The 2021 BET (Black Entertainment Television) Hip Hop Awards was dominated Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP (Wet A** P***y).
The rap duo’s mega-hit was named Song of the Year, and also scooped Best Hip Hop Video and Best Collaboration at the annual ceremony.
Rent free! Congrats to @iamcardib & @theestallion for winning Song of the Year for WAP! 🎵 #HipHopAwards pic.twitter.com/w11UyHvlpS
— BET (@BET) October 6, 2021
Cardi B made history as the first female artist to win Best Hip Hop Video twice, having been honoured with the same prize in 2019.
Tyler, Jay-Z, and Lil Baby followed closely behind with two wins each.
Rapper Tyler took home the first-ever Rock the Bells Cultural Influence Award presented by LL Cool J, and also nabbed Best Live Performer and Hip Hop Album of the Year for Call Me If You Get Lost.
One more time for @tylerthecreator Congratulations to the goat 🐐 on being this year's Rock The Bells Cultural Influence Award Honoree! #HipHopAwards pic.twitter.com/ESNykvyOG6
— BET (@BET) October 6, 2021
Beyoncé's music mogul husband, meanwhile, won the Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse and Impact Track accolades for his Nipsey Hussle collaboration, What It Feels Like, and Lil Baby bagged Hip Hop Artist of the Year and Best Duo or Group with Lil Durk.
Nelly won the special I Am Hip Hop honour and dedicated his win to his city of St. Louis in Missouri, and his “whole crew”.
He said: “We don’t get a lot of this. We don’t get a lot of chances to stand on stage and say, ‘Yeah, it’s our turn’. “It’s a little different when you tryna rep for you and your whole crew and when you tryna rep for a whole state, and just to be clear, I never had a co-sign.
The 46-year-old rapper also performed a greatest hits medley, including E.I., Country Grammar, Dilemma, and Where The Party At with surprise guest Jermaine Dupri.