The controversial award ceremony has finally announced its nominees for the 2018 awards show...
In the past, R'n'B artists and award commentators have criticised the Grammys for repeatedly overlooking genres such as hip-hop and rap when it came to the big awards. Last year fans of the awards weren't happy that Beyoncé's Lemonade, an album about black female empowerment, lost out to Adele's 25. The year before that Taylor Swifts 1989 won over Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly. Twitter couldn't help but be excited about today's nominees:
Yall Beyoncé, SZA, Rihanna, Jay Z, Bruno Mars, Khalid and Childish Gambino all got a Grammy noms. Its a great time to be black in music. #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/e29B5jdH2J
— . (@babylonbey) November 28, 2017
This year the Grammys did what they should've been doing for years and seem to be moving in the right direction - celebrating people of colour. SZA, Childish Gambino, DJ Khalid, Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z are the big contenders for this years awards. Jay-Z cranks up the most nods with eight nominations. We've narrowed down the 13 artists you need to listen to before the January 28th ceremony:
1) Julia Michaels - 'Issues'
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2) Logic ft. Alessia Cara, Khalid - '1-800-273-8255'
3) Sylvan Esso - 'Die Young'
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4) SZA - 'The Weekend'
A rare first, SZA is a newcomer with five Grammy nods for her album Ctrl.
5) Kendrick Lamar - 'Humble'
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6) CamelPhat & Elderbrook - 'Cola'
7) Childish Gambino - 'Redbone'
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8) Cardi B - 'Bodak Yellow'
9) LCD Soundsystem - 'Tonite'
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10) Bruno Mars - 'That's What I Like'
11) Lana Del Rey - 'Tomorrow Never Came'
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12) Jay - Z - 'The Story Of O.J'
13) Kesha - 'Praying'
To see the full list of nominations for the 2018 Grammys click here.
