The GRAMMYs have a checkered relationship with rap. A few head-scratching decisions in this year's noms highlight how far they are from getting it right.
and Young Thug’s nominations for “Pushin P” are a welcome addition. Gunna was poised to have the biggest year of his career before being swept into the YSL indictment in May. “Pushin P” was the catalyst of his would-be breakout, as the “P” emoji became a viral sensation that buoyed the sleeksingle to Gunna’s first top 10 selection on Billboard Hot 100.
Elsewhere, the Grammy committee opted to laud a few prominent names to a needless degree. Jack Harlow’s Best Melodic Rap nomination for the ubiquitous “First Class” makes sense, but his other two nominations don’t. Drake’s resurgent verse is the sole highlight of “Churchill Downs,” and he’s boycotting the Grammys — is the Best Rap Song nomination about forcing the Toronto megastar into the mix? Harlow’sfor Best Rap Album, debuted at number three on Billboard and contained multiple hits.
DJ Khaled benefitted from a similar kind of inertia this Grammy season. For years, the bombastic sloganeer has dropped his feature-laden projects, rode their stardom overload to number one, rinsed, and repeated. He billedas another rap all-star game. Still, the project’s Best Rap Album nomination comes at a time when more people than ever acknowledge that the DJ Khaled album is akin to a pro-am game where artists appear more as a gesture to their friend than out of any competitive zeal.
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