Hip-hop has a love-hate relationship with the Grammy Awards. Over 30 years in the past, DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince grew to become the primary rap act to win a Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1989. They boycotted the occasion after studying their award acceptance wouldn’t be a part of the filmed ceremony. Hip-hop has actually felt some sort of approach with the Grammy Awards for many years. Especially in relation to the rap artists who’ve been snubbed their entire careers.
Don’t get it twisted, the Grammy Awards have gotten some issues proper. Some of rap’s greatest artists have been acknowledged ten-fold. Kanye West now has 24 wins out of 75 nominations. Jay-Z additionally has a staggering 24 wins with a complete of 88 nominations over a virtually 30-year profession. Kendrick Lamar is 17-50 in relation to taking dwelling golden gramophones. Drake has been nominated 55 instances and earned 5 whole victories.
However, the Grammy Awards doesn’t at all times perceive the project (see the time in 2014, when Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ The Heist beat out Kendrick Lamar’s good child, m.A.A.d metropolis for Best Rap Album). There are different big rappers who’ve but to crack the code. Snoop Dogg, a West Coast legend and one of the crucial well-known rappers of all time, has an enormous physique of labor that features his traditional album, Doggystyle. The Grammys have but to acknowledge his abilities with an award in 16 instances as much as bat. Busta Rhymes is one other artist in an analogous vein as Snoop, with credentials as well with no {hardware} to indicate for it after 12 whole nominations. Nicki Minaj is 0-12. These aren’t the one well-deserving rappers who’ve been snubbed their whole careers.
See an inventory of rappers who’ve essentially the most Grammy nominations however have by no means received an award beneath.
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