The nominations were announced on August 18, 2016. For a third consecutive year, Drake heads the list of nominations for the BET Hip-Hop Awards. His 14 nods include Album of the Year, Best Live Performer, Lyricist of the Year, Best Hip-Hop Video and three in the Best Collabo, Duo or Group category.
Drake will be going up against other top nominees Future
(with 10 nods), DJ Khaled (nine) and Kanye West (eight) in several of those
categories. One of the most closely watched races will be Best New Hip-Hop
Artist, whose nominees including Anderson .Paak, Bryson Tiller (who won that
award and Best Male R&B/Pop Artist at June’s BET Awards), Chance the
Rapper, Desiigner and Tory Lanez.
Here are the performances.
Performances:
Dae Dae – "Wat U Mean (Aye, Aye, Aye)"
D.R.A.M. featuring Lil Yachty – "One Night" and
"Broccoli"
O.T. Genasis – "Push It" and "Cut It"
Young M.A – "OOOUUU"
Lil Uzi Vert – "Money Longer"
21 Savage – "X"
Isaiah Rashad – "Tity and Dolla"
T.I. – "We Will Not"
Desiigner – "Tiimmy Turner"
And here are the nominations.
Nominations:
Best Hip Hop Video:
2 Chainz –
"Watch Out"
Desiigner –
"Panda"
DJ Khaled
featuring Jay Z & Future – "I Got the Keys"
Drake –
"Hotline Bling"
Fat Joe & Remy
Ma featuring French Montana & Infared – "All the Way Up"
Kanye West
featuring Rihanna – "Famous"
Best Collabo, Duo or Group:
Fat Joe & Remy Ma featuring French Montana &
Infared – "All the Way Up"
Drake featuring
Wizkid & Kyla – "One Dance"
Drake & Future
– "Jumpman"
DJ Khaled
featuring Jay Z & Future – "I Got the Keys"
DJ Khaled
featuring Drake – "For Free"
Best Live Performer:
Drake
Future
J. Cole
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Lyricist of the Year:
Kendrick Lamar
Chance the Rapper
Drake
J. Cole
Kanye West
Video Director of the Year:
Benny Boom
Colin Tilley
Director X
Hype Williams
Kanye West
DJ of the Year:
DJ Drama
DJ Envy
DJ Esco
DJ Khaled
DJ Mustard
Producer of the Year:
DJ Mustard
Dr. Dre
Metro Boomin
Mike WiLL Made It
Pharrell
MVP of the Year:
DJ Khaled
Drake
Future
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Track of the Year (Only the producer of the track nominated in this category.):
"All the Way Up" – Produced by Cool & Dre and
Edsclusive (Fat Joe & Remy Ma featuring French Montana & Infared)
"Controlla" – Produced by Boi-1da (Drake)
"Hotline
Bling" – Produced by Nineteen85 (Drake)
"I Got the Keys"
– Produced by Southside (DJ Khaled featuring Jay Z & Future)
"Panda"
– Produced by Menace (Desiigner)
Album of the Year:
DJ Khaled – I
Changed a Lot
Dr. Dre – Compton
Drake – Views
Fetty Wap – Fetty
Wap
Future – DS2
Kanye West – The
Life of Pablo
Best New Hip Hop Artist:
Chance the Rapper
Anderson .Paak
Bryson Tiller
Desiigner
Tory Lanez
Hustler of the Year:
DJ Khaled
Drake
Future
Jay Z
Kanye West
Made-You-Look Award:
A$AP Rocky
Drake
Future
Kanye West
Nicki Minaj
Best Mixtape:
Chance the Rapper
– Coloring Book
French Montana –
Wave Gods (Hosted by Max B)
Future – Purple
Reign
Lil Uzi Vert – Lil
Uzi Vert vs. the World
Young Thug – Slime
Season 3
Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse:
2 Chainz –
"No Problem" (Chance the Rapper featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz)
Drake –
"Work" (Rihanna featuring Drake)
Kendrick Lamar –
"Freedom" (Beyoncé featuring Kendrick Lamar)
Kodak Black –
"Lockjaw" (French Montana featuring Kodak Black)
Nicki Minaj –
"Down in the DM (Remix)" (Yo Gotti featuring Nicki Minaj)
Impact Track:
J. Cole –
"Love Yourz"
Jay Z –
"Spiritual"
Jidenna –
"Long Live the Chief"
Raury – "Trap
Tears"
Sir the Baptist
featuring ChuchPeople – "Raise Hell"
People's Champ Award:
Desiigner –
"Panda"
DJ Khaled
featuring Drake – "For Free"
Fat Joe & Remy
Ma featuring French Montana & Infared – "All the Way Up"
O.T. Genasis featuring
Young Dolph – "Cut It"
Travis Scott –
"Antidote"
Young Thug –
"Best Friend"
In addition, we get to see Snoop Dogg. I was going to play
on this article yesterday or a few days ago. But I’m very lazy not blogging. So
I blog after the BET Hip Hop Awards. LOL. I felt stupid. Anyway, next on PM’s
Music World, I’ll be talking about Lady Gaga and later, a new music video from
Shawn Mendes. I hope to see you on the next article. Until then, peace out.
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