Macklemore &Ryan Lewis Win Grammys For Rap Album Of The Year, Best Rap Song & Best Rap Performance

S2J wrote: »

I mean look at that ? . You can almost see like a graph where hip hop died. Right around 2002. W/n where would the game b w/out kanye??

I also see a shift when Ludacris started gettin nominated every year...2 chainz was nominated last year? the South aint got a hand in hip hop's decline?? K.

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Gucci Scott King wrote: »

I still don't understand why y'all care about the grammys.

grammy's and hiphop dont belong in the same sentence. A shame the source dont carry as much weight as it used. I remember when if the source gave someone at least 3 mics then that was a sure buy..and their awards...man ? aint like it used to be.

? ? killed the Source Awards

fortyacres&amule wrote: »

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Well, the 2014 Grammys are over and the worst possible thing that could have happened, happened. (If you're a hip-hop head.) No, Miley didn't explode the internet twerking to a surprise Dogg Pound performance of "Ain't No Fun". Worse than that. No, Kanye didn't interrupt Taylor Swift's performance draped in the Confederate flag . Worse. Macklemore's "The Heist" beat Kendrick Lamar's "good kid M.a.D.D. City" for "Best Rap Album". I nominate Jim Harbaugh as my anger translator.

This sucks. It sucks for Kendrick Lamar. It (actually) sucks for Macklemore. It sucks for hip-hop fans. It adds fuel to the constantly smoking "Grammys racism" fire. Everyone loses.

First, it sucks for Kendrick. You only get so many chances at these things. Even the most consistent and prolific artists can only make an album every two or three years. And then for that artist to be in a place to make a classic, and the planets to align in a way that it really makes an impact and is regarded as a classic, that only comes along a handful of times in even the greatest rappers' careers. Kendrick's not going to get an infinite amount of shots at Best Rap Album; and since the Grammys have only ever given one hip-hop album the more prestigious Album of the Year (hey Kanye), missing Best Rap Album hurts. Or to put it more simply, he deserved it.

Second, it actually sucks for Macklemore. Fair or not, hip-hop heads have an already barely contained hatred for the Seattle kid, and beating Kendrick should only confirm all of their worst fears, a fact Macklemore was well aware of before the Awards:

"We're up against Kendrick, who made a phenomenal album. If we win a Grammy for Best Rap Album, hip hop is going to be heated. In terms of [that category], I think it should go to Kendrick. I think it should go to Kendrick."

I'm sure he grabbed that Best New Artist, and maybe even Best Song, Grammy without hesitation, but when his name rang out for Best Rap Album, I guarantee there was at least a part of his brain thinking, "? , now I'm going to have to spend the rest of my life being the white pop-rapper who stole a Grammy from Kendrick Lamar." Macklemore is enough of a rap nerd himself to understand just how angry rap nerds are going to be, and he's a friend of TDE.

The hip-hop heads who already hated Macklemore now hate him more, those on the fence now hate him, and even his fans in the hip-hop community, myself included, might find it's no longer worth the effort to defend him against the previous two groups. Which is a shame because there's a lot of vaulable lessons from his success that artists can apply to their careers. only now they'll be hard pressed to view that success objectively. And I think he has made some powerful and important music.

So yeah, you ? it up for everyone Grammys. Thanks a ? lot. But...

...now that I've laid out why Macklemore beating Kendrick is literally a travashamockery of historic proportions, here's why it doesn't matter. Or at the very least, here's what I'm telling myself: Who ? cares about a Grammy? We're talking about a music awards that didn't even HAVE A RAP ALBUM CATEGORY UNTIL 19FUCKING95, and that year they gave it to Naughty By Nature's "Poverty Paradise', an album I think it's safe to say has had the longevity of an ice cube on the sun, over Tupac and ODB. Then, just two years later, they gave Best Rap Album to Diddy's "Puff Daddy & The Family" over Wu-Tang "Forever" AND Biggie "Life After Death", prompting ODB's classic of all classic "Wu Tang is for the children" stage crash. Nas has NEVER WON A GRAMMY FOR ANYTHING EVER.

The point is, this is not a new phenomenon. The Grammys have been ignoring, slighting and ? up hip-hop for decades; allowing them to determine how we feel about our culture is like letting Justin Bieber judge a best beard contest. Macklemore may have the award on his mantle, but we all know that Kendrick Lamar is the better emcee, and that "GKMC" is a modern hip-hop classic. So what does this Grammy really change? What does it prove? That a committe who doesn't know anything about hip-hop (see every example above) continues to know nothing about hip-hop? Stop the ? presses.

While it may take some ? chai tea and yoga classes or whatever the ? they tell you to do at anger management classes, I'm trying to let this one go. Just forget about it, try to continue to live in a world where Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore can both exist, do their respective things for their respective audiences, and make sure I've memorized every word of "GKMC".

I suggest you do the same. And if you just can't let go of the anger, ? it, Kendrick's got you covered there too:

GunTown wrote: »

The thing is suburban raised upper middle class raised rappers not from the struggle from good suburbs like Kanye West, Drake, Kid Cudi etc got accepted in Hip Hop over time a genre that has working class roots where majority of rappers come from poverty and represent inner city lower class strugles. But over time the likes of Kanye, Drake etc got accepted


But Hip Hop is exremley far from accepting white suburban raised upper class raised rappers


U have to think if Eminem who actually grew up in harsh poverty, grew up in the struggle, welfare raised backround, grew up in the hood in histrorically 1 of Americas most dangerous citys, grew up in black hoods, literally came from the bottom where he was homeless at times and grew up in section 8 housing. Yet even he to this day isn't accepted by some blacks or some don't show sympathy for him coming from a lower class backround and from the struggle. Kinda just brush it off and say yeah we know he did but he 'white'


What chance has an upper class suburban dude like Macklemore got into being accepted?