Best Mash-up Album

MC/Producer Amerigo Gazaway did us proud with his innovative mash-up of The Pharcyde and A Tribe Called Quest, which mined the jazz, soul and funk records Tribe sampled on their albums to create the majority of his beats. Gummy Soul’s ingenuity stretched beyond the realm of art in their nuanced response to Sony Music’s ensuing cease-and-desist legal threats, which included depositing a copy of Bizarre Tribe at MTSU’s Center for Popular Music before wiping it from the Internet.