Official Hip Hop Grammy's 2016 Thread

[Ziggiy]

Vanity Fair says that K.Dot SHOULD win but Swift WILL win

Who is it for? By the Grammys’ loopy standards, AOY is the big kahuna. Win this and go down in history, even if it’s just because you plundered this from Beyonce last year (sorry, Beck!).

Which albums have won before? Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Songs in the Key of Life. Thriller. The Joshua Tree. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. 21. Heard of ‘em? Tapestry. Jagged Little Pill. River: The Joni Mitchell Letters. Wait. Actually forget that last one because RiverHerbie Hancock’s Joni Mitchell covers album—beat out both Kanye West’s Graduation and Amy Winehouse’s__ Back to Black in 2004. For my money, this is the single starkest piece of evidence for the Grammys’ accelerating irrelevance. No shade to Herbie, though.

Who is nominated this time? Sound and Colour by the Alabama Shakes, To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar, Traveller by Chris Stapleton, 1989 by Taylor Swift, and Beauty Behind the Madness by the Weeknd.

Who should take the gold? This one’s easy. Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly is a pop opera, a self-reflection, and a call to action. It’s a masterfully produced, multi-textured hip-hop concept album and an 80-minute poem all at once. It’s as close to capital-A Art as popular music gets. Oh, and it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and got a sweeping endorsement by the leader of the free world. The Grammys would do well to be on the right side of history here.

Who’s actually gonna take the gold? Sadly, it’s unlikely that the Grammys will get this right. A quick scan through its history reveals the Academy’s abhorrence to bestowing its highest honor on a hip-hop album. And unlike Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and OutKast’s Speakerboxx/The Love Below, the only two rap albums ever to win AOY, Lamar’s LP makes no obvious pop concessions and doesn’t attempt to burnish the brute force of its themes for mainstream audiences. There’s no “Hey Ya” here.

This one’s going to 1989, one of the decade’s most ubiquitous albums (it has produced five Top 10 singles—including three No. 1 records—and has sold more than 5 million copies), and it is the album that cemented Taylor’s pop superstardom. Swift will also likely become the youngest person to win this award twice (she won in 2008 for Fearless).

Grammys Predictions: Who Should Win, and Who Will Win?

 

[Ziggiy]

Was going through the 2014 Grammy's thread to relive the fukkery and MAN that shyt was epic....

-Ciara pregnant with Baby Future
-Madonna showing up with her newest accessory AKA her black "son"

-Cee-Lo looking like an overgrown Oompa Loompa wit that fine ass sista
- Wiz and Amber still married

- Pharrell rocking that RIDICULOUS Hat


-Caclemore winning everything and performing that terrible Gay Anthem while Queen Latifah weds all of those Homos

- Kendrick's amazing performance while Taylor Swift dances in the front row

- Kendrick getting robbed


-LL STILL hosting. That dude is the new Don Cornelius of the Grammy's

LL Cool J hosting the grammys while canibus is out working the drive thru at rallys

 

[Ziggiy]

Chicago Tribune picks K.Dot for Best Rap Album


Greg Kot's 2016 Grammy Awards predictions

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Not only do we not know how they decide winners but how do they decide nominees?

Its been said on here before but the fact that Kendrick was nominated for a song that was released on a video game puts everything into question

Kendrick had a song that was never released as single, a bonus track on an album and not even a million youtube plays nominated for a grammy.

How is that possible @Ziggiy

People know how the Grammys work.

Labels submit the stuff for nominee consideration. How the nominees are boiled down I am not for certain but the winners are voted for by the recording academy members. So, people who don't know or don't care about hip-hop have a say and usually vote for the most popular name they recognize.

 

[CrimsonTider]

People know how the Grammys work.

Labels submit the stuff for nominee consideration. How the nominees are boiled down I am not for certain but the winners are voted for by the recording academy members. So, people who don't know or don't care about hip-hop have a say and usually vote for the most popular name they recognize.

Laughable

 

[mobbinfms]

People know how the Grammys work.

Labels submit the stuff for nominee consideration. How the nominees are boiled down I am not for certain but the winners are voted for by the recording academy members. So, people who don't know or don't care about hip-hop have a say and usually vote for the most popular name they recognize.

Laughable

This is how it works.
They make an effort to prevent people who don't know anything about a particular genre from voting on that genre.

• Voting Process FAQs
• Voting Process infographic

The process begins with members and record companies submitting entries, which are then screened for eligibility and category placement. The Academy's voting members, all involved in the creative and technical processes of recording, then participate in (1) the nominating process that determines the five finalists in each category; and (2) the final voting process which determines the GRAMMY winners.

Submission
Recording Academy members and record companies enter recordings and music videos released during the eligibility year which they consider worthy of recognition in the GRAMMY Awards process.

Screening
Reviewing sessions by more than 150 experts in various fields are held to ensure that entered recordings meet specific qualifications and have been placed in appropriate fields such as Rock, R&B, Jazz, Country, Gospel, New Age, Rap, Classical and Latin, among others. The purpose of screenings is not to make artistic or technical judgments about the recordings, but rather to make sure that each entry is eligible and placed in its proper category.

Nominating
First-round ballots are sent to voting members in good dues standing. To help ensure the quality of the voting, members are directed to vote only in their areas of expertise; they may vote in up to 20 categories in the genre fields plus the four categories of the General Field (Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best New Artist.) Ballots are tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Deloitte.

Special Nominating Committees
In craft and other specialized categories, final nominations are determined by national nomination review committees comprised of voting members from all of The Academy's Chapter cities.

Final Voting
Final-round ballots are sent to voting members in good dues standing. The finalists determined by the special nominating committees are also included in this ballot. In this final round, Recording Academy members may vote in up to 20 categories in the genre fields plus the four categories of the General Field (Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best New Artist.) Ballots again are tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Deloitte.

Results
Results of members' voting are not known until the GRAMMY Awards presentation ceremony when names of the winners are delivered by Deloitte in sealed envelopes. GRAMMY Award winners are revealed during the GRAMMY Awards telecast.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

This is how it works.
They make an effort to prevent people who don't know anything about a particular genre from voting on that genre.

• Voting Process FAQs
• Voting Process infographic

The process begins with members and record companies submitting entries, which are then screened for eligibility and category placement. The Academy's voting members, all involved in the creative and technical processes of recording, then participate in (1) the nominating process that determines the five finalists in each category; and (2) the final voting process which determines the GRAMMY winners.

Submission
Recording Academy members and record companies enter recordings and music videos released during the eligibility year which they consider worthy of recognition in the GRAMMY Awards process.

Screening
Reviewing sessions by more than 150 experts in various fields are held to ensure that entered recordings meet specific qualifications and have been placed in appropriate fields such as Rock, R&B, Jazz, Country, Gospel, New Age, Rap, Classical and Latin, among others. The purpose of screenings is not to make artistic or technical judgments about the recordings, but rather to make sure that each entry is eligible and placed in its proper category.

Nominating
First-round ballots are sent to voting members in good dues standing. To help ensure the quality of the voting, members are directed to vote only in their areas of expertise; they may vote in up to 20 categories in the genre fields plus the four categories of the General Field (Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best New Artist.) Ballots are tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Deloitte.

Special Nominating Committees
In craft and other specialized categories, final nominations are determined by national nomination review committees comprised of voting members from all of The Academy's Chapter cities.

Final Voting
Final-round ballots are sent to voting members in good dues standing. The finalists determined by the special nominating committees are also included in this ballot. In this final round, Recording Academy members may vote in up to 20 categories in the genre fields plus the four categories of the General Field (Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best New Artist.) Ballots again are tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Deloitte.

Results
Results of members' voting are not known until the GRAMMY Awards presentation ceremony when names of the winners are delivered by Deloitte in sealed envelopes. GRAMMY Award winners are revealed during the GRAMMY Awards telecast.

Well, those we're like "I like that Macklemore guy and the thrift shop song. He gets my vote." Now on to more serious matters "who's pop album spoke to me more?"

 

[mobbinfms]

Well, those we're like "I like that Macklemore guy and the thrift shop song. He gets my vote." Now on to more serious matters "who's pop album spoke to me more?"

Yeah - but you can only vote on 20 genre categories (out of 83 total) - so the way its supposed to work is you vote on the stuff that you do and know well. Rappers vote on rap - indie rockers vote on that.
Of course, there is no way to prevent somebody from trolling and voting on a category they don't know anything about - but it might prevent them from voting on other categories they really care about.
Everybody gets to vote on the universal categories "best album" "Best song" "best record"

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Yeah - but you can only vote on 20 genre categories (out of 83 total) - so the way its supposed to work is you vote on the stuff that you do and know well. Rappers vote on rap - indie rockers vote on that.
Of course, there is no way to prevent somebody from trolling and voting on a category they don't know anything about - but it might prevent them from voting on other categories they really care about.
Everybody gets to vote on the universal categories "best album" "Best song" "best record"

Cacs obsess about black people. It's a few Eminem albums that ain't deserve to win. Crack a Bottle!?!? I'm an Em stan but that was fukkery.

Drake would have more Grammys if not for going up against Eminem.

 

[mobbinfms]

Cacs obsess about black people. It's a few Eminem albums that ain't deserve to win. Crack a Bottle!?!? I'm an Em stan but that was fukkery.

All of this is 100% fact.
Still, the system that they have is better than just letting everyone vote on everything

 

[Ziggiy]

Complex has K.Dot sweeping the Hip Hop categories



Complex's 2016 Grammy Predictions - Best Rap Album: Kendrick Lamar, <em>To Pimp a Butterfly</em>

 

[Ziggiy]

Us Weekly weighs in



Album of the Year

Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Chris Stapleton - Traveller

Taylor Swift -1989

The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness

The winner is: Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly

No other album more stirringly reflects our tumultuous times and sonically moves the needle forward as far as K-Dot’s sui generis tour de force. True, there wasn’t a lagging moment on 1989, and the Shakes, The Weeknd and Stapleton raised the bar in their genres, but Lamar crushes everything in his way and Butterfly stands as one of the hallmark hip-hop albums in history. Plus, what other album has both a conversation with dead 2Pac and President Obama’s seal of approval? The defense rests.

Will Taylor Swift Dominate at the Grammys? Read Our Predictions!

 

[Ziggiy]

The Guardian has Dr. Dre pegged for Best Rap Album and KDot for Song Of The Year


Drake, Nicki Minaj and J Cole all have star power – and Drake has claimed victory in this category before – but the best rap album race has to boil down to Compton vs Compton. Will the old head Dr Dre, coming off a year in which he entered pop’s firmament for good, win? Or will Lamar, who idolized the outlaw-rapper-turned-headphone-mogul as a child, solidify his station as leader of the next generation? I mean, it’s the Grammys, so probably the former. (At least Eminem and Macklemore held off from releasing anything during the eligibility window.)

Will win: Dr Dre – Compton

Should win: Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly


Grammy predictions: who will win – and who should

 

[Ziggiy]

NJ.com has Swift pegged for AOTY


ALBUM OF THE YEAR
The nominees:

Alabama Shakes, "Sound and Color"

Kendrick Lamar, "To Pimp a Butterfly"

Chris Stapleton, "Traveller"

Taylor Swift, "1989"

The Weeknd, "Beauty Behind the Madness"

Who will win: Taylor Swift, "1989"

Who should win: Kendrick Lamar, "To Pimp a Butterfly"

Why: Wire-to-wire, this has been a two-horse gallop toward the night's premier gramophone. While Lamar's critically adored LP was at once brutal, beautiful and deftly cognizant, hip-hop's success rate in this category is comically poor. That leaves Swift, whose first true, neon-blue pop collection launched the 26-year-old's transformation, from crossover commodity to queen of the mainstream.

If it's any consolation, Lamar will likely win at least a few of his 10 other Grammy nominations.


Grammys 2016 predictions: Who will (and should) win 'Big Four' categories

 

[Ziggiy]

Spin has K.Dot as their pick for AOTY


ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Nominees:
Alabama Shakes, Sound & Color
Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
Chris Stapleton, Traveller
Taylor Swift, 1989
The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness

Who Should Win: Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
This one should be obvious. Not just from the fans’ perspective, but because even the most out-of-touch Grammy voters would’ve had to have been in a coma to not realize To Pimp a Butterfly was the most important album of last year. I’m not saying they’re racist if Taylor Swift wins the same award she earned back when she was 20, but it would signal they’re still not paying attention even when a brick of capital-A art is thrown through their windows.

Who Will Win: Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
Please don’t let the long-spoiled Taylor Swift or not-quite-good-enough Alabama Shakes take this. Predicting Album of the Year isn’t easy when all of the artists nominated are under the age of 40, but Sound & Color is probably tempting for voters already past middle age; Alabama Shakes’ broader, generation-spanning appeal is most likely the biggest threat to Kendrick. K-Dot, meanwhile, has the potential to do what only OutKast and Lauryn Hill managed with a rap album previously, but the odds are clear when only OutKast and Lauryn Hill have done it before — and both with a lot more singing than Butterfly has. Then again, Daft Punk and Arcade Fire have now won this thing, so here’s hoping…

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