Clipse Win BET Awards Album Of The Year After Grammy Snub

Clipse win BET Album of the Year for Let God Sort Em Out, topping Cardi B, J. Cole and Bruno Mars on hip-hop’s biggest night.

Clipse walked away with Album of the Year at the 2026 BET Awards Sunday night, taking the biggest trophy of the evening for Let God Sort Em Out and proving that the Recording Academy got it wrong earlier this year.

Pusha T and Malice spent 16 years apart before reuniting for the Pharrell-produced comeback record, which dropped last July to some of the year’s strongest reviews across the board.

The Grammys nominated it for Album of the Year and Best Rap Album in February but handed neither to the Virginia Beach brothers.

BET voters saw things differently and the Clipse took home the hardware that the Recording Academy kept out of reach.

The story behind the album is as compelling as anything on it.

Malice had stepped away from rap entirely back in 2010 to pursue his faith, and it took a conversation with their late father to bring him all the way back.

“We were sitting in the car,” Malice told Rolling Stone. “And I asked him, ‘What do you think about me rapping again?’ He said, ‘Son, I think you’ve been too hard on yourself.’”

Pusha, meanwhile, held the Clipse name in high regard across a decade-plus of acclaimed solo work, and both brothers told AllHipHop they believed a reunion was overdue.

“It’s time. The album is ready. The album is right,” Malice said at the Piece by Piece premiere. “I feel it’s something that Hip-Hop has been missing.”

The album even required them to leave Def Jam and sign with Roc Nation just to get it out, after Universal demanded changes to Kendrick Lamar’s verse on “Chains & Whips,” which also earned Clipse a Grammy for Best Rap Performance earlier this year.

Kendrick had nothing but love for them when he won Best Rap Album that same night.

“Hip-Hop is gonna always be right here,” Lamar said from the Grammy stage. “What’s up, Push, man? Malice, man? Every time I tell you this: we gon’ be in these suits, we gon’ be looking good. We gon’ be having the culture with us.”

On the Hip-Hop side of the BET night, Cardi B took Best Female Hip Hop Artist for the third time, her first win in the category since back-to-back victories in 2018 and 2019.

Coming into tonight as the most nominated artist with six nods, Cardi’s comeback year behind Am I the Drama? was impossible to ignore.

Kehlani and Leon Thomas claimed their first-ever wins in the R&B categories, with Kehlani ending SZA’s three-year run in Best Female R&B/Pop Artist and Thomas besting Usher, Bruno Mars, and a record eight-time winner in Chris Brown to take Best Male R&B/Pop Artist.

Doechii and SZA captured BET Her for “girl, get up.”

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