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breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-51641064_1_jqbgeu\/will-smith-photo-by-matt-campbell-afp-via-getty-images.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-51641064_1_jqbgeu\/will-smith-photo-by-matt-campbell-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-51641064_1_jqbgeu\/will-smith-photo-by-matt-campbell-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-51641064_1_jqbgeu\/will-smith-photo-by-matt-campbell-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 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1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-51641064_1_jqbgeu\/will-smith-photo-by-matt-campbell-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-51641064_1_jqbgeu\/will-smith-photo-by-matt-campbell-afp-via-getty-images.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Dissecting rap\u2019s masochistic relationship with the Grammys\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Will Smith. Photo by MATT CAMPBELL\/AFP via Getty Images<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257265\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            I have at least two fond memories involving the Grammys. The first is thanks to my dad, who routinely purchased the officially licensed CD of Grammy nominees most years in the 2000s. In late 2008, the CD of 2009\u2019s nominees included \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d, an introduction to Radiohead that left me lovestruck. The second was watching a totally-pregnant M.I.A. perform \u201cSwagga Like Us\u201d with Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and T.I at the 2009 award ceremony. She went into labor that same night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            2009 was also pretty special for the Grammys: they actually got rap right. Lil Wayne all but swept the field, taking Best Rap Song (\u201cLollipop\u201d), Best Rap Album (<i>Tha Carter III<\/i>), and Best Rap Solo Performance (\u201cA Milli\u201d), with an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance on the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (\u201cSwagga\u201d); for the Best Rap\/Sung Collaboration, his T-Pain collab \u201cGot Money\u201d understandably lost to Estelle and Kanye\u2019s \u201cAmerican Boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            Conventional wisdom dictates that the Grammys are doomed when it comes to rap, but hip-hop fans keep tuning in. It\u2019s tempting to chalk this up as a particularly masochistic iteration of Stockholm Syndrome, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ivn0C8oebg\">word to Charlie Brown<\/a>. But the hope isn\u2019t totally misplaced \u2014 the Grammys can and do get things right, and I don\u2019t just mean \u201cpicking the nominee I personally like best.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257267\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/264921071?h=e2b6592dc1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/264921071\">TI ft. Kanye West, Jay Z, Lil Wayne, MIA &#8211; Swagga Like Us &#8211; 2009<\/a> from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user84050098\">Daniel Rodrigues<\/a> on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257266\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            In \u201cgood\u201d years, the logic for picking X over Y for Best Rap Album feels pretty clear cut, even when the academy skews towards commercial success over artistic merit. Eminem\u2019s <i>Relapse<\/i> winning Best Rap Album over Mos Def\u2019s <i>The Ecstatic<\/i> in 2010 doesn\u2019t reflect my personal hierarchy, but it\u2019s hard to argue with Em\u2019s run of 2009 singles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            But those good years are hard to appreciate when the bad years are so egregious: the 2024 Grammys will mark 10 years since Macklemore\u2019s infamous sweep at the 2014 ceremony, winning Best Rap Album over <i>Yeezus<\/i>, <i>Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City<\/i>, <i>Nothing Was The Same<\/i>, and <i>Magna Carter Holy Grail<\/i>. And despite \u2014 or more frighteningly, because of \u2014 a number of democratic overhauls to the awards\u2019 nomination and balloting processes, this year\u2019s nominees are fairly insipid.<\/p>\n<p>            The Grammys have had a contentious relationship with rap pretty much forever. When the Best Rap Performance category was introduced in 1989, some nominees (including Salt-N-Pepa and eventual winners DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince) chose to boycott because the award would not be part of the televised ceremony. The next year, \u201cBust A Move\u201d beat out \u201cFight The Power\u201d by Public Enemy and De La Soul\u2019s \u201cMe Myself and I,\u201d cementing the awards\u2019 reputation as a middlebrow trophy for consumer-oriented hip-hop.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257277\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ixfD6G_eK1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('257277');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257268\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            The 2000s didn\u2019t break from the awards\u2019 commercial posture, but the sheer number of popular rap albums meant the Recording Academy was far less likely to embarrass themselves \u2014 it\u2019s hard to be upset that <i>The Blueprint<\/i> and <i>Get Rich or Die Trying<\/i> didn\u2019t notch wins in 2002 and 2004 when they both lost to Outkast. But this points to the central issue with the Grammys: outcomes are hyper-dependent on the nominees\u2019 name recognition and crossover appeal.<\/p>\n<p>            You don\u2019t have to take my word for it. Here\u2019s <i>VIBE<\/i> founding editor Rob Kenner writing about his experience as a Grammy screener for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/rob-kenner\/how-does-grammy-voting-work\"><i>Complex<\/i><\/a> in 2014:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257269\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left block_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"block_quote_wrapper paragraph_wrapper\">\n  I soon learned another unwritten rule during private conversations with other committee members: be careful about green-lighting an album by someone who was really famous if you don\u2019t want to see that album win a Grammy. Because famous people tend to get more votes from clueless Academy members, regardless of the quality of their work. This is especially true in specialized categories like reggae and, to a lesser extent, hip-hop, where many voting members of the Recording Academy (who tend to skew older than the demographic for rap music) may not be well acquainted with the best releases in any given year.\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257270\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            This drives back to the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/grammys-ceo-harvey-mason-jr-diversity-new-categories-1234852480\/\">Grammys\u2019 voting process<\/a>. The Academy receives submissions for the awards through the end of the eligibility period, either from artists themselves or a member of their label or PR. These submissions are divided into genre categories by screening committees that determine whether an album is at least 51% pop or rap or R&amp;B, and therefore eligible for an award in that category. The entire list is released to roughly 12,000 dues-paying ($100\/year) Recording Academy voting members who vote for a limited set of awards across different \u201cfields\u201d (genres) to select nominees. After those votes are tallied, the nominees are sent out for a final round of voting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            This is a pretty reasonable set-up: let the self-professed genre experts pick the top 5 and then a bigger pool of interested parties chooses the best of the bunch. Ideally, the winner has genre bonafides (determined by the screening committee), artistic merit (vetted in the nomination process), and popular appeal (confirmed by the final vote).<\/p>\n<p>            In practice, results can vary for a number of reasons. First and foremost, rap\u2019s reduced presence in Recording Academy membership, a problem CEO Harvey Mason Jr. freely admits. \u201cRather than waiting for people to ask to join, we\u2019ve made a conscious effort to reach into different genres of music to say we need more of X or Y,\u201d Mason Jr. told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/grammys-ceo-harvey-mason-jr-diversity-new-categories-1234852480\/\"><i>Rolling Stone<\/i><\/a> last month. \u201cWe also wanted to increase our Black membership. Compared to the industry, we\u2019re fairly underrepresented in the Black music genres.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257271\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            The Grammys have also cracked down on less-informed voting, recertifying members in recent years to ensure they remain qualified to vote as peers of the nominees, and narrowing the number of votes members can cast for nominees and awards to just 10 categories across three fields, plus the six awards in the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>\u201d field. In previous years, members could vote in a wider range of awards and fields \u2014 the year Macklemore won, members could vote in up to 9\/31 fields for nominations and as many as 24\/31 for the awards themselves.<\/p>\n<p>            The biggest change to the Grammys process came in April 2021, when the Academy announced it would be dissolving its nominations review committees. Initially established in the mid-&#8217;90s, these opaque committees could massage and adjust the nominee list before final voting; in a 2020 complaint by ex-CEO Deborah Dugan, these same committees were said to be \u201cregularly swayed by the Grammys board, who push nominations for artists who they either want to perform at the ceremony, have relationships with, or both.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257272\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>[NOTE: Less pertinent to the voting process, but more crucial to the Academy\u2019s reputation, was that same complaint\u2019s allegation that Dugan\u2019s predecessor, Neil Portnow, was fired not for misogynistic comments about female artists, but for raping a female member of the Recording Academy. While Dugan and the Academy settled her complaint out of court, the allegations against Portnow have resurfaced following a Jane Doe lawsuit this past week.]<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257274\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Even following these changes, the recent history of rap Grammys isn\u2019t exactly reassuring. Best Rap Album wins for Tyler, the Creator and Kendrick Lamar were deserved, but not necessarily out of character \u2014 both had won the same award once or twice before under previous voting structures. Still, the tilt towards populism has been beneficial in other respects, i.e., netting Future his second Grammy and first as a lead artist (\u201cKing\u2019s Dead\u201d with Jay Rock and K Dot won Best Rap Performance by a Duo\/Group in 2019).<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            But maybe that\u2019s the biggest issue of all with the Grammys and hip-hop. If Future couldn\u2019t get an album recognized until 2023; if 50 Cent only got one for featuring on \u201cCrack a Bottle;\u201d if 2Pac and Biggie don\u2019t have Grammys: who cares about these awards anyway? Winning or performing <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/news\/2022-grammys-winners-albums-sales-increase-bump-olivia-rodrigo-jon-batiste-chris-stapleton\">boosts sales<\/a>, but the rappers capable of garnering nominations from the Academy are already fairly well-established; it\u2019s probably more lucrative to get your name in a larger font on the Rolling Loud flier.<\/p>\n<p>            I\u2019ll never blame artists for wanting validation from their industry peers. And perhaps as younger and more diverse artists join the Academy, the awards too will become sharper and more interesting, both in nominations and recipients (I won\u2019t hold my breath, but I would like to see it). Still, no matter how corny the Grammys get, I can\u2019t quite bring myself to pretend they don\u2019t matter \u2014 how else could they make so many people miserable all at once?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257275\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>Rap Column is a column about rap music by Vivian Medithi and Nadine Smith for The FADER.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-257264\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TFI7834680816&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Vivian Medithi<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Will Smith. Photo by MATT CAMPBELL\/AFP via Getty Images \u00a0 I have at least two fond memories involving the Grammys. 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