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T-Pain, Lil Wayne Win Big At 07 Ozone Awards; Event A Success
By Miles Bennett ♦ Published 08/17/2007

The top winners at the 2007 Ozone Awards on Monday (August 13) were T-Pain and Lil Wayne, who took home the most trophies with a total of three, at the event which took place at Miami's James L. Knight Center.

Among the awards for the rapper-ternt-singer were TJ's DJ's Huslter Award, Best R&B Artist, and Best Rap/R&B Collaboration, while Weezy won Best Rap Artist and Best Lyricist honors.

"It's only one thing I want to say to a lot of people," T-Pain said when he took the stage to accept the Hustler award. "Told you!"

Coming in after T-Pain and Weezy was Miami native, DJ Khaled, who walked away with two awards.

The awards weekend drew in artists and industry folk from all over -- East Coast, the South and the West Coast. It was another successful year for the rising Southern-based magazine.

"The TJ's DJ's and Second Annual Ozone Awards successfully brought together some of the biggest and future stars of hip-hop for one weekend to celebrate the evolution of Southern hip-hop to the masses," said TJ's DJ's founder TJ Chapman and Ozone founder Julia Beverly. "We thank everyone from the artists and producers to the DJs for their role in the success of the movement. We look forward to making next year's festivities even bigger."

Those in attendence included Rich Boy, Twista, Sirius Jones, Papoose, Dipset, Mistah FAB and Keak da Sneak, while Southern rappers such as Lil' Boosie, Foxx, Webbie, Hurricane Chris, Soulja Boy, and Baby Boy all came to perform and tore down the stage.

Complete List Of Winners:

Best Rap Album: Young Jeezy, The Inspiration

Best Rap Artist (Male): Lil Wayne

Best Rap Artist (Female): Diamond and Princess of Crime Mob

Best Rap Group: UGK

Best Lyricist: Lil Wayne

Breakthrough Artist: Lil' Boosie

TJ's DJ's Hustler Award: T-Pain

TJ's DJ's Tastemaker Award: Rick Ross

Best Video: DJ Khaled, "We Takin' Over" (directed by Gil Green)

Best Rap/R&B Collaboration: Plies, "Shawty" (featuring T-Pain)

Club Banger of the Year: Rich Boy, "Throw Some D's" (featuring Polow Da Don)

Mixtape Monster Award: Lil Wayne

Most Slept-On Artist: Devin the Dude

Best Producer: Polow Da Don

Best R&B Album: Akon, Konvicted

Best R&B Artist (Male): T-Pain

Best R&B Artist (Female): Ciara

Best Mixtape DJ: DJ Drama

Best Radio DJ: DJ Khaled

Best Club DJ: DJ Q45

Best Mixtape/Street Album: Killer Mike, I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind

Patiently Waiting Awards

Alabama: B.A. Boys

Carolinas: Lil Ru

Florida: Sean Kingston

Georgia: Gorilla Zoe

Kentucky: G-Mack

Louisiana: Hurricane Chris

Mississippi: Soulja Boy

Tennessee: Kia Shine

Texas: Tum Tum

Ozone West Coast Awards

Best Rap Album, West Coast: The Game, Doctor's Advocate

Patiently Waiting California: Mistah F.A.B.

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