Nigerian artistes, Burna Boy and Tems, have been nominated for the 17th BET hip-hop awards.
The list of nominees for the awards which celebrate hip-hop performers, producers and music video directors was unveiled on Tuesday.
Grammy-award winner, Burna Boy, born Damini Ogulu, got a nomination in the ‘Video Director of the Year’ category for his self-directed music video, ‘Last Last’, which currently has over 75 million views on YouTube.
Other ‘Video Director of the Year’ nominees include: Benny Boom, Cole Bennett, Colin Tilley, Director X, Kendrick Lamar & Dave Free, and Teyana Taylor.
Temilade Openiyi, known professionally as Tems, earned three nominations for featuring on Future’s hit track ‘Wait For U’ alongside Drake in best hip-hop video, song of the year, and best collaboration categories.
Other nominees in the same categories:
Best Hip-Hop Video
D.M.B. – A$ap Rocky
Family Ties – Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar
Good Love – City Girls Feat. Usher
Hot Shit – Cardi B, Kanye West & Lil Durk
London – Bia & J. Cole
Wait For U – Future Feat. Drake & Tems
Way 2 Sexy – Drake Feat. Future & Young Thug
Best Collaboration
Family Ties – Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar
Good Love – City Girls Feat. Usher
Hot Shit – Cardi B, Kanye West & Lil Durk
Jimmy Cooks — Drake Feat. 21 Savage
Johnny P’s Caddy Benny – The Butcher & J. Cole
Wait For U – Future Feat. Drake & Tems
Way 2 Sexy – Drake Feat. Future & Young Thug
Song of the Year
Big Energy – Latto
F.N.F. (Let’s Go) – Hitkidd & Glorilla
First Class – Jack Harlow
Hot Shit – Cardi B, Kanye West & Lil Durk
Super Gremlin – Kodak Black
Wait For U – Future Feat. Drake & Tems
Way 2 Sexy — Drake Feat. Future & Young Thug
This year’s edition of the annual award is scheduled to hold on Friday, 30 September 2022, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, a performing arts venue located in the Cumberland/Galleria edge city, in northwest Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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