Just like for HipHopDX’s Most Lit Rap Songs of 2016, Fat Joe and Remy Ma’s “All the Way Up” lost a narrow battle to Chance The Rapper’s “No Problem” at the 59th Grammy Awards.
After getting all dressed up and walking away empty handed, Crack took to his Instagram to congratulate his competition with a post that some fans interpreted as a backhanded compliment, possibly implying payola or selling out.
“I hear you gotta sell it to snatch the Grammy! Whats the Chance of that lol congrats to the winners!” he wrote, with a capital C. “Theres always next year ?? Plata O Plomo season. This Friday!!! #plataoplomo”.
He clarified what exactly he meant this morning (February 15) on The Breakfast Club.
“Nah, we fans … we congratulated him and everything,” Joey stated. “[But] what I can say, is I’m a fan of Chance The Rapper … I feel Chance The Rapper could have won Verse of the Year on any category with the Pablo “Ultralight Beam” — that verse was from GOD!” [Editor’s Note: #FACTS]
“But he won an award — the New Artist that ain’t been a rapper win that shit in 18 years since Lauryn Hill. And when Lauryn Hill won that, she won that after selling 30 million FUGEE records! And then went on her solo classic album! Like Chance The Rapper, I know him from the rhyme of a lifetime and then that one single,” before Charlamagne Tha God pointed out that Coloring Book was actually his third mixtape. He also denied his Instagram post was a diss in any sense.
“That’s what he said on the Kanye [“Ultralight Beam] record,” Joe explained, referencing Chance’s lyric, “I made Sunday Candy, I’m never going to hell/I met Kanye West, I’m never going to fail/He said let’s do a good ass job with Chance Three/I hear you gotta sell it to snatch the Gram-my.”
“I had to make fun about it. Because we lost! What we supposed to act like … the elephant in the [room] … we didn’t lose? We lost! So you gotta man up. You gotta just come out and say we can’t control that. Or you gotta make fun about it. Make it a little metaphor … I didn’t throw no subliminals to Chance. I’m actually a fan of Chance The Rapper!”
Remy Ma also felt Drake’s “Hotline Bling” wasn’t a rap song and pointed out how the Grammys were promoting Chance on their billboards ahead of the broadcast before DJ Envy played devil’s advocate, citing the Chicago rap superstar was a performer for the show.
She also pointed out that she feels Desiigner’s display of mumble rap on “Panda” should have taken home the Best Rap Performance Grammy.
While the blitz of press heightens the awareness of his long-awaited duet album with Remy Ma, his Instagram followers were keen to point out let him know the post was still drenched in sodium.
Chance is extremely overrated. He deserved a grammy this year but he barely raps. As far as verse of the year, I mean yea I’d put the “Ultralight Beam” verse up there but Kendrick had an absolutely ridiculous feature year last year. With “Holy Key”, “What’s Wrong” w/ Isaiah Rashaad, and “That Part (Black Hippy Remix)”. Chance’s rap comes absolutely nowhere near these verses. Simple and plain. But congrats to that guy I guess. Time for the cults to eat him up.
Verse of the year? ? Lol yeah righttttt
Chance is ass. What’s America agenda for hip hop. This is a goddamn shame….. Coloring book… Damn… What happened to it all
I’m with you the bar is the lowest it’s ever been rap is horrible
Remy Ma looking fine AF in that pic.
Umm no.
But nobody can credit Chance for rapping when he can top a lot of artists lyrically and emotionally?
I think media just has everybody blabbing their opinions and making millions of views for money. No denying that, but how does anybody say that bar is set low with Chance? It’s actually tremendously high considering he is one few true artists left in the game. FUCK MEDIA AND BRING FORTH THE TRUE ARTISTS!
Apple Music made sure he won. Panda should have won based off popularity and cross over appeal. Would have been good for ratings “yafeelmeewraifoutheresuicidedoorsraaaahyafeelmeeeeraaaaahgrammyrahrahrahayeayeaue”
This was a poor attempt at gaining publicity for their upcoming flop of an album that should have come out LAST JULY.
IM ALL THE WAY UP…….Remys sexy ass
“…but how does anybody say that bar is set low with Chance?” – Brandon Spangler February 15, 2017 | 7:20 PM
[Verse 1: Chance The Rapper]
Ooh, watch me come and put the hinges in their hands
Countin’ Benjis while we meetin’, make ’em shake my other hand
Milly rockin’, scoopin’ all the blessings out my lap
Bitch I know you tried to cheat, you shoulda never took a nap, hey
Fuck wrong with you? What you were thinkin’?
Fuck you thought it was?
You talk that talk that make a lame ass nigga fall in love
Not me, though, bitch you can keep those
Bruh, I’m at your head like Craig did Deebo
Don’t tweak, bro, it’s never sweet, ho
My shooters come for free, so
………..Seriously?