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Awards
Chris Brown and Lil Wayne lead BET nominations
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 19 May 2011
The nominations for this year’s BET Awards, the annual awards bash celebrating music and entertainment emanating from and influenced by the American black community, have been announced, with Chris Brown and Lil Wayne leading the way with six and five nominations each respectively.
Brown will make his return to the ceremony following last year’s contentious Michael Jackson tribute, during which the singer cried. He was afterwards accused of faking the tears in a bid to ingratiate himself to the audience and boost his popularity, which was still limited in the wake of his violent attack on former girlfriend Rihanna in February 2009. He is nominated in the Best Male R&B Artist, Viewer’s Choice and Video Of The Year categories, as well as twice in the Best Collaboration group and is also up for Best Actor.
Three of Lil Wayne’s five nominations relate to Chris Brown’s single ‘Look At Me Now’, on which he guested, in the Best Collaboration, Video Of The Year and Viewer’s Choice. He also appears solo in the Viewer’s Choice category with his track ‘6 Foot 7 Foot’, and on the Best Male Hip Hop Artist shortlist.
The next most popular nominees are Kanye West, Rihanna, and Drake, who all have four nominations each. We’ll find out the winners when the ceremony takes place on 26 Jun at the Shrine Auditorium in LA.
