Travis Scott Says Scoring 10 Grammy Nominations and No Wins 'Gets Rough at Times'

[Street Knowledge]

Travis Scott still wants a Grammy.

The Utopia rapper spoke on the relevance of the awards show in a teaser for LeBron James’ The Shop, specifically touching on how his contemporaries view the Grammy Awards. Scott hasn’t yet won, though he has been nominated 10 times.

“A lot of my peers, everyone's like, ‘Ah, fukk that award.’ I fukk with it,” the 32-year-old said. “You play football to win the Super Bowl, you play basketball to win championships.”

Travis continued, “I don’t make music to win Grammys, but it’s what that Grammy used to mean is what I always hold on to. Like, the idea of music. I love creating music. … That award is just like, at one point, it’s held up to a higher stature.”

He added, “And I still believe in it, in a sense. You know, it gets rough at times, but fukk, what the fukk?”

Scott also vented his frustration over the rap categories remaining untelevised, even though the genre has dictated culture for decades.

Trav's nominations include Best Rap Song ("Sicko Mode"), Best Melodic Rap Performance ("Highest in the Room"), and two Best Rap Album nods (Utopia and Astroworld).

Travis Scott Says Scoring 10 Grammy Nominations and No Wins 'Gets Rough'

The 32-year-old has been nominated for Best Rap Album twice.

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[Baka's Weird Case]

my grandma died at 82 scrubbing floors
and travis still running round begging for awards

 

[PatCake]

Grammy’s have lost a significant amount of cultural capital in the last decade. The academy is made up of a bunch of old head, mostly white, industry professionals

The music industry is a joke, comparatively. Labels want to wring the most profit out of their artists as fast as humanly possible and don’t see any value in cultural conversation

As evidenced by Taylor Swift using her award speech to announce a new album. It just doesn’t hold the same prestige.

 

[Ziggiy]

Maybe he shouldn’t make trash

 

[OJ Simpsom]

Must be rough for all them ghostwriters he uses too.

 

[Evil Grandson]

Only reason people claim to not care is because they lose.

 

[Sauce Dab]

I can see how he got pissed for not winning a few years back when he lost to Cardi B for best rap album. He should’ve got it that year but other than that he never really deserved it

 

[3:30]

Grammy don't televise rap and he wants one?

 

[LiveFromLondon]

How's he not won one yet, boys had a monstrous run

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

How's he not won one yet, boys had a monstrous run

Far from a Scott fan, but no denying dude should have won one off of the strength of Astro World.

 

[Mortal1]

rappers need to let go of the Grammy importance

 

[the elastic]

Cause you don't be talking about shyt, Travis

Even Cardi B is more introspective than you

 

[Mowgli]

He's never winning an academy award after he looked down on his dying fans like Charles Manson

 

[Da_Eggman]

By now the hip hop community should of build there owns legit award program

 

[Billie Jean]

Shutup nikka u had kids killed