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BET has announced the nominees for the 2012 BET Awards show and have confirmed that Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj will perform at the extravaganza, which takes places in Los Angeles on July 1st.

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BET’s president Stephen Hill held a press conference in New York City on Tuesday alongside Big Sean, DJ Khaled, A$AP Rocky, Diggy Simmons, Mindless Behavior and Melanie Fiona, where he announced the details of the show. Host Samuel L. Jackson wasn’t there, but he did sent a pre-taped message claiming the awards program was “too big to miss.”
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Predictably, Kanye West leads the nominations list with seven, while Beyonce came in strong with six nominations and Jay-Z gained five of them. Big Sean, who earned three nominations, will go up against Drake, J.Cole, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Young Jeezy in the Best Male Hip Hop category.
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“It’s perfect. My grandma gonna be watchin’, my mom, my family, the whole city,” Sean told MTV following the press conference. “It’s just tight that I can represent those people, everybody who had that dream, everybody who used to ride to school [listening to] their idols, now I’m with them. It’s just tight that I can show people that it’s possible.”
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So will you be watching the BET Awards when they air live from the Shrine Auditorium this July? Let us know in the comments section below as you listen to some Kanye West Radio!
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