This is where you, the fans, decide who you think is the winner (or their personal favorites) in each category of the 2010 Sphere of Hip-Hop Awards.
Who Did We Pick?
See who our panelists picked for the winner in each category of the 2010 Sphere of Hip-Hop Awards.
How To Vote
Casting your vote of support is simple! Click the Twitter and Facebook buttons for the finalists in each category that you like the best OR drop your selections below in the comments. Easy!
Please note: the Twitter buttons are recording votes but the buttons are not showing them. Any Twitter votes will count! Continue using those bad boys to vote for your favorites in every category.
Voting Period
Voting begins March 1st and end on March 13th. We’ll tabulate all the votes and announce the 2010 Sphere of Hip-Hop Awards Fan’s Choice winners on March 21.
Results
See below to see who the fan’s selected in each category. We’ve also included the percentage of the vote for the top 3 nominees in each category. Thousands of people cast votes and several categories were very close.
Album of the Year
Top 3 vote: JustMe 30%, Gallery Drive 23% and Theory Hazit & Toni Shift 12%.
Deepspace 5 – The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
Gallery Drive – Scratching the Surface
Japhia Life – Nazareth
(Fan’s Choice Winner) JustMe – Tragedy and Dope
Lecrae – Rehab
Othello and DJ Vajra – The Required Taste
Sareem Poems and Dust – Dirty Words
Shad – TSOL
Sho Baraka – Lions and Liars
Theory Hazit and Toni Shift – Modern Marvels
Song of the Year
Top 3 vote: JustMe 29% (tie) and Gallery Drive 29% (tie), Shad 15%
Cookbook and Uno Mas – When You Rock and Roll
(Fan’s Choice Winner) Gallery Drive – Psycho
Grits – Different Drum
(Fan’s Choice Winner) JustMe – The Prodigal
Propaganda – Beautiful Pain
RationaL – Cocaine Cowboy
Rhema Soul – Fly Away
Shad – Rose Garden
Sho Baraka – Shut Us Down
Trip Lee – Hero (Invasion)
EP of the Year
Top 3 vote: nomiS 33%, Manchild 19%, JustMe and Wonder Brown 16%
2 Two Man Trio – Rocket Surgeons
Elias – Thanks for Waiting
JustMe and Wonder Brown – Quintessential
Manchild – You Don’t Know Jaq
(Fan’s Choice Winner) nomiS – Rosario Dawson
The Runaway – Round Two EP
Sev Statik – School Shooting EP
Sivion – Butterfly Sessions beats by Dert
Compilation of the Year
Top 3 vote: Humble Beast 45%, Night Owls 5 23%, Dave Santoas 15%
Antioch Alumni – Cram Session V: 5 Loaves 2 Fish
Dave Santos – Stages
(Fan’s Choice Winner) Humble Beast – Humble Beginnings
Lampmode – Grassroots 2
Night Owls 5 – Bird Flu
Peace 586 – aBle
Mixtape of the Year
Top 3 vote: Gallery Drive 34%, Jin 18%, Deepspace 5 16%
B3ar Fruit – Fruit Cocktail
Deepspace 5 – Blueprint3 Outtakes, The Deepspace Version Mixtape
(Fan’s Choice Winner) Gallery Drive – Supergroup of Tomorrow
Jin – Say Something
KJ-52 – Stuck in the 80′s Mashup Mixtape
Playdough – The Bible Bus Mixtape
Ruslan – Right Out Loud Mixtape
Sho Baraka – Barakaology
Emcee of the Year
Top 3 vote: Shad 30%, JustMe 26%, Theory Hazit 16%
Justme
Lecrae
Playdough
(Fan’s Choice Winner) Shad
Sho Baraka
Theory Hazit
Wonder Brown
Group of the Year
Top 3 vote: Scribbling Idiots 37%, Gallery Drive 30%, Deepspace 5 15%
116 Clique
Deepspace 5
Gallery Drive
Lightheaded
Rhema Soul
(Fan’s Choice Winner) Scribbling Idiots
Producer of the Year
Top 3 vote: Jaq 34%, Dust 29%, Peace 586 10%
Dert
Dust
(Fan’s Choice Winner) Jaq
Peace 586
Sean P
Toni Shift
Tony Stone
DJ of the Year
Top 3 vote: DJ Promote 28%, DJ Because 20%, DJ Wade-O 16%
DJ Aslan
DJ Because
DJ Official
(Fan’s Choice Winner) DJ Promote
DJ Rhino
DJ Wade-O
DJ Will
Album Artwork of the Year
Top 3 vote: Sivion 28%, Deepspace 5 26%, Wonder Brown 23% (tie) and Sho Baraka 23% (tie)
Deepspace 5 – The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
Sho Baraka – Lions and Liars
(Fan’s Choice Winner) Sivion – Butterfly Sessions beats by Dert
Wonder Brown – The Gallows
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