September 15th, 2008

BET Announces 2008 Hip Hop Award Nominees

BET Networks has announced the nominees for the third annual BET Hip Hop Awards, which will be returning to Atlanta, GA this October. The ceremony, which will be hosted by comedian, Katt Williams, will take place at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center on Saturday, October 18 and air on BET, Thursday, October 23 at 8:00pm.

Lil Wayne, who’s already had an extraordinary year in music thus far, leads this year’s awards with 12 nods, followed by Kanye West with 7 nods and Jay-Z with 6 nods. Music mogul, Russell Simmons, will be honored with the coveted “I Am Hip Hop” Icon Award which is presented to an individual who during their career has made exceptional contributions to the hip hop community.

Full List Of Nominees

Lil Wayne is going to make a killing.

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15 Responses to “BET Announces 2008 Hip Hop Award Nominees”

  1. Diamond Says:
    September 15th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    I just hope lil wayne doesnt perform, Im getting tired of all the hype about his performance on these award shows, and then they turn out to be trash like always.

  2. kenya Says:
    September 15th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    No hate but im getting sick of Wayne. its like its all that hip hop has to offer. And thats not good.

  3. mateo Says:
    September 15th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    i hope wayne performs some new shit..please no milli and no got money we have seen that on lik 3 award shows now…bring on some new shit on some gossip type shit

  4. NOLABOY1985 Says:
    September 15th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    WAYNE IS NEW HIPHOP. ITS AN ERA GET ON OR GET LEFT HARDWORK PAYS OFF. GET OFF THAT BIGGIE AN PAC ISH STOP COMPARING THEY HAD THERE TIME. IT IS WHAT IT IS. BUT THEN AGAIN HATERS
    JUST DOIN THERE JOB.

  5. JDonz Says:
    September 15th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    Dat’s one thing I dont like about BET,They be hypin’ up Wayne everytime they mention his name(Especially Rosci’s groupie ass). His features are good,but his songs just song like gibberiss