2009 Mid-Year Mechies: Summary

• Best Producer: Jneiro Jarel


• Best Emcee: Finale


• Best Hip Hop Album: Willie Isz - Georgiavania


• Best Non-Hip Hop Album: Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career


• Best Underground Hip Hop Album: Willie Isz - Georgiavania


• Best Mainstream Hip Hop Album: Mos Def - The Ecstatic


• Best Instrumental Hip Hop Album: Clutchy Hopkins meets Lord Kenjamin - Music is My Medicine


• Best Live Instrumentation Hip Hop Album: Us3 - stop.think.run


• Best Hip Hop EP: Sandpeople - Long Story Short


• Best Mixtape: De La Soul - Are You In?


• Best Jazz Album: Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information


• Best R&B Album: Platinum Pied Pipers - Abundance


• Best Pop Album: Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted


• Best Electronic Album: Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue


• Best Dance Album: Little Boots - Hands


• Best Indie Rock Album: Bat for Lashes - Two Suns


• Best Metal Album: Mastodon - Crack the Skye


• Best Folk Album: Marissa Nadler - Little Hells


• Best Blues Album: Alvin Jett & The Phat Noiz Blues Band - Honey Bowl


• Best Reggae Album: Buju Banton - Reggae Got Soul


• Best Hip Hop Book: Marcyliena Morgan - The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground


• Best Album That Already Leaked Even Though It Won't Be Released Until the Second Half of 2009: Eyedea & Abilities - By the Throat