56th Grammy Awards

HighClass

Grammy nominations being announced tonight. Who do you think will be on the list? Rap album of the year will probably look something like this;

Kanye - Yeezus
Macklemore - The Heist
Drake - Nothing Was The Same
Jay Z - MCHG
Kendrick - GKMC

In an ideal world this would be my list,

Kanye - Yeezus
Mac Miller - WMWTSO (I have a feeling he might get nominated tbh)
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Kendrick - GKMC
Danny Brown - Old (I'm not sure if he dropped in time or not)

So who do you think will win? I have a bad feeling Macklemore will walk away with all the rap Grammys this year

Boom_Bap

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, without a doubt.

People didn't get Kanye, GKMC was loved but not on a broad a scale as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (jouro's, press, reviews, coverage), Drake was loved, but only in certain circles and Jay-Z was innovative, but lacked momentum after teh first single.

HighClass

Kendrick & Macklemore up for album of the year, I didn't see that one coming! Up against Daft Punk, Sara Bareilles(who?) & Taylor Swift lol.

Macklemore up for song of the year for Same Love, no surprise there. Up against Pink, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry & Lorde

Kendrick & Macklemore up for Best New Artist. Up against James Blake, Ed Sheeran & Casey Musgraves.

Best Rap Performance:
Started From The Bottom - Drake
Berzerk - Eminem
Tom Ford - Jay Z
Swimming Pools - Kendrick Lamar
Thrift Shop - Macklemore

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
Power Trip - J.Cole Featuring Miguel
Part II (On The Run) - Jay Z Featuring Beyonce
Holy Grail - Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake
Now Or Never - Kendrick Lamar Featuring Mary J. Blige
Remember You - Wiz Khalifa Featuring The Weeknd

Best Rap Song
****in' Problems - A$AP Rocky Featuring Drake, 2Chainz & Kendrick Lamar
Holy Grail - Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake
New Slaves - Kanye West
Started From The Bottom - Drake
Thrift Shop - Macklemore

Rap Album Of The Year:
Nothing Was The Same - Drake
Magna Carta...Holy Grail - Jay Z
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - Kendrick Lamar
The Heist - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Yeezus - Kanye West

Looks like it's going to be the Kendrick and Macklemore show for the most part. No real surprises in the rap categories though.

SeaDaily

HighClass wrote: »

In an ideal world this would be my list,

Kanye - Yeezus
Mac Miller - WMWTSO (I have a feeling he might get nominated tbh)
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Kendrick - GKMC
Danny Brown - Old (I'm not sure if he dropped in time or not)

Did you actually enjoy Yeezus?! I thought it was a terrible album. Kanye's standards have really plummeted recently imo.

HighClass

SeaDaily wrote: »

Did you actually enjoy Yeezus?! I thought it was a terrible album. Kanye's standards have really plummeted recently imo.

Easily one of my favourite albums of the year. Lyric wise it's not Kanyes best, but the production is amazing. New Slaves, Black Skinhead & Blood On The Leaves are some of the best tracks he's ever done imo.

Prodgey

Nothing from Eminem?

HighClass

Prodgey wrote: »

Nothing from Eminem?

Album came out too late.

SeaDaily

HighClass wrote: »

Easily one of my favourite albums of the year. Lyric wise it's not Kanyes best, but the production is amazing. New Slaves, Black Skinhead & Blood On The Leaves are some of the best tracks he's ever done imo.

Ye fair enough. I retract my previous statement. The songs you mentioned aren't that bad at all. I might have to give the whole album another listen.

mufcboy1999

kanye's only on that because of who he is not because its a good album imo.

didnt gkmc come out in 2012?

SeaDaily

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

didnt gkmc come out in 2012?

I was wondering about this as well.

HighClass

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

kanye's only on that because of who he is not because its a good album imo.

didnt gkmc come out in 2012?

Yeah but it was too late for the 2013 Grammys so it rolls over to the next year. Same case with Em and these ones. MMLP2 will be up in 2015.

Yeezus has been 1 on almost every end of year list I've seen. It's an amazing album, not everyones taste, but an amazing album all the same. Been lots of albums people have loved down the years that I've hated but could still see why it was getting the praise. The only shock for me is Yeezus not being up for album of the year tbh.

I can't figure out how Jay Z got 9 nominations off MCHG, that's a case for only getting them because of the name!

mufcboy1999

I just cannot for the life of me as a hip hop fan adapt to yeezus I was the exact same with the auto tune album he had.

I love the rest of his albums though even though I personally think mbdtf is overated, great album but just not the classic kanye thinks it is.

I've got 2 built in subwoofers in my car and honestly yeezus is unlistenable even when turned down low !. It's noise at it's loudest for me just all over the place, seriously brings on a head ache for me.

I honestly couldn't give a sh*t about his lryics of late too they've gone to the dogs. He was roasted by some radio dj a few weeks back about it, I think his name is Cham the god or something. He said to Kanyes face the same that nobody really cares about this fashion bullsh*t and spoilt brat approach he has to rap these days, it's on YouTube.

I think the only people praising Kanyes music of late are the big kanye fans. I'm the same with my favourite rappers like a 50 but you really know when it's good or bad when a neutral like hip hop fan rates it and most neutral fans I know hate yeezus.

Boom_Bap

The thing with Yeezus, you shouldn't view it as a hip hop album. It's a body of music with some hip hop influence.

Seaneh

HighClass wrote: »

Album came out too late.

and it was crap.

Seaneh

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The thing with Yeezus, you shouldn't view it as a hip hop album. It's a body of music with some hip hop influence.

I just think it's whack, period. It's EASILY Kanye's worst album.

Doris300

Thought Yeezus should of been nominated overall AOTY but happy that Kendrick did but I don't think he has much of a chance. If we're talking about albums that are up there for just who made them certainly Jay-Z should be mentioned, much better hip-hop albums came out this year

kryogen

Jay with 9 nominations for that album is a joke

Rjd2

Sadistik overlooked:eek:

baddebt

i gave up on the Grammy's years ago , its way too diluted
Real hiphop doesn't get a look in , only hip pop.

HighClass

Macklemore with a clean sweep. Rap album of the year, rap song of the year, best new artist & best rap performance.

Jay Z & Justin Timberlake won rap/sung collaboration.

Boom_Bap

There was a lovely sms exchange posted somewhere between Mackelmore and Kendrick.

The real winners of the ceremony were Jay & Bey for appearing to be the best couple in the land.

And the real real real winners were Pharrel, Stevie Wonder & Daft Punk. One of the best performances I have ever seen.

Orizio

Prodgey wrote: »

Nothing from Eminem?

It was so bad even the Grammy's wouldn't nominate it, even if they do love trite boring white MCs.

Shapey Fiend

My favourite bit of writing about the Grammy's this week.

The Rap Game Billy Elliot Award

Someone needs to mark Macklemore for death. I don’t care if it’s an obsessed Atmosphere fan or Lester Bangs’ ghost. His set combined all the charm of a Dane Cook routine, a midnight AA meeting, and a Marky Mark video.

I’m sure Macklemore is a really good bro who leaves tips at Starbucks that make all the baristas say “That guy’s a real sport.” He hosts fan appreciation pizza parties. He writes tribute songs for gay rights and dead Mariners announcers. He’s painfully optimistic and is living his dream by making honky-rap about dressing up like your grandfather. He has legitimately paid his dues and you have to respect that.

But my grandfather would insist that Macklemore is a turkey. For one, the Seattle rapper needs to tithe 10% of his income to Atmosphere. There’s a difference between homage and outright heist and on-stage, Macklemore lifts every one of Slug’s vocal tics and cadences. Close your eyes and you can scarcely tell the difference. He is Atmosphere if God loves Sucking.

His stage presence consists of jazz hands gestures while flouncing on-stage in the fashion of a British boy ballet maestro. While wearing a black tanktop, Macklemore expressed his dissatisfaction towards driving his mom’s Prius when he really wanted a Cadillac Roth. It was the most aggressively mayonnaise thing I’ve ever heard at a hip-hop show (to be fair, I never saw Paul Barman or Joey Lawrence live).

Every one of his songs seemed accompanied by a syrupy choir or some sort of fortune cookie optimism. He told the crowd that they “will only get one tonight.” He coaxed them to make noise because they were competing with every other festival in the world at that moment. He roared “Are You Ready” with the corniness of a boxing ring announcer. He sang a song about Irish pride. He brought out a singer in all white who looked like a milkman.

Then he crawled on his hands and knees and surfed out into the adoring mob and you couldn’t help but wish that he disappeared, but understood that he wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/04/02/paid-dues-2013-jeff-weiss/

Personally I didn't like the Kanye album much but I can understand why the critics went ape for it. This was a bad year for hip hop full lengths (although still good singles wise) so it's one of the few that really had any significant impact.

Da Shins Kelly

I don't understand the appeal of Macklemore at all. His performance at the show last night was one of the cringiest things I've ever seen. Up there acting like he single-handedly legitimized gay relationships for the rest of the world. It just summed up the self-importance of certain celebrities. When you compare it to Kendrick Lamar's performance the same night, there's no comparison.

At least he knows he robbed Lamar.

Brendan Filone

I think the cringiest thing I've ever seen had to be Taylor Swift dancing to Kendrick's performance:



Oh dear

irish bloke

Way too many singing geriatrics on the Grammys??

Da Shins Kelly

Brendan Filone wrote: »

I think the cringiest thing I've ever seen had to be Taylor Swift dancing to Kendrick's performance

That too was awful. Somehow I feel like she's probably not that familiar with his music.

kryogen

She was the same when Beyonce was on, maybe she is a fan of Hip-Hop/RnB/****e(Beyonce new song being ****e)

Da Shins Kelly

Ah, now. I think Beyonce's new stuff is really good. It's way more personal than anything she's ever done before, which I think is interesting, and she's actually experimenting a bit with her sound, rather than cruising on her already stratospheric popularity. I didn't really believe the hype about her before, but I think the new record is actually pretty great. The production on it is fantastic.

Shapey Fiend

I've only heard two of the songs but the production is indeed excellent.

I usually find Beyonce's singing style a bit forced, belting out power notes cos she can rather than serving the song, and she's toned that down on this stuff. Not entirely sold on the accents she's putting on but it makes for a nice change.

Da Shins Kelly

There's a good track with Drake on there and one with Frank Ocean too. Most of it was produced by a guy on Roc Nation called Boots. Never heard of him before this, but he's got a great sound.