Next year's Grammy Awards is stacked with competition from rappers of all shapes and sizes but hip hop podcaster/producer Rory Farrell thinks the running favorite is questionable -- Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us"!!!
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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.
00:03Freak-offs.
00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.
00:07Mm-hmm.
00:08It was a rapper that we all know.
00:11Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.
00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.
00:17All right, man.
00:18Look, you talk about this ad nauseum all day.
00:22What do you think about the current, you know, nominees for the Grammys?
00:27As far as hip-hop goes, does this represent the culture as currently constituted?
00:32Because it's got a lot of people talking about it.
00:34I mean, the Grammys could never define the culture or give it credence,
00:38but I'd love to see that Doji's nominated.
00:41A lot of people that are talented that are nominated.
00:43Yeah.
00:44But that doesn't define if you're a good artist or not.
00:46That's true. That's true.
00:47I know you're a cold guy, you know, cold guy on there.
00:50But there's people saying, look, he deleted...
00:52Don't tell them all.
00:54But he deleted the best track on My Delete Later.
00:57No, that wasn't the best track.
00:59And I'm not even trying to take a shot at Cole for deleting it.
01:01But that project was great.
01:02I didn't see it getting nominated, but I mean, Cole deserves it.
01:06The same way Nas got a Grammy 30 years later.
01:09Like, sometimes you just owed something.
01:11Right, right. Okay.
01:12Even if people disagree with Cole because it wasn't really an album.
01:14Yeah.
01:15Cole deserves it.
01:16I'm with you on Doji.
01:17Like, she...
01:18Yeah.
01:19That actually, like, kind of smells like right on the money, you know?
01:22Absolutely.
01:23She deserves it. Definitely deserves it.
01:24And then you got Eminem.
01:26Eminem always sweeps, you know?
01:28Yeah, but I mean, he said it in the White America song.
01:31What?
01:32Y'all should know by now.
01:33Listen to White America.
01:35Em told us why he does that every time. It's cool.
01:37Interesting. Interesting.
01:38Well, look, look, last thing, you know,
01:40obviously there's a lot to say about Kendrick getting these, you know,
01:44Not Like Us all over the board.
01:47Do you feel like, you know, the Grammys,
01:51Drake's always kind of had it out with them, you know?
01:55Is it trolling a little bit, you know?
01:58I mean, not that the voting body is thinking like that.
02:02I don't know if it's trolling per se.
02:04By the metric standard, yes, of course, Not Like Us should be there.
02:07Yeah.
02:08Now, the content in which is in that song is another debate.
02:12Right.
02:13And that's something I think the Grammys may have to wear.
02:16But that'll be a conversation I think we have in like a decade.
02:19Like, damn, I don't know if the content of that song
02:22is worthy to give actual awards to.
02:25Right. Yeah.
02:27That's just me.