However, the same year Jay Z began boycotting the awards (he would continue through the next few years), saying he “didn’t think they gave the rightful respect to hip-hop,” ostensibly because DMX‘s album It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot wasn’t nominated - and despite the fact that Jay’s Vol. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill won the MC five awards, including Album of the Year (hip-hop’s first, according to most) and Best New Artist, setting a new record for female artists along the way.
Two years prior, Hill took home Best Rap Album as part of the Fugees for their LP The Score, but her first solo venture - despite, as previously mentioned, being classified as R&B by the Grammys - would blow that honor out of the water. Cole and Nicki Minaj (both 2012, to Bon Iver), and Kendrick Lamar (2014, to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis). Lauryn Hill (again, considered an R&B artist by the committee) and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis would be the only other hip-hop artists to ever take home that particular award, while stars that were nominated but missed out over the years include Puff Daddy (1998, to Paula Cole), 50 Cent (2004, to Evanescence), Kanye West (2005, to Maroon 5), Drake (2011, to Esperanza Spalding), J. Off the strength of their critically lauded debut album, 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of…, Atlanta-based hip-hop group Arrested Development became the first hip-hop artist to win a major category, taking home Best New Artist and beating rap duo Kriss Kross for the honor (in 1990, Tone-Loc became the first rapper nominated in the category, losing to Milli Vanilli, who later vacated the award). Why Is Hip-Hop Missing From the Grammys Table? (Op-Ed)ġ993: Hip-Hop Breaks Through With Major Category Win But Public Enemy, nominated for Best Rap Performance by a Duo/Group for “Fear of a Black Planet,” would boycott the awards again, protesting that their category was not televised that year, with label boss Simmons calling the Grammys’ decision “the same old broken-record snub of inner-city contributions to the music industry.”
Hammer lost both mainstream categories, though he did take home Best Rap Solo Performance for the single.
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MC Hammer‘s breakout album Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em spawned a series of firsts for the genre, most notably for these purposes as the first rap album ever nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys, with hit single “U Can’t Touch This” doubling up as the first rap song nominated for Record of the Year as well. The category would be televised the following year, and a rap category would make the main broadcast for each of the next 25 years until the streak was broken during the 2015 telecast. Boycotts would become a recurring theme.ġ991: MC Hammer Scores First Big Noms, Public Enemy Sits Out Kool Moe Dee, a nominee and presenter that evening, did show up, however, and shouted out his fellow MCs with a rhyme before presenting Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. (The Grammys, for their part, blamed the snub on time restrictions.) Will Smith, who as the Fresh Prince won the first-ever Best Rap Performance alongside DJ Jazzy Jeff for “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” alongside fellow nominees Salt-N-Pepa and LL Cool J and others like Slick Rick and Public Enemy, participated in a boycott of the Grammys led by Def Jam’s Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen after being informed that the award would not be televised. 12), Billboard looks back at the complicated relationship between the hip-hop community and the Grammy Awards.Ĭhance the Rapper's Manager on Steering Clear of Major Labels & Still Scoring 7 Grammy Nomsġ989: The Grammys Embrace Rap Rap Boycotts the GrammysĪs stated above, the 1989 Grammys marked the first time that rap claimed a category of its own, though the rappers themselves rejected it. As the 59th annual awards prepare to get underway on Sunday (Feb. Paak are both nominated for Best New Artist, Swae Lee from Rae Sremmurd picked up a nod for Song of the Year for co-writing Beyoncé‘s “Formation” and Drake was nominated for Album of the Year for Views (and, thanks to a feature on Rihanna’s “Work,” also lands secondarily in the Record of the Year category).
This year, hip-hop is well represented in the main categories. Who Should WinĪnd many of the genre’s heavyweights over the years have been shut out, for one reason or another 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest, MC Lyte, N.W.A, Run-DMC and Public Enemy, among many others, are some of the hip-hop legends who have never tasted Grammy glory, while high-profile stars like Jay Z, Kanye West and 50 Cent have all spoken out against the awards at various times. 2017 Grammy Predictions: Who Will Win vs.
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