BET Hip Hop Award for Album of the Year

BET Hip Hop Award for Album of the Year
Country	United States
Presented by	BET
First awarded	2006
Last awarded	2016

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 during the 2013 ceremony.

Recipients

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

Category facts

Most Wins

Rank	1st	2nd
Artist	T.I.	Drake Jay-Z Kendrick Lamar Kanye West
Total wins	3 wins	2 wins

Most Nominations

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
Artist	Jay-Z Kanye West	Drake	J. Cole	Eminem Future Kendrick Lamar Lupe Fiasco Nas T.I. Young Jeezy	Big Sean Common DJ Khaled Lil Wayne Nicki Minaj Rick Ross Wale
Total nominations	6 nominations	5 nominations	4 nominations	3 nominations	2 nominations

References

↑ http://www.bet.com/shows/hip-hop-awards/2016/photos/show/and-the-nominees-are.html#!HHA-PageProperties-1x1-HipHopVideo
↑ "BET Hip Hop Awards 2017 Nominations". BET. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

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