New Zealand Music Award for Best Urban/Hip Hop Album

Ladi6 has won the award twice, for her albums Time Is Not Much and The Liberation Of....
Scribe (centre) has won the award twice and P-Money (right) has won once.

Best Urban/Hip Hop Album is a New Zealand Music Award that honours New Zealand music artists for outstanding albums of the genres of rhythm and blues, hip hop, soul and funk.[1] The award was first awarded in 2002 as Best R&B/Hip Hop Album,[2] and in 2003 it was called Best Urban Album.[3] In 2004 it moved to its current title.

Controversy

In 2016, the award was presented to Aaradhna her album Brown Girl. She refused to accept the award, saying she felt the inclusion of both R&B music and hip hop in the same "urban" category was due to racial stereotyping and that she felt as a pop/R&B artist, she shouldn't be in the same category as hip hop acts. Aaradhna informally awarded the Tui to fellow nominee SWIDT for their album SmokeyGotBeatz Presents SWIDT vs EVERYBODY. Recorded Music NZ still lists Aaradhna as the winner of the category.[4]

Recorded Music NZ CEO Damian Vaughan responded to the incident, saying that "urban" was an industry term used by New Zealand radio, but that the Urban/Hip Hop category would be reevaluated before the 2017 awards.[5]

Recipients

Year Winner Album Other finalists Ref.
2002 Fu, CheChe Fu Navigator
  • Dark Tower – Canterbury Drafts
 [2]
2003 Nesian Mystik Polysaturated [3]
2004 Scribe Crusader, TheThe Crusader [6]
2005 P-Money Magic City [7]
2006 Frontline Borrowed Time [8]
2007 PNC Rookie Card [9]
2008 Scribe Rhyme Book [10]
2009 Ladi6 Time Is Not Much [11]
2010 Dallas, DavidDavid Dallas Something Awesome [12]
2011 Ladi6 Liberation Of..., TheThe Liberation Of... [13]
2012 Home Brew Home Brew [14]
2013 Aaradhna Treble & Reverb [15]
2014 David Dallas Falling Into Place [16]
2015 Janine and the Mixtape XX
  • Diaz Grimm – Osiris
    •
  • The Doqument– Black Canvas – Wall & Piece
 [17]
2016 Aaradhna[note 1] Brown Girl
  • SWIDT – SmokeyGotBeatz Presents SWIDT vs EVERYBODY
  • PNC – The Luke Vailima EP
[18][19]
  1. ↑ While the 2016 award was formally awarded to Aaradhna for Brown Girl, she refused to accept it and informally presented it to fellow nominee SWIDT. "Aaradhna claims racism, gives away Tui at NZ Music Awards". NZ Herald. NZME. Retrieved 17 November 2016.

References

  1. ↑ "Category Definitions 2013". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 "2002 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  3. 1 2 "2003 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Aaradhna claims racism, gives away Tui at NZ Music Awards". NZ Herald. NZME. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "NZ Music Awards: Aaradhna's racism claim rejected - but the awards could 'evolve'". NZ Herald. NZME. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "2004 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  7. ↑ "2005 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  8. ↑ "2006 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  9. ↑ "2007 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  10. ↑ "2008 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  11. ↑ "2009 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  12. ↑ "2010 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  13. ↑ "VNZMA 2011 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  14. ↑ "VNZMA Winners 2012". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  15. ↑ "Lorde, Aaradhna win big at music awards (+photos)". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  16. ↑ Jenkin, Lydia (16 October 2014). "This year's NZ Music Award contenders revealed". NZ Herald. APN. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  17. ↑ Jenkin, Lydia (20 November 2015). "Broods clean up at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards". NZ Herald. NZMA. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  18. ↑ "BEST URBAN/HIPHOP ALBUM 2016". NZ Music Award. Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  19. ↑ "NZ Music Awards". Facebook. NZ Music Awards. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
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