Tue 17 May 2011
Chris Brown & Lil’ Wayne Lead The 2011 BET Awards Nominations
Posted by Mr.North under Awards[17] Comments
Just a few moments ago BET’s 106 & Park held their 2011 BET Awards Nomination Special, going into this year’s award show Chris Brown leads with six nominations including Video of the Year for “Look At Me Now” with Busta Rhymes & Lil’ Wayne. Speaking of Lil’ Wayne he’s right behind Chris Breezy with five nominations, while Kanye West, Rihanna, and Drake each have four nominations. This year’s award show will be hosted by comedian/actor Kevin Hart at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 26th at 8pm EST.
So far Alicia Keys is the first confirmed artist to perform at this year’s festivities.
Catch the full list of nominations after the jump…..
Best Female R&B Artist
Beyoncé
Marsha Ambrosius
Keri Hilson
Jennifer Hudson
Rihanna
Best Male Hip-Hop Artist
B.o.B
Drake
Lil Wayne
Rick Ross
Kanye West
Best Female Hip-Hop Artist
Nicki Minaj
Diamond
Cymphonique
LoLa Monroe
Best Male R&B Artist
Chris Brown
Cee Lo Green
Bruno Mars
Trey Songz
Usher
Best Group
Diddy-Dirty Money
Cali Swag District
N.E.R.D.
New Boyz
Travis Porter
Best Collaboration
B.o.B f/ Hayley Williams – “Airplanes”
Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – “Look at Me Now”
Chris Brown f/ Tyga & Kevin McCall – “Deuces”
Waka Flocka Flame f/ Roscoe Dash & Wale – “No Hands”
Rihanna f/ Drake – “What’s My Name?”
Kanye West f/ Rihanna – “All of the Lights”
Video of the Year
Marsha Ambrosius – “Far Away”
B.o.B f/ Hayley Williams of Paramore – “Airplanes”
Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – “Look at Me Now”
Keri Hilson – “Pretty Girl Rock”
Willow Smith – “Whip My Hair”
Kanye West f/ Pusha T – “Runaway”
Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Mr. Boomtown
Chris Robinson
Kanye West
Hype Williams
Best New Artist
J. Cole
Bruno Mars
Miguel
Willow Smith
Wiz Khalifa
Best Gospel
Byron Cage
Deitrick Haddon
Mary Mary
Karen Clark Sheard
BeBe & CeCe Winans
Best Actress
Halle Berry
Taraji P. Henson
Regina King
Zoe Saldana
Kerry Washington
Best Actor
Laz Alonso
Chris Brown
Don Cheadle
Idris Elba
Jamie Foxx
YoungStars Award
Shenell Edmonds
Keke Palmer
Diggy Simmons
Jaden Smith
Willow Smith
Best Movie
Death at a Funeral
For Colored Girls
Takers
The Book of Eli
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?
Sportswoman of the Year
Tamika Catchings
Candice Dupree
Maya Moore
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Sportsman of the Year
Carmelo Anthony
Kobe Bryant
LeBron James
Derrick Rose
Michael Vick
Viewers’ Choice Award
Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – “Look at Me Now”
Lil Wayne f/ Cory Gunz – “6 Foot 7 Foot”
Mindless Behavior – “My Girl”
Nicki Minaj f/ Drake – “Moment 4 Life”
Rihanna f/ Drake – “What’s My Name?”
Trey Songz f/ Nicki Minaj – “Bottoms Up”
Centric Award
Marsha Ambrosius
Eric Benet
Cee-Lo Green
R. Kelly
Kem
Best International Act: U.K.
VV Brown
Chipmunk
Laura Izibor
Skepta
Tinchy Stryder
Tinie Tempah
Best International Act: Africa
2Face Idibia (Nigeria)
D’Banj (Nigeria)
D-Black (Ghana)
Angelique Kidjo (Benin)
Fally Ipupa (Congo DR)
Teargas (South Africa)
Props to Rap-Up
May 17th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
lol@ best female hip hop nomination ….why bother
May 17th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
only reason I’m watching is Kevin Hart. Best Female Hip-Hop Artist category is a damn joke if I ain’t ever saw one.
May 17th, 2011 at 7:52 pm
They need to replace Hype with Colin Tilley, cuz his video for “Look At Me Now” got mad noms
May 17th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Agreed!
May 17th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Beyonce??? No Eminem??? Female hip hop category??? Serena Williams???
May 17th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
I understand why Trina is pissed off. #norespectforrealfemalemcs.
May 17th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Best Female Hip-Hop Artist is laughable at best. But seriously, I need BET to post their criteria for these nominations. Because some of them don’t make sense, like how is Colin Tilley not up for best Video Director? He directed some of the hottest videos of the year. Most of the women in the Best Hip-Hop Female category don’t have records out, hell do they even have record deals? I mean seriously, WHERE ARE THE STANDARDS?!
May 17th, 2011 at 11:38 pm
No Yonkers for best video? No Tyler for best new artist? None of the niggas from OF in that YoungStars category?
May 18th, 2011 at 1:16 am
Lloyd Banks is not even mentioned The unit gets no love….Award shows is becoming more corporate like the radio
May 18th, 2011 at 4:04 am
PEOPLE YALL GOTTA UNDERSTAND THIS WAS A VERY WEAK YEAR OF HIP HOP IN TERMS OF ALBUMS AND NEW ARTIST THAT ACTUALLY CHANGE THE GAME FIRST OF ALL EMNIEM DID NOT DROP ANY ALBUM AFTER RECOVERY KAYNE AND ROSS ARE THE ONLY ONES TO DROP ANY THING MEANING FULL THERES REALLY NO IMPORTANT EMPAHSIS ON IMPORTANT NEW ARTIST WHAT WIZ KHALIFA TYLER THE CREATOR UM NO THE ONLY CATEGORY THAT HAVE ANY SIGNEFICANCE IS THE RAND B AND BEST DIRECTOR CATEGORY BEST FEMALE PLEASE BET IS VERY GOOD AT HONORING LEGENDS HOPEFULY THEY WILL HONOR TINA MARIE BET AWARD WILL STILL BE BETTER THAN ANY AWARD SHOW THAT MTV WILL PUT TOGETHER
HOLD ON A SEC WHY IS BEYONCE NOMINATED BEST FEMALE RANDB SHOULD GO TO MARSHA AMBROSIOUS EASILY
May 18th, 2011 at 7:13 am
Really no eminem but drake on the list …… I dont blame eminem for never showing up to these bootleg bet awards they never award him which is crazy ….. I swear it feel like bet awards are for the people who dont get real awards like the grammy’s and the ama and such and such …. and wtf the book of eli came out like in 09 … bet just should just stop
May 18th, 2011 at 7:41 am
Hyped for this.. The roster for best male hiphop artists is a tightttttt contest.. I doubt ross or BOB will take it because they’re wack.. But Wayne Drake and Yeezy? Damn
Would like to know which performances we gonna see too!
May 18th, 2011 at 8:15 am
It was a very strong year for hip hop and Em should be nominated cuz
“Airplanes” came out way before the Recovery album
May 18th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
No nominations for Curren$y and Raekwon Marsha should win Video of The Year
#thatisall
May 18th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Eminem is white, this is the Black Entertainment Awards.
He has probably gotten a BET award before but they would never give him album or song of the year, guess he has to stick to MTV, Grammy, Billboard etc awards.
I remember something like BET wouldnt play OBie Trice video cause they wanted Em to do a BET award show but he didnt show up for a few years, probably wh en he was all fucked up so the only way they would play Obies video is if he showed up, think thats when he did the Touch It shit.
May 18th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
BET is racist! How is eminem not nominated when officer ricky, drake and bob released singles or albums very close to recovery? I dont mean to sound like an eminem stan but something is really going on if he irnt n6ed. Add this with thdd crappy mic he had last year and it juprt adds to racism…
June 29th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
If it is only for Black artists then why was Justin Beiber nominated this year and Eminem wasnt?