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The Official 51st Annual Grammy Awards Thread 2/8/09

therealjondoe said:
that was for the teenie boppers...
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I know that. So dude can't sit here and tell me Nas tryin' to make music for JUST the hip hop heads when he's clearly trying to appeal to both. I ain't knockin' him. This shit is business. But he's trying to hold Nas on this pedastol that he ain't sellin' his soul like most other artists in music.
 
keysersoze said:
overrated? every album in the rap category was more hyped than lupes.

maybe pharoahe monch should haven got a nomination.
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He should, because he's a million times better than Lupe, unfortunately he didn't have an album out last year :hmm:
 
Hollywoodheat said:
lupe > hamilton


name one hamilton song better than dumb it down ?
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Hamilton is a wierd muthafucka who wears pink polo's with Old Navy performance fleece's with a Sonic the Hedgehog backpack. It throws people off from the fact he's not that nice. He's a solid producer though. But as a rapper his FLOW IS SHITTY. I can't even call that shit a flow.
 
dtownsfinest said:
Proof of what? That 50 Cent makes shitty albums or that Wayne has worked harder than anyone in music?
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You don't know how hard either of them worked, not to mention everyone else there is out there and how hard they worked. There's no point in even trying to argue it. Simply bias. How hard someone worked has no direct correlation with deserving the best album. You can work until your fingers fall off and your album is still going to be what it is. And lil wayne makes shitty albums too (like the carter 3).
 
dtownsfinest said:
I know that. So dude can't sit here and tell me Nas tryin' to make music for JUST the hip hop heads when he's clearly trying to appeal to both. I ain't knockin' him. This shit is business. But he's trying to hold Nas on this pedastol that he ain't sellin' his soul like most other artists in music.
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ESPECIALLY w/that wack as shit w/ginuwine. :smh::lol:




Hollywoodheat said:
lupe > hamilton


name one hamilton song better than dumb it down ?
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he wont b able 2.






therealjondoe said:
wayne aint either
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ehhhhh. i wouldnt go THAT far. he aint as good as him or his fanboys think he is but he DAMN sho aint on the level of..........gucci mane. :hmm:


 
Man fuck it.

Maya looking silly as hell:lol:

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clayizaiken said:
that damned pedophile about to sing Sweet Caroline again. shit, don't these CACs feel uncomfortable about that song since the news came out about its origins?
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'Sweet Caroline' revealed
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/11/21/sweet_caroline_revealed/
By Carol Beggy and Mark Shanahan
Globe Staff / November 21, 2007

That Neil Diamond ditty they play during the eighth inning at Fenway Park? Turns out it's about JFK's daughter. Breaking years of silence on the subject, Diamond has revealed that Caroline Kennedy was the secret inspiration for "Sweet Caroline," the 1969 smash hit that's played at every Red Sox home game.

"I've never discussed it with anybody before - intentionally," the celebrated singer told the Associated Press this week. "I thought maybe I would tell it to Caroline when I met her someday."

Diamond finally got his chance when he performed via satellite last week at the former first daughter's 50th birthday party.

"I'm happy to have gotten it off my chest and to have expressed it to Caroline," he said. "I thought she might be embarrassed, but she seemed to be struck by it and really, really happy."

Diamond, 66, said he was a "young, broke songwriter" in the '60s when he saw a cute photo of Caroline Kennedy in a magazine. "It was a picture of a little girl dressed to the nines in her riding gear, next to her pony," he recalled. "It was such an innocent, wonderful picture, I immediately felt there was a song in there."

A few years later, Diamond said he holed up in a Memphis hotel and wrote the words and music in less than an hour.

"It was a No. 1 record and probably is the biggest, most important song of my career, and I have to thank her for the inspiration," he said.

Attempts to reach Kennedy, who's married to designer Edwin Schlossberg, were unsuccessful yesterday.

Born in 1957, Kennedy was not yet 12 years old when "Sweet Caroline" was released. That the song was inspired by such a young girl is curious considering the lyrics' romantic overtones: "Where it began/ I can't begin to knowin'/ But then I know it's growing strong/ Was in the spring/ And spring became the summer/ Who'd have believed you'd come along. . . Hands, touchin' hands/ Reachin' out/ Touchin' me/ Touchin' you."

As a tribute to a Red Sox employee who had named her newborn Caroline, the team began playing "Sweet Caroline" occasionally in 1998. It was an instant fan favorite, and in 2003 the decision was made to play it at each home game.

"What I did was make it an everyday anthem," said Dr. Charles Steinberg, VP of public affairs for the Sox. "People used it before only when they thought it might inspire a win, but I thought this song was powerful enough that it might change the atmosphere regardless of how far down we were."

Steinberg said Kennedy and her family attended a game at Fenway in '04, and he asked if she was the Caroline in question.

"She said, 'No, not as far as I know,' " said Steinberg. "But certainly the notion was present then that it would be so cool if it was about her.

"Wow," said Steinberg. "This makes my day. . . . This makes my year."

The Sox have tried to get Diamond to perform the song at the ballpark, and it nearly happened during the team's recent playoff run.

"Our sound people were talking to his sound people," said Steinberg. "We were ready with the microphone."

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, a Sox season ticketholder, was thrilled to learn about the Kennedy connection to "Sweet Caroline."

"It's a lovely story," she told us yesterday. "There's something about that song that makes you feel better. It's really become a ritual and now with this news, it seems like it's going to continue."

© Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company.
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Not defending him, but just like a term paper or any other written work may be inspired by 1 thing, the final draft of it may be a lot different.
 
dtownsfinest said:
Damn. I Wanted Wayne to win to see the hate on BGOL. Damn.......Well shit there goes that. :lol:
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You too.....Cats about to have an aneurysm over a guy that they claim they don't care about - getting some awards....?

Dudes are upset like it's personal or something.

But on the cool it would've been crazy if Nas had won & they played "N.I Double G .E.R but we are much more..." in the background while he was going up to accept the award.
 
Joe Grind said:
lil wayne is good at what he does .....he has a lot of talent ......but he has NO staying power!!!!!! he has some good songs but NO classics..... 2 to 5 yrs from now will he still be making hits???? will his songs still be poppin.....he won this award cause he is the flavor of the month ...*pause*.... i dont hate on the dude i just dont believe the hype
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Wtf are you talking about? If Wayne stopped today, he's already had "staying power!!!!" He's been at it of over 10 years and had plenty of hits and sold plenty of records. He's only 26 yeah, but the kat started before he was a teen.
 
Nok17 said:
You don't know how hard either of them worked, not to mention everyone else there is out there and how hard they worked. There's no point in even trying to argue it. Simply bias. How hard someone worked has no direct correlation with deserving the best album. You can work until your fingers fall off and your album is still going to be what it is. And lil wayne makes shitty albums too (like the carter 3).
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Nigga come on. I been followin' Wayne's career since BG'z True Story. Not by choice just i've been followin' everyones career in the South since i've been listening to this hip hop shit since birth. There was a time when Wayne had fell off with not only the South but music game in general. Especially when he shitted on Juvenile with the 500 Degreez title. Then the Sqad Up mixtapes came. I became a fan again. Dude was spittin' some of the nicest shit i've heard from any young cat in the game. That series had about 10 mixtapes in it. Then you got he Dedication mixtapes, the Drought mixtapes, if you keep up with this hip hop shit you know how hard Wayne works. Cat does shows damn near every night yet still has the time to drop free material to the consumer? I hear a different new Wayne track everyday. You listen to Wayne from The Block Is Hot to the Carter 3 and you don't hear the growth in him as a rapper? Whether you think the music is wack is beyond the point. That's your opinion. Fans and critics think otherwise. Not saying anyone is right but clearly its debatable at the very least.


You listen to....a dude like Fif for instance. Listen to Get Rich or die Trying and listen to Terminate on Sight or Curtis. Its the same formula. Same shit. Generic production, same watered down lyrics, put Yayo and Banks on 3 or 4 tracks, go get a singer with a hit on the charts to do a hook, grab no name producers who can bring that same GRODT trying sound. This shit happens all the time. I saw it happen to No Limit. I saw the shit happen to P. Same shit that killed No Limit is the same shit that is killing Fif right now.
 
Imayeseekay said:
You too.....Cats about to have an aneurysm over a guy that they claim they don't care about - getting some awards....?

Dudes are upset like it's personal or something.

But on the cool it would've been crazy if Nas had won & they played "N.I Double G .E.R but we are much more..." in the background while he was going up to accept the award.
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Yea its ridiculous. But yea honestly the rap album of the year could've went to any album in that category. I thought this year was a solid year for rap releases. Usually you have a couple of one hit wonders in there but the Grammy's got it right with the nominations.
 
keysersoze said:
Please Coldplay them Beat Wayne for Best Album - anyone but him ... I personally think 'In Rainbows' by Radiohead is the best but I'm a minority on that.
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Nope..that album is so good. Better than Vida la Vida. I wanted them to get it but I haven't heard the album that won so I'll hold judgment.:dance:
 

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