The MTVu Woodie Awards, an annual show since 2004 that celebrates artists college students love, crashed SXSW last Friday (March 20th). The festival-award show combo brought out today’s hottest artists like Rae Sremmurd, Action Bronson, Ty Dolla $ign and Raury. Despite the rain there was a great turnout, and people in ponchos filled the pimped out parking lot located in the heart of downtown Austin, Tx.

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Host Jack Antonoff kicked off the awards show by pulling out his acoustic guitar to play a cover tribute to past Woodie honorees like Foo Fighters and Drake. There were appearances A$AP Rocky, Zoë Kravitz, Charlemagne and The Fat Jew all to present the award made of wood– pause.

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By the way, Rita Ora and Charlie XCX, videoed in to explain the story behind the name of the awards show. Apparently, it’s not exactly a joke about a guy’s excited crotch. Back in the day record labels would award their artists with wooden records, kind of like how we hear of platinum and gold record plaques. #TheMoreYouKnow

Anyway, 2015 Woodie winners were Childish Gambino, Porter Robinson, Years & Years, Taylor Swift and WPTS Radio from the University of Pittsburgh. Fall Out Boy was awarded the distinct honor of the inaugural induction into the Hall of Wood after a kick-ass performance.

Rapper Big Sean was the show’s close-out performance and he got the crowd hype. A live band was backing his DJ, so the electricity was high– both literally and figuratively. He performed his smash single IDFWU twice! I loved the show and we had a really great time trunt up in the rain.

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