The craziest part of the Grammy’s are not the performances or the people who actually win, that is crazy enough.
That is saying a lot when Pink is out there bringing the buck naked, and Lady Gaga is going Lady Gaga.
When a chick who brings her own lens flare for the picture and she isn’t the craziest thing at the event there is really something going down. So the craziest thing about the Grammy’s is how insufficiently they actually handle alternate forms of music. For example check the nominees for best R&B Album:
Best Contemporary R&B Album
WINNER: I Am…Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé
Intuition, Jamie Foxx
The Introduction Of Marcus Cooper, Pleasure P
Ready, Trey Songz
Thr33 Ringz, T-Pain
Beyonce is a given and I understand that people enjoy Jamie Foxx, at least the brother is funny (sometimes) and can act. Trey Songz can sing, but he spells his name with a “z” at the end, so how seriously can we take him? Pleasure P and T-Pain? Come on Grammy voting committee, get it together. Check out the Rap nominees, they like to ignore anything current and try to keep it old school every year. Will Smith gets a random nomination every time he drops anything resembling music but check this list.
Best Rap Album
Universal Mind Control, Common
WINNER: Relapse, Eminem
R.O.O.T.S., Flo Rida
The Ecstatic, Mos Def
The Renaissance, Q-Tip
Common gets respect, as does that Mos Def album. Did anyone actually listen to that Q-Tip album and Flo Rida? Seriously? Not even the joint with Elevator on it? Then Eminem wins for Relapse? That better be a lifetime achievement award because the Relapse album sucked. But you clearly don’t know turrible when you see it.
I mean Sir Mixx a Lot got nominated in 1994 for a song called “Just Da Pimpin in Me” off the album that didn’t have Baby Got Back on it. Meanwhile two members of the Marley family won Grammy’s last night. Are they still trying to make up for Bob Marley dying too early. Bob is still working the crowd, he’s even got Dos Beckys.
And some random dude over there violating Rule #1.
I’d like for the Grammy committee to actually listen to the music they are nominating and awarding. Does anyone know if they are messing up Country music too? I know Taylor Swift won and I’ma let her finish, but I’m not sure she had the best album of the year. Although Kanye wasn’t there, we did get a UvT exclusive picture of Kanye when he heard the news.
Yeah, he wasn’t feeling the win by Taylor Swift.
He thought Beyonce should have won.
-Brock
I don’t think the Grammys care anymore. Who listens to the Black Eyed Peas and thinks “We need to give this shit an award”?!
I completely agree…I do think that the Black Eyed Peas would clean up at an award show that gives out awards to music that belongs on those wild “Jock Jam” type albums from the early/mid 90’s that your middle school hoops team listened to during pregame 2 line layups.
I unfortunately DVRed this bullshit, i knew it would be bad, i just wanted to see how bad. First, wat da fuck was Pink doing, lookin like a cute high flying dyke. Also, I almost rather listen to da non-rapping, non reading ass coon rappers from the south, than partake in da black eyed peas watered-down hip pop mess. I had to say that both Jay-z’s pieces (BE and Rhi) were looking right as usual. While the green day performance was cool, they should have let Kings of Leon perform and Jay-z should have done something. I really wish Kanye was there when Miss swift won album of year, homie would have lost da one marble he had left. To wrap it up, there are too many talented musicians around for awards to be going out to folk that don’t deserve it. I thought Grammy’s was to be about more than album sales. Maybe the BET awards will do better, lol.