Mary J. Blige, Nelly, Lil Wayne, and Usher stopped by 106 & Park Thursday to help announce the nominations for the 2008 BET Awards. T-Pain takes the lead this year with five nominations, while Kanye West and Keyshia Cole follow behind with three.
Mary, Nelly, Usher and Lil Wayne are all also scheduled to perform – as well as newly wedded Mariah Carey. Quincy Jones will receive this years Humanitarian Award and Al Green will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. Make sure you catch the show when it airs live on June 24th and stay tuned to CL for the latest with the BET Awards. See all nominations after the cut…
BEST FEMALE R&B
Mary J. Blige
Mariah Carey
Keyshia Cole
Alicia Keys
Rihanna
BEST MALE R&B
Raheem DeVaughn
J. Holiday
Ne-Yo
Trey Songz
Chris Brown
BEST GROUP
Danity Kane
Day 26
Gnarles Barkley
Playaz Circle
UGK
BEST GOSPEL ARTIST
The Clark Sisters
Deitrick Haddon
Marvin Sapp
Kirk Franklin
Trin-I-Tee 5:7
BEST FEMALE HIP-HOP
Missy Elliott
Eve
Kid Sister
Lil Mama
Trina
BEST MALE HIP-HOP
Common
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Snoop
Kanye West
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
The Way That I Love You-Ashanti
Honey-Erykah Badu
Just Fine-Mary J Blige
Like You’ll Never See Me Again-Alicia Keys
International Player’s Anthem-UGK & OUTKAST
Good Life-Kanye West Feat. T-Pain
BEST DIRECTOR
Erykah Badu and Mr. Roboto
Benny Boom
Gil Green
Chris Robinson
Hype Williams
BEST ACTRESS
Angela Bassett
Halle Berry
Queen Latifah
Jill Scott
Chandra Wilson
BEST ACTOR
Anthony Anderson
Don Cheadle
Idris Elba
Terrence Howard
Denzel Washington
BEST FEMALE ATHLETE
Cheryl Ford
Candace Parker
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Tamika Catchings
BEST MALE ATHLETE
Kobe Bryant
LeBron James
Tiger Woods
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Chris Paul
BEST COLLABORATION
Kiss Kiss-Chris Brown feat. T-Pain
Let It Go- Keyshia Cole feat. Missy Elliott & Lil’ Kim
Low- Flo-Rida Feat. T-Pain
I’m So Hood (The Remix)-DJ Khaled f/ Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Big Boi, Lil Wayne, Fat Joe, Birdman
Good Life-Kanye West Feat. T-Pain
Viewer’s Choice
No One-Alicia Keys
Lollipop (f/ Static)- Lil’ Wayne
Kiss Kiss (f/ T-Pain)-Chris Brown
Let It Go (f/ Missy Elliott and Lil’ Kim)-Keyshia Cole
Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)-Soulja Boy Tell ‘em
No Air (f/ Chris Brown)-Jordin Sparks
BETJ AWARD
Raheem DeVaughn
Chaka Khan
Ledisi
Jill Scott
Angie Stone
BEST NEW ARTIST
Estelle
Flo-Rida
Chrisette Michelle
Soulja Boy Tell ‘em
The-Dream
I love Mary; Lil Wayne and Nelly not so much. Lil Wayne is waaaaay over-rated.
Damn, that’s what’s up
Most of these choices are ok, but some of them seem like BET just pulled them outta their ass just to have enough nominees.
rihanna gets only 1 nominee???
I SEE BET FAVORS BEYONCE MORE!!!
FUK THIS RETARDED SHOW!
When I’m Mary’s age that how I wanna look!
THESE 2008 BET AWARDS WILL BE CRAZY ONCE AGAIN THIS YEAR.WHO IS THE HOST OF THE SHOW???
EVE?? She ain’t put shit out in like 5 years. BET pulls this shit out their ass.
Mary looks good though.
Mary=FABuLOUS!!!!
Ashanti deserves VidOfYr
RiRi’s sure to get Best Female and her Beau Chris Breezy will get Male I’m sure. Great post…Have a Great Sturday pple!
I wonder who is going to host the show this year??? They need to get Dave Chapelle to host it that would be off the Dick Cheney…
CANDACE PARKER!!!
mary looks sooo cute, love the fit!
lol
and nelly…mm mm good
Lil Wayne actually looks well put together in this pic, i’m surprised
Ugh! Why are they ALL wearing shades inside?
That is way beyond aggravating to me.
Alicia Wins Best Video & Best R&B! GO ALICIA!!!
I can’t wait to see Usher open the show
Mary looks great
Nelly looks yummy but his career is over
Weezy is soooooooo over rated I like him and all but he will never touch Jay status sorry!!!!!!!
I see T-Pain and his voicebox is all over the nominations but he isn’t nominated for one of his own songs.
I love Wayne’s chucks.. he pulls that look off good.
Lmao at J. Lewis Dick Cheney can I use that???????
*Saturday
My predictions for the awards:
Best Female Artist: Mary J. or A. Keys but I think A. Keys will win it by a nose hair. They both had great first week sales and overall good sales on top of successful tours. I wouldn’t be surprised if K. Cole won either just based on affiliation with BET and her show, good album too.
Best Male Artist: Chris Brown, he has the most buzz
Best Group: UGK, gotta show Pimp C love
Best Gospel: Kirk Franklin
Best Female Rapper: Has anybody won this besides Missy? I’ll go with Trina to win it this year
Best Male Hip Hop: Kanye West…great album, critically acclaimed tour
Video of the Year: I have no clue, anybody could walk away with this one but if I had to guess I’ll go with A. Keys
Best Collabo-Flo Rida ft T-Pain hottest collabo of 2007 according to radio
Best New Artist: Soulja Boy just because of the huge single and that he did it off of youtube
I’m glad to finally hear some new names in the female hip-hop category. I am really tired of seeing T. Pain’s name because he has absolutely NO talent. I will be tuning in to see my hometown homie Nelly. He was looking good too!
For the last time, Rihanna is NOT R&B! Just cause she’s black doesn’t automatically make her R&B. Especially after this GGGB era, she is Pop through and through.
I’m actually happy with the VOTY nominees except I’m surprised Rihanna didn’t get a nod there or in Best Collaboration. But you can’t expect BET to get it right 1005 of the time that would be asking too much. LMAO @ T-PAIN having the most noms.
Erykah or Outkast and UGK should take it for best video and I love me some Al Green!
*I meant 100%
Mary J, looks great.
Lil Wayne, looks a little off.
Nelly is just Ashanti’s boy toy…………it’s over Nel.
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How has Beyonce got to do with this?? Why bring up the name? Beyonce isnt even nominated for one! Damn why have ppl always try and make Beyonce look like a bitch against Rihanna..you having serious issue seriously no one wants to hear it damn SMH..
Lil Wayne’s style is cute, but he needs to clean them jeans cause there’s a wet dirty spot on them. What is Mary wearing? AND USHER LOOKS GOOD AS HELL AS USUAL, to damn bad he’s probaly gay.
Of course you can use it Dame…
She looks pretty. Just saw her profile on interracial dating site called B L A C K W H I T E K I S S .C O M last week. She is writing her blog there.
Thinking how shitty music was this past year, not sure if I want to stay tuned.Rap about nothing and you get nominated (Weezy,Soulja Boy etc.) Maybe next year.They can get rid of the Female Hip Hop because we alreay know who gone win-The only person who has been winning Missy plus female rappers are ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.Does BET even know who Kid Sister is???
DK
Mary looks great! I love her hair, no matter how much people go on and on about the blond; it suits her. What does Nelly have on??? It looks like Wayne bathed, yes!!!
Should be good only for the performances.
bet sucks now…the awards show is always so predictable..they gon give mary j blige everything she nominated for…she doesnt sing,she yells
so of those catagories are so unfair, and some of the people cant even compete with others. like best actor, best group, thats so unfair. i think! their unmatched!
its too much swag going on in that first pic…..they all look fly…even weezy who couldnt give two fucks about fashion lol…3 of my favorite people.
i am not feeling t-pain getting three noms,i mean he deserves to win at least one award because he was on everybodys track not to mention the fact that his own album did well…but i mean there are alot of people that deserve 6 noms more then t-pain and barely got one….imo.
congrats to key key lo tho i really hope she wins an award because i love her to death…and she seems so happy these days.
BEST NEW ARTIST Should be: CHRISETTE MICHELLE or ESTELLE They were the only two of all the Nominees that had TALENT. but that soulja boy bullSh*t will win.
IM MOST DEFINETLY not WATCHING
F*** BET AND THEIR AWARD SHOW…
THEY HAVENT BEEN SAYING ANYTHING FOR YEARS
I AM SO UTTERLY DISGUSTED AT BET FOR EVEN NOMINATING A JIGABOO LIKE SOULJAH BOY FOR BEST NEW ‘ARTIST’. WHAT HE DOES ISN’T ART. IT ISN’T EVEN MUSIC. WHAT THAT BOY IS DOING IS EMBARASSING BLACK PEOPLE ON A GLOBAL SCALE THANKS TO YOUTUBE. YES, I CALLED HIM A JIGABOO BECAUSE HE IS HOPING AROUND AND SHUCKIN AND JIVIN LIKE THE BLACK FACE CHARACTERS OF THE JIM CROW ERA. BET HAS BEEN A DISAPPOINTMENT IN ITS REPRESENTATION OF BLACK ENTERTAINMENT BUT THIS NOMINATION IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE REAL ARTISTS IN THAT CATEGORY.
HOPE RIHANNA WINS IT
video of the year sooo has to go to ASHANTI ….she deserve it..all the other videos are nice but ashanti video is different and hott she def. deserves the award for video of the year..cant wait to the album comes out June 3rd…go cop it
Mary J is the bomb diggity hands down. I would have liked to see more versatility in the nominees.. it look slike the same ol same ol.. Im digging the ledisi nom.. shes the greatest.
looks like*
Al Green tha lifetime thing-uh-muh-jig….awww shucks gotta tell my mama bout this
why is Nelly performing? he better not get up there with that Party People hoopla because I do not like that song!!!!
and why does a best hip hop female artist exist when they ALWAYS give it to Missy…
oh and e.badu BETTER win or im starting an all out war on they ass!!!!
ANYBODY KNOW THE “JUST FINE” LINE DANCE???
that is not even a real award show
AL GREEN IS APART OF THIS SHOW WHY? NOW BET NEEDS SOME GRITS THROWN ON THEM 4 THAT!
MARY J. BLIGE LOOKS SO HOTT !!
i think they are just picking random artists
I’m wondering just who did Kid Sister sleep with to get a nomination. She aight….but seriously??????????????
I hope Ashanti wins video of the year…cuz Alicia Keys is just everywhere these days…and it’s getting annoying
I don’t like the fact that by man Usher did not get nominated, well i hope next yeaar they recognize is album, i think the performance will be good tis year, but i don’t like some of the categories, some of the nominees r garbage
@Maryfans, What’s wrong with Al Green?The man is a legend.You prefer Soulja Boy to get honored or something?Girl you need some grits yourself for that yourself.Girl bye lol.
Wonder if ?uestlove gone be part of that, I might have to just stay tuned for that part.
****opps, well oh well…
WOW Janet should have a nomination Ciara should have a best coloboration Can’t leave em alone got lot of buzz, if Ciara don’t perform I want be tuning it
I’ll watch if i’m bored.
@ J.lewis
You would think Keyisha Cole would win based off affiliation, but she is nominated against Mary, Mariah, and T-Pain ( people might not like him but he nominated 3 times in one section). Those other artist had bigger years than her.
VIDEO OF THE YEAR NEEDS TO GO TO ASHANTI!!! MAN SHE WENT HARD ASS HELL THIS TIME AROUND. IT IS DIFFERENT AND HOT AND SHE DESERVES IT!!! THE REST OF THE VIDEOS ARE HOT, BUT THEY DON’T GO HARD AS ASHANTI’S VIDEO!!!
wheres your fav girl beyonce lol lol
Once again Ciara gets the shaft. I guess its not really their faults since she is just starting to come out with new music. But they could have atleast let her perform her new song!
#57 you a dumbass. Beyonce won the biggest awards of the night video of the year and best rnb female LAST YEAR dummy. She hasnt even released anything this year so that’s why she not nominated. She done already won her awards for Bday. Next year she will be nominated for her new album.
As for these noms they prove that music sucks today. Rihanna is not rnb but Alicia is winning that one anyway hands down. Ashanti should be nominated for that instead of Rihanna who is the furthest from rnb. Video of the year should go to UGK. Hot video. Overall music sucks now.
I’M SO HAPPY FOR MY TWO DC GUYS….RAHEEM AND J HOLIDAY. I’M GO FOR EITHER ONE..EVEN THOUGH CHRIS IS GOING TO WIN BUT THATS STILL GOOD. DMV STAND UP….YAYYYYYYYYYY LOL. O I FORGOT TREY TO…MANE WE ALL THROUGH THERE.
YAY QUINCY JONES IS THE MANE…I’M SO HAPPY HE IS BEING HONOR THIS YEAR. HE FREAKING DESERVE IT….THAT IS MY OLD HEAD CRUSH EVEN THOUGH HE LIKE 9O YRS OLD.
MARY AND LIL WAYNE WILL WIN SOMETHING…WELL AT LEAST I HOPE.