The 2006 Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Award Winners
(aceshowbiz)
Updated: 2006-09-12 10:36 This year Billboard
R&B/Hip-Hop Awards, held Friday September 8th in Atlanta, saw the big
winning of Mariah Carey who during the event nabbed five awards all at once. She
among others won the category of Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist, Top R&B/Hip-Hop
Artist - Female, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Artist, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Artist, and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Album for her 2005 set "The Emancipation of
Mimi".
Some other winners at the award show were Kanye West, who nabbed the Top Rap
Album award for "Late Registration" and Hot Rap Track award for "Gold Digger".
Meanwhile, Jamie Foxx brought home the Top Male R&B/Hip-Hop Artist prize,
and Young Jeezy won Top New R&B/Hip-Hop Artist.
In companion with them all, there was also hip-hop group Public Enemy who
received the 2006 Hip-Hop Founders Award in recognition of its long-standing
influence on the genre. Jermaine Dupri, additionally, also was a big winner as
he won the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Songwriter and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Producer while
also was named the first recipient of the Otis Redding Excellence Award for his
achievements both in and outside the studio.
The Otis Redding Excellence Award was launched this year to commemorate the
40th anniversary of Otis Redding's death in a 1967 plane crash.
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