Rapsody says that the Grammys does not represent Hip Hop culture.
“The Grammys as far as Hip Hop goes, they don’t necessarily know a lot about our culture,” she said to msnbc last week.
The North Carolina rapper says she was rooting for Childish Gambino or ScHoolboy Q in this year’s competition. Both artists were nominated for Best Rap Album and Childish Gambino was also up for Best Rap Performance.
To Rapsody, there is a higher purpose for making music than to win awards. “It’s when I can travel 16 hours to South Africa and a six year old little girl comes up to me and she says I want to be like you when I grow up,” she says. “That’s what fills me with joy to inspire the next generation. That’s more powerful to me than any Grammy.”
In the article, she further explains the influences in her music, including Lauryn Hill. She expands on what it means to be a female Hip Hop artist when men say they can’t relate to women who rap.
“You have to be secure with yourself and you have to be confident in what you do and never second guess it,” she says, “because there’s always someone out there that can relate to you and somebody that you’re speaking for.”
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NEWS FLASH! they don’t want to know. Get over it and stop crying. rap isnt for everybody.
Well, why do they have categories for rap and hip hop then?
^^ so black ppl will stop crying.
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P.S , Stop listening to this jungle music have pride in your own people
She right. Ppl nowadays may as well not say anything with the garbage they spit….nowadays i jus like beats, so I just take vocals off these new joints using Online Vocal Remover so I don’t have to he’s what these new garbage rappers be spittin
First, the Grammys were always about mainstream, marketable hip-hop. Their concept about what’s valuable is strongly tied to popularity and any objectification of that like sale numbers. Second, the fact that a Grammy is still holds major reputation in the eyes of the masses there’s a lot of politics involved in it. And it’s a vicious circle, so unless you’re in that specific circle who’s valuable for the Grammy as an award itself you have very marginal chances of being recognised. So the thing is it was never about the quality of your music but mostly corporal interests, therefore serving the culture itself were out of the question from day one.
Realest thing I ever read on this website.
In other news, water is wet and the sky is blue. Side note, Rapsody is so ugly it brings tears to my eyes. Not to mention her music is boring as shit. Fuck outta here.
What’s even more obvious is that you a low IQ nigga. Rapsody iller than 99% of All the niggas spitting today. She’s only boring to someone 2 braincells
let’s be honest, the Grammys have never cared for hip-hop until EMINEM came into the picture. They were doing the same thing now as they were doing then. Eminem is marketable hip hop by way of white skin, so get over it. White people don’t win BET Hip-Hop awards (even though it’s ran by white people) and they aren’t complaining