The American Music Awards took place on the Nokia Theatre stage in Los Angeles today (November 24). The 2013 edition of the annual awards ceremony featured numerous memorable performances and award winners. Check out some of the biggest headlines from the night in the Hip Hop/R&B realm below.
Rihanna won Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist. She also took home the ICON award, which was presented to her by Jay Z via a video message. She also performed her song “Diamonds.”
Justin Timberlake performed numerous songs during the awards and took home a lot of hardware, including trophies for Favorite Male Pop/Rock Artist, Favorite Male Soul/R&B Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B Album for The 20/20 Experience.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Album, which was presented to them by Akon and Michael Bolton. During their acceptance speech, the Seattle native quoted Dr. Martin Luther King, referring to Trayvon Martin. An hour after winning the award, they performed “Cant Hold Us.”
Kendrick Lamar didn’t take home any awards, but performed parts of numerous songs, including “Swimming Pools (Drank)” and “Poetic Justice.” He was accompanied on stage by recent TDE signee SZA, who provided background vocals.
R Kelly performed with Lady Gaga in one of the more bizarre shows of the night. Performing “Do What U Want,” Kelly acted as President Of The United States and Gaga as a dancing actor.
TLC reunited on stage and closed their performance in remembrance of Left Eye by showing her picture on the big screen.
Country music group Florida Georgia Line’s song “Cruise” won Single of the Year. The song features rapper Nelly.
See a complete listing of all the winners below:
Favorite Male Pop Rock Artist – Justin Timberlake
Favorite Female Artist, Soul/R&B – Rihanna
Favorite Album, Country – Red, by Taylor Swift
Favorite Album, Rap/Hip-Hop – The Heist, by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Favorite Artist, Alternative Rock – Imagine Dragons
Favorite Artist, Latin – Marc Anthony
Favorite Album, Pop or Rock – Take Me Home, by One Direction
New Artist of the Year – Ariana Grande
Favorite Male Artist, Soul/R&B – Justin Timberlake
Favorite Female Artist, Country – Taylor Swift
Single of the Year – “Cruise,” by Florida Georgia Line, featuring Nelly
Favorite Album, Soul/R&B – The 20/20 Experience, by Justin Timberlake
Favorite Artist, Electronic Dance Music (EDM) – Avicii
Favorite Male Artist, Country – Luke Bryan
Favorite Band, Duo or Group, Pop or Rock – One Direction
Artist of the Year – Taylor Swift
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Biased ass award show. JT wins Best Pop Rock, and Soul/R&B, really? How the F**K is that even remotely feasible? And MACK wins Best/Favorite Rap Album? Dude, killed it this year (and last), however that was solely because of his singles. Critics, nationwide, agree his album was only so-so, and Metacritic gave it an average reviews of 74/100, versus Kendrick’s debut which got 91/100 or Yeezus’ 85/100. I call bullshit, at least the Grammy’s honor actual quality music, and doesn’t just dickride the hottest artists at the moment just to remain relevant.
I agree with you, but then who have you gote for those posts you have a complain over.
Sadly this is why commercial driven white Hollywood Award shows don’t mean a muthafucking thing to many not only black musicians but ALL sorts of true artisit anymore they are looked over/subsided for 7yr players and measured against mechanical microwave music. Notice who is the audience these days? Who walks the red carpet? It’s several who have nothing to do with music as a whole you will see more actors at these type of award shows than actual musical artist. Fuck even R.Kelly is getting on the gimmick fuckery w/ Lady Gag I take it she like shooting WATER SPORTS too.
No one cares, BruthaDee.
Rihanna can now be consoled after going through all that misshandeling. Am ok with her and wish her well all the way.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are a couple? thats why they sing about gay stuff?
yes?
macklemore is engaged to a fine lady
his uncle is gay though
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These award shows are so fixed they’ll never break
best believe Lord Jabar aint too happy bout this. 45 year old nicca got nothing to do but sit around and watch lame award shows then bitch on his twitter every time a white person wins a hip-hop award
white washed hip hop and rnb/soul fuck JT and Macklamore and his but buddy
Does anybody expect that they will pick the best Hip hop album for real though?? It’s just a popularity contest, not even the grammy’s gets it right. The grammy’s sometimes gets the nominations right but after that they pick the most pop choice
Jiggaboos didn’t invent hip hop: it was the white man. Mel Gibson is the true inventor of this art form. One day while walking down the street, Mr Gibson was cornered in an alley and jumped by a gang of burly black man. One of those men was known as Africa Bambatta. He stole some poetry that he was writing for a college English literature class along with a demo tape & planned on reciting poetry to the beat of fast paced drums, but sadly, that tape was destroyed and now his dream and discovery(along with the truth) will never see fruition. Now, thanks to the laziness & shiftlessness of the black man, rap music is being used as a severe copout to escape their life in the ghetto instead of working hard, going to college, and earning a degree.
Mel Gibson invented the phrase, bitch ass nigga.
The Macklemore and Ryan Lewis album shouldn’t of been in the hip-hop category, that is not a hip-hop album.
neither was Drakes but they still gave him a grammy for rap album of the year LOL
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Now, thanks to the laziness & shiftlessness of the black man, rap music is being used as a severe copout to escape their life in the ghetto instead of working hard, going to college, and earning a degree.
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I spoke to my friends about it that Kim is starting to look like Beyonce in that video and they didnt even notice it. Luckily im awake and seeing that Ye is trying to be Jay
Hip Hop IS DEAD!!