With the voting for the VMA nominees underway, fans are talking about Kanye or Eminem, Slim Shady or Asher Roth, Jay-Z or T.I. The possibilities go on and on.

When it comes to debates about who is the hottest, I may know a thing or two about that. Fellow MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trustee Rahman Dukes and I sat down this week to discuss the nominations in a couple of categories for this year's Video Music Awards: Best Male Video and Best Hip-Hop Video.

The latter includes Asher Roth's "I Love College," Eminem's "We Made You," Jay-Z's "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)," Kanye West's "Love Lockdown" and Flo Rida's "Right Round." Best Male features mostly hip-hop dudes: Eminem, Jay-Z, and Kanye West for their aforementioned clips as well as T.I.'s "Live Your Life" and Ne-Yo's "Miss Independent."

While I won't spoil the video and tell you guys who we each chose, I can mention a couple of videos that we'd add to the nominees if we could.

Since Lil Wayne's "Got Money" was from last year, I'll cast my vote for Soulja's Boy "Turn My Swag On." Young'n had his game on with that video! It was lo-fi but high energy, and a very entertaining video. A young black brother (singing significantly off-key, however) getting that cream; coming from nothing to something in a major way. When he was 9 years old, Soulja swore he was gonna die for that gold.

Rahman is partial to Rick Ross' "Magnificent" video. How could you not crack a smile at seeing Ross in an ascot at the horse races? And he even brought Special Ed back for the video!

Check out the video and let us know what you think!

The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards will take place September 13 at 9 p.m. ET. Nominees, celebrity presenters and additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks. To be the first to find out the inside scoop, follow the Inside MTV Twitter account at Twitter.com/InsideMTV.