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Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you the nominess for the 2008 BET Awards:

Video of the Year

Ashanti "The Way That I Love You"
Alicia Keys "Like You'll Never See Me Again"
Mary J. Blige "Just Fine"
UGK feat. OutKast "Int'l Player's Anthem (I Choose You)"
Kanye West feat. T-Pain "Good Life"
Erykah Badu "Honey"

Best Female R&B Artist

Alicia Keys
Mary J. Blige
Keyshia Cole
Rihanna
Mariah Carey

Best Male R&B Artist

Raheem DeVaughn
Trey Songz
Ne-Yo
Chris Brown
J. Holiday

Best Group

Danity Kane
UGK
Day 26
Playaz Circle
Gnarls Barkley

Best New Artist

Flo Rida
Estelle
Chrisette Michele
Soulja Boy
The-Dream

Best Female Hip-Hop Artist

Kid Sister
Trina
Lil' Mama
Missy Elliott
Eve

Best Male Hip-Hop Artist

Snoop Dogg
Jay-Z
Lil' Wayne
Common
Kanye West

Best Collaboration

DJ Khaled feat. Lil' Wayne, Big Boi, Ludacris, Fat Joe & Young Jeezy-"I'm So Hood (remix)"
Keyshia Cole feat. Lil' Kim & Missy Elliott-"Let It Go"
Kanye West feat. T-Pain-"Good Life"
Flo Rida feat. T-Pain-"Low"
Chris Brown feat. T-Pain-"Kiss Kiss"

Viewer's Choice

Chris Brown feat. T-Pain-"Kiss Kiss"
Lil' Wayne feat. Static Major-"Lollipop"
Keyshia Cole feat. Missy Elliott & Lil' Kim-"Let It Go"
Alicia Keys-"No One"
Soulja Boy-"Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)"
Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown-"No Air"

Lifetime Achievement

Al Green

A few things:

(1)Who pulled what strings to get that Ashanti video nominated for video of the year?

(2)Day 26? Best Group? Really?

(3) Who the hell is Playaz Circle?

(4)Oh Best Female Hip-Hop Artist Category. Trina should be disqualified based solely on the fact that her single with Keyshia Cole is just wrong y'all. WRONG!



Kudos to Kid Sister and Lil Mama for their noms, but this category still gets me scared for female MCs. Eve's album had been on the back burner since forever, and Missy ain't dropped a new album in nearly three years right? It's like they were nominated on the strength of Tambourine and Ching Ching alone. Guess you gotta pad out the category somehow.

(5) And I would speak on the omnipresence of T-Pain in the Best Collaboration category, but honestly, what's the point?

Big ups to

Idolator

for the list of nominess!