New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ SOHH Website) - The Online Hip-Hop Awards 2008, a multi-media, 'people's choice' awards ceremony that honors the best and most innovative in Hip-Hop, announced today its winners in 30 Categories as determined by the fans. The winners in all categories were presented online by Donnell Rawlings (Chappelle's Show) and
Angela Yee (Sirius Radio) at https://www.sohh.com/ohha/
Lil Wayne took home 4 awards, the most of any artist, including Album of the Year Award (Hip-Hop), Artist of the Year Award (Hip-Hop), Off the Hook Award (Hip-Hop) and Collabo of the Year, along with T.I, Jay-Z and Kanye West for 'Swagger Like Us.'
Soulja Boy was close behind, racking up three awards for King of the Net, Digital Download of the Year Award (Hip-Hop) and Artist Website of the Year Award.
Danity Kane emerged victorious with 2 awards in the categories Artist of the Year Award (R&B) and Off the Hook Award (R&B).
The Online Hip-Hop Awards 2008 (https://www.onlinehiphopawards.com/) received hundreds of thousands of votes from September 15 - November 20, 2008 to nominate the finalists and ultimately determine the winners for fans favorites in Hip-Hop in a broad spectrum of 30 categories, including music, celebrity, best of the web and community.
Full List of Winners
Artist Categories
Album of the Year Award(Hip-Hop) Lil Wayne|Tha Carter III
Album of the Year Award (R&B) Danity Kane|Welcome To The Dollhouse
Artist of the Year Award (Hip-Hop) Lil Wayne
Artist of the Year Award (R&B) Chris Brown
Artist to Watch Award (Hip-Hop/R&B) Jazmine Sullivan
King of the Net Award Soulja Boy|Www.souljaboytellem.com
Collabo of the Year Award T.I.|Jay-z,lil Wayne, & Kanye West|Swagger Like Us
Music Video of the Year Award Bun B|You're Everything
Digital Download of the Year Award(Hip-Hop) Soulja Boy Tell 'Em|Crank Dat
Digital Download of the Year Award (R&B). Day 26|Got Me Going
Off the Hook Award (Hip-Hop) Lil Wayne|A Millie
Off the Hook Award (R&B) Danity Kane|Damaged
Air Waves DJ Award (terrestrial/satellite) Dj Kahled
Mixtape DJ of the Year Award DJ Thuglife
Web Categories
Music Lover Blog of the Year Award This Is Hip Hop|kevinnottingham.com
Gossip Folks Award MediaTakeout.com|Http://mediatakeout.com
Artist Website of the Year Award. Soulja Boy|Sodmg.com - 491
Stan Site of the Year Award SincerelyCiara.com|sincerelyciara.com
Come-Up Award The Hip Hop Chronicle|www.thehiphopchronicle.com
Blogger of the Year Award Keep It Trill|www.keepittrill.com
Vlog of the Year Award Dawn Richard Online|www.dawnrichardonline.com
Podcast Award Mental Salvation Radio|www.blogtalkradio.com/mentalsalvation
Fan/Community
LMAO Award Diddy|www.diddy.com
I Should be a Video Model Award M. Benz|myspace.com/ticiachina
I Should be a Rap Star Award R-SIDE|morethanmuziconline.com/
I Should be a Hip-Hop Producer Award Q-Rock|www.pmpworldwide.com/q-rock2005
I Should be a Hip-Hop Dancer Award Alexis|www.myspace.com/southsideceleberty
I'm Hip-Hop's Biggest Fan Award Kendra|Youtube.com/kenney8|She Supports Everyone
I Should Be A Hip-Hop Video Director Award JON JON| WWW.MYSAPCE.COM/SHUTUPANDSHOOTIT
Web Star of the Year Award DULA-MITE|MYSPACE.COM/DULAMITE
Presented by SOHH.com, the web's largest hip-hop community, The Online Hip-Hop Awards 2008 has been widely embraced by fans who raced to the site to nominate and virally support their favorite artists, music, videos, bloggers, websites, web stars and more. Super-stars such as Diddy, Kanye West and Souljaboy have taken to the web campaigning for votes in the hopes of taking home the coveted award. Passionate fans have also helped promote and gain support for nominees with over 68,000 OHHA widgets embedded resulting in more than 11 million visitors to the SOHH awards.
About The Online Hip-Hop Award
Launched in 1997, The Online Hip-Hop Awards is the premier awards event that gives fans the power to nominate and vote for their favorites in Hip-Hop in a broad spectrum categories, including music, celebrity, best of the web and community. Ten weeks of online voting culminates in a live event that celebrates the winners and hip-hop's hottest stars. The Online Hip-Hop Awards have featured past celebrities including LL Cool J, Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Wyclef, Grandmaster Flash and Mos Def. The Online Hip-Hop Awards are executive-produced by 4CONTROL Media Inc, founders of SoHH.com. https://www.onlinehiphopawards.com/
About SOHH.com
In 1995, SOHH.com was founded to satisfy the demand for a Hip-Hop community online. Today, with over 5,500,000 visitors each month, SOHH is the web's largest and longest running urban/hip-hop community. SOHH.com is rated "the Best Overall Hip-Hop Site" by Rolling Stone magazine and is the highest ranked Hip-Hop teen portal according to the premier internet ratings website, ComScore. Recognized as the preeminent online hip-hop resource, SoHH.com has been featured across the media including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The Associated Press, The LA Times, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, The Toronto Star, The NY Daily News, The Washington Post, USA Today, Black Enterprise, Entrepreneur Magazine, BusinessWeek, TMZ.com, Gawker, BET.com and PerezHilton.com.
