This morning (Nov. 28), the 2018 Grammy nominees were announced and Black Twitter was all happy since so many Hip-Hop acts, like Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino, got blessed with numerous nominations. However, one artist with his eye on the jig is Q-Tip.
The Abstract is peeved consider that A Tribe Called Quest performed at the 2017 Grammy ceremony, yet the group’s latest, critically acclaimed We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service album was nowhere to be found on the list of nominees.
Tip took to Instagram to drag the Grammys for what he considers the exploitation of his group.
“[I’m] sick of y’all f*cking Grammy n*ggas man. You get us to get out there and f*cking perform last year and close the sh*t and y’all don’t get us no fucking nominations?” says Tip. “9th, what happened?”
Tip is referring to 9th Wonder, but he meant no disrespect (Rapsody’s Laila’s Wisdom album caught a nomination, though).
He added, “We don’t get sh*t?! For that album. For that album!”
And that’s just part one.
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Tip went on to stress the importance of ATCQ’s album while pleading that y’all not fall for the “diverse” Grammy’s jig since being Black is what his group stood on. #facts
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Q-Tip is hot.
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Let’s end this with a quote from the late, great Phife Dawg. “I’ll never let a statue tell me how nice I am,” spit the 5 Foot Assassin on “Award Tour.” A Tribe Called Quest are one of the nicest to ever do it, period. They deserve ALL the awards.
Just saying.
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