1999 Soul Train Music Awards

Special awards

Quincy Jones Award for Outstanding Career Achievements

• Luther Vandross

  Sammy Davis Jr. Award for Entertainer of the Year – Male

• R. Kelly

  Sammy Davis Jr. Award for Entertainer of the Year – Female

• Lauryn Hill

  Winners and nominees

R&B/Soul or Rap Album of the Year

• Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
• * Erykah Badu – Erykah Badu Live
• * DMX – It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
• * Jay Z – Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life

  Best R&B/Soul Album – Male

• R. Kelly – R.
• * Jay Z – Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
• * Maxwell – Embrya
• * Will Smith – Big Willie Style

  Best R&B/Soul Album – Female

• Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
• * Brandy – Never Say Never
• * Mýa – Mýa
• * Kelly Price – Soul of a Woman

  Best R&B/Soul Album – Group, Band or Duo

• The Temptations – Phoenix Rising
• * Dru Hill – Enter the Dru
• * LSG – Levert, Sweat, Gill
• * Outkast – Aquemini

  Best R&B/Soul Single – Male

• Brian McKnight – "Anytime"
• * Jon B. – "They Don't Know"
• * Kirk Franklin – "Lean on Me"
• * R. Kelly – "Half on a Baby"

  Best R&B/Soul Single – Female

• Deborah Cox – "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"
• * Lauryn Hill – "Doo Wop "
• * Janet Jackson – "I Get Lonely"
• * Kelly Price – "Friend of Mine"

  Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo

• Next – "Too Close"
• * Brandy and Monica – "The Boy is Mine"
• * K-Ci & JoJo – "All My Life"
• * The Temptations – "Stay"

  The Michael Jackson Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap Music Video

• Lauryn Hill – "Doo Wop "
• * Busta Rhymes – "Dangerous"
• * Big Punisher – "Still Not a Player"
• * Will Smith – "Gettin' Jiggy With It"

  Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist

• Kelly Price
• * Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz
• * Mýa
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  Best Jazz Album

• Herbie Hancock – Gershwin's World
• * Olu Dara –
• * Russ Freeman and Craig Chaquico – From the Redwoods to the Rockies
• * John Scofield – A Go Go

  Best Gospel Album

• Kirk Franklin – The Nu Nation Project
• * Ronnie Bryant and the Christian Community Choir – He's a Keepa
• * Fred Hammond – Pages of Life - Chapters I & II
• * Walter Hawkins and the Love Center Choir – Love Alive V: 25th Anniversary Reunion

  Performers

• Whitney Houston – "It's Not Right but It's Okay
• Kelly Price and Da Brat – "Secret Love"
• Deborah Cox and R. L. Huggar – "We Can't Be Friends"
• Luther Vandross Tribute:
• * El DeBarge, Johnny Gill and Kenny Lattimore – "Never Too Much" / "Don't Want to Be a Fool" / "Wait for Love"
• * Whitney Houston – "So Amazing"
• Kirk Franklin and Nu Nation – "Love"
• Monica – "Angel of Mine"
• Lauryn Hill – "Everything is Everything"