Irv Gotti wins second BMI Urban Songwriter of the Year award

Murder Inc President Irv Gotti has been awarded his second Urban Songwriter of the Year trophy at the BMI Urban Awards in Miami. Elsewhere in Tuesday’s awards event Song of the Year went to Nelly’s ‘Hot in Herre’, and EMI Music Publishing won its third straight Urban Publisher of the Year award. The Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams (co-writer of ‘Hot in Herre’) and Chad Hugo were named Urban Producers of the Year, and funk/soul legend Isaac Hayes was honoured as a BMI Icon.