Rapper Drake Beats Beyonce & Rihanna To Top 2016 BET Awards List of Nominees
Last night, the BET Awards revealed this year’s nominees for the 2016 edition of the awards event to the Associated Press. While Drake leads with a whopping 9 nominations, Beyonce and Rihanna each got five nods.
“Drake is nominated twice for video of the year with “Hotline Bling” and “Work” with Rihanna. Other nominees for the top prize include Beyonce’s “Formation,” Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” and rising newcomer Bryson Tiller’s “Don’t.”
Drake is nominated twice for best collaboration and three times for the viewer’s choice award.
Beyonce and Rihanna will compete for best female R&B/pop artist along with Adele, K. Michelle and breakthrough singer Andra Day.
Chris Brown, Future and Tiller nabbed four nominations each.”
Other nominees are yet to be revealed. On Instagram and Twitter, the awards committee is still sending in trickles of the list, and we do not yet know the nominees for the Best International Act: Africa.
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