From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: alt.rap
Subject: Last year's awards:  THE RESULTS (2/2)
Date: 13 Dec 92 17:26:49 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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For the newcomers, I'm posting the results of last year's First Annual
New Jack Hip Hop Awards.  Especially note the DJ award.  Only one
person was nominated and after the awards people came up with maybe 2
million people they thought were better.  Don't let this happen with
your favorite group/dj/producer/single/album.  Nominate somebody.  You
don't HAVE to nominate in every category, just the ones you want.

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Sorry for the delay peoples.  This is part 2 of 2.  *You* voted for the
nominees and *you* voted for the winners.

Last time:
	Crossover
	Braggadacio
	Bohemian
	Misc 1
	Misc 2
This time:
	Nasty
	Gangsta
	Misc 3
	Political
	Hall of Fame

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Nastiness was counted for us by ntmtv!hart who writes with his toes.

	Dopest Nasty Group

41.8%	Geto Boys
34.3%	N.W.A
23.9%	Black Sheep

Geto Boys and NWA fought long and hard on this one, going back and
forth, until the very end.

	Dopest Nasty Male Rapper

29.9%	Too $hort
20.9%	Dres
11.9%	Scarface
10.4%	Tim Dogg
 9%	Bushwick Bill
 7.4%	Schooly D
 6%	DJ Quik
 1.5%	Ice-T
 1.5%	Ice Cube
 1.5%	Willie D

The big fight was for third on this one, with fighting among some of
the Geto Boys, Tim Dogg, Schooly D and (somewhat) Dj Quik.  The Ice
pair lagged with Willie D.  That Too $hort won is not a big surprise,
given his name recognition after "The Ghetto" but Dres (of Black
Sheep, natch) is the out-of-nowhere upstart in this group.  I guess
that's for doz that slept.

	Dopest Nasty Female Rapper

78.4%	Nikki D
21.6%	Choice

As with some of the other female categories, some folks did not vote
on this one, but enough did to give the more recognizable Nikki D a
nice margin over Choice.

	Dopest Nasty Single

43.5%	"Look Who's Burnin'", Ice Cube
30.6%	"Just Don't Bite It", N.W.A
17.7%	"On That Other Level", Geto Boys
 6.5%	"Black Pussy", DJ Quik
 1.6%	"Saturday Nights", Schooly D

A fairly open race it was until the very end, but Cube beat his
estranged pals from Compton.  Geto Boys hid in the middle of pack and
held a nice lead over the two stragglers.

	Dopest Nasty Album

44.6%	_EFIL4ZAGGIN_, N.W.A
43.1%	_We Can't Be Stopped_, Geto Boys
12.3%	_DJ Quik_, DJ Quik

Geto Boys and NWA went head to head again but *this* time, Compton's
most notorious came out ahead.  DJ Quik played gadfly.  Obvious in
their absence, of course, was 2 Live Crew.  Ice-T got a write-in for
both _Power_ and "LGBNAF".

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Our next category is Gangsta Rap, counted by public enemy number 17,
Chad Darby.

	Dopest Gangsta Group

40.5%	Geto Boys
31%	N.W.A
17.9%	Cypress Hill
 4.8%	Above The Law
 2.4%	OG Style
 2.4%	2 Black 2 Strong
 1.2%	Compton's Most Wanted

Probably helped by their still-being-played smash "Mind's Playin' Trix
On Me," Geto Boys took this by a nice healthy margin, beating out
Compton bad boys N.W.A who did well considering what looked like a
decline in popularity on alt.rap.  Cypress Hill made a respectable
third while everyone else just brought up the rear.

	Dopest Gangsta Male Rapper

49.5%	Ice Cube
41.1%	Ice-T
 6.3%	Scarface
 3.1%	MC Ren

Ice Cube began his trek with a huge lead, but apparently lots of folks
pulled out _OG: Original Gangsta_ near the end of the voting because
Ice-T closed the gap.  Scarface and MC Ren showed up long enough to
get token votes.

	Dopest Gangsta Female

57%	YoYo
35.4%	MC Lyte
 7.6%	Nikki D

YoYo pulled off one of these rare majority wins quite successfully
despite concern from some voters that she wasn't really a gangsta
rapper.  Of course, there was concern that none of these three were
gangstas, but you know, if they aren't then what female is?

	Dopest Gangsta Rap Single

38.7%	"Mind Playin' Trix On Me", Geto Boys
29%	"How To Survive In South Central", Ice Cube
20.4%	"O.G.", Ice-T
 8.6%	"Midnight", Ice-T
 3.2%	"Mr Scarface, part 2", Scarface

Geto Boys' much-played single got over big time, but faced some early
competition from Ice Cube's never-played unofficial theme song from
John Singleton's _Boyz N The Hood_.  Ice-T took the next two spots,
but might have been better served if he had only one single up for
votes to prevent splitting.  Scarface of the Geto Boys showed up, but,
well that's how the story goes.

	Dopest Gangsta Rap Album

37.8%	_Death Certificate_, Ice Cube
32.2%	_OG:  Origial Gangsta_, Ice-T
14.4%	_EFIL4ZAGGIN_, N.W.A
10%	_We Can't Be Stopped_, Geto Boys
 5.6%	_Mr Scarface Is Back_, Scarface

Ice Cube snatched the title from Ice-T once again but not without a
hard fight.  Some voters seemed to feel that Ice-T's latest was all
that, but Ice Cube's was all that and then some.  No shame in losing
to the Cube.  N.W.A fell in the middle of the curve, beating out Geto
Boys who (some say) produced a few good singles but not a great album.
Mr Scarface's relatively new album got a few props.

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The following categories were counted by the Homeboy From Hell.

	Dopest Short Form Video

36.1%	"Can't Truss It", Public Enemy
24.1%	"Shut 'Em Down", Public Enemy
20.5%	"Mind Playin' Trix On Me", Geto Boys
19.3%	"Pop Goes The Weasel", 3rd Bass

It's a Public Enemy world.  PE took both top slots.  There was never
really a contest for first, but it looked like the well-received 3rd
Bass anti-Vanilla Wafer track was going to take second place until the
very end when "Shut 'Em Down" got almost all the votes and Geto Boys
rode a last-day surge to just barely beat our estranged Brooklyn team.

	Dopest Long Form Video

	Tour of A Black Planet

No vote on this one.  Apparently no one out there buys video tapes.

	Dopest Hip Hop Video Show

34.2%	_Yo!  MTV Raps_ with Dr Dre and Ed Lover
29%	_Yo!  MTV Raps_ with Fab Five Freddy
26.3%	_Pump It Up!_ with Dee Barnes
10.5%	_Rap City_ with Chris Thomas

To no one's surprise, The MTV show took top honors as it is seen
almost everywhere.  Less people seem to have access to BET to catch
Chris Thomas and even less people can catch the syndicated _Pump It
Up!_.  Still, Dee "I sued Dr Dre" Barnes gave a good fight until the
last day.  Some voters voted for her show just for the opening--truly
a hype way to start a rap show.

	Biggest Sellout (for the suckas that go pop)

56.8%	Vanilla Ice for being himself
31.8%	MC Hammer for "2 Legit 2 Quit"
11.4%	Big Daddy Kane for _Prince of Darkness_

Undaunted by the fact that Vanilla Extract had never been down in the
first place and so could not have gone pop by definition, voters
declared him the king of suckas by a large enough margin for a majority.

	Whackest Rapper (for the weakest but most visible rappers)

61.5%	Vanilla Ice
24.2%	Marky Mark
14.3%	MC Hammer

Again undaunted by the fact that what Vanilla Ice Cream Cone does
isn't really rap as much as it is a mutant form of getting rid of
waste, the voters crowned him king of whackness and by another
majority vote.  Newcomer Marky Mark got diggum smack anti-props
because (as someone said) he can pick a nice sound but he loses once
he opens his mouth.  MC Household Tool who earlier decided to forget
the MC handle because of a false advertsining suit made a respectable
third.

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Our next category, Political Rap, was counted by alta@athena.mit.edu

	Dopest Political Group

98.9%	Public Enemy
 1.1%	Disposable Heroes of HipHoprisy

Damn.  I'm not sure what to say, so I won't.

	Dopest Political Male Rapper

53.3%	Chuck D
13.3%	KRS-One
12.2%	Ice-T
11.1%	Paris
10.1%	Ice Cube

Damn, again.  Chuck took a big, tough field by a nice majority.
KRS-One took second, such as it was, beating out Ice-T the political
gangsta who finally beat out Ice Cube.  Paris avoided last by a little
bit.

        Dopest Political Female Rapper
 
70.9%   Queen Latifah
29.1%   Sister Souljah
 
Somebody out there must have heard Queen Latifah (who is now chalking
up her second win) say something political, 'cause she won this one.
Or maybe it's just that no one really liked Sister Souljah's "Slavery
Is Back In Effect."

	Dopest Political Single

53.3%	"Can't Truss It", Public Enemy
20%	"By The Time I GetTo Arizona", Public Enemy
20%	"Shut 'Em Down", Public Enemy
5.6%	"Television", Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
1.1%	"The Devil Made Me Do It", Paris

Damn.  PE took the top three spots and it wasn't ever a contest.
"Can't Truss It" got a majority win and the other two crushed the
competition.  Damn.

	Dopest Political Album

68.9%	_Apocalypse '91:  The Enemy Strikes Black_, Public Enemy
13.3%	_Death Dertificate_, Ice Cube
10%	_OG:  Original Gangsta_, Ice-T
 7.8%	_Devil Made Me Do It_, Paris

PE did the majority win thing.  It's a PE world.  Ice-T took a
backseat to Cube once again and Paris brought up the rear.

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This final set was again counted by the Homeboy From hell.
 
        Provider of Dopest Sample
 
45.8%   James Brown
22.9%   Parliament
15.7%   Public Enemy
12.1%   Funkadelic
 3.5%	Parliament-Funkadelic

James Brown who, along with Clyde Stubblefield, provided us with the
funky drummer won this category.  Even if you're one of those
people who think PFunk is one group, James Brown still got more votes,
so he won.  Parliament was more popular than Funkadelic as was PE.  By
the way, Booker T and the MG's and Steve Miller Band got write-ins.

	Hall of Fame

This winner of this award will be the first entered into our Hall of
Fame for dopeness above and beyond the call of hip hop.  As such
s/t/he/y will not be eligible next year.

The nominees are:
	Public Enemy
	Run-DMC
	Sugar Hill Gang
	Grandmaster Flash (and the Furious Five)

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36.7%	Public Enemy
30%	Grandmaster Flash
18.9%	Run-DMC
14.4%	Sugar Hill Gang

It was a Grandmaster Flash world at the beginning but Public Enemy
fans decided that they wanted someone new.  Kids today, tsk tsk, no
respect for history.  

Public Enemy, as we all know, recently released _Apocalypse '91:  The
Enemy Strikes Black_, their fourth album.  Like Run-DMC in 1983,
Public Enemy completed changed the face of rap with their second album
_It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back_ which is already
considered a classic.  Attracting a diverse group of music fans,
including hard rock fans, PE has helped to bring Real Hip Hop(tm) to
the larger mainstream without being forced to water themselves down to
the the diluted level of many content-free popish artists.

	Dopest Rap Single of 1991

The nominees are:
	"Can't Truss It", Public Enemy
	"Mind's Playin' Trix On Me", Geto Boys
	"Wrong Nigga Ta Fuck Wit", Ice Cube
	"Buggin' Out/We Got The Jazz", A Tribe Called Quest

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47.2%	"Can't Truss It", Public Enemy
22.5%	"Buggin' Out/We Got The Jazz", A Tribe Called Quest
22.5%	"Mind's Playin' Trix On Me", Geto Boys
 7.8%	"Wrong Nigga Ta Fuck Wit", Ice Cube

No surprise here at the end, but Quest lead for a little while there,
going back and forth with Public Enemy.  In the middle of the voting,
Geto Boys got enough votes to make it look like a three-way tie and
like with ever other category PE fans made the difference.

	Dopest Rap Album of 1991

The nominees are:
	_Apocalypse '91:  The Enemy Strikes Black_, Public Enemy
	_Death Certificate_, Ice Cube
	_OG:  Original Gangsta_, Ice-T
	_Low End Theory_, A Tribe Called Quest
	_Bazerk, Bazerk, Bazerk_, Son of Bazerk

And the winners....

42.4%	_Apocalypse '91:  The Enemy Strikes Black_, Public Enemy
24.7%	_Low End Theory_, A Tribe Called Quest
15.3%	_Death Certificate_, Ice Cube
12.9%	_OG:  Original Gangsta_, Ice-T
 4.7%	_Bazerk, Bazerk, Bazerk_, Son of Bazerk

It's a Black planet, apparently, and PE runs it.  Despite barely
making the nomination, Quest got dope props and made second place.
Ice Cube took third from the original gangsta and newcomer Son of
Bazerk showed up long enough to get a few sympathy votes.

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Well, that's it.  The big winners were Public Enemy and A Tribe Called
Quest.  Even more importantly, majority wins were rare, reflecting
the strong fields and diverse opinions.

I'm outta here like last year.  See you at the end of 1992.
--
Peace.
                      "If a man hasn't found something he will die for, 
                       he isn't fit to live."
                                          -Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
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