I normally don't really care about awards shows, but I'm invested in this one.
The pre-show awards are already being announced.
We're supposed to get a controversial performance that will have white folks up in arms. Let's get these awards!

>We're supposed to get a controversial performance that will
>have white folks up in arms. Let's get these awards!

Kanye West
All Day

Kendrick Lamar
Alright

Drake
Energy

Common
Glory

Fetty Wap
Trap Queen

Kendrick Lamar
These Walls

Big Sean
One Man Can Change The World

Common
Glory

Jidenna
Classic Man

Nicki Minaj
Only

what's the difference between rap performance and rap song?

Kendrick Lamar
Alright

J. Cole
Apparently

Drake
Back to Back

Fetty Wap
Trap Queen

Nicki Minaj
Truffle Butter

Kanye West
All Day

'performance' awards are for the performer(s), producer(s) and engineer(s).

So let's say Taylor Swift doesn't write a song that wins a song category. She get an award or not?

Like in 1985, Prince won Best R&B Song for 'I Feel For You' and Chaka Khan didn't get an award. It's bc he wrote the song, not her. But she won Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Female and Prince didn't get an award bc he didn't perform, produce or engineer the winning recording. Note - Prince's original version was released 6 years earlier.

>We're supposed to get a controversial performance that will
>have white folks up in arms.

!!!!

D'Angelo & The Vanguard
Black Messiah

Leon Bridges
Coming Home

Andra Day
Cheer To The Fall

Jazmine Sullivan
Reality Show

Charlie Wilson
Forever Charlie

Hell yeah!

The Weeknd
Beauty Behind The Madness

The Internet
Ego Death

Kehlani
You Should Be Here

Lianne La Havas
Blood

Miguel
Wildheart

D'Angelo & The Vanguard
Really Love

Miguel
Coffee

The Weeknd
Earned It

Jazmine Sullivan
Let It Burn

Tyrese
Shame

Lalah Hathaway
Little Ghetto Boy

Faith Evans
He Is

Jazmine Sullivan
Let It Burn

Tyrese
Shame

Charlie Wilson
My Favorite Part Of You

I heard a couple songs off Jazmine's project.
But people were talking about how good Tyrese's album was... but I REFOOZE to believe that.

The Weeknd
Earned It

Tamar Braxton
If I Don't Have You

Andra Day
Rise Up

Hiatus Kaiyote
Breathing Underwater

Jeremih
Planes

Not only was unquestionably the right choice, but bum-assed Slipknot winning would have been a travesty.

I'm not sure of past metal winners' theological leanings, but I was curious if this is the first time a band who openly lauds Satan in their music won a Grammy.

Amazing song AND video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ao4t_fe0I

I've never liked it @ the Staples Center.

J. Cole
2014 Forest Hills Drive

Dr. Dre
Compton

Drake
If You're Reading This It's Too Late

Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly

Nicki Minaj
The Pinkprint

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That's what's up. I know it feels good to be appreciated by your peers.

I'm not watching, but why come kendrick and d'angelo aren't getting shine in the main event?

To make room for more perfomances, I think.
Best rap album was the first category for the main show though.

That'll be a tough group for him though

Her album is good.

music channels. I still haven't heard any of her songs on Black radio.

england are pushed straight to pop radio and are barely making noise there.

had to fix that one for you

like... does he even release albums any more?
How did the white establishment fall in love with him?

>like... does he even release albums any more?
>How did the white establishment fall in love with him?

I guess he's supposed to be Twitter beefing with folks all of his days

Lol @ occupies a weird space

I think the reference is speaking to him being the go to black performer for alot of these placements

he's the musical version of wayne brady

I don't recall any push back for Glory

but somehow K. and Bey are too black

that sort of thing...

how many award shows has he performed on in the past 5-6 years?
damn near all of them.

What impactful songs has he released over the same time period? Glory. Anything else?

When do you see and hear from him outside of award shows? You kinda don't.

But he's the first name called when it comes to this shit.

was a bonafide hit. Heard it in doctor's waiting room and shit.

Put a hold on from whatever thinkpiece you guys are putting together.

this aint the voice mayne

>this aint the voice mayne

lol


they tributing Lionel

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We get it. You're a Reverend.

>We get it. You're a Reverend.

dude got nothing but collars and adidas track suits. gotta love the consistency

peace & blessings,

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www.twitter.com/poetx

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

other than that no.

anything but all black, leather coat and addias?

Of course he has other clothes, he is seen wearing them all the time on his multiple shows.

So I'm not sure you could say it bombed

White Priveledge II isn't a single so much as a statement. Album hasn't come out yet

they're all eventually just gonna fall off

the back of his neck, after his hairline has hit the 95% recession line.

een jerry rice lookin' at stevie like, 'you gotta know when to hang it up, homie'


peace & blessings,

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www.twitter.com/poetx

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

Ed Sheeren
Thinking Out Loud

Kendrick Lamar
Alright

Taylor Swift
Blank Space

Wiz Khalifa
See You Again

Little Big Town
Girl Crush


BoooooOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOoooo

Since she was *leans into the mic like Suge* all in the video

The "We. Found. Love. Right. Where We Are." line makes me think of Aaron. And then I want to hear that song instead.

I knew I was screwing that up but went with it.

We may have wanted a hiphop song to win but Alright was far from best song of the year against any of those songs, maybe best hiphop song off the year

For 2015, it was the #5 single, Sheeran was #12.

Of course, who knows what the criteria is for anything Grammy related.

https://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards

"A GRAMMY...is truly a peer honor, awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions."

Killer Mike too is becoming a household name...

grammys. smh.

anxious as hell.

Y'all would have found Kendrick in an ally with crack sprinkled on him.

Can't make em too mad.

THIS IS TRUTH!!!!

LMAO!!!!!

http://www.vibe.com/2016/02/2016-grammy-awards-performances/?utm_source=sc-tw&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign=grammyawards

him and his whole team deserve a lot of love for the choices they make when he performs on national tv

again, very dope

i don't know if this "scares" white ppl, but it sure does show how particular and well crafted the themes and ideas he raps about are presented

https://www.facebook.com/colorlines/photos/a.434619949966.59384.14172074966/10150584908154967/?type=3&theater

lol

not sure why, put a smile on my face.

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all so they can promote Hamilton. does CBS have a piece of Hamilton? why is it being so aggressively promoted during the tv broadcast?

>all so they can promote Hamilton. does CBS have a piece of
>Hamilton? why is it being so aggressively promoted during the
>tv broadcast?


It's a phenomenon....There are people around the way that ain't never bothered with Broadway trying to get tickets to Hamilton....The toughest ticket in town....

Breaking box office records....Obama AND evil ass Dick Cheney in the audience watching a hip-hop musical about America's forefathers...George Washington is black. Alexander Hamilton is Puerto Rican....

What's not to like?

i want to know why CBS is promoting it during this Grammy Award tv broadcast.

it's okay if you don't know. maybe someone else here knows.

>i want to know why CBS is promoting it during this Grammy
>Award tv broadcast.
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>it's okay if you don't know. maybe someone else here knows.

There's not one particular reason, homie....

It could be the hip-hop angle mixed with its historical Birth of America storyline.....Personally, when I see YOUNG people of color winning on some improbable shit I'm down....

cash in on it?

>There's not one particular reason, homie....

or maybe there is and you don't know. which is why i asked.

it's okay if you don't know.

Alabama Shakes
Don't Wanna Fight

some other stuff.

she was struggling.

shoulda kept the weight

>she was struggling.
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cause a lot of people are saying it was off.

I thought she sounded horrible. And I am a fan

check 46 seconds in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0A41LlIOTc

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When Esperanza beat Beiber, she was on her 3rd album.

But when you have a breakthrough single (very subjective obviously) it just seems like THAT is the year you're a new artist.

I'm fucking with this David Bowie tribute....

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Not her lane....

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BB King.....

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KANYE WE NEED YOU!!

They had to give this to her.

Cause ya know, how dare he say such things about this woman!

she is the industry darling...

and the bish stay in some fake Twitter nonsense before every fucking award show.

....Kendrick was robbed though.....

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I imagine there was a lot of high fives going on in households as well.

Now he really gotta pull a Ray J and do it and film it as well.
Bonus points if Kim is involved as well.

Grammys just being the Grammys....Kendrick got 5 or 6 of his 11 nominations..Still got robbed though....

But yeah, Taylor checked 'Ye...I'm not even mad at her for that speech.......Watch Kanye apologize on Twitter...lol

>But yeah, Taylor checked 'Ye...I'm not even mad at her for
>that speech......

neither am I...she's only sticking up for herself

He can't....He's going to cry and play the victim about being a black man disrespected...Then he will apologize...Then he will go back to being a Grade A asshole....Then he will talk about himself in 3rd person...U know, Kanye shit....

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The two of them stay in the headlines saying shit about each other. This is as false as the Kanye/50 beef awhile back.

Kendrick got robbed, but so did The Weeknd who had an incredible album and hear. Taylor Swift did more taylor swift shit.

it didn't even deserve to be nominated, imo. there were a lot of better albums last year.

>it didn't even deserve to be nominated, imo. there were a lot
>of better albums last year.


And this^^^^^

"I Can't Feel My Face" is a GREAT pop song though...But u r right....

but I really wish he had won Album of the Year, or anyone but Taylor, so that she could follow through on the "Kanye"-ing she ALMOST did when Ed Sheeran won (I know y'all saw it)

now we get to look forward to what he'll drop after being robbed for a bigger award.

Ryan Adams FTW

K. Dot just had the BLACKEST PERFORMANCE EVER ON TV!!!!! That shit was beautiful to see! It made Beyonce's performance at the Super Bowl look like Kidz Bop in comparison. I loved that shit! So...White People probably will lose their frakkin minds on the inter webs today.

The Alabama Shakes...LOVE THEM!!!! :) And the performance was cool. :)

Hamilton!!!! I cannot wait to see that shit in SF next year! I'm looking for tickets ASAP and putting the date on my calendar!

I loved the BB King Tribute. That was a great performance, and I was about to be disappointed but when Bonnie came out...I was good. She was the cherry.

But...my favorite performance of the night...even though Kendrick brought that shit...was Stevie and Pentatonix. That just did it for me. Not GAGA, Not Adele (she had some issues though), not the Lionel Tribute...Pentatonix and Stevie.

that performance gave me the chills.

And the Lemmy tribute. The idea of Ace of Spades blaring while his giant ugly face shone over the crowd---made me super happy!!

>K. Dot just had the BLACKEST PERFORMANCE EVER ON TV!!!!!

I've long said Kendrick got the Blackest album we've heard in Hip Hop,
in years, but James Brown, Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie? Can't just be handing
out "Blackest EVER" awards that easily. It's definitely the Blackest
in years tho.

Fair enough :) LOL!!!!

The crowd's reaction to Kendrick was very, very interesting where I sat. This one White guy next to me was obviously a "down one" who was SUPER HYPE the whole performance. Then, there was a brown skinned lady with short blonde hair who was standing up dancing HARD the whole time, with literally everyone next to her sitting completely still. There were a few White folks with a cool head nod, but most sat with a completely blank, confused reaction like you saw on TV. Nobody said a single thing, good or bad, after he finished.

The same "Down white guy" who was next to us though.....when Taylor Swift won album of the year, he was PISSSSSSSSSSSED.....he screamed out "NOOO!!!! NO!!! How the fuck, Academy???" and put his head down and might have even started crying. Then, he said "where's Kanye when you need him??"

I feel like Adele's performance actually sounded and felt better in person than from how it appeared on TV. It didn't seem as pitchy for some reason through the sound system there.

that's how you do it my nigga!

LOL

the morning after the Grammys or some bullshit like that. something actually exclusive. there's not much exclusive about an event attended by 10K ppl in a public forum.

so it's not exactly Sunny D level stunting.

Oh...sounds exclusive to me!

I dunno who else from OKP attended. But I know thousands of ppl attended - the joint was about as exclusive as a Lakers game.

But my point was about SunnyD - his stunt game was on a level higher than this.

>I dunno who else from OKP attended. But I know thousands of
>ppl attended - the joint was about as exclusive as a Lakers
>game.

Nahhhh....just because it was at Staples doesn't mean anyone could go. You can't even re-sell tickets without being busted for doing so. Nothing close!

thousands of ppl did.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/grammys/la-et-grammys-snapchat-video-20160215-premiumvideo.html

http://www.vividseats.com/concerts/grammy-awards-tickets.html

my point in this subthread is simply that a true Sunny D stunt would involve something more than him saying he attended the Grammys.

is a whole different ball game anyway

Laker game?... lol

the Grammy Award ceremony was held at the Staples Center.

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Will-Ferrell-Confused-Stare.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/czSUzICRJnXtm/giphy.gif

>The crowd's reaction to Kendrick was very, very interesting
>where I sat. This one White guy next to me was obviously a
>"down one" who was SUPER HYPE the whole performance. Then,
>there was a brown skinned lady with short blonde hair who was
>standing up dancing HARD the whole time, with literally
>everyone next to her sitting completely still. There were a
>few White folks with a cool head nod, but most sat with a
>completely blank, confused reaction like you saw on TV. Nobody
>said a single thing, good or bad, after he finished.
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>Taylor Swift won album of the year, he was
>PISSSSSSSSSSSED.....he screamed out "NOOO!!!! NO!!! How the
>fuck, Academy???" and put his head down and might have even
>started crying. Then, he said "where's Kanye when you need
>him??"
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hahahaha thats comedy!

K. owned 2015

yeah, yeah, the grammy rules, blah blah blah

IDC

can also fuck off.

I don't get all the hype about him. Justin Beiber's voice is so awful.

Bey......who.....form....what? The performance gave me chills. Speechless. Kendrick gave a tense slam performance and rapped his ass off. I am in awe. I cannot remember a Grammy performance where a rapper brought that much energy to the stage. Even Kanye's flailing around in past performances doesn't match up.

Whoa. Thank you K. Dot for making mad people uncomfortable and bringing issues to the forefront via art. We know you don't have all the answers, or not always well informed, but at least you are sparking more conversation and the momentum has picked up. This momentum will set us on the right path to eventual solutions....no matter how many years, decades, centuries, it will take.

Big up Beyonce and K. Dot for their uncomfortable performances within 2 weeks. I wonder if there is going to be a 3rd mainstream artist to bring it.

And I hope this 'awareness' doesn't disappear once February, Black History Month, is over.

I always tune in to the grammys, since a kid

can't remember a show this bad, TBH

nothing fit, there was no flow to it, at all

maybe that's a reflection of where we are as a society

but there was such a huge disconnect between the performers

it was hard to sit through

they continue to force feed us this country music BS

leave that to the CMAs, we don't care

it felt like they decided on the set list...one for you...one for me

here's K.

but now you have to listen to some white middle of the road act that you never cared about

shit was bad, real bad

them old dusty mfers need to resign, and let some new blood take over

Ccrest, and that other dude, they're not it.

I always turned the channel or used those boring acts as a chance to get a drink/use the bathroom

do the mashups...Elton/Gaga <-- that show, not sure of the year

but it was an obvious attempt to make these old dusty acts relevant to a new audience

and I want to say that was on the heels of Em/Elton opening a prior show, which didn't feel as forced

in addition to the death of music radio, for me anyway, I don't even know what radio programming sounds like today

compared to my youth, the radio was jammin' 24/7

the grammys use to be an opportunity for a couple of new acts to get national exposure

now, I don't know most of the acts, and they aren't impressing me at all.

I know, you know, we know...what's hittin'

half the show is shyte being forced on the viewer now, IMO

it didn't feel like that 15-20 years ago, IMO.

no rock acts...other than being force fed hollywood vampires, which was cool for what it was
no indie rock/alternative acts, EDM, etc...

just pop, r&b, or country...and no attempt to connect them.

Ccrest is turning this jawn into the billboard awards

there use to be a difference.

That one worked well tho, Prince had kinda stayed low for a while and was his first major awards show appearance in a while iirc and was kind of a comeback moment along with his Rock & Roll HOF induction.

That was really the last memorable opening act I can even remember.

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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

3.5 hour show. There's no time.

I hate having to say "who's more important" with legendary artists, but that could come into play

Plus EWF won a Lifetime Achievement Award last night. That may have played into the decision to tribute White.

They could've had a little tribute especially considering she had one of Grammys big nights

No non-white album of the year winner since Herbie Hancock in 2008.

Kendrick winning that one was a long shot.

>Kendrick winning that one was a long shot.


Voters on that bullshit...It's just that simple....

OutKast was half hip hop, half whatever the fuck Andre was doing. And The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has only a handful of verses. That is more of an R&B album with some featured rapping.

But Big Boi's on it's own would be nowhere near.

I don't understand why people put so much value into this

And oscars so white

Still waiting on the white man to validate you

The Grammys weren't made for hip hop, they like what they like

Hip hop has its on institutions, and awards from those institutions should be more valuable to hip hop

There is a lot of great music , not just hip hop that you don't see represented at the grammys

But award shows are stupid any way, just an opportunity for a bunch of overrated people to jack each other off and to continue to promote the evil industry agenda

Why did they sing Brickhouse during the Lionel Richie Tribute. He didnt sing it and he didnt write it. Im sayin this dude did so many songs... they had a lot of choices..

arrrrrrrgh... its just ...SMH i dont understand...

he didn't write or sing it but i guess he played on it since he was a group member then.

but yes i too was bothered that the song was included. it'd be like singing 'Yesterday' in tribute to John Lennon. but at least technically Lennon is credited as a co-writer on 'Yesterday' though he didn't write any of it.

EDIT - Lionel IS credited as a co-writer on 'Brick House'. but still...that's not his song and it was out of place in a Lionel Richie tribute.

>Why did they sing Brickhouse during the Lionel Richie
>Tribute. He didnt sing it and he didnt write it. Im sayin
>this dude did so many songs... they had a lot of choices..
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plus I never want to hear that song again..ever.

the more credit and exposure that guy gets the better

one hell of a writer