Great news, Soulja Boy fans!

Soulja Boy managed to grab 3 nominations for this year’s BET Awards. He’s nominated for the People’s Champ Awards category, Track of The Year category and Made You Look Award (Style) category. In the People’s Champ Awards category, Soulja Boy is nominated for his song “Turn My Swag On” and going head to head with Dorrough with “Ice Cream Paint Job”, Fabolous with “Throw It In The Bag”, Kid Cudi with “Day N Nite” and guess who… Kanye West with “Amazing”.

In the “Track of The Year” category, Soulja Boy competes with some of the biggest names in hip hop including Jay-Z’s “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”, T.I. ft. Rihanna with “Live Your Life”, Young Money (Lil Wayne & Company) with “Every Girl” and again, Kid Cudi with “Day N Nite”. Playing the huge arena, aren’t we, Soulja Boy? Well we are and we can’t be more happy about it!

And to prove that our boy has real swagger, in the Made You Look (Style) category, Soulja Boy shares the nomination again with Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Lil Wayne and Kanye West.

What do you think about that, haters? LOL!

The BET Awards will be hosted by comedian Mike Epps, and will also recognize N.W.A. veteran Ice Cube with its “I Am Hip-Hop” icon award. Don’t miss the show which will be taped in Atlanta on October 10 and air on October 27, 2009.

Here’s the full list of nominations.

People’s Champ Awards
- Dorrough – “Ice Cream Paint Job”
- Fabolous – “Throw It In The Bag”
- Kid Cudi – “Day N Nite”
- Soulja Boy Tell’em – “Turn My Swag On”
- Kanye West – “Amazing”

Producer of the Year
- Ron Browz
- Cool & Dre
- Tha Bizness
- T-Pain
- Kanye West

MVP of the Year
- Drake
- Jay-Z
- Lil Wayne
- T.I.
- Kanye West

Best Hip-Hop Collabo
- Jim Jones, Ron Browz & Juelz Santana – “Pop Champagne”
- Lil Wayne & Bobby Valentino – “Mrs. Officer”
- Rick Ross & John Legend – “Magnificent”
- T.I. & Rihanna – “Live Your Life”
- Young Jeezy & Kanye West – “Put On”

Track of the Year
- Kid Cudi – “Day N Nite”
- Jay-Z – “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”
- Young Money (Lil Wayne & Company) – “Every Girl”
- T.I. ft. Rihanna – “Live Your Life”
- Soulja Boy Tell’em – “Turn My Swag On”

DJ of the Year
- DJ AM
- DJ Drama
- DJ Khaled
- DJ Tony Neal
- DJ Greg Street

Hustler of the Year
- Diddy
- Drake
- Jay-Z
- Lil Wayne
- Kanye West

Made You Look Award (Style)
- Jay-Z
- Kid Cudi
- Lil Wayne
- Soulja Boy Tell’em
- Kanye West

Best Live Performer
- Busta Rhymes
- Jay-Z
- Lil Wayne
- T.I.
- Kanye West

CD of the Year
- Relapse – Eminem
- The Renaissance – Q-Tip
- Paper Trail – T.I.
- 808s & Heartbreak – Kanye West
- The Recession – Young Jeezy

Lyricist of the Year
- Drake
- Eminem
- Jay-Z
- Lil Wayne
- Kanye West

Rookie of the Year
- B.o.B
- Dorrough
- Drake
- Kid Cudi
- Wale

Director of the Year
- Gil Green
- Anthony Mandler
- Mr. Boomtown
- Chris Robinson
- Hype Williams

Best Hip Hop Video
- “Ice Cream Paint Job” – Dorrough
- “We Made You” – Eminem
- “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) – Jay-Z
- “Day N Nite” – Kid Cudi
- “Live Your Life – “T.I. ft. Rihanna

Best Hip-Hop Blog
- Allhiphop.com
- NahRight.com
- ThisIs50.com
- Sohh.com
- WorldStarhiphop.com

Source: BallerStatus

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