![]() Why can’t we just be in pop?” (Though “urban” is not included in the guidelines for the Best Rap Album category, the Grammys have nonetheless struggled with the term, which some once considered to be an acceptable euphemism for nonwhite this year, the Academy changed the category of Best Urban Contemporary Album to Best Progressive R. To me, it’s just a politically correct way to say the N-word. “But, also, it sucks that whenever we, and I mean guys that look like me, do anything that’s genre-bending, they always put it in a rap or urban category.” He continued, “I don’t like that ‘urban’ word. “I’m very grateful that what I made could just be acknowledged in a world like this,” he said backstage. Last year, Tyler, the Creator won Best Rap Album for “ IGOR,” a complex, often radical concept record about a devastating love triangle. This isn’t the first time an artist has bucked against the specifics of a nomination. Those determinations are confidential and, of course, fallible. ![]() Whether an album belongs in one category or another (Rock or Alternative? Folk or Americana or American Roots?) is debated, often hotly, by nomination committees assembled by the Academy. Although some awards-Comedy Album, Spoken Word Album, Liner Notes-feel relatively unambiguous, most are inherently vague. It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album, which is very strange to me.” There are eighty-three categories at this year’s Grammy ceremony. “With that being said, I set out to make an R&B album. “I am very meticulous and intentional about my music,” Bieber wrote on Instagram. ![]() His fifth studio album, “Changes,” was up for Best Pop Vocal Album, a major category. ![]() When the newest batch of Grammy nominations were announced, in late November, Justin Bieber expressed displeasure with the way his music had been identified by the Recording Academy. ![]()
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