Londoner Adele was also named top female artist, with hip hop star Drake named top male artist.
Brandon Jackson, who plays hip-hop star turned actor Alpa Chino (say it fast), agreed.
Then Mayweather was joined on stage by his uncle and trainer Roger Mayweather, and the hip-hop star 50 Cent.
He also won dismissal of felony kidnapping, arson and criminal threats charges against hip-hop star Nathaniel Hale, whose stage name is Nate Dogg.
"We all know none of us in this in this room wouldn't be here for Michael Jackson, " said Lil Wayne, named best male hip-hop star.
Mayweather was roundly booed as he entered the arena accompanied by hip-hop star 50 Cent, who rapped all the way to the centre of the ring.
Is this another self-aggrandizing hip-hop star claiming rap supremacy?
On the day of my hip hop tour of Gabon, the government sponsored a free streetside concert with Amenem, Tina and Ba'Ponga warming up the stage for Senegalese-born U.S hip-hop star Akon.
And while she does all the shopping -- her very favorite hobby -- you can do far more important things like pass gas and watch fistfights on World Star Hip Hop.
The impact was amplified by the fact that the hip-hop world had never had a star come out as gay or bisexual.
"I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, " he told The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.
With the release of his 2003 debut, Philadelphia Freeway, rapper Freeway's distinctive style high-pitched, energetic vocals that convey a sense of urgency established him as a rising star in the hip-hop world.
Kyle Ching, an American who came from L.A. to China to chase China's business boom, is working on the debut album of Red Star, a Shanghai-based, multinational hip-hop trio.
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