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On the good side, the Lifetime Achievement award went to Chaka Kahn and Jimmy Cliff received the Contribution to Urban Music award. Two truly worthy winners if there were any, but even this was tinted with rumours. Namely, that Jimmy was all set to receive the Lifetime Achievement gong, until Chaka turned up that is. Then the organisers had to quickly cobble together some other made up category so that he wouldn't be left with nothing, but he was relegated never the less. Seeing Ja Rule win best Hip Hop act just killed the occasion. Within the nominations there was only a smattering of acts I really thought were worthy on their own merits and not because of the push they got from their labels. It is a shame that the winners seemed to correlate with sales and not necessarily with talent. The Neptunes are undoubtedly good producers, and could have been the right choice out of the nominees, but that is part of the problem. What people have been selecting here is the least bad from a poor list, rather than the best of their kind. I suppose awards are meant to recognise what is popular at a particular point in time and so it was no surprise that the hotly tipped Ms Dynamite swept up a load of awards, and due to fashion other winners like Angelique Kidjo and Mis-Teeq could have been pre-determined.
There is still time for the organisers to turn this back around and give us what we want, but unfortunately that will never happen as they are now well on the way to creating a facsimile of the Brits or any other large awards ceremony that only exist for self gratification and self perpetuation.
The full list of winners is below:
Best R&B Act – Ashanti
Also nominated: Tweet, Usher, Ms Dynamite, Alicia Keys
Best Video – Aaliyah for More Than A Woman
Also nominated: Eminem – Without Me, Busta Rhymes featuring P Diddy – Pass The Courvoisier, Ja Rule featuring Ashanti – Always On Time, Ms Dynamite – It Takes More
Best Hip Hop Act – Ja Rule
Also nominated: Busta Rhymes featuring P Diddy, Nelly, Ludacris, Blak Twang featuring Est'elle
UK Act Of The Year – Ms Dynamite
Also nominated: Mis-Teeq, Daniel Bedingfield, Beverley Knight, So Solid Crew, Sugababes
Best Album – Alicia Keys for Songs In A Minor
Also nominated: Ashanti – Ashanti, The Streets – Original Pirate Material, Ja Rule – Pain Is Love, Ms Dynamite – A Little Deeper
Best Single – Ms Dynamite for It Takes More
Also nominated: Ja Rule featuring Ashanti – Always On Time, Nelly – Hot In Here, Alicia Keys – Fallin', Fat Joe featuring Ashanti – What's Luv?
Best Newcomer – Ms Dynamite
Also nominated: Ashanti, The Streets, Alicia Keys, Daniel Bedingfield
Best Producer – Neptunes
Also nominated: Irv Gotti, Dr Dre, Missy Elliott, Timbaland
Best Garage Act – Mis-Teeq
Also nominated: Daniel Bedingfield, Heartless Crew, More Fire Crew, So Solid Crew
Best Reggae Act – Sean Paul
Also nominated: Elephant Man, TOK, Beres Hammond, Capleton
Best UK DJ – Steve Sutherland
Also nominated: DJ 279, Tim Westwood, Dreem Teem, Trevor Nelson, Matt White, Shortee Blitz, EZ, Simon "Schoolboy" Phillips, Semtex
Best Jazz Act – Norah Jones
Also nominated: Joe Sample, Hugh Masekela, Peter White
Best Gospel Act – Michelle Williams
Also nominated: Mary Mary, Trin-I-Tee 5-7, Yolanda Adams
Best World Music Act – Angelique Kidjo
Also nominated: Femi Kuti, Gilberto Gil, Papa Noel & Papa Oviedo
Mobo Unsung Award – Street Politiks
Mobo lifetime achievement award – Chaka Khan
Mobo contribution to urban music – Jimmy Cliff
Mobo outstanding achievement award – Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
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