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- ↑ Fresh IE also received a 2008 GMAC nomination for Rap/Hip Hop Song Of The Year for: "Crystal". Joe Fiola was nominated for a 2008 Covenant award for Outstanding CD/DVD Artwork Design for Lockjaw.
- ↑ Fresh IE also received a 2009 GMAC nomination for: Rap/Hip Hop Song Of The Year: "Mr. Frequency" (with Bubba B and Byron Foster). GMAC 2009 Covenant Award Nominees Archived June 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ↑ For the 2010 Covenant Awards of October 29, 2010 Fresh I.E. also received nominations for Rap/Hip Hop Album Of The Year: Inside, Urban/R&B/Soul Song Of The Year: "Crybaby", Rap/Hip Hop Song Of The Year: "Inside", and also for "Swagger" (the latter co-written with Philly 5), and for Music DVD Of The Year: "Beyond The Beat".
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- ↑ Fresh I.E. also received 2004 Shai Award nominations in the categories of Artist Of The Year, and New Artist Of The Year.
