T-Pain led the nominees for the eighth annual BET Awards, an event celebrating the leading lights in African-American music, film and sport, organizers said on Thursday.
His five nods were all in his capacity as a featured artist on recordings by R&B singer Chris Brown, rookie rapper Flo Rida or hip-hop star Kanye West.
West and R&B singer Keyshia Cole scored three nominations each. Winners will be announced during a ceremony scheduled for June 24 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. It will be televised live by cable channel BET.
MTV is less than a week away from revealing the 2008 “Hottest MCs in the Game,” which airs Friday night on MTV at 10 p.m. ET. They reached out to some of our favorite artist, who are fans themselves, and asked them the simple question: Who should be on this year’s list? Keyshia speaks on 2007’s #1 MC, Lil Wayne:
“Lil Wayne is hot with his metaphors,” Keyshia Cole, who was also on the set, said about last year’s reigning #1 Hottest MC. “His delivery is hot. All he has to do is stay at it. Kanye could be a Hottest MC this year. He puts a lot into his craft performance-wise and in the studio. He delivers. So does Lil Wayne.”
MTV News caught up with the Game and Keyshia Cole during the video shoot for their collaboration “Pain”, Keyshia’s excerpt:
“Me and Keyshia came up around the same time,” he said of their collaboration. “We always wanted to get in the studio together but never had the chance because both our careers took off at the same time. She blew to superstar status on the R&B side. I blew up on the rap side. I knew she would come in and kill it. And she did.”
Keyshia Cole gives a tribute to the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul at the end of the song. “See, Mary J., I want you to understand you paved the way for me. I’m givin’ homage to you.”
“He was doing a tribute [to hip-hop], and it’s rarely done,” Cole said of the collabo. “I really could feel his pain because of the tribute I did to Mary. … It’s a really nice record.”
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T-Pain led the nominees for the eighth annual BET Awards, an event celebrating the leading lights in African-American music, film and sport, organizers said on Thursday.
