The Epic Network's end of year awards continue, and I have to give the Rookie Of The Year award to Miss Nicki Minaj. Now I could have given this to Drake, but frankly I like Nicki better. I was talking to my dude A.B the other day and we both agreed that Nicki Minaj has secured a huge amount of success and hype, very quickly. Plus she's juts good t...

Just to keep up with the yearly awards (The last one seeing Tony Yayo win Mixtape Artist of the year), The Epic Network would now like to award the most Lyrical Artist/Act to Slaughterhouse (Made up of Royce da 5'9, Crooked I, Joe Budden and Joell Ortiz). I had much difficulty trying to figure out who deserved this award; I was thinking Eminem, Roy...

I will be assigning certain rappers 2009 awards, as I am sure I can do a better job than MTV when it comes to rewarding rappers for their 2009 achievements. I would like to start out by assigning Tony Yayo the 2009 Mixtape artist of the year; now remember I am not saying he's the most lyrical rapper, but as far as Mixtape consistency nobody has bee...