The 8^th annual South African Hip-Hop Awards took place last night at Gold Reef City, Joburg.

Some notable wins include YoungstaCPT's 3T winning Album of the Year, Ginger Trill for Lyricist of the Year, Flame taking Best Freshman and Best Male, Nadia Nakai winning Best Female, Makwa winning Best Producer and Falko One receiving the honorary award.

The South African Hip-Hop Awards were started in 2012 by Ritual Media Group, a company owned by South African hip-hop entrepreneur Osmic Menoe aka Ace of Spades.

This year, the number of categories was reduced, making for a succinct list of winners.

It was noted in a press release prior to the awards show:

"We have had some made some major changes to the categories and aim to raise the bar even higher, the changes include merging the MVP and Hustler Of The Year Award together to become one, the Best Video award will be awarded to the directors of the respective videos instead of the artists themselves and we have also had to remove out the Kings Of The Province, Best Graffiti Artist and the Best Dance Crew categories due to a declining number of submissions over the years."

Below is the full list of winners at the 2019 South African Hip-Hop Awards:

Best Collaboration

Beast (featuring Sjava) "Hello"

Mixtape of the Year

Shane Eagle for Dark Moon Flower

Best Freshman

Flame

Best Lyricist

Ginger Trill

Best Producer

Makwa

Best Female

Nadia Nakai

Best Male

Flame

Honorary Award

Falko

Ubuntu Activism

Emile YX?

Best Video

YoungstaCPT

Best International Brand

Castle Light

Best Local Brand

Butan

Best Hip-Hop Radio Show

DJ Speedsta and Loot Love's Absolute Hip-Hop (Metro FM)

Best Remix

25K (featuring AKA and Emtee) "Culture Vulture Remix"

Best Promoter

Cassper Nyovest for Fill Up

Best Hustler

Cassper Nyovest

Best Digital Sales

Nasty C

Best DJ

DJ PH

Album of the Year

YoungstaCPT's 3T

Song of the Year

Yanga Chief "Utatakho"

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