The Nominees for the 64th Grammy Awards Have Been Announced!
The nominees have been announced ahead of the 64th Grammy Awards Ceremony to be held in Los Angeles on January 31.
After the VMA and AMA, the eyes were turned to the Grammy awards ceremony. The nominees were announced on the night where the best of the year will receive their awards.
While many rappers were nominated for awards with new and old ones, Doja Cat’s nomination for 8 awards attracted attention.
BEST RAP ALBUM
The category of “Best Rap Album”, which is one of the most important awards that rappers give great effort and time, contains many quality albums.
Among the names nominated for the award this year, there are 4 MCs who have previously won the Best Rap Album award.
Eminem is the most successful MC in this category with 6 awards so far.
Kanye, who was nominated for the Best Rap Album of the year with his album Donda, has won this award 4 times before. Drake, Nas, Tyler, the creator are among the winners of this award in the past years.
Finally to add, Nas, one of the nominated names, won the award with his ”King’s Disease” album last year.
Here are the nominated albums;
- Drake-Certified Lover Boy
- Kanye West-Donda
- Nas – King’s Disease 2
- Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
- J. Cole – The Off-Season
BEST RAP PERFORMANCE
As always, the competition is fierce in this award, where many successful singles and duets were nominated this year.
Kendrick Lamar, who has won this award the most, is on stage this year with the song “Family Ties”, accompanied to his cousin Baby Keem.
But this year it is harder than ever to win the award because Cardi B, who reached the top of many lists with her song “Up”, Drake who shook all the social media with her album “Certified Lover Boy” and Megan The Stallion, who continues her debut and collects awards, nominated for ‘Best Rap Performance’.
Here are the nominated performances;
- Baby Keem – Family Ties (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
- Cardi B – Up
- J. Cole – My Life (21 Savage & Morray)
- Drake – Way 2 Sexy (feat. Future & Young Thug)
- Megan Thee Stallion – Thot Shit
BEST MELODIC RAP PERFORMANCE
Lil Nas, whose style and sexual choice could not get ahead of his music, was nominated for many awards this year.
And Lil Nas X, who managed to win many awards this year, was nominated in this category too.
Here are the other nominees;
- J. Cole – Pride Is the Devil (feat. Lil Baby )
- Doja Cat – Need to Know
- Lil Nas X – Industry Baby (feat. Jack Harlow)
- Tyler, the Creator – WusYaName (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again & Ty Dolla $ign)
- Kanye West – Hurricane
BEST RAP SONG
There are MCs who have won this award many times in the “Best Rap Song” category this year.
DMX, one of the nominees’ names, is among the candidates with his duet “Bath Salts” with old-school rappers Jay Z and Nas.
Here are the other nominees;
- DMX – Bath Salts (feat. JAY-Z & Nas)
- Saweetie – Best Friend (feat. Doja Cat)
- Baby Keem – Family Ties (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
- Kanye West – Jail
- J. Cole – My Life (21 Savage & Morray)
Other categories for which rappers are nominated
Lil Nas X- Album of The Year(Montero), Song of The Year(Call Me by Your Name)
Doja Cat- Album of The Year(Planet Her-Deluxe), Song of The Year(Kiss Me More feat SZA)
Kanye West- Album of The Year(DONDA)
Baby Keem- Best New Artist
