Grammy nominations are always going to spark debates with the limited number of spots available in each category, but many feel there have been some glaring omissions for the 2021 awards following Tuesday’s (November 24) announcement. 50 Cent, who’s never one to shy away from his opinion on popular culture, has voiced his issue with the Best Rap Album category.
In a since-deleted Instagram post on Wednesday (November 25), the rap mogul called the Recording Academy “out of touch” while posting a photo of the nominations: D Smoke, Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist, Jay Electronica, Nas and Royce Da 5’9.
“Best Rap Album,” he said followed by several grinning emojis. “They out of touch this shit ain’t it, get the fuck outta here. 50cent #bransoncognac #lecheminduroi.”
50’s comments could possibly be due to the lack of nomination for Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon album, which he executive produced with Steven Victor and Rico Beats. Despite that, the drill rapper was nominated for Best Rap Performance for “Dior” — the protest anthem that appeared as a bonus track on his posthumous LP.
During an interview before the announcement took place, 50 told Spotify’s RapCaviar he didn’t expect Pop’s album to receive a nomination unless it was because he died.
“If it’s recognized it will only be because he’s gone,” he said. “The content is similar to what I would do. They didn’t recognize mine. They gave me Grammys when I was with Em, when I’m on records with Eminem. Other than that, they’re afraid to give him Grammys because they think it’s teaching the audience to want to be like Pop and to be like him is to be part of gang culture. Who you see get Grammys that is making drill music? You mean to tell me ain’t none of those songs worthy of it?”
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He continued, “It’s for the culture, the people to embrace those tones and to really appreciate the artist for doing that. Well, we know that a lot of the guys that come up specifically in Hip Hop are rough around the edges. They coming from tough backgrounds. They come from real adversity. You hear them put it in the music the right way, it sounds so beautiful that they become amazing. That’s what makes it special, you know? Makes it unique.”
Quality Control Music’s CEO Pierre “Pee” Thomas also wasn’t happy with the nominations in the album categories. He felt Lil Baby deserved accolades for My Turn, which he considers Album of the Year.
“Whoever making the decisions at the Grammys You all disconnected like a mf,” he said on Twitter. “you don’t speak for our culture. Congrats to all the nominees. #MyTurnAlbumOfTheYear.”
Baby’s protest song “The Bigger Picture” did, however, receive nominations for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.
pop smoke was trash just like that for life show
I don’t get all this hate. Name 1 musically trash album that was nominated. I get that there are other great albums but only so many can be nominated.
Just because you got that executive producer credit on Pop’s record- doesn’t make it the record of the year 50….this dude is a master troll.
That Pop Smoke album wasn’t good and it sounds very dated.
i disagree. what you have there are brothers coming up. beyonce, 50 cent and so on need to be on the back burner.
Ppl complaining about this list is why the grammys should yell hiphop fans to suck their dixk. Look at the list. Prob the most legit list in hiphop in a decade. I swear all black celebs do is complain
They robbed the Weekend of a nomination. Blinding Lights is sitting at 1.6 billion streams on Spotify alone.
Nigerian uncle 50 cent strikes again lmao
Why are so many black artists butt hurt about the Grammys? Still want white folks approval
50 of all people shouldn’t even be criticizing album nominations. Dude hasn’t had a good song or album in who knows how long! Nas is due for his, at least he is still putting out quality after all these years. But if he doesn’t win, the list is the most legit it’s been in years. Grammy’s usually never nominate real hip hop projects. As for 50, what a sad individual. Acting like a hurt washed up bum. Get in the studio with Banks to save your music career because its been trash
maybe you have been living under a rock but 50 has pretty much moved on from his music career. He’s producing shows and directing movies now. His days as a recording artist are pretty much over other then the random track here and there. Banks and 50 dont even speak. Banks hasnt released much music either in recent years
Why are so many black artists mad about the Grammys? Still want approval from a certain race of people?
50 Cent you have nothing to do with what real hip hop is and you have never sang or produced one. You have always been a POP star. Real hip hop cats never listen to what you say or what you like. You are part of the NY downfall and terrible music that they promote and accept !
You probably not alone on that thought, but 50’s reign was incredible until Kanye outshined him and tings went a lil soft. That and ATL shining. Can’t blame it all on 50. Everyone else just didn’t come correct enough. Cam’ron came close lol.
Man 50 was just hot trend nothing more. He could not rap a lick. His flow and lyric abilities were 8th grade. Plain hot garbage!!! Get off 50 sacks!!! Real rap heads know what is real rap! Being hot and know how to rap are two different things. Beats make a fake rapper real good in the eye of what is hot! We have see this too many times on the rap scene. Remember people the key word is RAP. In today’s time anyone can do hip hop music. Sad!
the biggest snub was The Weeknd really…the rap album category I rock with, Its all substance and body of work that will stand the test of time.
Fuck you ni99a… I hate that weekend dude more than Adam sandler.. he should suck a pickled ballsack
Pop Smoke album was probably left off because of 50’s verse on it. That might of been the whackest verse of all time….and that’s saying something for 50
Let us be honest can 50 rap or was it just Dr. Dre beats? Tell the truth now people.
Dre didn’t do all his beats… Stop hating, Fif got mad hot shit. He got a lot of wack shit, but he got a lot of hot shit too.
Man 50 cannot rap! Stop kidding yourself!!!
Yes go listen to GRODT and then Animal Ambition! Sounds like Eminem wrote the whole GRODT album and then a kindergartener wrote animal ambition. Plus every song he’s been featured on in the past few years have been horrible on his behalf
50 who listens to you? Fat boy go eat a Snicker or something!!!
50 is just promoting the pop smoke album. Nothing more, nothing less.
2 things… 1: he is right, pop smoke shoulda been nomimated this year. Although this is probably one of the best sets of rap nominees ever, that was a snub.
2: people need to put some respect on 50’s name, the guy is one of the highest selling rappers of all time, and he became that while mother fuckers were literally hunting him to try and kill him. Can you imagine having to do surprise concerts and dip as fast as you can because as soon as word is out where you are, people are sending shooters? 50 can.
This is the first time in a long time I actually thought they got the rap albums of the year right. Gibbs should have been nominated at least 2 or 3 times by now, Royce is a beast, I think Nas should and will win though.
Yeah nah that Pop Smoke album was ass!! I don’t give a fuck if he died. I’m not going to Yes Man that bullshit. It no where near stacked up to these albums. I do feel that Jay electronica and D smoke could have been replaced just because that Jay album was trash and I honestly didn’t listen to D Smokes album. Was that the guy who won that Netflix shit? Lol Alfredo was the best one out of them. He got snubbed last year too!!
I liked the Nas but if it is album of the year it is only because the rest of the year was average. All of these albums were subpar. Allegory has nothing on Book of Ryan, Royce took a huge step back. Alfredo is ok, everyone overrated Gibbs like crazy. Written testimony was only good because Hov saved the day, jay elec let us down otherwise (some of his verses were good but overall a let down). I like D smoke but again, it wasnt good enough. Grammys tryna be woke but the woke shit wasnt that good this year. Pandering to black people with all the wokeness while still not truly caring about black people.
Straight up facts. Especially Gibbs, he should of been Grammy nominated for Piñata when it dropped and that’s it. Couldn’t even replay Alfredo
The Grammys went in the gutter when they actually entertained these clowns. Rap/hip hop shouldn’t be honored at all. Leave that to BET. Why invite the projects to a supposedly classy event? Now it’s tainted, just end it all already.
But Pop Smoke was trash!!! Be real here folks… No disrespect!
Pop Smoke album was garbage folks! You could not understand what he was saying. He was a mumbling rapper! Grammy’s got this right this time. At least you can understand some of the language and lyrics on each album. I am a big fan of King Disease! That album was fire!!!
A black man supporting Trump calling a group of krakkkas out of touch….ah the irony….concentrate on where yaul takin’ Book II…
MAINSTREAM RAP SUCKS. POINT BLACK PERIOD.
Man 50 was just hot trend nothing more. He could not rap a lick. His flow and lyric abilities were 8th grade. Plain hot garbage!!! Get off 50 sacks!!! Real rap heads know what is real rap! Being hot and know how to rap are two different things. Beats make a fake rapper real good in the eye of what is hot! We have SEEN this too many times on the rap scene. Remember people the key word is RAP. In today’s time, anyone can do hip hop music. I have my four legged dog’s album is coming out this year. Headed to number 1 on the charts and going to sell a million records. Sad!