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.

Recipients

Year	Winner	Album	Other finalists	Ref.
2002	Fu, CheChe Fu	Navigator	Dark Tower – Canterbury Drafts	[2]
2003	Nesian Mystik	Polysaturated	Deceptikonz – Elimination P-Money – Big Things	[3]
2004	Scribe	Crusader, TheThe Crusader	King Kapisi – 2nd Round Testament Mareko – White Sunday	[4]
2005	P-Money	Magic City	Tha Feelstyle – Break It To Pieces Savage – Moonshine	[5]
2006	Frontline	Borrowed Time	Nesian Mystik – Freshmen Opensouls – Kaleidoscope	[6]
2007	PNC	Rookie Card	4 Corners – The Foundations Deceptikonz – Heavy Rotation	[7]
2008	Scribe	Rhyme Book	Mareko – White Sunday 2: The Book Of Mark Young Sid – The Truth	[8]
2009	Ladi6	Time Is Not Much	Savage – Savage Island Smashproof – The Weekend	[9]
2010	Dallas, DavidDavid Dallas	Something Awesome	J. Williams – Young Love Young Sid – What Doesn't Kill Me...	[10]
2011	Ladi6	Liberation Of..., TheThe Liberation Of...	David Dallas – The Rose Tint PNC – Man on Wire	[11]
2012	Home Brew	Home Brew	Adeaze – Rise & Shine Savage – Mayhem & Miracles	[12]
2013	Aaradhna	Treble & Reverb	At Peace – Girl Songs P-Money – Gratitude	[13]
2014	David Dallas	Falling Into Place	Ladi6 - Automatic PNC - The Codes	[14]
2015	Janine and the Mixtape	XX	Diaz Grimm – Osiris The Doqument– Black Canvas – Wall & Piece	[15]

References

1. "Category Definitions 2013". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
2. "2002 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
3. "2003 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
4. "2004 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
5. "2005 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
6. "2006 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
7. "2007 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
8. "2008 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
9. "2009 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
10. "2010 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
11. "VNZMA 2011 Winners". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
12. "VNZMA Winners 2012". New Zealand Music Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
13. "Lorde, Aaradhna win big at music awards (+photos)". The New Zealand Herald (APN News & Media). 22 November 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
14. Jenkin, Lydia (16 October 2014). "This year's NZ Music Award contenders revealed". NZ Herald (APN). Retrieved 16 October 2014.
15. Jenkin, Lydia (20 November 2015). "Broods clean up at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards". NZ Herald (NZMA). Retrieved 23 November 2015.