Story) Nominated: 2012: Grammy Awards: Rap Album of The Year (Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV) Nominated: 2008: Grammy Awards: Album of The Year (Lil Wayne Tha Carter III) RapAlbum of The Year (Lil Wayne. Then he cribs from Das Racist: “I’m just joking/ I’m just serious.” It’s the perfect foil for a guy who brags about black diamonds then tashtags “apartheid.” His ridiculous caricature of T&A-obsessed manliness even gives Drake a vehicle to flirt with chilling Chris Brown-ism: “If she had a Grammy/ I’d still treat her ass like a nominee,” a big favor to those of us who want everyone to know what an asshole Drake is beneath that transparently (in)sensitive veneer. Rap Album of The Year (Eminem Marshall Mathers LP 2) Won: 2013: Grammy Awards: Rap Album of The Year (2 Chainz Based On A T.R.U. His macabre humor is weird as shit and highly un-2012, in the hilarious highlight “Birthday Song”: “When I die/ bury me with 2 bitches,” or a line about his friends asking him how he comes up with his shit, followed by the most generic rap demand possible: “All I want for my birthday is a big booty ho.” When he tags in Kanye, the villainy is hilarious, chanting “Bad bitch contest/ You win first place” and being an asshole about previous gifts (“Last birthday/ She got you a new sweater/ Put it on, give her a kiss / And tell her ‘Do better’”). This is the game itself, being traded from labels like teams-Ludacris wasn’t working out, so here’s Kanye.Ĭhainz is rap’s current man of the hour, his Cheech Marin-like flow on 2012 hits like Nicki Minaj’s “Beez in the Trap” and his own Drake team-up “No Lie,” only makes those desolate, airport lounge space-beats even weirder to hear the opposite of space on them-pure terra firma, dirty and regional. Apparently a dude mostly associated with drug money and boobs changed his name for something more “family-friendly.” He just shed skins and kept moving upward, longer than rappers are allowed Playaz Circle might as well have been Philly’s Most Wanted. But that didn’t stop me from asking who 2 Chainz was when he started appearing out of “nowhere” on high-profile singles this year. 2 Chainz used to be Tity Boi, an affront to the mainstream if a moniker ever was one. I loved a song by him-Playaz Circle’s “Duffle Bag Boy”-before I or much of his current audience knew who he was.
This guy’s a big story in beating rap’s merciless turnover rate.