2018 BET Hip Hop Awards Winners Are Here

    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

    49 thoughts on “2018 BET Hip Hop Awards Winners Are Here

    1. 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

    2. 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

    3. 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.

    4. 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

    5. 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!!

    6. 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

    7. 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.

    8. 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.

    9. 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

    10. 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

    11. 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

    12. 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

    13. 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

      1. 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.

        1. 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

    14. 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…

    15. Why is Drake at BET awards? Is it fake black American hip-hop cosplay entertainment television? Hahahaha

      1. 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.

    16. 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

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