Nas, Royce, Gibbs and Jay Electronica are nominees for rap album of the year at the Grammy’s

[aceboon]

I’ll try and find a video tomorrow but he was accusing 9th of playing politics (9th is on the Grammy committee) to get rapsody’s debut album nominated instead of the final Tribe album. This was 2017/2018 I believe.

I just edited to include an article from The Source, I didn't know 9th was involved in the process

 

[Ziggiy]

What did Q-Tip say about 9th?

Edit: Nevermind, saw this, so is 9th part of the nomination process?
Q-Tip Goes in on Grammys, Calls Out 9th Wonder for Exclusion

9th is on the Committee. Which makes him congratulating everyone except Nas even more flagrant because it can be interpreted as favoritism.


But I don’t think he can actually influence who votes for who once the nominations are set

 

[2Cacalypse Now]

Was Pop Smoke even nominated at all? Dominated this year

Grammys is

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Pull Up with your 1st Grammy to Hood in Car #85

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Em dissed the Grammys and doesn’t want anything to do with them.

Earlier today, I realized that when "Lucky You" got nominated for a Grammy but Kamikaze didn't, that was because it was the only thing from Kamikaze that Eminem submitted for consideration, because he just wanted Joyner Lucas to win something.

 

[BK The Great]

Earlier today, I realized that when "Lucky You" got nominated for a Grammy but Kamikaze didn't, that was because it was the only thing from Kamikaze that Eminem submitted for consideration, because he just wanted Joyner Lucas to win something.

That might’ve been the reason why he put him on there, but he also dissed the Grammys on that same album. I forgot if he also dissed him on Music To Be Murdered By.

 

[Cadillac]

Outkast winning for this album over Get Rich is the perfect example of how Grammy's value artistic shyt over the IN THE STREETS albums

bro, Grammys are given for artistic value. Not only in RAP. its been tons of unknowns nominated for Album of the year (which was generarlly a white category until very recent) that wasnt sellers but then got the Grammy and sales took off.

Grammys are about artistic value. Same with the Oscars.


Look at the list of rap album Grammy winners since 96. its a different curve. You going wayyyyyyyyyy too hard in here. breathe bro..

AMA's give awards out for albums sales and who hot. Golden Globes does it for movies.

Grammys are like dinner at Ocean Prime.

Trap rappers generally Red Lobster shyt breh. They need to up the artistic value

this not at all true

if grammys were always about artistic value

then wayne(08), Cardi(2019), and given how the coli talks about drake then he shouldnt have won either goin by coli logic.

the more artistic albums like Lupe, Nas(08 and 13), Pusha, Nip should have won going by your logic. But they didnt why? because the bigger record won. in Tha Carter, Invasion of privacy and Take care

the grammys isnt about "artistic value" at all. its about everything but that.

espescially when mostly all its selections have included giving it to the biggest record if not the whitest(eminem, maclemore)

 

[Cadillac]

I’m not mad at Jay Electronica or Nas nominations more so mad at the others.
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only reason your not mad at elec is cause Jay-Z is on it

I do agree with you on the of this site and selection espescially as i think Roddy's album is >>> almost all these except Gibbs

but how you gonna be mad at gibbs but not mad at Jay elec?

Gibbs and elec sold the same amount with Gibbs being highly recieved more than elec by critics

if anything Elec should def not be here, whereas Gibbs actually deserves his spot.

if you not mad at elec your ass better not be mad at Gibbs either.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

only reason your not mad at elec is cause Jay is on it

I do agree with you on the of this site and selection espescially as i think Roddy's album is >>> almost all these except Gibbs

but how you gonna be mad at gibbs but not mad at Jay elec?

Gibbs and elec sold the same amount with Gibbs being highly recieved more than elec by critics

if anything Elec should def not be here, whereas Gibbs actually deserves his spot.

if you not mad at elec your ass better not be mad at Gibbs either.

I don’t see the equivalence between Gibbs and Elec at all. Sorry. Maybe at face value.

But Gibbs has dropped multiple albums of the year by now. He and Madlib got snubbed last year for Bandana, and I don’t think they got nominated for Piñata in 2014 either. Not to mention Freddie has dropped at least a 4 mic album, every year, for 7 years now.

This year was Elec’s first true release. Gibbs has been putting in way more work and has established himself so much more artistically, and actually has a very respectable catalogue already.

Elec took 13 years to drop his 1st album and it’s essentially a duo album at that.

I like Elec too. But when you dig deeper I think the comparison w/ Gibbs falls apart.

 

[Cadillac]

I don’t see the equivalence between Gibbs and Elec at all. Sorry. Maybe at face value.

But Gibbs has dropped multiple albums of the year by now. He and Madlib got snubbed last year for Bandana, and I don’t think they got nominated for Piñata in 2014 either. Not to mention Freddie has dropped at least a 4 mic album, every year, for 7 years now.

This year was Elec’s first true release. Gibbs has been putting in way more work and has established himself so much more artistically, and actually has a very respectable catalogue already.

Elec took 13 years to drop his 1st album.

I like Elec too. But when you dig deeper I think the comparison w/ Gibbs falls apart.

given they have included 9th and other people from what i heard i expected Gibbs to be nominated espescially given the last year or so where you had Nip, and pusha be nominated. Gibbs was getting alot of notoriety and alfredo was highly recieved.

its fukk the grammys and idc, but how you gon be mad at Gibbs nomination but not at Elec. I fw with Elec but that nikka does not deserve to be on here

but ahh well i dont really care. Plus personally i dont think him, Gibbs or nas will win. I believe d smoke will

 

[Ziggiy]

Was Pop Smoke even nominated at all? Dominated this year

Grammys is

He was nominated for Dior

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Lil Baby's album is peak mainstream level rap music. That joint is hard af

“Hard as fukk” and “pinnacle of the genre worthy of recognition” are too different things entirely.

 

[Ziggiy]

I honestly don’t know what the hate for Jay Elect is. That album was phenomenal and was EXTREMELY well received when it dropped.

 

[spliz]

only on the coli are these albums getting nominated over Lil Baby, Roddy, and Pop Smoke acceptable

I can’t front I was shocked not to see either of these names u listed. I feel like Nas deserves to be up there but none of the hottest rappers of the year got a nomination.

 

[Cadillac]

the one funny thing about this thread is that it captures the young vs old war exactly

but that is leading to, to many extremes in this debate.