Billboard Award Winners

Last week Atlanta held the 7th annual Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Conference and awards show. It’s a fairly pointless event that’s supposed to showcase up and coming talent and reward artists and what not, but it’s about as important as the other award shows.

Last week Atlanta held the 7th annual Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Conference and awards show. It’s a fairly pointless event that’s supposed to showcase up and coming talent and reward artists and what not, but it’s about as important as the other award shows.

Here are the winners:

Album: The Emancipation of Mimi Mariah Carey
Songwriter: Jermaine Dupri
Producer: Jermaine Dupri
New Artist: Young Jeezy
Singles Artist: Mariah Carey
Albums Artist: Mariah Carey
Rap Album: “Late Registration,” Kanye West
Singles Sales: “Don’t Cha,” feat. Pussycat Dolls and Busta
Single: “Be Without You,” Mary J. Blige
Artist: Mariah Carey
Male Artist: Jamie Foxx
Female Artist: Mariah Carey
Duo or Group: Destiny’s Child
Singles Airplay: “Be Without You,” Mary J. Blige
Hot Rap Tracks: “Gold Digger,” feat. Kanye West and Jamie Foxx
Major Label: Island Def Jam
Independent Label: TVT

Man, Ying Yang Twins, Black Eyed Peas and Dem Franchize Boyz must be pissed losing out to Destiny’s Child for best Duo or Group. Being that they didn’t DO anything this year.

Those are the breaks. Congrats to Mariah and Dupri for dominating; why would you pick Def Jam for major label for doing such an average job and TVT over Koch? Plus it doesn’t make sense not to give Best Producer to Scott Storch for being on almost every album that came out this year.