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2012 BET Hip Hop Nominations

Kanye West nabs 17 nominations for the annual BET Hip-Hop Awards, including my favorite categories: Hustler Of The Year and the Made-You-Look Award.

Two video categories: Best Hip Hop Video and Vido Director of The Year. All familiar names — if you're a video pro and catch RCA exec Samantha Lecca, who gets a Best Director nod for co-directing credit for her work with A$AP Rocky.

Also of note is Director X's omission from Best Director despite having two videos in the Best Video category. 

BEST HIP HOP VIDEO

2012 BET Award Nominees

2012 BET Awards nominations were announced this morning... Most of the categories are personality-driven — Best New Artist, Best Female Hip-Hop Artist, Best Actress, Best Sportsman, etc — but there are two video awards: Video of the Year and Video Director of the Year, both of which are dominated by the Carter Knowles household.

2012 BET AWARDS (Video Categories)

Video of the Year:

NEWS: BET 2010 Award Winners

The 2010 BET Awards took place last night at the Shrine Auditorium, boasting performances by Kanye West, T. I. and Chris Brown...

Video Award winners are as follows:

  • Video Director of the Year: Hype Williams
  • Video of the Year: Beyonce f/ Lady Gaga "Video Phone" (Hype Williams, dir.)
  • Viewers' Choice Award: Rihanna featuring Young Jeezy "Hard" (Anthony Mandler, dir.)

Other videos directed by Williams during the BET Awards eligibility period include:

BET Adds for the Weeks of 9/7/09

BET Adds for the week of September 7:

  • Jay Z f/ Kanye West & Rihanna "Run This Town"
  • Playaz Circle f/ Bobby Valentino "Can't Remember"
  • Saigon "Gotta Believe"

BET J Adds for the week of September 7:

  • Bebe and Cece Winans "Close To You"
  • Britni Elise "Satisfied "
  • Calvin Richardson "Woman's Gotta Have It "
  • Mary J Blige ft/ Drake "The One"
  • Ndambi "Cant Hardly Wait"

BET Adds for the Weeks of 8/31/09

BET Adds for the week of August 31:

  • Ace Hood f/ Ludacris "Born An O. G."
  • Drake & Trey Songz "Successful"
  • Kanary Diamonds "Mirror Mirror"
  • Playaz Circle f/ Ludacris "Get Rich"

BETJ Adds for the week of August 31:

  • K Smith Ft/ Chico Benymon "Stay the Night"
  • Mary J Blige "Stronger"
  • Tyler Woods "Slow Jams"

BET Adds for the Weeks of 8/24/09

BET Adds for the week of August 24:

  • Black Skeptik f/ Krs-one "Rent"
  • Derty f/ Lil Boosie "Uh Oh"
  • Ghostface Kilah f/ Raheem DeVaughn "Baby"
  • Mista Mac f/ Flo Rida "Drop That"
  • Substantial "My Favorite Things"
  • The Roots "How I Got Over"
  • Yung Gutta "You Can"

BET J Adds for the week of August 24:

  • Ginuwine "Trouble"
  • Green Tea "Sweet Georgia Brown "
  • Laura Izibor "Don’t Stay"
  • Yahazarah aka Purple St James "Tickler Sweet"

BET Adds for the Weeks of 7/20 + 7/27 + 8/03/09

BET Adds for the week of August 3:

  • Clipse f/ Pharrell "I'm Good"
  • Pa Div "Mayor"
  • Audio Push "Teach Me How To Jerk"

BET J Adds for the week of August 3:

  • Letoya Luckett "She Ain't Got"
  • Smokey Robinson "Don't Know Why"

BET Adds for the week of July 27:

  • Fabolous f/ Keri Hilson & Ryan Leslie "Everything, Everyday"
  • Kid Cudi f/ Kanye West & Common "Make Her Say"
  • Mack 10 f/ Rick Ross & Lil Wayne "So Sharp"

BET J Adds for the week of July 27:

BET Adds for the Week of 7/13/09

BET Adds for the week of July 13:

  • Busta Rhymes f/Tigger "If You Don't Know"
  • Jay-Z "D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)"
  • KRS-One & Buckshot "Robot"
  • Maino f/ Swizz Beatz "Million Bucks"
  • T.I. f/ Mary J. Blige "Remember Me"

BETJ Adds for the week of July 13:

  • Jay-Z "D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)"