For all its platinum and chart-chopping success, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ debut album, The Heist, will forever be known as “the album that beat good kid, m.A.A.d. city at the Grammys.”
Macklemore himself added to the album’s infamy following the 56th Grammy Awards in 2014 when he texted Kendrick Lamar to tell him that his Compton competition was indeed superior to his own work and he posted the iMessage screenshots onto social media.
Released on February 26, 2016, the duo’s sophomore album’s title, This Unruly Mess I Made, alluded to the shake-up the Caucasian duo had brought to Hip Hop and apparently, they’re not done taking a backseat in the spotlight. According to a new report from the Associated Press, a person close to the Grammy nomination process speaking on the condition of anonymity revealed that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis voluntarily withheld the second studio effort from being submitted to potentially be recognized for Best Rap Album and maybe more.
Although The Heist earned the group a pair of Billboard No. 1 hits, a platinum-certified album and four Grammys (the aforementioned Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song and Best New Artist), their big Grammy night almost never happened as the committee initially tried to stick them in the pop category due to the uncharacteristic commercial success as far as Hip Hop releases are concerned.
Macklemore Says He Had “An Unfair Advantage Due To Race” At The Grammys
Featuring songs like “White Privilege II” — an open letter diatribe on race issues in the United States — and guest appearances from cultural heroes such as KRS-One, DJ Premier and Chance the Rapper, This Unruly Mess I Made was a precursor to the duo’s recent Grammy self-exile. In the HipHopDX review of the album, the group was cited for waiving “their rights as America’s token rap stars to be leveled with the more commoner rappers who work just as hard and sell less.”
And sell less it did. According to Nielsen Music, it moved 382,000 units (based on a combination of album sales, song sales and on-demand audio streams) in comparison to The Heist‘s combined 4.3 million units.
Representatives for the rap group and the Grammys didn’t reply to the Associated Press emails seeking a comment. Most likely they were busy hunting for the leak to plug.
They bet Kendrick because they had a song about g@y ppl.
Bitch music
Macklemore has corny stuff but he is more talented than most rappers out there. Damn shame he went under. He shouldntve won 2 or 3 out of those 4 grammys tho.
They are guests in the house of hiphop
He was awarded for pushing the gay agenda. To lower white birth rates/promote interracial relationships, thus furthering the white genocide. (((They))) reward you for that.
How do we get in on this?
He’s a hypocrite just like the rest who hate trump
A Trump-oline on a hip hop site. Who woulda thunk it?
Thank you! I was getting ready to type just that. Not only is it fuck Macklemore, but it’s also fuck G-Eazy, Eminem, YG, Jay-Z and anybody else that hates on Trump.
Then why you on a hip hop site? What rappers support Trump?
Kanye West did before his reprogramming following his on stage meltdown
When i listen to hip hop i only listen to black artists. Beautiful, talented Black people do it better because they originated it. Black people need to rule this world again and make this world great again. Black communism is da way how to overthrow this unjust unhealthy capitalistic regime we live in. Capitalism is a main reason why we experience everyday misery, depression and hopelessness.
When i listen to hip hop i only listen to chinese artists. Beautiful, talented Chinese people do it better because they originated it. Chinese people need to rule this world again and make this world great again. Chinese communism is the way how to overthrow this unjust unhealthy capitalistic regime we live in. Capitalism is a main reason why we experience everyday misery, depression and hopelessness.
When i listen to hip hop i only listen to russian artists. Beautiful, talented Russian people we didn’t originate rap music but we are the most powerful nation on the globe . Russia will rule this world again and make this world great again. Russian communism is the way forward . Communism is the way the world will end the misery, depression and hopelessness.
When i listen to Hip Hop i only listen to African hip hop because we’re black from the source and Not from the Ship. Beautiful, talented people who birthed the self-proclaimed originators of hip hop while African ancestors were doing rythm and parols way before. Africa will rule this world and make it great again ( got to cut out the selfish rulers though)
When i listen to hip hop i only listen to italian artists. Beautiful, talented spaghetti people we didn’t originate rap music but we originated pizza and hip hop artists love pizza. Italia will rule this world again and make this world great again. Eating pizza, spaghetti and risotto is the way forward. Pasta hip hop is the way the world will end the hunger, racism, sexism, climate change, ISIS, trump problems, afroamericans and cops problems, AIDS, cancer, misery, depression and hopelessness.
I don’t listen to most of the shit Drake be saying but I agreed when he bitched about Macklemore crying about winning the Grammy over Kendrick because he thought Kendrick’s album was better than his own. Look, if you don’t like your shit, get back in the studio and step yo game up or release nothing at all.
I disagree with you.
He never said he didn’t like his music, he just isn’t full of that arrogance in which you can’t admit that somebody made a better product than you… and for that, I can respect it. All he implied was “Kendrick made a better album than me’.
or maybe because this album didnt worked
He got lucky the first time it’s over wacklemore
I believe in hustle I don’t fuck with luck”
Good choice not submitting that garbage, next time just nix the whole album together. (Hillary Clinton, shaved transvestite, libtard ass motherfuckers) Aside from the mumble rap bullshit, this kind of white washed, derivative, ultra non-controversial, liberal so called hip-hop/rap is killing the fucking game. Fuck you Macklemope, and all those who make music like you; you destroying the fucking genre.