Here’s Tonight’s BET HipHop Award Winners & Performers
by Staff Editor
The 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards air tonight, at 8 p.m. ET/PT and 7 p.m. CT. This award show honors achievements in the hip-hop music industry and feature performances from some of the biggest names in entertainment and featured cyphers.
DeRay Davis will be the host of the awards show this year and many know him as a stand-up comedian and actor, who’s been seen in Barbershop and Wild N’ Out.
Drake leads the nominees by 11, with Cardi B right behind him with 10. Childish Gambino follows with six nominations, and Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar both tie with five.
Lil Wayne, was honored with the I Am Hip Hop Award and this year’s nominee’s for best new hip hop artist nominees include BlocBoy JB, Juice WRLD, Lil Baby, Rich the Kid and late rapper XXXTentacion.
First performance of the night opened up with Lil Pump performing his single “Gucci Gang” and later brings Gucci Mane out to perform “Kept Back.”
After a cypher featuring Erykah Badu and her 1,2’s, Yella Beezy turns up the crowd performing his song ‘That’s All Me’
Lil Baby And Gunna share the stage to perform ‘Drip Too Hard.’ The pair brought sand to the beach during their performance, which featured vixens, models and a tropic scenery!
Cardi B didn’t bore the crowd as she came out performing hit singles off of her debut album Invasion of Privacy and took home four awards.
YG & A$AP Rocky Bring Bicoastal Vibes Later hit the stage to perform “Handgun” at the 2018.
Hitmaker TI then performs a few songs off of his Dime Trap album, including ‘Wraith’ with Yo Gotti and ‘Jefe.’
The complete list of nominees and winners at this year’s awards show are:
Best Hip-Hop Video
Cardi B – “I Like It” feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin
Childish Gambino – “This Is America” *WINNER*
Drake – “God’s Plan”
Kendrick Lamar – “Loyalty” feat. Rihanna
Migos – “Walk It Talk It” feat. Drake
Hot Ticket Performer
Cardi B
Childish Gambino
Drake *WINNER*
Kendrick Lamar
Travis Scott
Album of the Year
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Drake – Scorpion
J. Cole – KOD
Migos – Culture II
The Carters – Everything Is Love *WINNERS*
Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Dave Meyers & The Little Homies
Director X
Eif Rivera
Hiro Murai
Karena Evans *WINNER*
Lyricist of the Year
Childish Gambino
Drake
J. Cole
Kendrick Lamar *WINNER*
Travis Scott
MVP of the Year
Cardi B *WINNER*
Childish Gambino
Drake
J. Cole
Travis Scott
Producer of the Year
Ben Billions
DJ Esco
DJ Mustard
Metro Boomin
Pharrell Williams *WINNER*
Best Collaboration, Duo or Group
21 Savage & Offset & Metro Boomin – “Ric Flair Drip”
Blocboy JB – “Look Alive” feat. Drake
Cardi B – “I Like It” feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin
Post Malone – “Rockstar” feat. 21 Savage
The Carters – “Apes**t” *WINNER*
Single of the Year
“Apesh*t” – Produced by Pharrell (The Carters) *WINNERS*
“God’s Plan” – Produced by Cardo, Young Exclusive and Boi-1da (Drake)
“I Like It” – Produced by Craig Kallman, JWhiteDidIt and Tainy (Cardi B Feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin)
“Nice for What” – Produced by Murda Beatz (Drake)
“This Is America” – Produced by Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson (Childish Gambino)
Best New Hip Hop Artist
Blocboy JB
Juice Wrld
Lil Baby
Rich the Kid
XXXTentacion *WINNER*
Best Mixtape
BlocBoy JB – Simi *WINNER*
Future – Beast Mode 2
Juicy J – Shut Da F* Up
Lil Wayne – Dedication 6: Reloaded
Zoey Dollaz – Sorry Not Sorry
Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse
21 Savage – “Bartier Cardi” (Cardi B feat. 21 Savage)
Cardi B – “Motorsport” (Migos feat. Cardi B & Nicki Minaj) *WINNER*
Drake – “Look Alive” (Blocboy JB feat. Drake)
Kendrick Lamar – “New Freezer” (Rich the Kid feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Nicki Minaj – “Big Bank” (YG feat. 2 Chainz, Big Sean & Nicki Minaj)
Impact Track
Childish Gambino – “This Is America” *WINNER*
Dej Loaf & Leon Bridges – “Liberated”
Lecrae – “I’ll Find You” feat. Tori Kelly
Meek Mill – “Stay Woke” feat. Miguel
N.E.R.D – “1,000” feat. FUTURE
DJ of the Year
Calvin Harris
DJ Envy
DJ Drama
DJ Khaled *WINNER*
DJ Mustard
Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip Hop Style)
Cardi B *WINNER*
Migos
Nicki Minaj
Remy Ma
Travis Scott
Best Hip Hop Online Site/App
ALLHIPHOP
Complex
Hot New Hip Hop
Worldstar *WINNER*
XXL
Hustler of the Year
Cardi B *WINNER*
DJ Khaled
Drake
Jay Z
Kendrick Lamar
Travis Scott