2009 BET Awards Winners

Check out the year's top performers!

Alicia Keys - The two-time Best Female R&B Artist winner and Keep a Child Alive ambassador accepts the BET Humanitarian Award during the 2009 BET Awards. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
They Got It! - "Go Get It" artists Mary Mary proved that they were not only gospel royalty, but that they were just royal and annointed when they won the award for Best Gospel Artist for "God in Me" in 2009.(Photo: Arnold Turner/BET/PictureGroup)
M.I.A. - The British-born hip hop artist and activist who has two nonimations wins the Best Female Hip Hop award. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Jazmine Sullivan - The singer-songwriter who receives her third BET Awards nomination wins the 2009 Centric Award. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)Benny Boom - Boom has directed videos for the likes of Nicki Minaj, Sean Paul, Nas, Amerie, Kelly Rowland and P. Diddy. Nominated yet again for the Video Director of the Year award, Boom won the title in 2009. (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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M.I.A. - The British-born hip hop artist and activist who has two nonimations wins the Best Female Hip Hop award. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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