2014 Grammy Awards

After the Grammy nominations were released last Friday (Dec. 5), one album that many fans thought would be on the list for the Best Rap Album category was missing: YG's My Krazy Life. YG's debut LP is regarded by many as a contender for album of the year—though not, apparently, by The Grammys—and he voiced his displeasure the following morning by dropping "YG Flow 2015." My Krazy ... Rea

The biggest hip-hop storyline from the 2014 Grammy Awards was Macklemore beating out Kendrick Lamar for just about every major hip-hop award; on Grammy day last Sunday (Jan. 26), Macklemore walked away with four Grammys for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance and Best New Artist while Kendrick walked away with zero. Man...

The Grammys is not just about the awards. The after parties for Grammy Night are among the best of the year. Throughout the weekend, Hennessy hosted the hottest events with the biggest names in music including LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Rihanna, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa and more.  Hennessy Pri...

Last night, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were the clear victors over Kendrick Lamar. Both artists were nominated for seven Grammys, including four categories where they would be competing against each other. During a pre-televised portion of the show, the Seattle duo took home awards for Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Album. Th...

Last night  (Jan. 26) at the Grammys one of the main polarizing topic of discussion was Pharrell's now infamous Grammy hat. It was not subtle at all and drew many comparisons to a myriad of different things. But was Skateboard P's hat paying homage to a late musician. Talks ov...

Last night (Jan. 26) during the Grammy Awards, Twitter exploded, comment on everything and anything. Viewers also were quick to make some incredible memes. Check out the best ones above. Previously: Watch All Performances From The Grammys 2014 Watch Pepsi’s Autotuned, Kanye West-Inspired Grammy Commercial Hip-Hop’s Grammy Award Winners Twitter Reacts To The 2014 Grammy Awards  

With the Grammys coming and going yesterday, the great debate over who would win versus who deserved to win had gotten us all worked up at XXL headquarters. And with good kid, m.A.A.d city—an album we bestowed with a XXL rating—missing out on grabbing any awards, the voices saying "Kendrick got robbed!" were growing. With that ...

Pepsi was promoting its Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bruno Mars during the Grammys last night, buying a 2 and a half minute ad starring Deion Sanders, Terry Bradshaw and Shannon Sharpe. The entire thing is pretty bizarre; it opens with Sanders' autotuned voice crooning from the crowd of an awards show, before Bradshaw comes in with a cowboy-inspired country song, and Sharpe busts everything

Pharrell lit up the red carpet before the Grammys wearing a hat that might have been taller than he was, and it didn't take long for the Internet to pick up on it. Within a couple minutes, @PharrellHat popped up on Twitter, and has more than 5,000 followers within two hours...

The Grammys kicked off early today, awarding most hip-hop categories in the pre-Awards telecast streamed on the Grammys website. Before the official show kicks off at 8 p.m. Eastern time, the winners for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance were announced...

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It's Grammy season again, and that means it's time to argue about which artist the shady Grammy committees will select to go down in history this year, and which artists will fade into obscurity. Or at least, that's what they'd like us to believe; then again, until Nas wins a Grammy, this whole enterprise will always be a little suspect...