50 Cent Blasts GRAMMYs For “Best Rap Album” Nominations

50 Cent Calls The GRAMMYs “Out Of Touch” For The Best Rap Album Nominations

The 2021 GRAMMY nominations has been a bit controversial with their selections, garnering critics from every angle of the music industry. From The Weeknd getting snubbed and females missing on Best R&B Album category.

The Best Rap Album category is also causing uproar amongst fans. it looks like the Recording Academy is taking a different approach than they generally do, celebrating lyricists over popular album sales.

Projects like Lil Baby’s My Turn, Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon, and Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake are expected to have been nominated.

 

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Instead, the GRAMMYs chose to recognize some lesser-celebrated rappers (in this sphere, at least) on a grand stage, nominating D Smoke, Royce Da 5’9″, Jay Electronica, and others in the category.

50 Cent is unimpressed with the nominations, most likely because Pop Smoke’s album ‘Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon’ which he executively produced wasn’t nominated.

“They out of touch this shit ain’t it, get the fuck outta here,” wrote the outspoken rap legend on Instagram in a since-deleted post, which was spotted by HipHopDX.

However, Pop is nominated for his first GRAMMY Award, albeit for “Dior”, which Fif had no part in releasing.