” f. Drake
Cardi B – “I Like It” f. Bad Bunny & J Balvin
Post Malone – “Rockstar” f. 21 Savage
The Carters – “Apeshit” — WINNER
Single of the Year
“Apesh*t” – Produced by Pharrell (The Carters) — WINNER
“God’s Plan” – Produced by Cardo, Young Exclusive and Boi-1da (Drake)
“I Like It” – Produced by Craig Kallman, JWhiteDidIt and Tainy (Cardi B Feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin)
“Nice for What” – Produced by Murda Beatz (Drake)
“This Is America” – Produced by Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson (Childish Gambino)
Best New Hip Hop Artist
Blocboy JB
Juice Wrld
Lil Baby
Rich the Kid
XXXTENTACION – WINNER
Best Mixtape
BlocBoy JB – Simi — WINNER
Future – Beast Mode 2
Juicy J – Shut Da F* Up
Lil Wayne – Dedication 6: Reloaded
Zoey Dollaz – Sorry Not Sorry
Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse
21 Savage – “Bartier Cardi” (Cardi B feat. 21 Savage)
Cardi B – “Motorsport” (Migos f. Cardi B & Nicki Minaj) — WINNER
Drake – “Look Alive” (Blocboy JB f. Drake)
Kendrick Lamar – “New Freezer” (Rich the Kid f. Kendrick Lamar)
Nicki Minaj – “Big Bank” (YG f. 2 Chainz, Big Sean & Nicki Minaj)
Impact Track
Childish Gambino – “This Is America” — WINNER
Dej Loaf & Leon Bridges – “Liberated”
Lecrae – “I’ll Find You” f. Tori Kelly
Meek Mill – “Stay Woke” f. Miguel
N.E.R.D – “1,000” f. FUTURE
DJ of the Year
Calvin Harris
DJ Envy
DJ Drama
DJ Khaled — WINNER
DJ Mustard
Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip Hop Style)
Cardi B — WINNER
Migos
Nicki Minaj
Remy Ma
Travis Scott
Best Hip Hop Online Site/App
ALLHIPHOP
Complex
Hot New Hip Hop
Worldstar — WINNER
XXL
Hustler of the Year
Cardi B — WINNER
DJ Khaled
Drake
JAY-Z
Kendrick Lamar
Travis Scott
[This article has been updated. The original version was published on September 12, 2018 and can be found below.]
The 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards nominations are in. Unsurprisingly, Drake leads the charge with 11 nominations, followed by Cardi B who has 10. Rounding out the Top 3 is Childish Gambino, who raked in six of his own.
Drake is up for an award in the Best Hip Hop Video category for “God’s Plan” from the Scorpion album, which is also nominated in the Album Of The Year category.
Drake’s other nods include Hot Ticket Performer, Lyricist Of The Year, MVP Of The Year, Single Of The Year, Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse, Best Collab Duo Or Group, and Hustler Of The Year.
Elsewhere, Blocboy JB, Juice Wrld, Lil Baby, Rich The Kid and the late XXXTENTACION are up for the honor in the Best New Hip Hop Artist category, .
The awards ceremony returns to The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami on October 6.
BET will premiere the annual telecast on October 16 at 8 p.m. ET.
Check out the full list of nominees below.
Best Hip Hop Video
Cardi B – “I Like It” f. Bad Bunny & J Balvin
Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
Drake – “God’s Plan”
Kendrick Lamar – “Loyalty” f. Rihanna
Migos – “Walk It Talk It” f. Drake
Hot Ticket Performer
Cardi B
Childish Gambino
Drake
Kendrick Lamar
Travis Scott
Album of the Year
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Drake – Scorpion
J. Cole – KOD
Migos – Culture II
The Carters – Everything Is Love
Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Dave Meyers & The Little Homies
Director X
Eif Rivera
Hiro Murai
Karena Evans
Lyricist of the Year
Childish Gambino
Drake
J. Cole
Kendrick Lamar
Travis Scott
MVP of the Year
Cardi B
Childish Gambino
Drake
J. Cole
Travis Scott
Producer of the Year
Ben Billions
DJ Esco
DJ Mustard
Metro Boomin
Pharrell Williams
Best Collabo, Duo or Group
21 Savage & Offset & Metro Boomin – “Ric Flair Drip”
Blocboy JB – “Look Alive” f. Drake
Cardi B – “I Like It” f. Bad Bunny & J Balvin
Post Malone – “Rockstar” f. 21 Savage
The Carters – “Apeshit”
Single of the Year
“Apesh*t” – Produced by Pharrell (The Carters)
“God’s Plan” – Produced by Cardo, Young Exclusive and Boi-1da (Drake)
“I Like It” – Produced by Craig Kallman, JWhiteDidIt and Tainy (Cardi B Feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin)
“Nice for What” – Produced by Murda Beatz (Drake)
“This Is America” – Produced by Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson (Childish Gambino)
Best New Hip Hop Artist
Blocboy JB
Juice Wrld
Lil Baby
Rich the Kid
XXXTENTACION
Best Mixtape
BlocBoy JB – Simi
Future – Beast Mode 2
Juicy J – Shut Da F* Up
Lil Wayne – Dedication 6: Reloaded
Zoey Dollaz – Sorry Not Sorry
Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse
21 Savage – “Bartier Cardi” (Cardi B feat. 21 Savage)
Cardi B – “Motorsport” (Migos f. Cardi B & Nicki Minaj)
Drake – “Look Alive” (Blocboy JB f. Drake)
Kendrick Lamar – “New Freezer” (Rich the Kid f. Kendrick Lamar)
Nicki Minaj – “Big Bank” (YG f. 2 Chainz, Big Sean & Nicki Minaj)
Impact Track
Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
Dej Loaf & Leon Bridges – “Liberated”
Lecrae – “I’ll Find You” f. Tori Kelly
Meek Mill – “Stay Woke” f. Miguel
N.E.R.D – “1,000” f. FUTURE
DJ of the Year
Calvin Harris
DJ Envy
DJ Drama
DJ Khaled
DJ Mustard
Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip Hop Style)
Cardi B
Migos
Nicki Minaj
Remy Ma
Travis Scott
Best Hip Hop Online Site/App
ALLHIPHOP
Complex
Hot New Hip Hop
Worldstar
XXL
Hustler of the Year
Cardi B
DJ Khaled
Drake
JAY-Z
Kendrick Lamar
Travis Scott
All the great music released this year and this is what they give us? I’ll check the cyphers but you can miss me with this bullshit
Your not a gang member your a tourist
ladidadida
Hip Hop?
LMFAO at DJ Khaled aka Fat, annoying Arab that exploits his Son! as a best DJ
Hahahahahahahajaha
WOW lol. POP entertainment awards you mean…. what a joke
Fake Blackface Drake nominated for lyricist of the year??? GTFOH. Where is Eminem & Royce D’s 5’9
Awards shows have played out I stop watching really 10yrs ago its flat line lack of talent is in about the last 15yrs lets be honest sales are down way down
oh for fucks sake.
This is disgusting.
This is bs.
Wow. Haha pusha t and Royce must be somewhere laughing real hard lol
Uh, isn’t this supposed to be a hiphop list? Can’t detect any hiphop on it.
Wait. Kendrick was on it after all, so at least there’s that. Nothing else, though.
11 nominations for one of the worst album of this year? rly tho?
fk this shit
Told folks that Scorpion was Drake’s Walking With A Panther. He should stick with the love songs going forward because he’s done in hip-hop.
This is a joke and we all know it , especially adding Cardi B to all these categories when all it was with her was just hype wave from bodak single… outside of that she has nothing remotely close to that song success . # getthestrap
These shows are for the low IQ
Not intelligent enough for Little Brother.
Cardi hustle the whole year went platinum and gold hello give awards to the ones that deserve it people let her shine everybody will get their chance this is her year!!
Um, Black Panther soundtrack? And they already gave AOTY to Beyoncé and Jay.
Did they really put Travis in the lyricists of the year lol
Drake too smh.
BET awards are fake make believe awards with no real value or credibility.
Haha what a joke.. Hip-Pop awards are lame..
This is all political. I agree, these are a joke.
Album of the Year
Black Thought- Streams Of Thought
Curren$y- The Marina Ep
Czarface Meets MetalFace
Westside Gunn- Supreme Blientele
Lupe Fiasco- Drogas Wave
Royce Da 5’9”- Book Of Ryan
Roc Marciano- Behold A Dark Horse
Lyricist of the Year
Curren$y
WSG
Conway
Lupe Fiasco
Roc Marciano
Mick Jenkins
Action Bronson
Producer of the Year
Alchemist
Soundtrakk
Daringer
Harry Fraud
Nasir was garbage. Fuck outta here w/ that.
Craig likes Blue Waffles
BET awards are the worst, they once gave Lil Wayne lyricist of the year so I haven’t taken them seriously since. Don’t just look at the ridiculous winners today, a lot of the nominations were nonsense. I love Jay, that album wasn’t album of the year. None of those nominated should be in the top 5 albums this year. Sweet 16, all trash. K.Dot won lyricist of the year without doing anything. You lose credibility with this BS. No more award shows at all, especially the BET awards.
Why is jay-z and Beyonce winning they album was shit i swear this is rigged
Ok, so where are the hip hop acts? I don’t see any…
I know music is a matter of taste and I cant like everybody but 90% of the nominees and winners are so wack to me its crazy. Especially knowing how many dope projects came out this year.
Not a single nomination for Royce? For fucks sake!
how in the righteous fuck they dare to proclaim that whack ass album from the masons as album of the year. Not even Jay fanboys could be that biased to call this AOTY. irrelevant awards af
You stupid. Good back to school my love.
Another awards show where somehow the same people are nominated for every award. As if there are only 10-20 hip hop acts in existence. Boooooooo
Honestly the picks for the winners are solid in every category. Some notable admissions from the nominees in general but they picked right from who they got.
BET Hip-hop Awards are probably the most consistent award show out there right now in quality
Cole has album of the year. That Carters album was trash.
I hope Drake smile will still be as wide as this post Picture when he hears Pusha on the Joe Budden Podcast. Drakes gonna die. lmao
Pay close attention to Drake’s facial features in that picture. Does he look like a black man? He looks like le happy merchant meme
It’s the time fool hat Hebrew hater. What’s up bro? How’s life in that Alabama basement? Do trailer park trailers have basements? Please explain all of the terrible things “the chosen” have done to the world and society. Other than give us jesus of course… jackass. I seriously would like to see a list. It would be crazy amusing.
White americans dying in “the chosen people’s” wars in middle-east. Coming home in body bags, crippled, mentally scarred etc. And because the “chosen people” force the western goyim to bomb i.s.lamic country after i.s.lami.c country, we get a never ending stream of refugees migrating to the western world. Are you familiar with Oded Yinon’s Eretz I.sr.ael plan? Look it up. That’s what’s going on in middle-east, the expansion of “god’s chosen people’s” empire. Stupid americans doing the killing because muh holohoax and six kazillion trillion j.ew.s
Bet hiphop awards are meaningless
Wow. I love the way Black America, and America in general loves being racist and divisive. If there was a White Engertainment Television Channel, that would be racist, right? LOL. Watch BET. They have Black McDonalds commercials. Seriously. It’s all black people then there is one whit dude in the background, the opposite of a normal McDonald’s commercial where there are mostly whites, am Asian and a Latino, with a few black people peppered in there. If the whole idea is were the same and equal, why is there a specific channel for one race that has incredibly inferior programming and stereotypical commercials? It boggles my mind that people actually stand behind this bullshit…
Why is Drake at BET awards? Is it fake black American hip-hop cosplay entertainment television? Hahahaha
Because he is a j.e.v.v. Why is Israel competing in Eurovision song contest? Last i checked I.s.r.ael is not in europe. But hey if they wouldn’t be allowed to compete (and win, like they did last year) the Eurovision contest would be labelled antisemitic.
BET (Black Entertainment Television) is owned by Viacom. The big honcho at Viacom happens to be a gentleman of certain ethnicity named Sumner Redstone who was born Sumner Murray Rothstein; May 27, 1923) an American businessman and media magnate. He is the majority owner and chairman of the board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, Redstone and his family are majority voting shareholders of CBS Corporation and Viacom (itself the parent company of Viacom Media Networks, BET Networks, and the film studio Paramount Pictures). Redstone was formerly the executive chairman of both CBS and Viacom. Funny how that goes, so-called Black entertainment television is run by non-black (non-white too)! #HateFacts
looks like i got 5 other sites i should be on?
ALLHIPHOP
Complex
Hot New Hip Hop
Worldstar — WINNER
XXL