I honestly don't care about the Grammy Awards. I used to. Way back when. But, I don't anymore. I think it's a function of me getting older and thus being more discriminatory in my tastes. Most music these days suck.
I know, I know. I sound like an old man. I sound like my parents. But, hell, it's true.
Rap is a joke.
Hip hop is dull.
And what has happened to R&B?
The mainstream media doesn't help. It's YEARS behind trend, and often miss the boat. Remember a couple of years ago, when several rap albums and songs won Grammy Awards? All the headlines and news stories were like, "Rap Comes of Age" and "Rap goes mainstream."
Please. Rap was mainstream years ago, long before being coronated by the elite media.
But I digress. I won't be watching the Grammys. Period.
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I was damn near depressed when they had the R&B medley and finished it with 16-year-old Chris Brown, who step-danced and wheezed and struggled to catch his breath as he sang every fourth or fifth word to the back-up (ne lipsynch) track playing behind him.
Nas was right. Rap is dead. But so is R&B. Although, the likes of John Legend give me hope that it could be revived.
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