BET Hip Hop Award for Album of the Year

BET Hip Hop Award for Album of the Year
BET Hip Hop Award for Album of the Year
	2018 Winner The Carters (Beyoncé & Jay-Z)
Awarded for	Excellent Hip Hop Album
Country	United States (US)
Presented by	Black Entertainment Television (BET)
First awarded	2006
Last awarded	2020
Most awards	Jay-Z and T.I. (3)
Most nominations	Jay-Z (7)

The BET Hip Hop Award for Album of the Year is an award presented to recording artists for quality album at the BET Hip Hop Awards. Originally titled CD of the Year but it was changed during the 2013 ceremony.

Recipients[]

"‡" Indicates the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.
"†" Indicates the album won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.

Year	Recipients	Work	Nominees	Ref.
2006	T.I.	King ‡	Lil Wayne – Tha Carter II Young Jeezy – Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor ‡ Kanye West – Late Registration †
2007	T.I.	T.I. vs. T.I.P. ‡	Jay-Z – Kingdom Come ‡ Ludacris – Release Therapy † Nas – Hip Hop Is Dead ‡
2007	Common	Finding Forever ‡
2008	Lil Wayne	Tha Carter III †	Jay-Z – American Gangster ‡ Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco's The Cool ‡ Nas – Untitled ‡ Kanye West – Graduation †
2009	T.I.	Paper Trail ‡	Eminem – Relapse † Q-Tip – The Renaissance ‡ Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak Young Jeezy – The Recession
2010	Jay-Z	The Blueprint 3 ‡	B.o.B – B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray ‡ Eminem – Recovery † Drake – Thank Me Later ‡ Rick Ross – Teflon Don
2011	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy †	Big Sean – Finally Famous Lupe Fiasco – Lasers ‡ Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday ‡ Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers
2012	The Throne (Jay Z & Kanye West)	Watch the Throne ‡	Common – The Dreamer/The Believer Drake – Take Care † J. Cole – Cole World: The Sideline Story Young Jeezy – TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition
2013	Kendrick Lamar	good kid, m.A.A.d city ‡	J. Cole – Born Sinner Jay Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail ‡ Nas – Life Is Good ‡ Wale – The Gifted
2014	Drake	Nothing Was the Same ‡	Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 † Future - Honest Rick Ross - Mastermind Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron ‡ Yo Gotti - I Am
2015	J. Cole	2014 Forest Hills Drive ‡	Big Sean - Dark Sky Paradise Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late ‡ Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly † Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint ‡ Wale - The Album About Nothing
2016	Drake	Views ‡	DJ Khaled – I Changed a Lot Dr. Dre – Compton ‡ Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap Future – DS2 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo ‡	^[1]
2017	Kendrick Lamar	DAMN. †	DJ Khaled – Grateful Future – Future J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only JAY-Z – 4:44 ‡ Migos – Culture ‡	^[2]
2018	The Carters (Beyoncé & Jay-Z)	Everything Is Love	Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy † Drake – Scorpion J. Cole – KOD Migos – Culture II
2019	Travis Scott	Astroworld ‡	Lizzo – Cuz I Love You DJ Khaled – Father Of Asahd Tyler The Creator – IGOR † Meek Mill – Championships ‡
2020	Roddy Ricch	Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial	Future – High Off Life DaBaby – Blame It on Baby DaBaby – Kirk Lil Baby – My Turn Megan Thee Stallion – Suga
2021	Tyler, The Creator	Call Me If You Get Lost	Moneybagg Yo – A Gangsta's Pain Migos – Culture III Megan Thee Stallion – Good News DJ Khaled – Khaled Khaled 21 Savage and Metro Boomin – Savage Mode II J. Cole – The Off-Season

Category facts[]

Artists that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Artist
7	Jay-Z
6	Drake
6	Kanye West
5	J. Cole
4	Future
3	Eminem
	Kendrick Lamar
	Lupe Fiasco
	Nas
	T.I.
	Jeezy
2	Big Sean
	Common
	DaBaby
	DJ Khaled
	Lil Wayne
	Migos
	Nicki Minaj
	Rick Ross
	Wale

Artists that received multiple awards
Awards	Artist
3	Jay-Z
3	T.I.
2	Drake
	Kendrick Lamar
	Kanye West

References[]

^ "And the Nominees Are". BET.com.
^ "BET Hip Hop Awards 2017 Nominations". BET. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

[1] "And the Nominees Are". BET.com.

[2] "BET Hip Hop Awards 2017 Nominations". BET. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

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