De La Soul Take Home High Times Doobie Award

High Times magazine awarded De la Soul with a Doobie Award last night (September 26) for their album Bionix. Sean Paul, Gov’t Mule, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, Beenie Man and Shannon McNally were also winners at last night’s Doobie awards show at BB King’s in New York. Maseo of De La Soul, Sean Paul, Warren […]

High Times magazine awarded De la Soul with a

Doobie Award last night (September 26) for their album Bionix. Sean Paul,

Gov’t Mule, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, Beenie Man and Shannon McNally

were also winners at last night’s Doobie awards show at BB King’s

in New York.

Maseo of De La Soul, Sean Paul, Warren Haynes

(Gov’t Mule), McNally, Soulive, High on Fire and the New Riders of the

Purple Sage were all on hand to accept their awards. Fear Factor’s Joe

Rogan emceed the show, and the crowd was treated to performances by Paul, High

on Fire, Lettuce, Black Moon, the New Riders and the Cannabis Cup Band.

Other special guests in attendance included Dave

Chappelle, Jackie “The Jokeman” Martling, Kim Deal, Me’shell

Ndegeocello, Fab 5 Freddy, Earl Chin (Rockers TV), Keith Stroup (NORML) and

Ebon Moss Bachrach and the cast of Comedy Central’s upcoming movie, P###

& Chicken.

Look for coverage of the Doobies in the January

issue of High Times. The complete list of winners are below:

2002 DOOBIE AWARD WINNERS

BAND OF THE YEAR: Tenacious D

POT SONG OF THE YEAR: “Gimme the Light” by Sean Paul

FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Shannon McNally

MOST CONSCIOUS ARTIST: John Trudell

BEST ROCK ALBUM—ESTABLISHED BAND: Nickelback, Silver Side Up

BEST ROCK ALBUM—NEW BAND: Puddle of Mudd, Come Clean

BEST HIP-HOP ALBUM: De la Soul, Bionix

BEST JAM-BAND ALBUM: Gov’t Mule, The Deep End, Vol. 1

BEST REGGAE ALBUM: Beenie Man, Tropical Storm

BEST JAZZ ALBUM: Soulive, Next

BEST STONER ROCK ALBUM: High on Fire, Surrounded by Thieves

BEST DANCE ALBUM: Chemical Brothers, Come With Us

BEST SOUNDTRACK ALBUM: 1 Giant Leap

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: New Rider of the Purple Sage