1994 MTV Europe Music Awards

The first MTV Europe Music Awards were held on November 24, 1994 at Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, five years after the removal of the Berlin Wall. Hosted by Tom Jones, the show featured performances by Aerosmith, Björk, Roxette, Take That and George Michael. Presenters included East 17, Jean Paul Gaultier, Naomi Campbell, Pamela Anderson and model Helena Christensen, who kissed INXS's Michael Hutchence live on stage.

Nominations

Winners are in bold text.

Best Song

Best Male

Best Dance Act

Best Female

Best Rock Act

Best Director

1997 MTV Europe Music Awards

The 1997 MTV Europe Music Awards were held at The Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands and were hostd by Ronan Keating. The Prodigy were the big winners of the night winning 3 awards including Best Video.

Nominations

Winners are in bold text.

Best Song

Best Video

Best Female

Best Male

Best Group

Best New Act

Best Dance

Best Rock

Best Alternative

2000 MTV Europe Music Awards

The 2000 MTV Europe Music Awards were held on November 16, 2000 at the Ericsson Globe, Stockholm.

The show itself featured 12 different production sets. Jennifer Lopez entered the arena from the ceiling in a specially built plane to perform "Love Don't Cost a Thing", Ricky Martin sang "She Bangs" surrounded by tanks of underwater dancers and Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue teamed up for a rendition of "Kids". The Spice Girls performance was their last before their disbandment and appeared on the same set list as Madonna (who sported a Kylie T-shirt whilst singing "Music"), U2 and Moby.

Presenters included Kelis, Madonna’s husband Guy Ritchie, Moby and Heidi Klum.

Nominations

Winners are in bold text.

Best Song

Best Video

Hip hop

Hip hop or hip-hop is a sub-cultural movement that formed during the early 1970s by African-American and Puerto Rican youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. It became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s and by the 2000s became the most listened-to musical genre in the world. It is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap music (oral), turntablism or DJing (aural), b-boying (physical) and graffiti art (visual). Even while it continues to develop globally in myriad styles, these four foundational elements provide coherence to hip hop culture. The term is often used in a restrictive fashion as synonymous only with the oral practice of rap music.

The origin of the hip hop culture stems from the block parties of the Ghetto Brothers, when they plugged in the amplifiers for their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd Street and Prospect Avenue and used music to break down racial barriers, and from DJ Kool Herc at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, where Herc mixed samples of existing records with his own shouts to the crowd and dancers. Kool Herc is credited as the "father" of hip hop. DJ Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture, to which he coined the terms: MCing or "Emceein", DJing or "Deejayin", B-boying and graffiti writing or "Aerosol Writin".

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre formed in the United States in the 1970s that consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing.

While often used to refer to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, and scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.

The Brick: Bodega Chronicles

The Brick: Bodega Chronicles is the debut album by American rapper Joell Ortiz. It was released on April 24, 2007, by Koch Records, whom Ortiz was dealing with before he signed with Aftermath Entertainment. The album includes guest appearances from Big Daddy Kane, Styles P, Big Noyd, Akon, Immortal Technique, Grafh, Ras Kass, Maino and Stimuli. It was released after he signed to Aftermath Entertainment, and was released under Koch Records with the permission of Dr. Dre, head of Aftermath Entertainment.

Track listing

Charts

References

MTV Europe Music Award for Best Hip-Hop

The following is a list of the MTV Europe Music Award winners and nominees for Best Hip-Hop. Eminem won this award eight times.

1990s

2000s

2010s

Statistic

See also