For many rappers it’s the pop culture kiss of death. Still what may have hurt Shawn Carter the most was not the apparent contradiction of going to accept the award but the award itself. Ironically he won that year’s “Best Rap Album” category anyway, and showed up to accept the trophy. At one time the budding hip-hop mogul actually threatened to boycott the Awards ceremony when his third album was nominated, and in doing so pointing out that deserving rap artists had gone unrecognized for years. That’s not the message Kanye’s fellow Roc-A-Fella artist Jay-Z had in mind back in 2002, but he better than anyone else would understand Kanye’s dilemma. The Grammy Awards can be both a gift and a curse to hip-hop artists. “So they asked me, why you call it ‘Late Registration’ Ye?Ĭause we takin these muh’fuckers back to school!”
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