Cheat To Win

Maybe you weren’t paying attention, but Kanye won some more Grammys on Sunday night.

• Best Rap Performance - “Niggas in Paris”
• Best Rap Song - “Niggas in Paris”
• Best Rap/Sung Collaboration - “No Church in the Wild”

That means that, according to Wikipedia itself,

West has won twenty-one awards from fifty-one nominations. Kanye West has a 6th place ranking in the Grammy Award records for most Grammy wins and 6th for most won by a male artist. He also has the 4th most Grammy nominations.

‘Yesus indeed.

Kanye’s Nominations for 2013 Grammy Awards:

• Best Rap Song: Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T, and 2 Chainz — “Mercy”
• Best Rap Song: Jay-Z and Kanye West — “Niggas in Paris”
• Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Jay-Z and Kanye West feat. Frank Ocean and The-Dream — ”No Church in the Wild”
• Best Rap Performance: Jay-Z and Kanye West — ”Niggas In Paris”
• Best Rap Performance: Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T, and 2 Chainz — “Mercy”
• Best Short Form Music Video: Jay-Z and Kanye West feat. Frank Ocean and The-Dream — ”No Church in the Wild”

Source: NY Magazine

Regardless of how I feel about the Grammys, I am glad that I live in a world where My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is now officially recognized as the best rap album released last year (mid-2010 to mid-2011).

I mean, I agree with Touré. It obviously should have been nominated for/won Best Album, but I’m looking for the silver lining here…

For the record, Kanye won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best Rap Album. Basically, he dominated the Rap categories. Only one win was televised.

Remember that one time when I was listening to Foster the People back in March 2010 and picked “Pumped Up Kicks” as the best song of the year?

I’m feeling some real validation now that they were nominated for Best Alternative Album and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 2012 Grammys.  This basically makes up for the other fuck ups NARAS made in the Album of the Year category.

Ugh.  Fuck this asshole.