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
Oh, wow. I can’t believe—[struggling to be heard over rapturous applause]—everybody, everybody—chill. [laughter; camera cuts to Bon Iver, stone-faced, or at least not smiling; the rest of his face is obscured by beard, what a cool sensitive guy] You know, I was really gonna prepare something for this—but then I got high! Shit, you guys know that song? Me and my buddies, used to know every word in college. But yo, seriously—I remember the summer of ‘09. “A time of musical experimentation nearly without parallel, bringing to mind Seattle in the early ’90s, and a little band called Nirvana,” is I think what you said, Sir Grohl, in your sick as fuck introduction. Me, I remember that summer a little differently—partly ‘cause I only spent about two hours of it not tripping balls, partly because—[orchestra begins to play him off; Grammy president Neil Portnow grabs a violin and starts indiscriminately beating piano players and saxophonists with it, screams “goddammit let the man speak!” then “go on, please god, go on.”] Basically I was just gonna say people were real mean. Said chillwave was a joke, a fad. I was so sad, man, when they said that. Sometimes when I’m sad I rub ice cubes on my body, for the chill, and I was doin’ that a lot. People were concerned, said “Ernesto, my man, leave some for the iced tea!” But I ask you, Grammy bros: Who’s chillin’ now? [applause] WHO’S CHILLIN’ NOW!! [insane applause; Bon Iver might be smiling, is more likely asleep] Everybody now: chill-WAVE!! chill-WAVE!! chill-WAVE!!
This is basically the shit.
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.
The Grammys are a perennial source of confusion, disbelief, and righteous, mighty anger … and this year’s nominations, announced last night, are no exception! … But here’s the one thing we should all focus our collective anger toward this morning: the painful snubbing of Kanye West.
At first glance, Kanye should have nothing to be upset about. He actually leads the field in Grammy nominations with seven (Adele, Bruno Mars, and the Foo Fighters are next, with six apiece). But not one of those nominations is for Album of the Year. That’s right: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was shut out in favor of Bruno Mars’ Doo-Wops & Hooligans. This is, primarily, about Kanye totally, definitively deserving an Album of the Year spot. Lady Gaga’s Born This Way makes sense, and Adele’s 21 would have probably beaten him for the title anyway. But how did the Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light and Rihanna’s Loud — both fine, very visible 2011 albums that in no way touch the scope and cultural permeation of MBDTF — slip in ahead of ‘Ye? And, again: Bruno fucking Mars?! Are you serious right now?
Could not agree more. The fact that ‘Yesus was overlooked in favor of people like Bruno Mars is just fucking ridiculous. Their obvious play for ratings is both transparent and reprehensible.
Ugh. Fuck this asshole.
I gotta testify, come up in the spot lookin' extra fly...
