2015 Grammys...Best Rap Album

[Lambsbread]

Obviously Because The Internet should have won the Grammy, as it was one of the greatest rap albums to come out in the past few years. Oxymoron or Blacc Hollywood could have won as well, but for real? Eminem? And Beck? What year is it? 2005?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Eminem? And Beck? What year is it? 2005?

I don't understand what the year has to do with anything. Creative fecundity lasting a decade is admirable and wouldn't be particularly confusing in any other industry.

[Lambsbread]

Eminem? And Beck? What year is it? 2005?

I don't understand what the year has to do with anything. Creative fecundity lasting a decade is admirable and wouldn't be particularly confusing in any other industry.

Eminem's LP wasn't better than the three I listed in my OP. He won it solely for being Eminem, and I'll put full stock in that statement. Beck's LP wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best album of the year, certainly not the best of that group. Ed Sheeran and Beyonce put out way better records than did Beck. Don't get me wrong, I have immense respect for both Eminem and Beck for what they've done musically, but to call them the best in their respective categories makes it seem more like the committee handed out awards based on lifetime achievement, not the records at hand.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Eminem? And Beck? What year is it? 2005?

I don't understand what the year has to do with anything. Creative fecundity lasting a decade is admirable and wouldn't be particularly confusing in any other industry.

Eminem's LP wasn't better than the three I listed in my OP. He won it solely for being Eminem, and I'll put full stock in that statement. Beck's LP wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best album of the year, certainly not the best of that group. Ed Sheeran and Beyonce put out way better records than did Beck. Don't get me wrong, I have immense respect for both Eminem and Beck for what they've done musically, but to call them the best in their respective categories makes it seem more like the committee handed out awards based on lifetime achievement, not the records at hand.

That makes sense, and in the case of Eminem I totally agree, it's just that the way you said it made it sound like you were saying that there's some sort of expiration date on this sort of thing, and I think that's a kind of pernicious attitude (although one that's very common in the music industry).

[Lambsbread]

Eminem? And Beck? What year is it? 2005?

I don't understand what the year has to do with anything. Creative fecundity lasting a decade is admirable and wouldn't be particularly confusing in any other industry.

Eminem's LP wasn't better than the three I listed in my OP. He won it solely for being Eminem, and I'll put full stock in that statement. Beck's LP wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best album of the year, certainly not the best of that group. Ed Sheeran and Beyonce put out way better records than did Beck. Don't get me wrong, I have immense respect for both Eminem and Beck for what they've done musically, but to call them the best in their respective categories makes it seem more like the committee handed out awards based on lifetime achievement, not the records at hand.

That makes sense, and in the case of Eminem I totally agree, it's just that the way you said it made it sound like you were saying that there's some sort of expiration date on this sort of thing, and I think that's a kind of pernicious attitude (although one that's very common in the music industry).

Nah that was more of a joke than anything else haha

[Gass3268]

Best Hip-Hop album of 2014 (Run The Jewels 2) wasn't even nominated.

[Maxwell]

Best Hip-Hop album of 2014 (Run The Jewels 2) wasn't even nominated.

Yes, and this is a pretty bad list, but of these, easily Common's Nobody's Smiling (his best album since Be, but that's not saying much). "The Neighborhood" is one of the five best rap songs (not rapped by Young Thug) of 2014, though, so that alone makes Nobody's Smiling worth a listen

Childish Gambino has gone from downright awful to meh, which is a huge improvement but he's still not worth listening to.

Iggy Azalea is the worst rapper in history so yeah, no.

Eminem has gone from using f-ed up punchlines to create an image of a psychopath to using really dated punchlines to show he's an old person who hates youngsters. Awful.

Schoolboy Q is actually a great rapper, too bad Oxymoron is most boringest, rap albumest rap album I've heard in a while. What a shame.

And Wiz Khalifa? in 2014? Being good? lol what a joke. Get me a time machine and play me some Kush and OJ and that MAY have deserved a grammy.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Anything besides Iggy Azalea.