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This year's crop of nominees for the 35th Annual American Music Awards were recently announced with several big name hip-hoppers walking away with nods.
With R&B making a strong showing this year, blue-eyed soul poster boy Justin Timberlake managed to grab three nominations, including favorite pop/rock album. The pretty-boy crooner will also go head to head with another R&B powerhouse, Beyonce, who also garnered three nominations, for the award for favorite soul/R&B album.
With two nominations each, Young Jeezy, T.I. and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony lead the charge for hip-hop acts at this year's awards. Winners are set to be announced during a Nov. 18 broadcast on ABC from the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.
As a new feature this year, fans will have the opportunity to pick the winners of the night's festivities by voting online. Fans wishing to cast their ballots for their favorite artists can log onto at ama.abc.com from now until Nov. 1. Before the new public voting feature, winners were decided by a poll of 20,000 music buyers. Nominees are still determined by retail and sales data.
The show will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and is slated to feature a performance by Rihanna, among others.
After a four-year hiatus, Eve is putting the finishing touches on her fourth LP, Here I Am, set to be released through a joint venture between Swizz Beatz's Full Surface and Dr. Dre's Aftermath.
In addition to Swizz and Dre, Eve will be working with Timbaland, Cool & Dre and Pharrell Williams on the CD. Guest spots will come from Ne-Yo, Sizzla an read more
'It's not just hip-hop, and that's the thing that makes me mad,' MC says of finger-pointing after Imus incident.
Eve's still the illest pitbull in a skirt, but nowadays, there might be a little bit more lace on her skirt than before.
For instance, on her forthcoming album, Here I Am - her first project in five years, due August 7 - the Philly native ditches the fierce raps (almost) and goes into R&B mode on the Pharrell-produced "All Night Long."
T.I.'s on-again-off-again girlfriend, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, was arrested by officials on Saturday afternoon (October 13) and charged with drug possession.
T.I. (born Clifford Harris) was the target of an FBI sting operation that culminated this weekend in a Walgreens... read more
#1 Author: wow gold (2 Sep 2008 22:01) T.I., Young Jeezy & Beyonce Grab AMA Nominations