Fabolous posted an image on his Instagram account today (January 28) addressing his recent comments regarding Macklemore and the Grammy Awards.
The rapper made these statements in the caption to his most recent post on the social media platform. An excerpt of his caption reads:
“When they asked me about Macklemore winning Grammys all I could do was congratulate the WINNER. Even if my opinion on if he should’ve won differs (which wasn’t asked) I still salute WINNERS!!”
Fabolous was likely referencing his recent First Take appearance where he was asked about Macklemore’s Grammy wins. During the show, Fab said he was not surprised that Mack won four Grammy Awards, including Best Rap Album.
“If it would have been maybe at the BET Hip Hop Awards [it would have been] surprising,” he said. “I think he’s more commercial and it fits in the kind of music that the Grammys celebrates and is looking for…There’s guys who’ve had tremendous success who’ve never won Grammys…50 Cent has sold millions and millions of records. He’s not a Grammy winner because of maybe his style of music or whatever. But I think Macklemore fits in there.”
Fab’s Instagram post featured an image of Robert Horry, a former NBA player who won seven championships while playing for the Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs.
Fabolous’ full Instagram post caption can be found below.
They ain’t never won no rings, but be mad at Horry.. Never be mad because someone else is the WINNER. Congratulate them. Use it as motivation and work harder so you can be the WINNER too. Or you can always be a WINNER on your own terms. Without accolades, trophies or others recognition you can still be a WINNER!! When they asked me about Macklemore winning Grammys all I could do was congratulate the WINNER. Even if my opinion on if he should’ve won differs (which wasn’t asked) I still salute WINNERS!! And any artist or up & coming I’ve met, one of the 1st things I say to them is “Congratulations” #SoulTape3 #YoungOG #TipHatsToTheWinnersThatsWhatWinnersDo #AndItsTheGrammysWhodYallThinkWasGonnaWin #NiggasBeThereHateClapping #HorryGotSevenRingsHisHatersGotNone #EvenIfItWasRightPlaceAtTheRightTimeYouStillGottaBeThereToWin #GuessYallAlwaysInTheWrongPlaceAtTheWrongTime #CantGiveTheseLoserNiggasNoVoice #OnlyLetTheWinnersSpeak #RiseAndGrind
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no one reading all those hashtags.
hes too old for that shit
The Grammy’s has a double standard when it comes to rap music. One one hand they bypass Kendrick’s album which was LIGHT YEARS ahead of Macklemore as far as quality, content, lyrical and songs. People say that he won because he album was more popular but wasn’t Kanye’s record more popular than Herbie Hancock’s and Eminem’s album more popular than Arcade Fire? The more popular theory only works when it applies to REAL hip hop.
Lil Wayne beat Jay-Z, Nas and Lupe with Tha Carter 3
Well Arcade Fire winning over Kanye…sometimes the Grammys miraculously get it right? Them making a good decision like that is just an aberration.
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That shit Fab said is tooooo real for this site,I swear it is. All these keyboard clowns…big up Fab real shit homie. This site is a part of the watering down of music in general, not just hip hop. I understand how capitalism works, but damn the deliberate mockery of an art form is wack man. Like Scarface said fucking Elvis will be face of hip hop in the future.
“Like Scarface said fucking Elvis will be face of hip hop in the future.”
Thats the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard, I don’t believe he said that.
“Racism still alive!! They just be concealing it” – Kanye West
“Elvis is the king of Hip Hop” – Scareface
Elvis being the new “white face” that has delibertly placed and backed by industry to be “incredibly success in the underground circuit” (yeah right…) in hiphop culture to water down and change to meet there needs in music and to assimilate to there idea of american society.
Elvis is what rock is known for… however Elvis style sound lyrics and even character was black … he was the first “wigger”
it might not be slim shady or wack ass macklemore.. but there will be one random white due to take over this art form .. for the sake of white ppl.. they commercialized and lightened the shit out of it anyway.. We have no choice by listen to trapping and drill music.. its the only thing that seems black..
References
Rock-N-Roll history Elvis
RnB Justin Temberlake
Soul Adele/Amy Winehouse
rap …
Its not that these white ppl aren’t decent and maybe even good, but they should NEVER NEVER eva eva eva eva be considered the peak of the genre.. on the simply fact that there whole style is basically black aka written by black, originally sang by blk ppl, or stylized in a performance manner created by blk ppl, ppl being.. (Pharrel,Timberland,The Dream, Etta James..
“We have no choice by listen to trapping and drill music.. its the only thing that seems black.. ”
If that’s what black represents then I renounce every ounce of my blackness. That’s the gayest thing I ever heard. Stop making excuses for wackness. Being black used to mean something. Rap music has been overwhelmingly become devoid of blackness and overrun instead with darkness. Buncha ignorant s^&*. Hip-Hop can do way better than that.
50 won with Eminem–there goes the white boys again– for an unheard of song but Fab is right.
Schoolboy Q won w/ Macklemore then?
True, 50 cent won with Eminem for that song Crack for Bottle
but somehow lost for GRODT which was fucking criminal
We can say he won, but he was a feature for Em’s song. So Em’ gets that award traditionally.
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IMO… Folks shouldn’t be mad at Macklemore or the Grammys…It is what it is. We have known this for quite some time now, but some of us get butt hurt when someone wins and the other didn’t. Do I think Macklemore’s album was better….HELL NAH! But, it was a damn good album. Should K.Dot have won…HELL YEAH! If the Grammys had a MOST POPULAR RAP ALBUM then Macklemore would have more than deserved it. Grammys are for entertainment purposes anyway. Run The Jewels wasn’t even nominated for best rap album, and we all know it is the best since K.Dot.
Hip Hop music will never really be recognized at the Grammys. Why are people so surprised? Very strange. Grammys are geared towards the radio and commercial music.