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BET Announces 2008 Hip Hop Award Nominees
RealTalkNY Brought To You By Nigel D. — ... 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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BET presents...an award show without women
PopWatch — BET presents...an award show without women Waynekanyejaybet_l With Lil' Wayne leading the pack with 12 nods (followed by Kanye West and Jay-Z with 7 and 6 respectively), this year's all-male roster of BET Hip-Hop Awards nominees is truly a sad testament to the current (and glaring) lack of women in hip-hop. Even so, would it have killed the network to at least nominate British soul/rap siren Estelle for Best U.K. Hip-Hop Act? After all, she raps, she’s from the U.K., and her outstanding 2008 U.S. debut CD, Shine , is the finest offering from a female rapper since Lauryn ...

EW Bemoans 3rd Annual BET Sausage Party
SOULBOUNCE.COM — ... that decries a reality that not enough blogs (specifically Hip Hop blogs) are willing to decry, like the glaring lack of female MCs. Sadly, this was made plain by the all-male nominees of BET's 2008 Hip Hop Awards. Look, no one's saying this is BET's fault; the network is going to recognize who's popular and men are currently at the forefront. (Although we suspect that if there were enough female MCs to pick and choose from they probably wouldn't play their videos anyway, considering how it would conflict with their internal mandate of keeping depictions of ...