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
Truth time: Vulture is not exactly up on French presidential politics, so thanks to Pitchfork and Slate for directing our attention to this bit of video weirdness. It turns out that Francois Hollande, a French Socialist candidate challenging current resident Nicolas Sarkozy (you know, the one married to Carla Bruni) has released a campaign video using Watch the Throne’s geographically appropriate “N*ggas in Paris” as its soundtrack. The video shows Hollande campaigning in the outer boroughs of Paris as citizens of various races happily hold up their voting cards; Pitchfork notes that Sarkozy has a complicated history with the poor Parisian suburbs, and that “Hollande is possibly trying to underscore that relationship.” Whether or not “Paris” is the wisest way to make that point is a different question, but Slate realized that “Creil,” the town featured prominently in the video, is pronounced “cray,” (as in, “That shit cray”) and puns are fun. One more thing: Do Kanye and Jay actually know about this? Is ‘Ye gonna hit the campaign trail now? Discuss.
As reported over at Vulture today, Kanye and Jay-Z Are Soundtracking French Campaign Ads Now. I actually have no response to this.
(I’m just sayin’)
Prince William’s ain’t do it right, if you ask me
‘Cause I was him I woulda (Married Kate and Ashley)
Prince William’s ain’t do it right if you ask me
Cause if I was him I would have married Kate & Ashley
I gotta testify, come up in the spot lookin' extra fly...
