Grammys

“Grammys” looks into Drake and Future’s music careers. While Drake’s won one Grammy for Take Care and has been nominated several times, Future has yet to win a Grammy, despite mainstream and critical success. Drake switches flows multiple times throughout his verse, making reference to Jay Z and Canadian rapper Top5. Future, on the other hand, blasts the Grammys and takes a subtle dig at rapper Desiigner, whose hit song “Panda” has been labeled as a Future rip-off. Drake echoed Future’s attitude on 2015’s “Blessings” by Big Sean: I could give two fucks ‘bout where the Grammys go This is Drake and Future’s first song since the all-conquering What a Time to Be Alive mixtape in 2015. It was originally a Future song which started at Future’s interlude and had a second Future verse, but Future gave the song to Drake for Views. Future later premiered this alternate version on his FBG Radio station in February 2017. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/702562389678559233 Drake’s relationship with the awards goes back to 2009, when “Best I Ever Had” was nominated for two Grammys. He wound up losing in both categories. In 2013, Drake won the Best Rap Album Grammy for ‘Take Care’—he found out while driving to the ceremony. Drake told Fuse: “And then we just started going nuts. And we got out—literally in the middle of the street—blocked cars, we all hugged. And then when I got back in the car, I realized that I had torn my suit. So I stopped at a hotel, I told the tailor to meet me there, and she sewed up my suit.” In 2014, Drake talked about the Grammys with Rolling Stone: “It becomes more apparent how irrelevant our genre is to them. They were trying to utilize me to sell the show, requesting me to come and perform ‘Hold On We’re Going Home,’ but they didn’t nominate it for anything! They’re calling me, e-mailing me every day to do some elaborate performance and bring them viewers, but I didn’t get a nomination for Album of the Year. I didn’t get a nomination for Song of the Year.” In 2016, the Grammys ran a Super Bowl commercial announcing that Drake would be there. He quickly corrected them on Twitter: “I am not performing at the Grammy Awards…but hey it’s the thought that counts.” After the 2016 Grammys, the organization announced several changes. One was the rethinking of the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category—it became Best Rap/Sung Performance. ThinkProgress speculated that this move was inspired by Drake, who does not need to collaborate to have both singing and rapping on his tracks. They called it “The Drake Change.”

Writing

40, Cardo, Drake, Future

Production

40, Cardo, Southside, Yung Exclusive

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Grammys — Future

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